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  • Speaker Johnson wrote foreword for book filled with conspiracy theories and homophobic insults ("The Revivalist Manifesto"_

    12/02/2023 3:18:50 AM PST · by RoosterRedux · 49 replies
    CNN ^ | Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck, CNN
    Speaker of the House Mike Johnson wrote the foreword and publicly promoted a 2022 book that spread baseless and discredited conspiracy theories and used derogatory homophobic insults. Written by Scott McKay, a local Louisiana politics blogger, the book, “The Revivalist Manifesto,” gives credence to unfounded conspiracy theories often embraced by the far-right – including the “Pizzagate” hoax, which falsely claimed top Democratic officials were involved in a pedophile ring, among other conspiracies. The book also propagates baseless and inaccurate claims, implying that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts was subjected to blackmail and connected to the disgraced underage sex trafficker...
  • Trump-backed Kari Lake posted support for transgender youth, asked about abortion in the case of birth defects in 2015 and 2016 posts

    07/15/2022 10:43:49 AM PDT · by Az Joe · 82 replies
    CNN ^ | 07/14/2022 | Andrew Kacszynski & Em Steck
    (CNN)Despite running as a staunchly anti-transgender and anti-abortion candidate, far-right Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake once posted in support of transgender youth and asked her followers about aborting fetuses who would be born with disabilities in social media posts from 2015 and 2016 reviewed by CNN's KFile.
  • Surging GOP candidate Kathy Barnette has long history of bigoted statements against gays and Muslims

    05/12/2022 10:56:26 PM PDT · by AmericaFirst101 · 207 replies
    CNN ^ | May 12, 2022 | Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck
    Surging Pennsylvania GOP Senate candidate Kathy Barnette has a history of anti-Muslim and anti-gay statements. In many tweets, Barnette also spread the false conspiracy theory that former President Barack Obama is a Muslim. In one speech uploaded to YouTube in 2015, Barnette forcefully argued it was OK to discriminate against Muslims and compared rejecting Islam to "... rejecting Hitler's or Stalin's worldviews." In comments on her radio show, she said accepting homosexuality would lead to the accepting of incest and pedophilia. One post she wrote called a transgender person "deformed" and "demonic." (snip) "You are not a racist if you...
  • West Point Board appointee says that Biden is replacing White people of European ancestry

    05/28/2021 1:34:46 PM PDT · by White Lives Matter · 37 replies
    CNN ^ | May 27, 2021 | Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck
    A Trump appointee serving on West Point's advisory board has repeatedly spread a conspiracy that the Biden administration is bringing in non-White immigrants as part of a "grand plan" to have them outnumber White Americans of European ancestry in the United States. In another interview, he also attacked women serving in the military in combat roles. The comments were made in April and May by retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor, who was appointed to West Point's Board of Visitors in the waning months of the Trump administration, and uncovered in a CNN KFile review of his recent comments. Macgregor also...
  • Scott O'Grady: Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial law

    12/04/2020 10:34:14 AM PST · by ransomnote · 46 replies
    CNN ^ | December 4, 2020 | Nathan McDermott, Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck
    Scott O'Grady: Trump Pentagon nominee spreads debunked conspiracies and tweets suggesting Trump declare martial lawPresident Donald Trump's nominee to become a senior Pentagon official spread debunked conspiracies on Twitter that called Trump's election loss to Joe Biden a "coup" attempt and shared tweets that suggest Trump should declare martial law.Scott O'Grady, a former fighter pilot and Trump loyalist, repeatedly retweeted tweets that falsely stated Trump won the election in "landslide fashion" and that millions of votes were stolen from the President.On November 25, O'Grady retweeted a tweet that said, "Trump won & Biden & his Comrades will now attempt...