Twelve contestants from all walks of right wing Caucasian professional life compete in a no-holds-barred reality competition for Former President Donald Trump’s endorsement for the 2022 GOP Pennsylvania Senate primary! Which one of them has what it takes to become a MAGA STAR? Watch as the contestants struggle to survive round after round of backstabbing accusations of pedophilia and insufficient pride in their white heritage! See which one can spend the largest amount of campaign donor funds at the Trump International Hotel in DC! Ride on the edge of your seat as each candidate attempts to overturn the 2020 election at the United States Supreme Court as part of the fourth episode’s challenge!

Enter ‘The Boardroom’ at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida and face down with the legend himself – the money, the power, the fame, the racism, the lechery, the vanity, the volcanic rage, the debt, and the racism! One winner will be chosen – the other eleven will be told Trump’s brand new signature elimination catchphrase “You’re a RINO!” and be cast off MAGA Island to start a career in producing right wing podcasts that no one listens to.

Who can come up with the dankest Pepe memes? Who can survive multiple credible allegations of sexual assault? Who can say blatantly racist shit but still have plausible deniability? Who can satisfy the ego of the God Emperor himself? Find out this season on MAGA STAR!

Washington Post: “When Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri joined the Republican Sedition Caucus and supported overturning the presidential election a few weeks ago, Simon & Schuster decided it didn’t want to publish his book anymore. Likewise, Twitter decided to permanently suspend President Donald Trump after he used the platform to spread damaging lies about the election and to fire up those who rioted at the Capitol on Jan. 6. There’s been plenty of criticism about these decisions, not one of which had anything to do with the First Amendment, which forbids the government – not Twitter or any other private entity – from shutting down speech except in the most dangerous cases. But you’d never know it from all the bad-faith squealing, mostly from the right. Night after night, Fox News offers prime-time viewers its ‘leftist-assault-on-speech’ show. Hawley, who needed only a few days to find a new publisher for his book, subsequently blasted the ‘muzzling of America’ in an opinion piece in the widely read New York Post.”

“Have any of these people been silenced? Hardly. As Parker Molloy of Media Matters put it: ‘Despite getting a spot on the front page of the fourth-largest newspaper in the U.S., coverage across the entire Fox News lineup, a new book deal, an audience of more than half a million followers on Twitter, and a lengthy list of credits on IMDB, Hawley would like you to believe that he is a man without a voice.’ And then there’s Florida congressman Matt Gaetz, who ranted that the congressional efforts to hold Trump accountable for his role in the attempted insurrection at the Capitol are somehow sins against free expression: ‘Impeachment is the zenith of cancel culture,’ he tweeted, as if ‘cancel culture’ were to blame for a constitutional remedy that dates back to the country’s founding.”

CNN: “A person familiar with the departures told CNN that Trump wanted the attorneys to argue there was mass election fraud and that the election was stolen from him rather than focus on the legality of convicting a president after he’s left office. Trump was not receptive to the discussions about how they should proceed in that regard. The attorneys had not yet been paid any advance fees and a letter of intent was never signed. CNN has reached out to the attorneys for comment.”

AOC (152,661 votes) and Maxine Waters (152,272 votes) are part of lynch mob trying to destroy Congresswoman Marjorie Greene (229,827 votes).they should calm down and read the history of John Wilkes in the 1770s and the principle that the people’s vote matters more than parliament

— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) January 31, 2021

“Joe Biden waited nearly four decades to become the most powerful man in the free world. Now that he is, he’s making himself scarce. Biden is leaning on doctors and health experts to publicly detail his Covid policy. He’s relying on his Cabinet, economic advisers and other high-ranking administration officials to help sell his nearly $2 trillion rescue package. Biden’s press team, meanwhile, is standing in for their boss by blanketing TV programs with pledges to tell the truth even when it’s inconvenient. It’s one of the more arresting shifts after four years of a president who delighted in torturing the media with sudden pronouncements that often surprised and befuddled his own advisers. ‘He trusts them, and Americans will trust experts,’ John Anzalone, a top Biden adviser and campaign pollster, said of the president’s approach to his team. ‘Plus,’ he added, ‘Biden is dealing with multiple crises and is a good delegator'” reports Politico.

“White House aides describe the strategy not so much as delegation but as an concerted effort to restore confidence with a public battered by the contradictory messaging and scorched-earth politics of the Trump years. In just over a week, the White House has booked 80 TV and radio interviews with 20 senior administration officials, members of the Covid-19 response team and Cabinet secretary designates. They’ve had officials on each major network, booking them on every Sunday show in the first week. And they worked with CNN to have three of the doctors in charge of its Covid-19 response take questions from the public during a coronavirus town hall, said Mariel Sáez, the White House director of broadcast media. Who’s not been booked for any sit-down interviews: Biden. But the president hasn’t exactly been absent either. He appeared for brief ceremonies where he signed executive orders and delivered mostly scripted remarks. He’s taken a handful of questions from the news media. And he’s expected to give a major foreign policy address on Monday amid a planned trip to the State Department, his first visit to a Cabinet agency.”

Stat News: “Top Trump officials actively lobbied Congress to deny state governments any extra funding for the Covid-19 vaccine rollout last fall – despite frantic warnings from state officials that they didn’t have the money they needed to ramp up a massive vaccination operation. The push, described to STAT by congressional aides in both parties and openly acknowledged by one of the Trump officials, came from multiple high-ranking Trump health officials in repeated meetings with legislators. Without the extra money, states spent last October and November rationing the small pot of federal dollars they had been given. And when vaccines began shipping in December, states seemed woefully underprepared.”

The previously unreported lobbying efforts underscore that even after the Trump administration spent billions helping drug makers develop Covid-19 vaccines, it not only dismissed states’ concerns about the help they would need to roll them out, but actively undermined their efforts to press Congress to get the funding they needed. Much of the lobbying push came from Paul Mango, the former deputy chief of staff for policy at the Department of Health and Human Services. He argued, repeatedly, that states hadn’t demonstrated they needed additional funding because, at least as of last October, they hadn’t spent the $200 million that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sent to states in September. Far from denying his efforts, Mango doubled down in an interview with STAT – and even accused states of pressing for the money to bolster their empty tax coffers. ‘A lot of them had shut down their economies and they weren’t getting tax revenue,’ he said. ‘I’m sure they could use money – that’s not in dispute – what’s in dispute is whether they needed money given all they hadn’t used to actually administer vaccines,’ Mango added, suggesting that his lobbying efforts were an attempt to protect taxpayers from wasteful government spending.”

“Two Ohio state representatives are drafting a bill to make June 14 a day to honor President Donald Trump. Reps. Jon Cross and Reggie Stoltzfus contacted their House colleagues on Friday looking for cosponsors to their legislation to ‘to celebrate one of the greatest presidents in American history.’ ‘Let’s show the 3,154,834 Ohio voters who cast their ballot to re-elect Donald J. Trump that we as a legislature recognize the accomplishments of his administration,’ the request for co-sponsors reads” – PJ Media.

Reuters: “Police detained more than 450 people at rallies in Siberia and Russia’s Far East on Sunday as supporters of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny took to the streets to protest his jailing, despite biting cold and the threat of arrest. The rallies, also set to take place in Moscow and other cities later on Sunday, follow large protests last weekend and are part of a campaign to pressure the Kremlin into freeing President Vladimir Putin’s most prominent opponent. Police have said the protests have not been authorised and will be broken up, as they were last weekend. Over 4,000 people were detained at those rallies, according to OVD-Info, a protest monitoring group.”

CNN’s Kara Scannell reports all five lawyers of the Trump defense team have resigned.

ProPublica: “Acting Alaska Attorney General Ed Sniffen’s abrupt resignation was announced Friday as the Anchorage Daily News and ProPublica were preparing an article about allegations of sexual misconduct with a 17-year-old girl three decades ago. Nikki Dougherty White, now 47, recently contacted the news organizations with a detailed account of how she and Sniffen began a sexual relationship in 1991 while she was a student at West Anchorage High School. At the time, he was a 27-year-old attorney with a local law firm and a coach of her school’s mock trial competition team. The sexual relationship began during a trip to New Orleans for a national competition when she was 17, and it continued for about two years back in Anchorage, she said.”

“One of White’s former teammates said White confided in her about the sexual encounter with Sniffen while the team was still in New Orleans. A second former teammate said he learned of the sexual encounter around the same time, possibly on the plane ride home. A third teammate remembered hearing that something inappropriate had happened between Sniffen and White upon the team’s return to Anchorage. Under an Alaska law enacted in 1990, months before Sniffen and White traveled to New Orleans for the national mock trial competition, it was illegal for an adult to have sex with a 16- or 17-year-old whom he or she was teaching, counseling or coaching. (In many other instances, the age of consent in Alaska is 16.) Sniffen is the second Alaska attorney general to step down within the past six months amid a Daily News and ProPublica investigation into their interactions with women. Former Attorney General Kevin Clarkson quit in August, hours after the newsrooms revealed he had sent hundreds of unwanted text messages to a junior colleague.”

Two of the four lawyers who had joined the team defending Donald Trump in his upcoming impeachment trial, scheduled to start in nine days, have abruptly quit, Politico reports.

Butch Bowers and Deborah Barbier, both of Columbia, South Carolina, have left the team according a person close to the defense team.  They described the split as a “mutual decision.”

Bowers was announced as lead counsel just eight days ago, and Barbier joined earlier this week.  Bowers is an election law specialist, while Barbier is a former federal prosecutor. 

Donald Trump’s almost singular focus on making antifa into a serious threat to national security drew vital law enforcement resources away from investigating the right-wing domestic terrorists who would eventually set siege on the Capitol in a coup attempt, the New York Times reports.

Labeling antifa a domestic terrorist threat, Trump rallied his supporters from inside and outside the government to concentrate public attention on antifa.  Attorney General Bill Barr redirected forces–including uniformed officers from a variety of Justice Department bureaus–to hotspots for left-wing activism like Portland.

The resources assigned by Barr were disproportionate to the risk, according to officials who attended meetings with Barr about the civil unrest.  Investigators told the Times they felt pressure to find or create evidence to characterize antifa as a unified organization planning coordinated attacks within the US.  DoJ investigators, however, understood antifa was a loose affiliation of acquaintances who did not have a cohesive plan.

Posted by journeyman reporter Ben C Jacobs.

The Lincoln Project’s lawyers sent a blistering letter to Rudy Giuliani instructing him to apologize for false and slanderous statements he made about the organization and its members, or “refuse at your own peril.” The letters also instructed Giuliani to preserve all records, a move typical prior to the beginning of lawsuits.

“You were once a respected and respectable figure,” the letter starts.

“Your unfortunate, self-inflicted decline has been a public spectacle.  You wanted to ‘lock her up.’  You panhandled foreign interests.  You defended porn-star payoffs in eye-popping media appearances.  You revealed sleazy schemes in butt-dialed voicemails.  You gave a mattress-top interview to someone you thought was a journalist ‘looking for more,’ but turned out to be only a comedian who showed you to be an easy mark.  You represented the President of the United States in a parking lot press conference held right outside Four Seasons Total Landscaping, Fantasy Island Adult Bookstore, and Philadelphia Crematorium.  You oozed hair dye while you spouted lies about the 2020 election.  You assembled and led an ‘Elite Strike Force’ legal team that somehow couldn’t manage to spell or win in court.”

LA Times: “Dodger Stadium’s mass COVID-19 vaccination site was shut down Saturday afternoon as dozens of protesters gathered at the entrance, stalling hundreds of motorists who had been waiting in line for hours. The Los Angeles Fire Department closed the entrance to the stadium at about 2 p.m. as a precaution, officials said. The demonstrators included members of anti-vaccine and far-right groups. While some carried signs decrying the COVID-19 vaccine and shouting for people not to get the shots, there were no incidents of violence.”

“‘This is completely wrong,’ said German Jaquez, who drove from his home in La Verne and had been waiting for an hour for his vaccination when the stadium’s gates were closed. He said some of the protesters were telling people in line that the coronavirus is not real and that the vaccination is dangerous. ‘This is the wrong message,’ Jaquez said. ‘I’ve been waiting for weeks to get an appointment. I am a dentist; I am taking a big risk being around patients. I want to be safe for my patients and for my family. The vaccine is the only way to beat the virus.’ A post on social media described the demonstration as the ‘SCAMDEMIC PROTEST/MARCH.’ It advised participants to ‘please refrain from wearing Trump/MAGA attire as we want our statement to resonate with the sheeple. No flags but informational signs only.'”

Eleven soldiers at Fort Bliss in Texas have been hospitalized, with two listed as critical in intensive care, after drinking a chemical found in antifreeze that they mistakenly thought was alcohol, ABC News reports.

The soldiers–one warrant officer, two noncommissioned officers and eight enlisted members–had completed a 10-day field training exercise and apparently thought the ethylene glycol was a celebratory alcoholic beverage.

“The circumstances of how the Soldiers ingested the substance are under investigation by the U.S. Army Criminal Investigation Command (USACIDC). There is no reason to believe there is any threat to the greater Fort Bliss community,” Fort Bliss’ 1st Armored Division said in a statement Friday night. “The Fort Bliss senior commander has also directed an administrative investigation to determine the facts and circumstances that led to yesterday’s events.”

The governor of Maryland confirmed that a Baltimore area man has contracted the South African variant of the coronavirus, making Maryland the second state with a confirmed case, CNN reports.  Two people in South Carolina were confirmed with the same strain two days ago.

The patient in Maryland had not traveled out of the country or had any contact with the two other known cases, making the infection likely due to community transmission.

“Comprehensive contact tracing efforts are underway to ensure that potential contacts are quickly identified, quarantined, and tested,” Governor Larry Hogan stated in a media release.

“What would have been U.S Rep. Lauren Boebert’s first stop in Montrose since being sworn in was canceled Saturday. Boebert, R-Colorado, had apparently been scheduled for an event here, word of which began circulating online Friday evening. But by Saturday, the event had been canceled and the host site, Circle 3 Cowboy Fellowship, reported receiving a phone threat before the cancelation. ‘The congresswoman was planning on stopping by a small private event,’ Ben Stout, communications director for U.S. Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, said in a provided statement. ‘This was not an official town hall organized by her office. It became clear that there was not adequate security for the number of people that were planning to attend the event. The congresswoman looks forward to meeting with members of the community in the future.'”

“Pastor Gary Lear told the Montrose Daily Press the church was notified of the cancelation Saturday morning. Saturday morning, before the cancelation, Lear said the church received eight to 10 threats related to the event, including one that came from a Denver area code phone number. Lear said the individual that issued the threat said he or she represented organizations in Denver and Boulder, and also claimed to be part of Boebert’s team. Lear told the caller he didn’t believe the claims, and then, Lear says, the caller threatened to ‘turn the church into the IRS,’ and that the church was ‘breaking the law by having the event in Montrose.’ Another individual threat, Lear said, said they ‘weren’t going to miss them (Lear and his wife).’ Lear confirmed he had filed a report with the Montrose County Sheriff’s Office” – Montrose Daily Press.

New York Times: “In Georgia, Arizona and other states won by President Biden, some leading Republicans stood up in November to make what, in any other year, would be an unremarkable statement: The race is over. And we lost, fair and square. But that was then. Now, in statehouses nationwide, Republicans who echoed former President Donald J. Trump’s baseless claims of rampant fraud are proposing to make it harder to vote next time – ostensibly to convince the very voters who believed them that elections can be trusted again. And even some colleagues who defended the legitimacy of the November vote are joining them.”

“According to the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, state legislators have filed 106 bills to tighten election rules, generally making it harder to cast a ballot – triple the number at this time last year. In short, Republicans who for more than a decade have used wildly inflated allegations of voter fraud to justify making it harder to vote, are now doing so again, this time seizing on Mr. Trump’s thoroughly debunked charges of a stolen election to push back at Democratic-leaning voters who flocked to mail-in ballots last year. In Georgia, where the State House of Representatives has set up a special committee on election integrity, legislators are pushing to roll back no-excuse absentee voting. Republicans in Pennsylvania plan 14 hearings to revisit complaints they raised last year about the election and to propose limitations on voting.”