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Attorney General Pam Bondi abruptly dropped off CPAC’s high-profile Summit Against Human Trafficking this Wednesday, claiming she suffered a “torn cornea” and couldn’t make it. The announcement was read live on stage by Acting Assistant AG Matthew Galeotti. Galeotti: “Thank you all for being here with us today and for having me. I do have a note from the Attorney General—Attorney General Pam Bondi—that I wanted to share, which is the following: ‘I’m sorry to miss all of my CPAC friends today, especially Matt and Mercy Schlapp, Senator Blackburn, and the wonderful team at the Tim Tebow Foundation. Unfortunately, I...

With all votes counted, right-wing historian Karol Nawrocki has been elected Poland's new president, the state electoral commission (PKW) said. PKW said Nawrocki won 50.9% percent of the votes – ahead of Warsaw's liberal mayor Rafal Trzaskowski on 49.1% percent. It's a sensational turnaround from the result of the first exit poll – published immediately after voting ended at 21:00 local time (19:00 GMT) on Sunday – that showed Trzaskowski winning on 50.3% to Nawrocki's 49.7%. Trzaskowski had claimed victory after the first exit poll, while Nawrocki cautioned that the results were too close to call. "We won, although the...

Neocon Bill Kristol is urging his Never Trump allies to “Stand with trans,” describing President Donald Trump’s criticism of transgender ideology as “unjust and dangerous.” In a post on X, Kristol — who left the Republican Party over the embrace of President Donald Trump — shared a link to an article written by Marc Solomon, a partner at Civitas Public Affairs Group. Solomon writes about supporting transgender Americans and calls for people to “stand with trans Americans.” “Stand with trans Americans,” Kristol wrote in his post on X. “You don’t have to understand everything about the transgender experience to know...

At the CPAC 2025 meeting, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni who was making an address to the conference via video call, experienced an unintended moment of candour when her microphone was still switched on after her speech. Just after her speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C on Saturday, February 22, she was heard saying ‘Volevo morì’, which in Roman Italian translates to ‘I wanted to die’ in English. The off-the-cuff remark, made without realising the audio was still live, was quickly picked up and shared, going viral on social media, turning it into a minor gaffe...

President Donald Trump celebrated his whirlwind first four weeks back in the Oval Office in a speech before the Conservative Political Action Conference Saturday afternoon, mentioning what he called "flagrant scams" uncovered by Elon Musk and the Department of Government Efficiency. "I signed an order creating the Department of Government Efficiency — you probably haven't heard of it — which is now waging war on government waste, fraud and abuse. And Elon is doing a great job," Trump said at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center Saturday in Oxon Hill, Maryland, just outside the nation's capital. "He's doing a...

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The most famous structure and institution that bears its name, the Kennedy Center, is now being run on an interim basis by Richard Grenell, one of the Trump’s closest allies. And when it gets reformed, who’ll be one of the first acts playing there? According to Steve Bannon’s speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, it’ll be the J6 Prison Choir. The group, which is comprised of men who spent time behind bars for their roles in the Jan. 6. 2021 Capitol incursion, has been invited to the Kennedy Center by Grenell, according to Bannon.

France's far-right leader Jordan Bardella Friday said he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a "gesture alluding to Nazi ideology" by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon. The president of France's National Rally party, who is in the US capital, said he was not present when Bannon, one of the masterminds behind Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, made a gesture that has been described as a Nazi salute on Thursday at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC).

Not too long ago, I decided to try a bold experiment. I returned to the University of Georgia to take some agriculture classes. The reason I considered it bold is that I was old enough to be many of the students' mothers (had I been an extremely young teen mom, of course). I learned a lot of lessons about this current generation of teens and twenty-somethings and how college has changed since my first go-round two decades prior, but what really threw me was when a professor asked for my pronouns. My class was given a virtual assignment to upload...

One of President Trump’s first historic moves after assuming office in January mmuted January 6 hostages were talking all month on social media about meeting up at CPAC 2025. Following President Trump’s courageous move, hundreds of pardoned and commuted January 6 hostages were talking all month on social media about meeting up at CPAC 2025. The men and women were excited about coming together, reuniting, and meeting each other, as well as the amazing American patriots who fought for their freedom. And, of course, the January 6ers also wanted to see the man who gave them their FREEDOM, President Donald...

Outspoken January 6 prisoner Jake Lang was kicked out of CPAC on Wednesday during a live-stream video. Jake was then escorted out of the Gaylord Hotel as he kept on broadcasting! Here is the video stream from inside CPAC as Jake is escorted from the premises.

Matt Schlapp, the face of the Conservative Political Action Conference, allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar in Virginia last weekend. According to independent journalist Yashar Ali, seven witnesses say that the chairman of the American Conservative Union “allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a bar on Saturday night near a property he owns in north-central Virginia.” Ali reports that restaurant and bar is located in north-central Virginia which is allegedly nearby a property owned by Schlapp and his wife, Mercedes Schlapp. The Schlapps are vocal supporters of President Donald Trump with Mercedes...

President of Argentina Javier Milei on Wednesday called on conservatives to wage a “cultural battle” against leftism and end “the garbage of socialism” during his closing speech at the Conservative Action Political Conference (CPAC) in Buenos Aires. Milei, who is currently leading an astounding economic recovery in his country after the disastrous socialist policies of predecessor Alberto Fernández, stressed the importance of fighting leftism at a cultural level in addition to practicing good governance, stating that, without addressing ideas, “no matter how good we are at managing, or how good we are politically, we are not going to get anywhere.”...

In this 3 hour interview Al Ruhl interviews Michael Parrott from Restoring The Faith (Youtube channel) Some is information already given BUT at the 101:11 mark Parrott drops a bombshell on Voris. Listen to it for yourself but it has to do with CPAC in March of 2022, and on Church Militant's dime. Voris is in rehab for his homo narcissism right now and planning a come back once he is "cured". Voris needs to stay gone.

People should hear Nayib Bukele, President of El Salvador, to understand what the future holds for this nation if we do not wake up.

Former President Donald Trump is well on his way to easily locking up the GOP presidential nomination for the third straight time, but attendees at the Conservative Political Action Conference were split over who should join his ticket. Biotech entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy and South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem tied as the top pick among CPAC goers in the veepstakes with 15% apiece, according to a straw poll at the grassroots event. Former Hawaii Democrat Rep. Tulsi Gabbard came next with 9% support, followed by Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and House Republican Conference Chairwoman Elise Stefanik (R-NY) at 8% each. Rep....

The official Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) straw poll asking attendees who Donald Trump should pick as his running mate yielded some interesting results. The poll, which surveyed the largely MAGA faithful in attendance at the CPAC event in Maryland, found that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy were tied as the top choice as Trump's running mate, winning 15 percent of the vote respectively. Next in line was former Democratic Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard, who is reportedly set to endorse Trump by headlining a fundraiser for him at his resort in Mar-a-Lago in March. In third place,...

Nazis appeared to find a friendly reception at the conservative political action conference this year. Throughout the conference, racist extremists, some of whom had secured official CPAC badges, openly mingled with conference attendees and espoused antisemitic conspiracy theories. But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017. At the Young Republican mixer Saturday evening a group of Nazis, who openly identified as national socialists, mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed race science and antisemitic conspiracy theories.

Former United States Representative Tulsi Gabbard addresses CPAC 2024 in Washington, D.C. Stay up to date on Right Side Broadcasting Network coverage, go to rsbnetwork.com/newsletter or download our new mobile app to get notifications for important events!

Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. will be a headline speaker at a Conservative Political Action Conference event in Las Vegas later this month, the conference announced Friday. The anti-establishment environmental lawyer has run a longshot primary campaign against President Biden, but is expected to change affiliation to independent next week. “Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has a unique voice in advocating for the defunding of the weaponized bureaucracy and ensuring the constitutional right of medical freedom,” CPAC Chairman Matt Schlapp said in a statement. “Kennedy joining such an important event is a reflection of the splintering of the left-wing...