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Alabama woman at DC protest doubles down on unsupported ANTIFA claim Updated Jan 11, 2021; Facebook Share By Amy Henderson The Cullman Times, Ala. (TNS) and Tribune Media Services Cullman’s Chatty Freeman got a close-up view of the events in Washington, D.C., Wednesday, but not too close. “We were near the back of the march,” she told The Cullman Times Wednesday afternoon. “We didn’t get close [to the Capitol] at all.” Freeman arrived in the nation’s capitol on Monday night to attend President Donald Trump’s rally and other events surrounding it. On We...
Conservative Media Outlets Spread Viral 4chan Hoax About Chief Justice John Roberts, Watchdog Group Says Since losing the 2020 presidential election to Democrat Joe Biden, President Donald Trump has promoted various evidence-free theories about widespread voter fraud. Prominent conservative figures and right-leaning outlets have done the same and one of their most explosive claims seems to be based on a viral internet hoax. According to a Friday report from the watchdog group Media Matters, on December 11, after the Supreme Court rejected a lawsuit filed on behalf of the Trump campaign, ...
Update (12/21/20): This article has been updated with additional details. A hoax from a far-right message board about a rejected pro-Trump Supreme Court case went viral, drawing millions of views on social media and tricking a presidential elector in Texas and multiple right-wing media outlets and figures after a known white nationalist shared it. Since President Donald Trump lost reelection to President-elect Joe Biden, he and his allies have repeatedly pushed baseless claims of voter fraud and filed multiple legal challenges. One of those cases, brought by Texas’ Republican attorney gen...
Good day, everyone, as the head spinning array of reversals and new battle lines from president trump are laying the foundation for a scorched earth 2020 reelection strategy. the president's decision to step away from what he called background checks like never before and ramp up those persistent attacks on four congresswomen of color, allies overseas, his hand-picked federal reserve chairman and anyone in the political arena who dares to criticize him all add up to a fight on all fronts to win four more years in the white house. "the washington post's" dan ball is noting in his piece today th...