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Trump's Eyes Swollen Shut During Deranged MyPillow Speech
MyPillow guy Mike Lindell organized a rally dubbed the “MAGA Frank Rally” over the weekend, with a few thousand people showing up to the event in New Richmond, Wisconsin. It was essentially just four hours of speeches, each one being wackier than the previous, but all touching on the same themes of bashing Joe Biden, complaining about cancel culture, and of course, insisting without evidence that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. Speakers at the event included the MyPillow guy himself Mike Lindell, Charlie Kirk, Dinesh D’Souza, and the tag team Diamond and Silk. The event was capped off by a speech via jumbotron by the former President of the United States, which obviously the MAGA crowd went nuts over. From the start of the rally there were signs that the event was going to be an abysmal failure. A flyover was scheduled to take place to kick off the event, but the planes never showed up for some reason. And it didn’t get better from there.
Trump couldn’t be bothered to fly in from New York so instead he was brought in virtually to ramble for about 15 minutes. The former president was not looking so good and not sounding so good. In fact, his eyes appeared to be swollen shut. Trump went through the labored and boring talking points about how there’s no way he could have lost reelection and that he was the victim of the greatest fraud in history. He thanked people like Mike Lindell and the beleaguered Rudy Giuliani for their work on the voter fraud front, saying “they’re going to go down as heroes some day, and I think it’s some day in the not too distant future.” It was surprising hearing Trump mention Giuliani at this point, as the former president hasn’t offered much help to the ex-New York City mayor after the FBI raided his home and office a couple of months back. All in all, there really didn’t seem to be much of a need for this event, especially 7 months removed from the presidential election. It’s simply part of a grift for Mike Lindell, and to make Trump and his supporters feel better about losing the election by throwing a party.
SHOCK: Alex Jones Says He Coordinated Riots with Trump White House
Conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is now claiming that he coordinated with the Trump White House on the events of January 6th. The Infowars host made the claim last week that he even put up $500,000 of his own money to make it happen. Jones said, “the White House told me three days before, ‘we’re going to have you lead the march.’” He went on to say that 30 minutes before the end of Trump’s speech at the Rotunda, the Secret Service planned to take Jones out of the crowd to the spot where the march was supposed to begin. He went on to say, “Trump will tell people, ‘go and I’m going to meet you at the Capitol.’” Jones’s statements are basically a full-on admission about his involvement in the riots, although he can always hide behind saying he did not intend for the rally to get violent.
It’s important to keep in mind that Alex Jones lies all the time and this could be yet another lie from him. But even if one iota of this is true it would be immensely disconcerting to think any White House official would be coordinating events with someone as crazy as Alex Jones. Despite his lie-riddled track record, there are some reasons to hear out Jones’s claims on this one. The Infowars host is not the first person to suggest that some of Trump’s White House officials were involved in the planning of the Capitol riots. Media Matters previously surfaced video of Ali Alexander, a so-called “Stop the Steal” organizer, bragging about being “on the phone” with “people from the White House” and seemed to encourage physical violence. It’ll be interesting to see where this story goes, if the phone records ever come out, and if Alex Jones himself will be targeted by the FBI for his role in the day’s events.
From over the weekend:
OOPS: Lindsey Graham Says the Quiet Part Out Loud
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said the quiet part out loud about the COVID lab leak theory while speaking on Sean Hannity’s Fox News program last week. The lab leak theory is that the virus originated in or was being studied in and then escaped from a lab in Wuhan, China. In a 9-second hot take, Graham revealed that the reason Republicans have been pushing this theory in recent months is that they know it would make Donald Trump look good if it turned out to be true. The senator said, “why does this matter? If Trump was right about the lab leak, it would change the image the public had of President Trump regarding the coronavirus.” Graham is right in his assessment that it would change public perception, but he’s wrong to imply that it should change public perception. Whether the virus jumped from an animal or came from a lab, it didn’t make much of a difference once it came to our shores. Trump downplayed the virus, failed on messaging, testing, masking, and promoted pseudo-scientific cures for coronavirus patients. Republicans may think that responsibility would be lifted from Trump if he was right on the origins of the virus, but it wouldn’t change anything about the former president’s failed leadership during the pandemic.
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--Benjamin Netanyahu is finally out as Israel Prime Minister, replaced by Naftali Bennett
--Argentinean President Alberto Fernandez says that, unlike the Mexicans, who came from Indians, and the Brazilians, who came from the jungle, Argentinians came from Europe in boats
--Radical Republican Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene says that she does not "believe in" evolution in her latest ignorant screed
--An anti-vaccine nurse appears on CNN to say that coronavirus vaccination and vaccine trials are similar to Nazi medical experiments
--Lara Trump, Donald Trump daughter-in-law and the wife of Eric Trump, appears on Fox News to tell Americans living on the border to take up arms against immigrants that may or may not be undocumented
--Voicemail caller the Eggman blames David for his daughter still wearing a mask in public despite being fully vaccinated
--On the Bonus Show: Jeffrey Toobin back on CNN after exposing himself, NC county ends Coca-Cola vending machine ban, iPhones will soon be able to hold your ID, much more...
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