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The Grift Within MAGA
Tierney's Real News ^ | 3/26/2026 | MaggiePeggy123

Posted on 03/27/2026 4:10:22 AM PDT by cuz1961

Trump supporters have known for years that the fake news lies. CNN, ABC, The New York Times, MSNBC—they manufacture narratives, anoint heroes, and demonize conservatives to demoralize and divide. That’s not news. The harder pill to swallow is that a parallel grift operates inside the right-wing tent, wearing MAGA jerseys while running the same playbook.

For years, I’ve called these saboteurs the “Koch Libertarian RINOs” and warned my readers about them. They may call themselves different names and operate in different ways, but the result is always the same.

They built empires on the back of MAGA, and then they pivoted to undermine it when it became profitable to do so. They do not have conviction, and they do not have a conscience. They sold themselves to the highest bidder, and they are willing to damage the movement to protect their position.

Now, Ken Blackwell, Dan Bongino, Alexis Wilkins, and Dennis Prager—trusted conservative voices—have all stepped forward and, in their own ways, confirmed what I have been saying for years.

Ken Blackwell said it plainly:

“I’m done with Candace Owens. I’m done with Marjorie Taylor Greene. I’m done with Tucker Carlson. I’m done with Milo Yiannopoulos. I’m done with Jack Posobiec. I’m done with Tim Pool. I’m done with Megyn Kelly. I’m done with the Hodgetwins.

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I’m done with the entire cottage industry that built empires on the backs of a movement and now wants to lecture that same audience like they just discovered virtue.

What we are watching is not some great awakening. It is a rebrand. It is a pivot. It is a group of people reading the room, identifying where the next stream of money and attention is coming from, and moving toward it while pretending it is about principle. ...

While all of this is playing out, there is another layer that cannot be ignored. Foreign actors actively amplify internal divisions. They elevate the most extreme voices. They push the most divisive narratives. They do not need to create disagreements. They only need to magnify them.

When that amplification is constant, it creates the impression that division is everywhere and that it defines everything.

But that is not the full picture.

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Within hours, Dan Bongino—who has experience inside the system through his work with the Secret Service and his time working with Kash Patel at the FBI—responded publicly. He named Joe Kent, General Michael Flynn, and Ivan Raiklin, and said: “It’s almost as if this was an op all along. I’m sick of these...

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(3/13) The network has a trail. Catholics for Catholics lists Gen. Michael Flynn as ‘Current Senior Advisor’ on their own website. Flynn is the anchor of a digital infrastructure that has been repeatedly activated—at every major Republican fracture point—over 22 months of documented data. The same accounts appear at every chapter. This network does not rebuild between deployments. It stays ready...

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(9/13) The data across all six chapters: 3,166,207 retweet engagements. 80% amplification rate. Abnormal volumes of accounts documented across multiple chapters spanning 22 months. The same accounts that were active before Butler in 2024 are active in the Kent chapter in 2026. This is not a series of separate events. It is a single persistent infrastructure activated at each fracture point.

(10/13) What RT was telling Americans the entire time: throughout March 2026, RT published Alexander Dugin—Putin’s ideological philosopher—declaring MAGA “more than dead, worse than dead, it’s now an undead, a ghoul.” The Flynn network was manufacturing that fracture domestically. RT was amplifying it internationally. Two parts of the same operation are running simultaneously into the same feeds....

... (12/13) The goal of this operation is not to win a political argument, but to make the fractures feel permanent. To make Republicans believe their movement is over. To make soldiers feel the war isn’t worth fighting. To make the government and its officials look unstable and create media that creates more problematic media. Each chapter hits a different pressure point. The network, the timing, and the Russian amplification are consistent across all five. That consistency is the signature.

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( Cz61 Much more at op link )

1 posted on 03/27/2026 4:10:22 AM PDT by cuz1961
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To: cuz1961

I really came to Free Republic this morning to post the following:

President Trump is the Greatest President of all time and our only hope! There is no one better to preserve our Republic, the American way of life and our constitution not to mention our dollar. My support for him has doubled down! Get on board or join the dems all RINO lovers. We have mid terms to win you bunch of idiots and grifting RINO’s are helping the corrupt dems. Support Trump while you can always remembering the alternative aka Kamala and her ilk who are itching for the Biden days again. I came here to say Go Trump Go!!! Also giving notice to the agitators here who pretend they were always on board. GET LOST!

GO TRUMP GO!!!!!!!


2 posted on 03/27/2026 4:37:55 AM PDT by Boardwalk
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To: cuz1961
A couple thoughts. People making up a particular political, religious or philosophical group are not going to agree on everything. Political parties and movements are made up of coalitions. This is true of MAGA. Does everyone who considers themselves MAGA:

Think the same way toward our involvement in foreign wars?
Think the same way toward our involvement with Israel, Ukraine, Europe, etc?
Think the same way about H1B and other work visas?
Think the same way about federal programs?

The answer is no. Hey, there are 'some' positions that Trump takes that I don't consider MAGA.

If the MAGA MAHA coalition continues to be a meaningful political force, its adherents need to embrace areas of agreement between themselves and not take their football home when there is some point of disagreement. Having said that, there are individuals who claim to be MAGA but fail the sniff test.

3 posted on 03/27/2026 4:46:03 AM PDT by JesusIsLord
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To: Boardwalk

Amen Brother!!!


4 posted on 03/27/2026 4:46:34 AM PDT by Dogbert41 (“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God” -Matthew 5:9)
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To: Boardwalk

“Get on board or join the dems all RINO lovers.”

We’re going to have big problems if the Candace - Tucker - Fuentes faction of the right isn’t reined in and controlled. Candace is telling her cult followers to either not vote, or to vote Democrat. Maybe the other are, too.

They’re not even on the right, but used to be, so people are paying attention to them.


5 posted on 03/27/2026 4:49:26 AM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: cuz1961

Very astute. Did you ever see the movie “The Distinguished Gentleman”, released in 1992? The grift is all related to $, and how Congress understands the ‘Grift’. As the Gentleman Lobbyist said, “It make’s no difference to me which side you want. I have money for both. So, they are ‘awarded’ huge amounts of money from Defense Contractors, Pharma, etc., because that is where the money is. They easily can play both sides, and that especially is true for Fox and other media. I do not trust anything I hear on the traditional media.


6 posted on 03/27/2026 4:56:07 AM PDT by Judge Bean
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To: MayflowerMadam

“We’re going to have big problems if the Candace - Tucker - Fuentes faction of the right isn’t reined in and controlled. Candace is telling her cult followers to either not vote, or to vote Democrat. Maybe the other are, too.”

Is any serious person still listening to candace owens?


7 posted on 03/27/2026 5:00:35 AM PDT by GeneralisimoFranciscoFranco (I love liberals. They taste like chicken.)
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To: MayflowerMadam; bitt; thinden; RitaOK
And detractors, infiltrators and Democrat hacks FUND her by :: Candace is telling her cult followers to either not vote, or to vote Democrat. ::

clicking on her divisive diatribes.
I'll refer you to Q-drop #1343


8 posted on 03/27/2026 5:01:22 AM PDT by Cletus.D.Yokel (The Democrats' official policy is now, “Hate, Violence and Murder". Change my mind.)
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To: cuz1961

Yes. I would bet Soros money has been funneled to Carlson, smelly Kelly, et. al., to fracture MAGA. MAGA wasn’t influenced by the last 10 years of anti Trump propaganda from the deep state-MSM. These whooores won’t make a dent either.


9 posted on 03/27/2026 5:18:51 AM PDT by DeplorablePaul
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To: All

Here’s a video of Gen. Michael Flynn leading a naive audience in an occult prayer from a notorious false teacher / New Age leader, the late Elizabeth Clare Prophet.

https://x.com/ConceptualJames/status/2034279579569770525

This is not Biblical. This is not Christianity.

Elizabeth Clare Prophet (born Elizabeth Clare Wulf, 1939–2009) was an American spiritual leader, author, and the founder of the Church Universal and Triumphant, a New Age religious organization.

Prophet claimed to be a messenger for the Ascended Masters, a pantheon of mystic saints that included Jesus and Saint Germain, delivering spiritual teachings known as “dictations” (in other worlds, “channelings” from demonic entities) that blended elements of Christianity, Eastern religions, and Theosophy.


10 posted on 03/27/2026 5:22:22 AM PDT by onthelookout777
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To: cuz1961

Candace Owens got a lot of comedy hits when she accused (insisted) that Emmanuel Macron’s wife (Bridgette) was in fact a man, even though the wife has given birth to numerous children.

Sometime you just have to let them self destruct like the bomb throwers they are.


11 posted on 03/27/2026 5:26:06 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: DeplorablePaul

DOGE showed us that Soros money was actually taxpayer money laundered through various non profits to Soros shell corporations that donated to various Democrat campaigns


12 posted on 03/27/2026 5:26:21 AM PDT by bert ( (KE. NP. +12) Quid Quid Nominatur Fabricatur)
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To: Boardwalk

DITTO!


13 posted on 03/27/2026 5:34:29 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: cuz1961

Ye will know them by their (misleading and sensationalistic) thumbnails.


14 posted on 03/27/2026 5:35:19 AM PDT by The Duke (Not without incident)
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To: JesusIsLord

That’s a good summary. For me, it’s America first. Our flag at the top of the flagpole - always.


15 posted on 03/27/2026 5:42:48 AM PDT by paulcissa (The left hates you and wants you dead.)
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To: sauropod

Bkmk


16 posted on 03/27/2026 6:02:46 AM PDT by sauropod
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To: cuz1961

I’m not sure I care what this persons opinion is. as we no opinions aren’t NEWS


17 posted on 03/27/2026 6:04:38 AM PDT by alaskamomma
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To: cuz1961

Genesis 12:1-3
King James Version
12 Now the Lord had said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy country, and from thy kindred, and from thy father’s house, unto a land that I will shew thee:

2 And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and make thy name great; and thou shalt be a blessing:

3 And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse him that curseth thee: and in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.


18 posted on 03/27/2026 6:15:36 AM PDT by bray (Thank God for Israel)
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---- "I'm not sure I care what this persons opinion is."

Gee whiz, what an amusing thread, as an opinion writer talks about money messing with the "movement."

At the end of her opinion about others grifting for money, she writes:

You can fund me by becoming a paid subscriber on Substack, donate by credit or debit card here or by Cash App at $TierneyRealNews, send me a check to Peggy Tierney, PO Box 242, Spooner, Wisconsin 54801- or just send me a note or a card! I love hearing from you.

Peggy Tierney loves hearing from MONEY. Mostly they all do.
19 posted on 03/27/2026 6:19:59 AM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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To: alaskamomma

yea, another schmuck telling me what to think.

Maga is a branding. Trump’s viters are individuals that God blessed with brains individually in His likeness.


20 posted on 03/27/2026 6:25:45 AM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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