When the media Left goes berserk, Republicans typically panic. I love the way Barr stays cool and methodically hits back with facts and logic. That’s the way to deal with these dishonest creeps. Keep calm and whack them again! #MuellerDay

— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) April 18, 2019

Dinesh is right. Barr may be an asshole but sometimes he’s pretty cool and calm, on certain issues requiring the application of facts and logic he hits at dishonest creeps.

Kimberly Guilfoyle–who as a Trump campaign finance chair offered to give lapdances to the donors who pledged the most money–was paid $60,000 to give a two-and-a-half minute introduction to her fiance during the Trump insurrection rally January 6th at the Elipse in Washington, DC, Rolling Stone reports.

The 53-year-old Oedipal substitute for Melania, Guilfoyle’s payment came from funds sent to the Trump campaign by donors who thought they were funding a legal fight by Donald Trump to keep Joe Biden from being inaugurated January 20th.

As Democratic Congresswoman Zoe Lofgren of California said during the morning hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, the Big Lie became the Big Grift, with the Trumps and their strumpets pocketing hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Totally not shaken up by the revelations of the first two days of public hearings from the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, Donald Trump issued a 12-page rant in which he essentially showed he has no grasp of how the Constitution works.  Among the lowlight:

Our Constitution protects the right to confront accusers, honors the right to fair trials, and holds the right to legal representation as paramount in our justice system. Equal representation and the opportunity to offer rebuttal evidence is fundamental in our legal process. The Committee has obliterated those rights and is making a mockery of justice. They have refused to allow their political opponents to participate in this process, and have excluded all exculpatory witnesses, and anyone who so easily points out the flaws in their story.

The problem with this rant is that what he’s talking about is a Congressional committee hearing, not a courtroom.  Anyone who understands civics knows that.

The January 6th Select Committee has not issued a conclusion regarding potential criminal referrals. We will announce a decision on that at an appropriate time.

— Rep. Liz Cheney (@RepLizCheney) June 14, 2022

Republican New York Congressman Lee Zeldin put himself squarely in Team Insurrection during the debate for the governorship Monday night:  “President Trump told his followers to go peacefully and patriotically to the Capitol.  And if President Trump wants to run, he should run.  I believe he’ll be the Republican nominee, and he’ll win.”  Given Trump literally hasn’t won the popular vote in any election he’s run in, what’s Zeldin know about vote tampering by Trump?  Has Zeldin tipped the GOP’s hand on their trickery for 2024?  Are they tapping the servers of the voting machines? Are Republicans running a pedophile ring out of a golf club in Palm Beach? Do they have a secret agent with U security clearance giving them inside information on the day Trump will drain the bog???

House January 6th Select Committee Chair Bennie Thompson told Punchbowl’s John Bresnahan on Tuesday the committee will not be referring Trump or anyone else to the Justice Department.

We’ve said it before that this is the smart move for two reasons. First, a criminal referral for anything other than contempt of Congress does not carry a requirement for the Department of Justice to investigate, so sending a referral of Trump has the same effect of filling out a tip form on the FBI website. Second, the DOJ’s already investigating Trump and his minions, so why waste the time on having Jim Jordan spit and scream in the House chamber before a party-line vote?

Members of the Coeur d’Alene Police have been receiving death threats after the highly-publicized story of them arresting 31 members of the white nationalist Patriot Front who were attempting to disrupt an LGBTQ Pride gathering, NBC News reported.

Chief Lee White told media that the police had logged 149 calls to the department regarding the arrest of the fascists, who were intercepted as they traveled in a U-Haul with most members in the back like cargo.  A concerned citizen saw the group of men dressed alike pile into the back of the van and called police, who intercepted the van before it got to the festival.  White said half of the calls have been supportive of the officers’ actions.

“And the other 50 percent — who are completely anonymous, who want nothing more than to scream and yell at us and use some really choice words — offer death threats against myself and other members of the police department merely for doing our jobs,” White said. “Those people obviously remain anonymous.”

As we’ve said before, we’re not big on entertaining conspiracy theories here at National Zero. Strange things do have a habit of occurring in our world, like Jeffrey Epstein killing himself on the night his jail guards just so happened to be sleeping and the security cameras outside his cell just so happened to be malfunctioning, and Jack Ruby just so happened to have a lot of friends on the Dallas PD allowing him to get close enough to Lee Harvey Oswald, and that everything about the Denver International Airport just so happens to be really fucking weird even if you aren’t prone to believing all the bizarre stories about its provenance and true purpose.

Seriously who the fuck gave the people in this March 2021 caravan these t-shirts?

We can appreciate sincerely premised questions when some things don’t quite add up. After all, you can say that’s a lot of what we do here too. For example, of course Fox News was firing up the “Caravan” panic as a distraction ahead of the January 6th Committee hearings last week. Do we know that’s exactly why they were doing it? No, and we never will in absence of a Fox News employee showing us an internal email indicating that really was the case, which is pretty unlikely.

We know our audience accepts such conjecture as valid, if they hadn’t already came to the same conclusion themselves (many did). We prefer to think of it as “informed speculation”, even if on balance one could argue it’s the same as “connecting the dots” on a conspiracy theory.

“Men have taken over everything.  There, there, there, there [sic] women of the year in every category, in women’s categories, ” Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Green (Q-Ga) says while making air quotes for some reason.  “And the latest news is, Brian, that now there’s a shortage of tampons and that’s probably because men are buying tampons–” to which her sidekick asks if this is breaking news or if that’s a joke, which she is.  “No, it’s not a joke.”

“You’re telling me that this is legit,” Brian asks.

“I’m tellin’ you the truth,” Marge replies, unaware of the meaning of the word.  “You can look it up.  Look it up on the internet.  Everything’s true on the internet.”

“We have that many ‘beta’ males that are buying into this agenda that they can menstruate,” Brian asserts.  “This is crazy, absolutely crazy.”

“They put tampons in men’s bathrooms,” Marge claims, as if she spends a lot of time in men’s bathrooms.  “So the war on women.”

Herschel Walker is known for a lot of things besides being a professional football player, but it turns out, most of those other things aren’t true.  According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Walker has some more lies on his resume:  he repeatedly claimed to be a law enforcement officer, including one time when he said he was an FBI agent.

For the record, there are no records that Walker ever worked in law enforcement.  He was once made an honorary deputy for DeKalb County, Georgia, but former DeKalb County District Attorney J. Tom Morgan described the title as honorary, saying it was like “a junior ranger badge.”

In 2019, Walker also told a group of soldiers at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington that he had attended the FBI academy at Quantico, Virginia.  “I spent time at Quantico at the FBI training school. Y’all didn’t know I was an agent?” he said.  He didn’t; the FBI has no record of Walker ever applying for or attending the academy.

Jenna Ellis, a lawyer who was frequently by the side of suspended Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani as they spread lies about the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, has joined the campaign of Republican Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, she announced on Twitter.

Although she didn’t sign off on a single campaign lawsuit that was victorious, Ellis continues to promote debunked claims about the legitimacy of the 2020 outcome.  Having sat at Giuliani’s side during multiple dog-and-pony shows to spread easily disproven lies, Ellis also caught coronavirus at an event with Giuliani where Giuliani let out a number of audible farts.  She also stood behind the former practicing attorney as hair dye streaked down his face at a press conference.

Ellis delivered a legally-tenuous brief for Trump attorney Jay Sekulow on January 5, 2021 in which she claimed that then-Vice President Mike Pence’s assertion that the VP doesn’t have the authority to unilaterally negate certified slates of Electoral College electors from states was false.  No Constitutional lawyer or scholar supports her interpretation of the law.

You’ve heard the stories of the 31 poor, downtrodden white folk part of Patriot Front who piled into a U-Haul van to try to disrupt and intimidate the LGBTQ Pride celebration that happened in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho this past weekend. After getting a tip from a member of the public who saw identically-dressed supposedly-straight white men pile illegally into the back of a rental truck at a motel, police surrounded the vehicle, prompting the incels to surrender on the spot as they were being dropped off near the festivities. Well, here they are in all their celibate glory.  According to a police statement, the men came from 11 different states:  Texas, Utah, Idaho, Colorado, South Dakota, Illinois, Arkansas, Wyoming, Washington, Oregon and Virginia.

Always quick to change the subject, those sly foxes. Especially after the guy they fired for correctly calling Arizona on Election Night 2020 early spoke to Congress publicly about his call.

The second of six public hearings for the House January 6th Select Committee will start at 10:30 AM Monday, pushed back shortly by Trump 2020 campaign manager Bill Stepien canceling his appearance as his wife went into labor. Stepien’s lawyer will read a statement from the former campaign manager instead. Former US Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia BJay Pak and former Fox News decision desk editor Chris Stirewalt – both of whom were fired because of Trump’s inability to admit he lost the 2020 election – will appear, as will George W Bush 2000 lawyer Ben Ginsburg, and others, with the main topic being evidence that Trump knew full well he lost the election legitimately, but still tried to overturn it anyway like the sore loser he is.

Trump 2020 Campaign manager Bill Stepien has dropped out of the Monday January 6th Select Committee hearing as his wife has gone into labor, in a legitimate, understandable, but also pretty fucking frustrating blow to the committee’s presentation at the second hearing. The scheduled 10 AM start of the hearing has been delayed about 30 to 45 minutes, hopefully staff will be taking that time to put together video of a private interview with Stepien to present.

More than 20 million Americans watched Thursday’s multi-network coverage of the hearings of the House Select Committee investigation into the January 6th domestic terrorist attack on Congress, with ABC and MSNBC leading the way with more than four million viewers each, according to Adweek.  The numbers do not include streaming services from live feeds like YouTube TV and Hulu.

The Republican propaganda cable network Fox didn’t see any appreciable change in their viewership even though it chose not to air the hearings, which would upset their brainwashed viewers, averaging three million viewers.  Fox also lost a couple million dollars in ad sales because it chose to run its 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. ET shows, with hosts Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, without commercials from their sponsors, typically MyPillow, cash-4-gold services and catheter delivery services.

According to their program guide, Fox will air Monday’s hearings starting at 10 a.m. ET.

Stay tuned to National Zero for our continuing live coverage of the House January 6th Select Committee hearings starting in just over an hour. Right at the time Elise mentioned, in this Sunday morning clip with Maria Bartiromo. Did she really not know the schedule for the second hearing?

Fat former President Trump is inquiring about holding his 2024 campaign launch soon, complete with a noisy fireworks display, right near the Florida governor’s mansion in Tallahassee, Rolling Stone reports on a painfully obvious dick-wagging move at emerging GOP nomination rival Governor Ron DeSantis, whom Donald has recently become increasingly obsessed with.

“One time that he did bring up the Florida scenario was quickly followed by him commenting on how terrible DeSantis was at public speaking and commanding an audience… lacking in so much charisma and he’s so boring that Florida Republicans would leave Ron immediately for Trump,” said a source on the Orange Tyrant’s designs, adding he considers DeSantis to be “very overrated!”

Facing an absolute beatdown in the October election for which already claims can only comes due to fraud, far right wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro has learned from his American counterpart Donald Trump’s mistakes in his 2020 loss and has begun roping in military leadership to help overturn the result ahead of time, the New York Times reports.

Bolsonaro claimed “invited the armed forces to participate in the electoral process,” referring to the national election transparency committee on which he installed loyal military brass. “Did they forget that the supreme chief of the armed forces is named Jair Messias Bolsonaro?” The head of Brazil’s Navy, Almir Garnier Santos backed up Bolsonaro’s claims told reporters “The president of the republic is my boss, he is my commander, he has the right to say whatever he wants.”

Indian authorities have bulldozed the homes of several Muslim citizens who vowed revenge for anti-Islam comments made by members of the ruling Hindu nationalist party, CNN reports.