- Ryan J. Reilly @ NBC News: DOJ official told GOP ally that big payouts were coming for Jan. 6 defendants
Months before the $1.8 billion “anti-weaponization” fund was announced, Ed Martin predicted Capitol rioters would get millions, even if it took until 2028, two people told NBC News.
- Charlie Nash @ Mediaite: ‘Trump is My President!’ Lauren Boebert Tries to Get Back in Trump’s Good Graces After Massie is Wiped Out in GOP Primary
Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) celebrated President Donald Trump on Tuesday, after Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) was unseated and Trump threatened to do the same to her.
- Judd Legum @ Mother Jones: Trump Has Been Investing in Companies and Then Pumping Them in His Speeches
Yet another extraordinary example of a president milking his office for personal profit.
- Muskaan Arshad @ The Daily Beast: Retired Cop Gets Massive Settlement After Being Jailed Over Charlie Kirk Post
Tennessee officials agreed to pay $835,000 to a 61-year-old man in a settlement over his arrest for a Facebook post about Charlie Kirk.
- Sophia Tesfaye @ Salon: Ben Shapiro’s Daily Wire goes woke with Rosa Parks revisionism
The Daily Wire’s latest documentary seeks to discredit Rosa Parks and the Montgomery bus boycott.
- Josh Kovensky and Khaya Himmelman @ Talking Points Memo: Election Denialists Claim They Are Laying the Groundwork for a DOJ Probe of Michigan
The DOJ has been conducting criminal investigations across the country into the 2020 election. They’re being carried out with the help of various election conspiracy theorists who are now in positions of power in the government. Kurt Olsen, a 2020 election denier, has been working as White House election security czar. Heather Honey, another activist, has an election security role at DOJ. Clay Parikh, another special government employee involved in the Fulton County raid, told TPM that he believed he was fighting a “cabal.”
