rightwingwatch--2020-01-15--Rick Wiles: Hillary Clinton Intended to Put Conservatives in Concentration Camps

In 2015 , Hillary Clinton spoke at the American Camp Association ’ s annual conference , where she told the audience that “ there ’ s a huge fun deficit in America ” and that it would be great if there were “ camps for adults ” where people could come together , have fun , and learn get along .
Given that the American Camp Association is , as its name suggests , “ a community of camp professionals who … have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs , @ @ @ @ @ @ @ people in the audience would be perfectly suited to run such “ fun camps ” is perfectly innocuous—unless , of course , you are a right-wing conspiracy theorist like Rick Wiles .
Last night , Wiles played a clip from Clinton ’ s 2015 speech on his TruNews program and claimed that what she was really talking about was setting up concentration camps for conservatives .
“ The queen of sleaze , Hillary Clinton , she jokingly told her supporters one day , ‘ What we need in America are fun camps for @ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ If you ’ re wearing the uniform , you may be sadistic and have a lot of fun , but if you ’ re a prisoner , you may not think it ’ s too funny.
” “ Hillary told her supporters , ‘ Maybe you will run the camps , ' ” he continued .
“ Just think about what she was saying .
All the leftists there knew what she was hinting about .
Re-education camps .
Concentration camps .
And you might have a job there .
She was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ anticipate if she got in the White House .
”

In 2015, Hillary Clinton spoke at the American Camp Association’s annual conference, where she told the audience that “there’s a huge fun deficit in America” and that it would be great if there were “camps for adults” where people could come together, have fun, and learn get along.
Given that the American Camp Association is, as its name suggests, “a community of camp professionals who … have joined together to share our knowledge and experience and to ensure the quality of camp programs,” Clinton’s comment that the people in the audience would be perfectly suited to run such “fun camps” is perfectly innocuous—unless, of course, you are a right-wing conspiracy theorist like Rick Wiles.
Last night, Wiles played a clip from Clinton’s 2015 speech on his TruNews program and claimed that what she was really talking about was setting up concentration camps for conservatives.
“The queen of sleaze, Hillary Clinton, she jokingly told her supporters one day, ‘What we need in America are fun camps for adults,'” Wiles said. “If you’re wearing the uniform, you may be sadistic and have a lot of fun, but if you’re a prisoner, you may not think it’s too funny.”
“Hillary told her supporters, ‘Maybe you will run the camps,'” he continued. “Just think about what she was saying. All the leftists there knew what she was hinting about. Re-education camps. Concentration camps. And you might have a job there. She was sending the signal of what they could anticipate if she got in the White House.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-17--Perry Stone: Mitt Romney Might Support Impeachment to Fulfill ‘The White Horse Prophecy’

Right-wing pastor Perry Stone posted a message on his Facebook page this morning suggesting that Republican Sen. Mitt Romney may vote to remove President Donald Trump from office because Romney believes doing so might result in him becoming president in accordance with Mormon prophecy .
In 1843 , Joseph Smith , founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints , supposedly delivered a message known as “ The White Horse Prophecy ” that declared that one day , when the U.S. Constitution was hanging by a thread , the Mormon people would rise up and save the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ church issued an official statement that “ the so-called ‘ White Horse Prophecy ’ is based on accounts that have not been substantiated by historical research and is not embraced as Church doctrine , ” but Stone thinks that Romney , who is Mormon , might be attempting to fulfill the prophecy by voting to remove Trump from office in hopes of creating a constitutional crisis that would eventually lead to Romney becoming president : There is the Mormon prophecies .
Mitt is a strong Mormon and the Mormon religion has numerous prophecies @ @ @ @ @ @ @ future ( or end time ) events , of which Mitt is familiar .
The founder of the Mormon religion , Joseph Smith , gave a “ White Horse prophecy , ” that a Mormon would one day be President of the United States , and I personally believe this is why Mitt ran for president ( too complicated to explain on Facebook ) , to hopefully fulfill this prophecy .
These prophecies from the late 1800 ’ s were given in alleged dreams and visions to Mormon elders , and were made @ @ @ @ @ @ @ John O ’ Sullivan , a journalist from New York , at the turn of the twentieth century .
The prophecies include future fighting between the states , in which farmers would be suffering ; a battle with the people at the southern border .
Government division and confusion would cause riots in the streets against the politicians in Washington , causing politicians to go into hiding for fear of their lives .
There would be a Constitutional crisis , in which afterward a Mormon would step in , form a new political @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
If Trump is impeached , much of this could be fulfilled as his supporters would create an uprising against those who used fake documents to create a model of opportunity to undo an election !
Is Mitt for impeachment , thinking HE is the man who will raise up after a huge crisis ?
I am only asking – not predicting .

Right-wing pastor Perry Stone posted a message on his Facebook page this morning suggesting that Republican Sen. Mitt Romney may vote to remove President Donald Trump from office because Romney believes doing so might result in him becoming president in accordance with Mormon prophecy.
In 1843, Joseph Smith, founder of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, supposedly delivered a message known as “The White Horse Prophecy” that declared that one day, when the U.S. Constitution was hanging by a thread, the Mormon people would rise up and save the nation.
In 2010, the LDS church issued an official statement that “the so-called ‘White Horse Prophecy’ is based on accounts that have not been substantiated by historical research and is not embraced as Church doctrine,” but Stone thinks that Romney, who is Mormon, might be attempting to fulfill the prophecy by voting to remove Trump from office in hopes of creating a constitutional crisis that would eventually lead to Romney becoming president:


rightwingwatch--2020-01-17--Anti-Choice Susan B. Anthony List Launches $52 Million Campaign to Reelect Trump and GOP Senate

Groups dedicated to eliminating abortion as a legal choice for American women are doing everything they can to reelect President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate .
The Susan B. Anthony List and its Women Speak Out super PAC are launching a $ 52 million campaign effort on behalf of Trump and Republican senators , Politico reported Friday , so that they can continue their ideological takeover of the federal courts and move toward their goal of criminalizing abortion .
The plan will include advertising and field organizing in nine critical states and will use the anti-choice movement @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to convince voters who consider themselves pro-choice “ but see extreme positions like support for late-term abortion , infanticide and abortion activists posing as federal judges as a bridge too far , ” according to an SBA memo obtained by Politico .
Marjorie Dannenfelser , president of the Susan B. Anthony List , has loudly praised the Trump administration ’ s anti-choice policies , its attacks on Planned Parenthood , and its expansion of the “ global gag rule ” that denies women in poor countries access to potentially lifesaving information .
But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nominations “ the most important thing.
” In the first year of Trump ’ s presidency , Dannenfelser joined dominionists Lou Engle and Cindy Jacobs for a political prayer rally on the national mall .
As Right Wing Watch reported , “ Participants had been told to pray in advance for God to ‘ remove ’ or reform four more Supreme Court justices to clear the way for Trump to appoint more anti-choice justices .
Engle took up that ‘ reform or resign ’ prayer from the stage , saying ‘ we have @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ ” That same rally encouraged women to forgive their abusers as “ an act of spiritual warfare ” against the spirit of angry feminism .
Dannenfelser has come a long way from the early days of the 2016 campaign , when she was among a group of activists who urged voters to pick anyone but Trump because they were “ disgusted by Mr. Trump ’ s treatment of individuals , women , in particular .
”

Groups dedicated to eliminating abortion as a legal choice for American women are doing everything they can to reelect President Donald Trump and Republicans in the U.S. Senate. The Susan B. Anthony List and its Women Speak Out super PAC are launching a $52 million campaign effort on behalf of Trump and Republican senators, Politico reported Friday, so that they can continue their ideological takeover of the federal courts and move toward their goal of criminalizing abortion.
The plan will include advertising and field organizing in nine critical states and will use the anti-choice movement’s deceptive “infanticide” messaging to convince voters who consider themselves pro-choice “but see extreme positions like support for late-term abortion, infanticide and abortion activists posing as federal judges as a bridge too far,” according to an SBA memo obtained by Politico.
Marjorie Dannenfelser, president of the Susan B. Anthony List, has loudly praised the Trump administration’s anti-choice policies, its attacks on Planned Parenthood, and its expansion of the “global gag rule” that denies women in poor countries access to potentially lifesaving information. But she has called Trump’s judicial nominations “the most important thing.”
In the first year of Trump’s presidency, Dannenfelser joined dominionists Lou Engle and Cindy Jacobs for a political prayer rally on the national mall. As Right Wing Watch reported, “Participants had been told to pray in advance for God to ‘remove’ or reform four more Supreme Court justices to clear the way for Trump to appoint more anti-choice justices. Engle took up that ‘reform or resign’ prayer from the stage, saying ‘we have a three-year window for a massive shift.’” That same rally encouraged women to forgive their abusers as “an act of spiritual warfare” against the spirit of angry feminism.
Dannenfelser has come a long way from the early days of the 2016 campaign, when she was among a group of activists who urged voters to pick anyone but Trump because they were “disgusted by Mr. Trump’s treatment of individuals, women, in particular.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-16--Right Wing Round-Up: Godly Nullification

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rightwingwatch--2020-01-16--Right Wing Bonus Tracks: Stop the Madness


rightwingwatch--2020-01-16--Radio Host With Ties to Trump Campaign Suggests Charging Security Barricades at Richmond Gun Rally:

Radio Host With Ties to Trump Campaign Suggests Charging Security Barricades at Richmond Gun Rally: ‘What Are They Going to Do?’

John Fredericks , an influential Virginia radio host connected to President Donald Trump ’ s campaign , joined former Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke Jr. in suggesting that the thousands of people expected to descend on Richmond , Virginia , for a contentious pro-gun rally Monday should charge through the police lines securing the capitol against credible threats of extremist violence .
Virginia Citizens Defense League , a pro-gun group , organized the Jan. 20 “ Lobby Day ” event to voice its opposition to gun control legislation introduced in the state legislature .
The event has captured the attention of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the National Rifle Association , in addition to far-right groups and militia organizations that have expressed their intentions to attend the event .
On Thursday , the FBI arrested three suspected neo-Nazis that planned to travel to the event with firearms .
Virginia Gov .
Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in response to what he said were credible threats of violence from “ armed militia groups ” and the same type of “ extremist rhetoric ” law enforcement witnessed before the Unite the Right white supremacist gathering in 2017 @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the emergency includes a temporary firearm ban on Capitol grounds while the rally takes place on Monday and provides law enforcement with additional resources .
Northam ’ s measures to secure the event enraged Fredericks .
Last year , we reported Fredericks was seeking the position of chairman of the Virginia Trump presidential campaign in 2020 and served as the campaign ’ s Virginia co-chair and chairman in 2016 .
Fredericks also uses his radio show as a platform for Trump campaign surrogates like Clarke Jr. , who joined him Thursday .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ to the battles of Lexington and Concord , which launched the American Revolutionary War , and accused Northam of “ provoking an incident ” at Monday ’ s rally .
Clarke baselessly asserted that there was “ no credible threat ” of violence at the rally .
Fredericks and Clarke lambasted that the Capitol Square in Richmond will have a secured perimeter and one entrance with security screening .
Clarke said that police can “ kiss my ass ” if they want to try to prevent him from entering a public space and @ @ @ @ @ @ @ suggest that people who plan to attend the event simply overwhelm the security in place .
( Clarke said he was not planning to attend Monday ’ s event . )
“ If you ’ ve got 100,000 people and they ’ re pushing through , what are the police going to do ?
” Clarke asked .
“ That ’ s my question .
I mean , what are they going to do ?
” Fredericks answered .
“ Nothing .
There ’ s nothing they can do , ” Clarke said @ @ @ @ @ @ @ they had just let this go—I ’ m telling you—it would have been a phenomenal rally , very exciting without incident .
But now , it ’ s like [ Northam ] took a match and just tossed it on a fire , on a tank of gasoline.
” In a separate Thursday interview with Democratic Virginia Sen. David Marsden , Fredericks said that he didn ’ t trust Northam and that he believed the security measures in place for the rally were implemented for purely political reasons .
Marsden explained to Fredericks @ @ @ @ @ @ @ violent threats at Monday ’ s scheduled rally , but Fredericks was ultimately dismissive .
Northam “ basically effectively shut the rally down by saying you can ’ t come to the Capitol Square , there ’ s only one entrance , and he ’ s going to force everybody out into the streets , and now he ’ s closing the entire five-block area , ” Fredericks told Marsden .
“ Just let them have their rally .
Nothing was going to happen .
The rally will come , the rally will @ @ @ @ @ @ @ you don ’ t want : You don ’ t want aerial views of 100,000 people on the Richmond grounds protesting your gun-grabbing legislation .
You don ’ t want that on the national news , because that is going to inspire people that owns guns who don ’ t to get registered and vote , and vote Democrats out .
That ’ s why he did that .
”

John Fredericks, an influential Virginia radio host connected to President Donald Trump’s campaign, joined former Milwaukee sheriff David Clarke Jr. in suggesting that the thousands of people expected to descend on Richmond, Virginia, for a contentious pro-gun rally Monday should charge through the police lines securing the capitol against credible threats of extremist violence.
Virginia Citizens Defense League, a pro-gun group, organized the Jan. 20 “Lobby Day” event to voice its opposition to gun control legislation introduced in the state legislature. The event has captured the attention of pro-gun organizations across the nation, including the National Rifle Association, in addition to far-right groups and militia organizations that have expressed their intentions to attend the event. On Thursday, the FBI arrested three suspected neo-Nazis that planned to travel to the event with firearms.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency on Wednesday in response to what he said were credible threats of violence from “armed militia groups” and the same type of “extremist rhetoric” law enforcement witnessed before the Unite the Right white supremacist gathering in 2017, which turned deadly. The state of the emergency includes a temporary firearm ban on Capitol grounds while the rally takes place on Monday and provides law enforcement with additional resources.
This intelligence suggests militia groups and hate groups, some from out of state, plan to come to the Capitol to disrupt our democratic process with acts of violence. — Ralph Northam (@GovernorVA) January 15, 2020
Northam’s measures to secure the event enraged Fredericks. Last year, we reported Fredericks was seeking the position of chairman of the Virginia Trump presidential campaign in 2020 and served as the campaign’s Virginia co-chair and chairman in 2016. Fredericks also uses his radio show as a platform for Trump campaign surrogates like Clarke Jr., who joined him Thursday.
Clarke compared Monday’s scheduled rally to the battles of Lexington and Concord, which launched the American Revolutionary War, and accused Northam of “provoking an incident” at Monday’s rally. Clarke baselessly asserted that there was “no credible threat” of violence at the rally.
Fredericks and Clarke lambasted that the Capitol Square in Richmond will have a secured perimeter and one entrance with security screening. Clarke said that police can “kiss my ass” if they want to try to prevent him from entering a public space and voicing his mind, before appearing to suggest that people who plan to attend the event simply overwhelm the security in place. (Clarke said he was not planning to attend Monday’s event.)
“If you’ve got 100,000 people and they’re pushing through, what are the police going to do?” Clarke asked.
“That’s my question. I mean, what are they going to do?” Fredericks answered.
“Nothing. There’s nothing they can do,” Clarke said.
Fredericks later added, “If they had just let this go—I’m telling you—it would have been a phenomenal rally, very exciting without incident. But now, it’s like [Northam] took a match and just tossed it on a fire, on a tank of gasoline.”
In a separate Thursday interview with Democratic Virginia Sen. David Marsden, Fredericks said that he didn’t trust Northam and that he believed the security measures in place for the rally were implemented for purely political reasons. Marsden explained to Fredericks that officials had determined credible evidence of violent threats at Monday’s scheduled rally, but Fredericks was ultimately dismissive.
Northam “basically effectively shut the rally down by saying you can’t come to the Capitol Square, there’s only one entrance, and he’s going to force everybody out into the streets, and now he’s closing the entire five-block area,” Fredericks told Marsden. “Just let them have their rally. Nothing was going to happen. The rally will come, the rally will go. But here’s what you don’t want: You don’t want aerial views of 100,000 people on the Richmond grounds protesting your gun-grabbing legislation. You don’t want that on the national news, because that is going to inspire people that owns guns who don’t to get registered and vote, and vote Democrats out. That’s why he did that.”
Marsden audibly sighed.


rightwingwatch--2020-01-16--God Told Hank Kunneman That Mike Pence Will Be President in 2024

On Tuesday , right-wing , flag-loving , pro-Trump pastor Hank Kunneman and his wife , Brenda , appeared on pastor Benny Hinn ’ s television program , where Hank delivered a prophetic message from God that Vice President Mike Pence will be elected president in 2024 .
Kunneman kicked things off by repeating his claim that God had told him that President Donald Trump would get two terms in office , with each term representing one of the World Trade Center towers that fell on 9/11 .
But , he added , the two towers represent not only two terms @ @ @ @ @ @ @ for godly leaders .
Kunneman then claimed that he recently had a vision in which he saw the foot of the Lord slam down on America and smear itself back and forth across the nation .
“ And then the voice of the Lord spoke , ” Kunneman said .
“ He said , ‘ They tried to impeach Moses.
’ I never thought about that in all of my understanding .
They tried to remove him .
They didn ’ t like him .
They complained about his leadership … They got @ @ @ @ @ @ @ devil ’ s prophets .
Yet God raised up this man because he saw something in Moses that the people weren ’ t seeing .
You know what it was ?
He stood up for God and he stood up for the nation.
” “ God had a plan and an agenda to rescue a nation , ” he added .
“ And when his foot came down in that vision , he said these words , he said , ‘ Who is on the Lord ’ s side ?
’ … So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ that we side with God and we side with what he is doing.
” Kunneman then related yet another vision in which he claimed that God showed him the words “ payback ” and “ recompense , ” with an emphasis on the last syllable as “ Pence.
” “ Why do you think God allowed a man to be raised up with the name Trump ?
” Kunneman asked .
“ The Lord said , ‘ I ’ m standing in the midst of the man and my spirit is attached to @ @ @ @ @ @ @ and I ’ m calling it tr-i-umph , with I ’ m standing in the middle.
’ Why do you think there ’ s the word ‘ Pence ’ ?
Because there is something of God ’ s plan if we pray and cooperate with God prophetically.
” Hinn was elated by the revelation .
“ Let ’ s believe that the church will do that , ” Hinn said .
“ That the church will turn things around and Pence will become president in 2024 .
Somebody say hallelujah .
The church @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president in the White House .
We all want that .
”

On Tuesday, right-wing, flag-loving, pro-Trump pastor Hank Kunneman and his wife, Brenda, appeared on pastor Benny Hinn’s television program, where Hank delivered a prophetic message from God that Vice President Mike Pence will be elected president in 2024.
Kunneman kicked things off by repeating his claim that God had told him that President Donald Trump would get two terms in office, with each term representing one of the World Trade Center towers that fell on 9/11. But, he added, the two towers represent not only two terms for Trump, but also two presidencies for godly leaders.
Kunneman then claimed that he recently had a vision in which he saw the foot of the Lord slam down on America and smear itself back and forth across the nation.
“And then the voice of the Lord spoke,” Kunneman said. “He said, ‘They tried to impeach Moses.’ I never thought about that in all of my understanding. They tried to remove him. They didn’t like him. They complained about his leadership … They got the people to complain and become the devil’s prophets. Yet God raised up this man because he saw something in Moses that the people weren’t seeing. You know what it was? He stood up for God and he stood up for the nation.”
“God had a plan and an agenda to rescue a nation,” he added. “And when his foot came down in that vision, he said these words, he said, ‘Who is on the Lord’s side?’ … So this is very important in this time that we side with God and we side with what he is doing.”
Kunneman then related yet another vision in which he claimed that God showed him the words “payback” and “recompense,” with an emphasis on the last syllable as “Pence.”
“Why do you think God allowed a man to be raised up with the name Trump?” Kunneman asked. “The Lord said, ‘I’m standing in the midst of the man and my spirit is attached to him and I’m putting Trump and I’m calling it tr-i-umph, with I’m standing in the middle.’ Why do you think there’s the word ‘Pence’? Because there is something of God’s plan if we pray and cooperate with God prophetically.”
Hinn was elated by the revelation.
“Let’s believe that the church will do that,” Hinn said. “That the church will turn things around and Pence will become president in 2024. Somebody say hallelujah. The church needs a born-again, Holy Ghost tongue-speaking president in the White House. We all want that.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-17--Right Wing Round-Up: Courts Matter

Right Wing Round-Up: Courts Matter


rightwingwatch--2020-01-17--Right Wing Bonus Tracks: ‘The President’s Job Is to Obstruct Congress’


rightwingwatch--2020-01-17--Ahead of Richmond Gun Rally, InfoWars Associate Offers Advice on White Nationalist Show

Infowars associate and former Navy SEAL Matt Bracken is giving out tactical advice to white nationalist audiences about attending a pro-gun rally in Virginia Monday and laying the groundwork to bolster “ false-flag ” conspiracy theories in the event of violence .
Virginia Gov .
Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the Jan. 20 pro-gun event at the state ’ s capitol in Richmond in response to threats of violence and reports that violent hate groups may attend .
On Thursday , the FBI arrested neo-Nazis who had discussed opening fire at the event and who possessed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ammunition .
Although he does not plan to go to the event Monday , Bracken gave a nearly two-hour interview Friday about the rally to the web-based outlet Red Ice , which acts a megaphone for white nationalist and white supremacist rhetoric .
Bracken claimed that the FBI arrested the neo-Nazis in order to fabricate a timeline of events that the agency could later use to smear people opposed to gun control laws .
He also compared the FBI to the East German Stasi and attempted to downplay the threat the violent neo-Nazis @ @ @ @ @ @ @ The FBI ] arrested them because they ’ re setting a narrative .
They ’ re basically putting up the background music , the subliminal background music , that really , really bad white racist nationalists are coming to Richmond and we ’ ve got to stop them , ” Bracken said .
“ So no matter what happens on Monday in Richmond—if there ’ s any shooting or there ’ s somebody driving a car into a crowd—believe me , it ’ s going to be blamed on the 2nd Amendment.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ U.S. government is consciously elevating the threat profile of white nationalism in the United States in order to advance a globalist conspiracy to open borders and undermine sovereign countries by convincing the public that MS-13 and radical Islam are less dangerous than violent white nationalists inside the country .
Like-minded conspiracy theories have been advanced by outlets like Infowars , where Bracken frequently appears and occasionally guest-hosts .
“ This is at the highest level a battle between globalists and nationalists , ” Bracken said .
He advised those planning to attend the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ could separate the chain-link fencing used to barricade the event space if police start making arrests .
Bracken also suggested that attendees bring their lawyer ’ s business card and two-way radios , and he cautioned people to “ be prepared for pepper spray ” by bringing masks and goggles .
Media Matters ’ Timothy Johnson reported Wednesday that Bracken had appeared on Infowars in December with an assault weapon and “ told viewers how to accessorize it for battle proficiency.
” He reportedly told Infowars viewers that the Richmond rally would serve @ @ @ @ @ @ @ gun control legislation , saying , “ there ’ s going to be a fight , ” and “ never in history ever has there been a civil war where half of the people had deer rifles that could make 500-yard shots.
” Over the course of the Red Ice interview , Bracken repeatedly claimed that the government desired and may even seek to provoke a violent incident at Monday ’ s pro-gun demonstration .
He claimed that a similar scenario had occurred in the run up to the 2017 Unite the Right @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , which turned violent and resulted in the murder of a counterdemonstrator .
“ This is like Charlottesville , times 10 , ” Bracken said Bracken refused to definitively assert that the FBI was actively orchestrating a false flag attack but said he wouldn ’ t rule out the possibility .
“ You know what they want to happen , ” Bracken said .
Later in the broadcast , Bracken explicitly said he was alleging the government might provoke violence at the rally , “ not because I want to disparage the people @ @ @ @ @ @ @ something catastrophic that comes out of it , I want us to be able to point at people that were saying , ‘ Look , this is a set-up.
’ It won ’ t completely flip the script , but it can turn the temperature down , or it can partly turn the script so that more people don ’ t just accept it at face value .
”

Infowars associate and former Navy SEAL Matt Bracken is giving out tactical advice to white nationalist audiences about attending a pro-gun rally in Virginia Monday and laying the groundwork to bolster “false-flag” conspiracy theories in the event of violence.
Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam declared a state of emergency ahead of the Jan. 20 pro-gun event at the state’s capitol in Richmond in response to threats of violence and reports that violent hate groups may attend. On Thursday, the FBI arrested neo-Nazis who had discussed opening fire at the event and who possessed an assault rifle and a cache of ammunition.
Although he does not plan to go to the event Monday, Bracken gave a nearly two-hour interview Friday about the rally to the web-based outlet Red Ice, which acts a megaphone for white nationalist and white supremacist rhetoric. Bracken claimed that the FBI arrested the neo-Nazis in order to fabricate a timeline of events that the agency could later use to smear people opposed to gun control laws. He also compared the FBI to the East German Stasi and attempted to downplay the threat the violent neo-Nazis posed to the event.
“[The FBI] arrested them because they’re setting a narrative. They’re basically putting up the background music, the subliminal background music, that really, really bad white racist nationalists are coming to Richmond and we’ve got to stop them,” Bracken said. “So no matter what happens on Monday in Richmond—if there’s any shooting or there’s somebody driving a car into a crowd—believe me, it’s going to be blamed on the 2nd Amendment.”
Bracken went on to claim that the U.S. government is consciously elevating the threat profile of white nationalism in the United States in order to advance a globalist conspiracy to open borders and undermine sovereign countries by convincing the public that MS-13 and radical Islam are less dangerous than violent white nationalists inside the country. Like-minded conspiracy theories have been advanced by outlets like Infowars, where Bracken frequently appears and occasionally guest-hosts.
“This is at the highest level a battle between globalists and nationalists,” Bracken said.
He advised those planning to attend the event to bring wire-cutters so that they could separate the chain-link fencing used to barricade the event space if police start making arrests. Bracken also suggested that attendees bring their lawyer’s business card and two-way radios, and he cautioned people to “be prepared for pepper spray” by bringing masks and goggles.
Media Matters’ Timothy Johnson reported Wednesday that Bracken had appeared on Infowars in December with an assault weapon and “told viewers how to accessorize it for battle proficiency.” He reportedly told Infowars viewers that the Richmond rally would serve as a warning to politicians who pass gun control legislation, saying, “there’s going to be a fight,” and “never in history ever has there been a civil war where half of the people had deer rifles that could make 500-yard shots.”
Over the course of the Red Ice interview, Bracken repeatedly claimed that the government desired and may even seek to provoke a violent incident at Monday’s pro-gun demonstration. He claimed that a similar scenario had occurred in the run up to the 2017 Unite the Right white supremacist gathering in Charlottesville, Virginia, which turned violent and resulted in the murder of a counterdemonstrator.
“This is like Charlottesville, times 10,” Bracken said
Bracken refused to definitively assert that the FBI was actively orchestrating a false flag attack but said he wouldn’t rule out the possibility.
“You know what they want to happen,” Bracken said.
Later in the broadcast, Bracken explicitly said he was alleging the government might provoke violence at the rally, “not because I want to disparage the people going, but because if there is something catastrophic that comes out of it, I want us to be able to point at people that were saying, ‘Look, this is a set-up.’ It won’t completely flip the script, but it can turn the temperature down, or it can partly turn the script so that more people don’t just accept it at face value.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Right Wing Round-Up: A Foundation of Falsehoods


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Right Wing Bonus Tracks: The Most Persecuted Man in America


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Jay Sekulow Heads Trump’s Legal Team, Shares His Dubious Relationship with the Truth

As President Donald Trump ’ s impeachment trial gets under way in the U.S. Senate , his ever-growing legal team is being headed up by Jay Sekulow , a religious-right attorney who shares Trump ’ s dubious relationship to the truth as well as the president ’ s penchant for self-enrichment .
As Right Wing Watch has documented , Sekulow has a long track record of promoting false right-wing claims and campaigns , including conspiracy theories about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich and the claim that faithful Muslims can not truthfully swear loyalty to the U.S. Constitution .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ suggested during the Mueller investigation that Trump hire Sekulow , who has been a zealous defender of the president on Fox News , Christian media , and his own radio show .
Sekulow , for example , defended Trump when the president reportedly gave Russians highly sensitive secret intelligence in 2017 .
A recent New York Times profile of Sekulow quoted an attorney involved in Ken Starr ’ s investigation into former President Bill Clinton saying that Sekulow ’ s primary qualification for leading the legal team may be that “ he ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ president than anybody.
” Sekulow himself has made news .
Michael Cohen , Trump ’ s former lawyer and fixer , told members of Congress that Sekulow had told him to lie about negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscow ; Sekulow denied it .
More recently , revelations from the House Intelligence Committee and public allegations by Ukrainian operative Lev Parnas have placed Sekulow in the middle of Team Trump ’ s machinations in Ukraine .
It turns out that Sekulow told former Trump attorney John Dowd that the president was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ business partner Igor Fruman , undercutting Trump ’ s claims not to know Parnas .
John Fea , a historian at Messiah College , wrote recently about Sekulow ’ s long affiliation with Charisma ’ s Stephen Strang , who uses his Pentecostal-oriented media outlet and book publishing arm to aggressively promote the claim that Trump has been anointed by God to lead the U.S .
Representing Trump has been for Sekulow .
The Daily Beast that Trump ’ s legal team was paying the ACLJ to work out of its Washington office @ @ @ @ @ @ @ financially rewarding as Sekulow ’ s career leading a nonprofit advocacy organization .
In 1990 , Pat Robertson , the erstwhile Republican presidential candidate and Christian Broadcasting Network founder , placed Sekulow at the helm of a new , Robertson-founded entity , the American Center for Law and Justice .
The organization ’ s stated aim was to act as a counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union , and the group went as far as to craft the name to have an abbreviation just one letter different than that of the longtime @ @ @ @ @ @ @ years , multiple reporters have investigated the ways that the ACLJ and an affiliated nonprofit , Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism , have enriched the bank accounts and lifestyles of Sekulow and members of his family .
Sekulow ’ s lucrative family “ nonprofit ” business was first investigated by Legal Times ’ Tony Mauro back in 2005 .
Mauro reported that while Sekulow had become a familiar face on television for his work on behalf of the ACLJ and , there was another side to Sekulow : The Legal Times noted that at @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of directors consisted of Sekulow , his wife Pam , and his son Jordan , with his well-paid brother serving as chief financial officer .
Six years later , in 2011 , the Tennessean ’ s Bob Smietana took another look .
In an article titled “ Christian crusaders cash in , ” the paper that since 1988 , CASE and the ACLJ had “ paid out more than $ 33 million to members of Sekulow ’ s family and businesses they own or co-own.
” In 2017 , the Guardian reported that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ million to “ Sekulow , his family and their businesses ” since 2000 .
In addition to paying millions to “ Sekulow , his wife , sons , brother , sister-in-law , niece and nephew and their firms , ” the Guardian CASE “ has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family.
” Among the deals the story examined were forgiven loans for a vacation home for Sekulow ’ s wife Pam and the purchase of a townhouse in Washington D.C. at which @ @ @ @ @ @ @ wife were registered to vote .
The Washington Post also examined Sekulow ’ s finances in 2017 , documenting that his family had been “ paid millions from charities they control.
” As part of his public defense of Trump even before joining the president ’ s legal team , Sekulow said that Trump was right to suggest that women could face criminal punishment for having an abortion once Roe v. Wade is overturned .
In 2017 , Rewire reviewed Sekulow ’ s long record of attacks on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Obama administration , Sekulow against a stimulus bill for on college campuses.
” The “ discriminatory ” provision “ discovered ” and hyped by ACLJ turned out to be boilerplate language that had been included in legislation for decades and upheld by the Supreme Court .
This is just one of many false right-wing campaigns and claims Sekulow has promoted .
Here are a few more : • Back in 2009 , the ACLJ was that a Department of Homeland Security report on the dangers of right-wing extremism in order to portray the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ activists , and veterans .
• In 2010 , the ACLJ , which postures as a champion of religious liberty , against the so-called “ Ground Zero Mosque ” —an Islamic community center that had planned to move into a building in downtown Manhattan a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers .
Trump was among the public figures railing against the project .
• The following year , Sekulow and Pat Robertson that Sharia law was threatening the U.S. Constitution , and to help state legislators write @ @ @ @ @ @ @ publication called “ Shari ’ a Law : Radical Islam ’ s Threat to the U.S. Constitution , ” the , “ Because Islam grew out of the belief in complete world domination , every Muslim is obligated to labor in his own way toward achieving that goal , no matter where he lives or what sovereign claims his allegiance.
” The pamphlet argued that Muslims can not be loyal Americans , asserting that “ devout Muslims can not truthfully swear the oath to become citizens of the United States of America.
” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ administration was trying to suppress the votes of servicemembers , after the allegation had already been debunked .
• In 2014 , Sekulow against Obama , alleging that “ the President wants to hand over control of the Internet to a multinational group , including corrupt dictatorships in China , Russian , and Iran.
” • In 2017 , Sekulow joined Sean Hannity in that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was not killed in a bungled robbery but was murdered because , according to , he was the source of the DNC @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the ACLJ have been intensely opposed to laws protecting the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and abroad .
The ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003 .
Sekulow has that the state has a “ compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality.
” Sekulow , who doesn ’ t seem to object to Trump ’ s aggressive use of executive power , complained during the Obama years that the administration ’ s decision to stop defending the Defense @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Americans were “ .
” It ’ s hard to imagine that Sekulow would support the administration ’ s announced plans to actively oppose the criminalization of homosexuality around the world .
As we in 2017 : The ACLJ and its international affiliates engage in anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice culture wars in the U.S. , , Europe and Russia .
In Africa , it worked to shape constitutional language in Zimbabwe , where it has , and , where it to eliminate an exemption to an abortion ban to save a woman ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Law and Justice and the Slavic Center for Law and Justice supported Russia ’ s notorious anti-gay “ propaganda ” law , which has been used against journalists and gay rights activists .
The SCLJ responded to the 2012 Pussy Riot protest by calling for a Russian law .
The ECLJ , in contrast , has energetically blasphemy laws in Islamist countries .
But Sekulow has the fact that blasphemy is no longer criminalized in the United States .
Sekulow has also been , the legal provision that prohibits overt electoral politicking by @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of the deal candidate Trump offered religious-right leaders in return for their political support was a pledge to make them more politically powerful by repealing the Johnson Amendment .
Sekulow ’ s idea of “ truth ” is a lot like Trump ’ s In 2018 , Sekulow helped Trump push what ThinkProgress called “ ” suggesting that Trump had not really said what he said in an interview a year earlier with NBC ’ s Lester Holt .
In that interview , the president essentially said that he had fired former FBI @ @ @ @ @ @ @ s role in conducting the investigation into Trump ’ s relationship to Russian figures who may be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election .
That came just a month after Sekulow was forced to admit that he hadn ’ t told the truth about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in Trump Tower in 2016 .
( He had said the subject of the June 2016 meeting was about U.S. policy about adoption of Russian orphans , not getting dirt on Trump ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ) Confronted with his about the meeting , Sekulow said , “ over time , facts develop.
” In 2017 , Slate ’ s William Saletan noted that Sekulow had not only been defending the president in a round of TV appearances , but that he had also accused Trump ’ s opponents of crimes .
“ If you doubt Trump is trying to bury the truth , ” Saletan wrote , “ just watch his lawyer.
” Still good advice .

(Note: This post draws heavily from previous Right Wing Watch reporting on Sekulow; it has been updated.)
As President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial gets underway in the U.S. Senate, his ever-growing legal team is being led by the team of Jay Sekulow, a religious-right attorney who shares Trump’s dubious relationship to the truth as well as the president’s penchant for self-enrichment, together with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, who is part of an influential group of Washington, D.C. attorneys on the Catholic right.
Sekulow was first hired by Trump in 2017 to lead the administration’s defense of the president in the investigation led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller of the Trump campaign’s relationship to Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election. In that role, Sekulow is said to have orchestrated what amount to cover-ups.
In 2018, Sekulow was forced to admit that he had misled the public regarding a statement issued under the name of Donald Trump Jr. regarding the purpose of a 2016 Trump Tower meeting that Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in hope of obtaining “dirt” on his rival, Democrat Hillary Clinton. Sekulow claimed that the president had nothing to do with writing the statement, only to walk that back when contradicted by the president himself. “Over time, facts develop,” Sekulow said in his own defense. Last spring, Michael Cohen, Trump’s former lawyer and fixer, told members of Congress that Sekulow had told him to lie to Congress about the fact that the Trump Organization continued to engage in negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscoweven as Trump campaign figures met with Russian operatives. Sekulow denied ”editing” Cohen’s congressional testimony, as Cohen, who is now in prison for lying to Congress, described it.
More recently, revelations from the House Intelligence Committee and Lev Parnas, who is implicated in the Trump administration’s alleged scheme to find smear material in Ukraine about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, have placed Sekulow in the middle of team Trump’s machinations in Ukraine. It turns out that Sekulow told former Trump attorney John Dowd that the president was OK with Dowd representing Parnas and his business partner Igor Fruman, undercutting Trump’s claims not to know Parnas. Sekulow was also named in a text by Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, as the person who could secure a visa for the corrupt Ukrainian former prosecutor, Viktor Shokin.
As Right Wing Watch has documented, Sekulow has a long track record of promoting false right-wing claims and campaigns, including right-wing conspiracy theories about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich and the claim that faithful Muslims cannot truthfully swear loyalty to the U.S. Constitution.
Former White House aide Steve Bannon reportedly suggested during the Mueller investigation that Trump hire Sekulow, who has been a zealous defender of the president on Fox News, in Christian media, and on his own radio show. Sekulow, for example, defended Trump in 2017 when the president reportedly gave highly sensitive secret intelligence to Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in the Oval Office. A recent New York Times profile of Sekulow quoted an attorney involved in attorney Kenneth Starr’s investigation into former President Bill Clinton saying that Sekulow’s primary qualification for leading the legal team may be that “he’s got more experience in defending this president than anybody.”
A lucrative family business
Representing Trump in the Mueller investigation has been lucrative for Sekulow. The Daily Beast reported in 2018 that Trump’s legal team was paying the ACLJ to work out of its Washington office. But none of that is as financially rewarding as Sekulow’s career leading a nonprofit advocacy organization that is part of the religious right.
In 1990, Pat Robertson, the erstwhile Republican presidential candidate and Christian Broadcasting Network founder, placed Sekulow at the helm of a new, Robertson-founded entity, the American Center for Law and Justice. The organization’s stated aim was to act as a counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union, and the group went as far as to craft the name to have an abbreviation just one letter different than that of the longtime civil rights legal organization.
Over the years, multiple reporters have investigated the ways that the ACLJ and an affiliated nonprofit, Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism, have enriched the bank accounts and lifestyles of Sekulow and members of his family.
Sekulow’s lucrative family “nonprofit” business was first investigated by Legal Times’ Tony Mauro back in 2005. Mauro reported that while Sekulow had become a familiar face on television for his work on behalf of the ACLJ and his advocacy for George W. Bush’s judicial nominees , there was another side to Sekulow:
It is the Jay Sekulow who, through the ACLJ and a string of interconnected nonprofit and for-profit entities, has built a financial empire that generates millions of dollars a year and supports a lavish lifestyle — complete with multiple homes, chauffeur-driven cars, and a private jet that he once used to ferry Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.
The Legal Times noted that at the time, CASE’s board of directors consisted of Sekulow, his wife Pam, and his son Jordan, with his well-paid brother serving as chief financial officer.
Six years later, in 2011, the Tennessean’s Bob Smietana took another look . In an article titled “Christian crusaders cash in,” the paper reported that since 1988, CASE and the ACLJ had “paid out more than $33 million to members of Sekulow’s family and businesses they own or co-own.”
In 2017, the Guardian reported that CASE had steered more than $60 million to “Sekulow, his family and their businesses” since 2000. In addition to paying millions to “Sekulow, his wife, sons, brother, sister-in-law, niece and nephew and their firms,” the Guardian reported CASE “has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family.” Among the deals the story examined were forgiven loans for a vacation home for Sekulow’s wife Pam and the purchase of a townhouse in Washington D.C. at which Sekulow’s son Jordan and his wife were registered to vote.
The Washington Post also examined Sekulow’s finances in 2017, documenting that his family had been “paid millions from charities they control.”
A religious-right culture warrior
As part of his public defense of Trump even before joining the president’s legal team, Sekulow said that Trump was right to suggest that women could face criminal punishment for having an abortion once Roe v. Wade is overturned. In 2017, Rewire reviewed Sekulow’s long record of attacks on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights .
The cases the ACLJ takes up seek to implement the religious right’s opposition to abortion rights and legal protections for LGBTQ people in the U.S. and other countries. Sekulow has said that the state has a “compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality,” and the ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. In 2011, Sekulow claimed that the Obama administration’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “ now living in a monarchy .”
John Fea, a historian at Messiah College, wrote recently about Sekulow’s long affiliation with Charisma’s Stephen Strang, who uses his Pentecostal-oriented media outlet and book publishing arm to aggressively promote the claim that Trump has been anointed by God to lead the U.S.
But perhaps even greater an attraction for Trump than Sekulow’s links to the Christian nationalist crowd that comprises an important part of Trump’s base is Sekulow’s prowess as a prevaricator in front of cameras and microphones. As we noted when Sekulow joined Trump’s legal team , “Early in the Obama administration, Sekulow manufactured an alarmist right-wing campaign against a stimulus bill for supposedly including language to institutionalize anti-religious discrimination on college campuses.” The “discriminatory” provision “discovered” and hyped by ACLJ turned out to be boilerplate language that had been included in legislation for decades and upheld by the Supreme Court. This is just one of many false right-wing campaigns and claims Sekulow has promoted. Here are a few more:
Back in 2009, the ACLJ was among the right-wing groups that grossly mischaracterized a Department of Homeland Security report on the dangers of right-wing extremism in order to portray the Obama-era DHS as smearing conservatives, anti-abortion activists, and veterans.
that a Department of Homeland Security report on the dangers of right-wing extremism in order to portray the Obama-era DHS as smearing conservatives, anti-abortion activists, and veterans. In 2010, the ACLJ, which postures as a champion of religious liberty, helped lead the fight against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—an Islamic community center that had planned to move into a building in downtown Manhattan a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers. Trump was among the public figures railing against the project.
against the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque”—an Islamic community center that had planned to move into a building in downtown Manhattan a few blocks from the former site of the World Trade Center towers. Trump was among the public figures railing against the project. The following year, Sekulow and Pat Robertson warned that Sharia law was threatening the U.S. Constitution, and offered to help state legislators write and defend anti-Sharia laws. In a publication called “Shari’a Law: Radical Islam’s Threat to the U.S. Constitution,” the ACLJ asserted , “Because Islam grew out of the belief in complete world domination, every Muslim is obligated to labor in his own way toward achieving that goal, no matter where he lives or what sovereign claims his allegiance.” The pamphlet argued that Muslims cannot be loyal Americans, asserting that “devout Muslims cannot truthfully swear the oath to become citizens of the United States of America.”
that Sharia law was threatening the U.S. Constitution, and to help state legislators write and defend anti-Sharia laws. In a publication called “Shari’a Law: Radical Islam’s Threat to the U.S. Constitution,” the , “Because Islam grew out of the belief in complete world domination, every Muslim is obligated to labor in his own way toward achieving that goal, no matter where he lives or what sovereign claims his allegiance.” The pamphlet argued that Muslims cannot be loyal Americans, asserting that “devout Muslims cannot truthfully swear the oath to become citizens of the United States of America.” In 2012, Sekulow pushed a bogus allegation that the Obama administration was trying to suppress the votes of servicemembers, after the allegation had already been debunked.
that the Obama administration was trying to suppress the votes of servicemembers, after the allegation had already been debunked. In 2014, Sekulow pushed another charge against Obama, alleging that “the President wants to hand over control of the Internet to a multinational group, including corrupt dictatorships in China, Russian, and Iran.”
against Obama, alleging that “the President wants to hand over control of the Internet to a multinational group, including corrupt dictatorships in China, Russian, and Iran.” In 2017, Sekulow joined Sean Hannity in promoting the conspiracy that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was not killed in a bungled robbery but was murdered because, according to the baseless conspiracy theory , he was the source of the DNC emails leaked to WikiLeaks.
Sekulow’s global agenda
Sekulow and the ACLJ have been intensely opposed to laws protecting the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and abroad. The ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003. Sekulow has said that the state has a “compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality.” Sekulow, who doesn’t seem to object to Trump’s aggressive use of executive power, complained during the Obama years that the administration’s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “ now living in a monarchy .”
For Sekulow, the criminalization of gay people is a global effort. As we noted in 2017:
The ACLJ and its international affiliates engage in anti-LGBTQ and anti-choice culture wars in the U.S., Africa , Europe and Russia. In Africa, it worked to shape constitutional language in Zimbabwe, where it has fought to maintain criminalization of homosexuality , and Kenya , where it lobbied to eliminate an exemption to an abortion ban to save a woman’s life. Both the European Center for Law and Justice and the Slavic Center for Law and Justice supported Russia’s notorious anti-gay “propaganda” law, which has been used against journalists and gay rights activists.
The Slavic Center for Law and Justice responded to the 2012 protest bythe political art collective, Pussy Riot, by calling for a Russian law toughening penalties for religious blasphemy . The European Center for Law and Justice, in contrast, has energetically opposed blasphemy laws in Islamist countries. But Sekulow has bemoaned the fact that blasphemy is no longer criminalized in the United States.
Sekulow has also been a longtime opponent of the Johnson Amendment , the legal provision that prohibits overt electoral politicking by churches and other tax-exempt nonprofits. Part of the deal candidate Trump offered religious-right leaders in return for their political support was a pledge to make them more politically powerful by repealing the Johnson Amendment.
Sekulow’s idea of “truth” is a lot like Trump’s
In 2018, Sekulow helped Trump push what ThinkProgress called “ an insane lie ” suggesting that Trump had not really said what he said in an interview a year earlier with NBC’s Lester Holt. In that interview, the president essentially said that he had fired former FBI Director James Comey because of Comey’s role in conducting the investigation into Trump’s relationship to Russian figures who may be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
That came just a month after Sekulow was forced to admit that he hadn’t told the truth about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in Trump Tower in 2016. (He had said the subject of the June 2016 meeting was about U.S. policy about adoption of Russian orphans, not getting dirt on Trump’s Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.)
In 2017, Slate’s William Saletan noted that Sekulow had not only been defending the president in a round of TV appearances, but that he had also accused Trump’s opponents of crimes. “If you doubt Trump is trying to bury the truth,” Saletan wrote, “just watch his lawyer.” Still good advice.
Correction: A previous version of this article misidentified Jay Sekulow as the leader of the Trump legal team. It has been corrected to note that Sekulow co-leads the team with Trump attorney Pat Cipollone.


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--‘I Have a Dream of a Boogaloo’: Beneath the Peaceful Veneer of Virginia’s Gun Rally

The “ Lobby Day ” gun rally at the Virginia State Capitol was winding down and the crowd slowly dispersing when I came across a young man holding up a sign reading , “ I have a dream of a Boogaloo.
” I stopped in my tracks .
Signs of “ Boogaloo , ” extremists ’ short-hand term for what they see as a looming civil war , were to be found for those looking for them—I had just passed a “ Boogaloo Boys ” patch fastened on camouflage—but no one had featured the term so prominently .
“ Were @ @ @ @ @ @ @ asked the man , who identified himself as Tyler Lloyd of Richmond .
“ Yeah , I really wanted a shooting , ” he said .
The rally , hosted by the gun-rights group Virginia Citizens Defense League , drew an estimated 22,000 to Virginia ’ s capital of Richmond .
While an estimated 6,000 decided to enter the grounds of the capitol , where guns were not allowed as a result of Virginia Gov .
Ralph Northam ’ s issued state of emergency , many more decided to roam the streets outside @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
With countless AR-15 rifles , holstered pistols , and orange “ GUNS SAVE LIVES ” stickers , the heavily male crowd milled about outside the capitol grounds in the morning chatting with other gun owners bundled up against the cold , the smell of cigarettes and cigars filling the air .
“ Trump 2020 ” flags and red “ Keep America Great ” hats dotted the sea of attendees , along with “ 2ND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY ” signs and Gadsen flags .
With chants of “ Four more years , ” “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not comply ” that caught on slowly and died quickly , the rally at times felt like a subdued Trump rally .
The rally attracted not only gun-rights activists from around the county , but a host of far-right groups .
After the FBI arrested three white supremacists who had discussed committing violence at the gun rally and three more for a plot to murder an anti-fascist couple in the days leading up to the rally , it appeared that many open white supremacists were scared off from attending .
With the convivial @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , one could have been fooled into thinking that all the comparisons to Charlottesville in the days leading up were unfounded .
But in attendance , along with the many who were there simply to advocate for guns rights , were hate groups and conspiracy theorists and their followers .
If the groups had counterprotesters or Antifa to face off against , the day could have easily turned .
The Oath Keepers , an anti-government group , covered their faces in violation of mask laws .
The Proud Boys , a group with @ @ @ @ @ @ @ have spread white supremacist beliefs , were also in attendance .
Enrique Tarrio , the group ’ s Miami-based chairman , roamed the streets in shiny black shoes , a tie , and a bullet-proof vest while other Proud Boys members in yellow and black sweatshirts followed in tow , and one member sported a megaphone covered in Infowars and “ Epstein didn ’ t kill himself ” stickers .
From atop his black “ battle tank , ” Infowars host Alex Jones yelled about conspiracy theories into a megaphone .
“ Northam @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
He failed , ” Jones yelled before climbing down from his perch on top of the truck and entering a mob of fans who followed him as he walked down the street shouting into a megaphone .
Earlier that week , Jones had warned about “ false flags , ” preemptively claiming that any violence that might occur at the rally would be by leftist plants dressed up as white supremacists or Trump supporters .
Dotting the landscape at the rally were signs admonishing “ Don ’ t get duped by deep @ @ @ @ @ @ @ .
It was following Jones that I passed by Lloyd and his “ I have a dream of a Boogaloo ” sign , perhaps an attempt to be clever on Martin Luther King Jr. Day , which fell on the same day as the gun rally .
“ I went to Charlottesville , and I was really hoping there would be , like , more clashing between counterprotesters , but it looks like conservatives outnumbered everyone today , ” Lloyd told me .
“ Yeah , I really wanted a shooting .
So @ @ @ @ @ @ @ so peaceful and organized , and I mean nothing bad happened .
I guess there ’ s plenty of people walking with guns outside the capitol , but I don ’ t know , I thought there was more statements saying we were going to go storm the capitol , ” he said .
“ This might as well been Storm Area 51 for me .
This is stupid .
I don ’ t know what all of these people wasted all their time for.
” When asked about his sign , Lloyd @ @ @ @ @ @ @ two weeks ago .
“ But it was kind of like what will it actually do to start a , you know , civil war in America ?
And everyone is already so divided .
It ’ d be nice for people to finally be able to solve those problems with violence , ” he said .
When I pressed him to tell more about what he meant , Lloyd said he didn ’ t want “ too much out there on the media , ” but he did go on to compare @ @ @ @ @ @ @ mean I went to Charlottesville .
The National Guard were way cooler .
I ’ d rather see , I don ’ t know , I was expecting a bigger police state , ” he said .
“ I guess I really wanted the friction today , and it looks like everyone is just going to go get lunch now.
” Lloyd has been arrested twice before on Virginia Commonwealth University ’ s campus after he trespassed holding a racist sign in December 2017 .
Monday ’ s rally ended without a violent @ @ @ @ @ @ @ to say that some groups weren ’ t hankering for a fight .
The decision by Antifa and groups supporting gun control to not protest the gun rally simply meant there was no one to turn on .

RICHMOND, Va.—The “Lobby Day” gun rally at the Virginia State Capitol was winding down and the crowd slowly dispersing when I came across a young man holding up a sign reading, “I have a dream of a Boogaloo.” I stopped in my tracks. “Boogaloo” is extremists’ short-hand term for what they see as a looming civil war. More discreet displays of the term were to be found for those looking for them—I had just passed by a camouflage-clad protester wearing a “Boogaloo Boys” patch—but no one had so prominently called for a rumble. But with an absence of counterprotesters—anti-fascist leaders made a strategic call to stay away—there was little hope for a melee.
“Were you hoping for antifa?” I asked the man, who identified himself as Tyler Lloyd of Richmond.
“Yeah, I really wanted a shooting,” he said.
The rally, hosted by the gun-rights group Virginia Citizens Defense League, drew an estimated 22,000, according to local law enforcement, to Virginia’s capital of Richmond. While an estimated 6,000 decided to enter the grounds of the Capitol, where guns were not allowed as a result of Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s issued state of emergency, many more decided to roam the streets outside of the Capitol grounds with their firearms. The VCDL lobby day is an annual event in Richmond, but this year it drew gun enthusiasts—and a smattering of white nationalists—from across the country in answer to the governor’s support for gun-control measures. In November, control of the state legislature was won by Democrats, making passage likely. This year’s lobby day also fell on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday.
Decked out with AR-15 rifles, holstered pistols, and orange “GUNS SAVE LIVES” stickers, protesters in the heavily male crowd milled about the streets surrounding the Capitol building in the morning chatting with other gun owners bundled up against the cold, the smell of cigarettes and cigars filling the air. “Trump 2020” flags and red “Keep America Great” hats dotted the sea of attendees, along with “2ND AMENDMENT SANCTUARY” signs and Gadsden flags. Chants caught on slowly and died quickly: “Four more years!”, “U-S-A!”,”We will not comply!”  It felt a bit like a Trump rally, but more subdued.
The rally attracted not only gun-rights activists from around the county, but a host of far-right groups. After the FBI arrested three white supremacists who had discussed committing violence at the gun rally and three more for a plot to murder an anti-fascist couple in the days leading up to the rally, it appeared that many open white supremacists were scared off from attending.
With the convivial atmosphere on the day of the rally, one could have been fooled into thinking that all the comparisons to Charlottesville in the days leading up were unfounded. But in attendance, along with the many who said they came simply to advocate for guns rights, were hate groups and conspiracy theorists and their followers, including members of the Proud Boys, as well as Alex Jones of Infowars and the neo-Nazi Jovi Val. Had counterprotesters or antifa been on hand, the day could have easily turned.
Members of the Oath Keepers, an anti-government group, covered their faces in violation of mask laws. The Proud Boys, a group with a history of violence and whose members have spread white supremacist beliefs, were also in attendance. Enrique Tarrio, the group’s Miami-based chairman, roamed the streets in shiny black shoes, a tie, and a bullet-proof vest while other Proud Boys members in yellow and black sweatshirts followed in tow, and one member sported a megaphone covered in Infowars and “Epstein didn’t kill himself” stickers.
From atop his black “battle tank”—a tricked-out humvee featuring a sunroof styled as a turret—Infowars host Alex Jones yelled conspiracy theories into a megaphone. “Northam said there would be shooting and death. He failed,” Jones yelled before climbing down from his perch on top of the truck and entering a mob of fans who followed him as he walked down the street, still shouting into his bullhorn.
Earlier that week, Jones had warned about “false flags,” preemptively claiming that any violence that might occur at the rally would be by leftist plants dressed up as white supremacists or Trump supporters. Dotting the landscape at the rally were signs admonishing “Don’t get duped by deep state false flags,” and attacking Northam.
I was following Jones when I passed by Lloyd and his “Boogaloo” sign.
“I went to Charlottesville, and I was really hoping there would be, like, more clashing between counterprotesters, but it looks like conservatives outnumbered everyone today,” Lloyd told me.
“Yeah, I really wanted a shooting. So this is really disappointing that everyone is so peaceful and organized, and I mean nothing bad happened. I guess there’s plenty of people walking with guns outside the Capitol, but I don’t know, I thought there was more statements saying we were going to go storm the Capitol,” he said. “This might as well been Storm Area 51 for me. This is stupid. I don’t know what all of these people wasted all their time for.”
When asked about his sign, Lloyd said he first heard of the term two weeks ago. “But it was kind of like what will it actually do to start a, you know, civil war in America? And everyone is already so divided. It’d be nice for people to finally be able to solve those problems with violence,” he said.
When I pressed him to tell more about what he meant, Lloyd said he didn’t want “too much out there on the media,” but he did go on to compare the event to Charlottesville.
“I mean, I went to Charlottesville. The National Guard were way cooler [than the muted police presence in Richmond]. I’d rather see, I don’t know, I was expecting a bigger police state,” he said. “I guess I really wanted the friction today, and it looks like everyone is just going to go get lunch now.”
Lloyd has been arrested twice before on Virginia Commonwealth University’s campus after he trespassed holding a racist sign in December 2017.
Monday’s rally ended without a violent incident, but that’s not to say that some groups weren’t hankering for a fight. The decision by groups supporting gun control and the anti-fascist groups to not protest the rally simply meant there was no one to turn on.


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Inside the Richmond Gun Rights Rally Where the Fringe Right Met Mainstream Conservatives

About 22,000 pro-gun activists protested gun control legislation at the Virginia State Capitol on Jan. 20, 2020. The event triggered a state of emergency in Virginia after it gained the attention of extremist right-wing figures who threatened violence.
The “Lobby Day” event ended without a violent incident, but managed to attract a collage of right-wing figures and organizations that included anti-government militias, conspiracy theorists, and hate groups–all of which mingled unopposed in large crowds of Trump-supporting, gun rights demonstrators.


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Jeremiah Johnson: ‘The Future of America Belongs in the Hands of the Baby Boomers’

Televangelist Sid Roth invited 20 self-proclaimed “ prophets ” on to a recent episode of his television program to share what they are supposedly hearing from God about what to expect in the year 2020 .
Among the “ prophets ” featured on the program was Jeremiah Johnson , who repeated his claim that God had told him that baby boomers will be the key to reelecting President Donald Trump in 2020 .
“ God has clearly spoken to me that the future of America belongs in the hands of the baby boomers , ” Johnson said .
“ If @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , this is your year.
” Johnson reported that he had a prophetic dream in which Trump was running the Boston Marathon , but fell just before the finish line .
As the crowd jeered , Johnson said that two elderly women—one using a cane and the other using a walker—emerged from the crowd , picked Trump up , and helped him finish the race .
“ I believe in 2020 , it ’ s time to help Donald Trump get reelected and finish the race , ” Johnson said .
“ But @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , those baby boomers , those intercessors .
It ’ s time for the church to pray once again .
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Televangelist Sid Roth invited 20 self-proclaimed “prophets” on to a recent episode of his television program to share what they are supposedly hearing from God about what to expect in the year 2020.
Among the “prophets” featured on the program was Jeremiah Johnson, who repeated his claim that God had told him that baby boomers will be the key to reelecting President Donald Trump in 2020.
“God has clearly spoken to me that the future of America belongs in the hands of the baby boomers,” Johnson said. “If you were born between 1946 and 1964, this is your year.”
Johnson reported that he had a prophetic dream in which Trump was running the Boston Marathon, but fell just before the finish line. As the crowd jeered, Johnson said that two elderly women—one using a cane and the other using a walker—emerged from the crowd, picked Trump up, and helped him finish the race.
“I believe in 2020, it’s time to help Donald Trump get reelected and finish the race,” Johnson said. “But the key is those two older women, those baby boomers, those intercessors. It’s time for the church to pray once again.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-21--Not His First Cover-Up: Trump Legal Team Lawyer Jay Sekulow

As President Donald Trump ’ s impeachment trial gets underway in the U.S. Senate , his ever-growing legal team is being led by the team of Jay Sekulow , a religious-right attorney who shares Trump ’ s dubious relationship to the truth as well as the president ’ s penchant for self-enrichment , together with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone , who is part of an influential group of Washington , D.C. attorneys on the Catholic right .
Sekulow was first hired by Trump in 2017 to lead the administration ’ s defense of the president in the investigation led @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Trump campaign ’ s relationship to Russia ’ s interference in the 2016 presidential election .
In that role , Sekulow is said to have orchestrated what amount to cover-ups .
In 2018 , Sekulow was forced to admit that he had misled the public regarding a statement issued under the name of Donald Trump Jr. regarding the purpose of a 2016 Trump Tower meeting that Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in hope of obtaining “ dirt ” on his rival , Democrat Hillary Clinton .
Sekulow claimed @ @ @ @ @ @ @ with writing the statement , only to walk that back when contradicted by the president himself .
“ Over time , facts develop , ” Sekulow said in his own defense .
Last spring , Michael Cohen , Trump ’ s former lawyer and fixer , told members of Congress that Sekulow had told him to lie to Congress about the fact that the Trump Organization continued to engage in negotiations to build a Trump Tower in Moscoweven as Trump campaign figures met with Russian operatives .
Sekulow denied  ” editing ” @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Cohen , who is now in prison for lying to Congress , described it .
More recently , revelations from the House Intelligence Committee and public Lev Parnas , who is implicated in the Trump administration ’ s alleged scheme to find smear material in Ukraine about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden , have placed Sekulow in the middle of team Trump ’ s machinations in Ukraine .
It turns out that Sekulow told former Trump attorney John Dowd that the president was OK with Dowd representing Parnas and his business partner Igor @ @ @ @ @ @ @ not to know Parnas .
Sekulow was also named in a text by Rudy Giuliani , the president ’ s personal attorney , as the person who could secure a visa for the corrupt Ukrainian former prosecutor , Viktor Shokin .
As Right Wing Watch has documented , Sekulow has a long track record of promoting false right-wing claims and campaigns , including right-wing conspiracy theories about the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich and the claim that faithful Muslims can not truthfully swear loyalty to the U.S. Constitution. Former White House aide @ @ @ @ @ @ @ investigation that Trump hire Sekulow , who has been a zealous defender of the president on Fox News , in Christian media , and on his own radio show .
Sekulow , for example , defended Trump in 2017 when the president reportedly gave highly sensitive secret intelligence to Russia ’ s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov during a meeting in the Oval Office .
A recent New York Times profile of Sekulow quoted an attorney involved in attorney Kenneth Starr ’ s investigation into former President Bill Clinton saying that Sekulow ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ may be that “ he ’ s got more experience in defending this president than anybody.
” Representing Trump has been for Sekulow .
The Daily Beast that Trump ’ s legal team was paying the ACLJ to work out of its Washington office .
But none of that is as financially rewarding as Sekulow ’ s career leading a nonprofit advocacy organization that is part of the religious right .
In 1990 , Pat Robertson , the erstwhile Republican presidential candidate and Christian Broadcasting Network founder , placed Sekulow at the helm @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the American Center for Law and Justice .
The organization ’ s stated aim was to act as a counterweight to the American Civil Liberties Union , and the group went as far as to craft the name to have an abbreviation just one letter different than that of the longtime civil rights legal organization .
Over the years , multiple reporters have investigated the ways that the ACLJ and an affiliated nonprofit , Christian Advocates Serving Evangelism , have enriched the bank accounts and lifestyles of Sekulow and members of his family @ @ @ @ @ @ @ nonprofit ” business was first investigated by Legal Times ’ Tony Mauro back in 2005 .
Mauro reported that while Sekulow had become a familiar face on television for his work on behalf of the ACLJ and , there was another side to Sekulow : The Legal Times noted that at the time , CASE ’ s board of directors consisted of Sekulow , his wife Pam , and his son Jordan , with his well-paid brother serving as chief financial officer .
Six years later , in 2011 , the Tennessean ’ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ In an article titled “ Christian crusaders cash in , ” the paper that since 1988 , CASE and the ACLJ had “ paid out more than $ 33 million to members of Sekulow ’ s family and businesses they own or co-own.
” In 2017 , the Guardian reported that CASE had steered more than $ 60 million to “ Sekulow , his family and their businesses ” since 2000 .
In addition to paying millions to “ Sekulow , his wife , sons , brother , sister-in-law , niece and nephew @ @ @ @ @ @ @ CASE “ has also been used to provide a series of unusual loans and property deals to the Sekulow family.
” Among the deals the story examined were forgiven loans for a vacation home for Sekulow ’ s wife Pam and the purchase of a townhouse in Washington D.C. at which Sekulow ’ s son Jordan and his wife were registered to vote .
The Washington Post also examined Sekulow ’ s finances in 2017 , documenting that his family had been “ paid millions from charities they control.
” As part of @ @ @ @ @ @ @ joining the president ’ s legal team , Sekulow said that Trump was right to suggest that women could face criminal punishment for having an abortion once Roe v. Wade is overturned .
In 2017 , Rewire reviewed Sekulow ’ s long record of attacks on Planned Parenthood and abortion rights .
The cases the ACLJ takes up seek to implement the religious right ’ s opposition to abortion rights and legal protections for LGBTQ people in the U.S. and other countries .
Sekulow has said that the state has a “ compelling @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , ” and the ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003 .
In 2011 , Sekulow claimed that the Obama administration ’ s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “ .
” John Fea , a historian at Messiah College , wrote recently about Sekulow ’ s long affiliation with Charisma ’ s Stephen Strang , who uses his Pentecostal-oriented media outlet and book publishing arm to aggressively promote the claim that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ lead the U.S. But perhaps even greater an attraction for Trump than Sekulow ’ s links to the Christian nationalist crowd that comprises an important part of Trump ’ s base is Sekulow ’ s prowess as a prevaricator in front of cameras and microphones .
As , “ Early in the Obama administration , Sekulow against a stimulus bill for on college campuses.
” The “ discriminatory ” provision “ discovered ” and hyped by ACLJ turned out to be boilerplate language that had been included in legislation for decades and upheld @ @ @ @ @ @ @ just one of many false right-wing campaigns and claims Sekulow has promoted .
Here are a few more : • Back in 2009 , the ACLJ was that a Department of Homeland Security report on the dangers of right-wing extremism in order to portray the Obama-era DHS as smearing conservatives , anti-abortion activists , and veterans .
• In 2010 , the ACLJ , which postures as a champion of religious liberty , against the so-called “ Ground Zero Mosque ” —an Islamic community center that had planned to move into a building @ @ @ @ @ @ @ the former site of the World Trade Center towers .
Trump was among the public figures railing against the project .
• The following year , Sekulow and Pat Robertson that Sharia law was threatening the U.S. Constitution , and to help state legislators write and defend anti-Sharia laws .
In a publication called “ Shari ’ a Law : Radical Islam ’ s Threat to the U.S. Constitution , ” the , “ Because Islam grew out of the belief in complete world domination , every Muslim is obligated to labor in @ @ @ @ @ @ @ , no matter where he lives or what sovereign claims his allegiance.
” The pamphlet argued that Muslims can not be loyal Americans , asserting that “ devout Muslims can not truthfully swear the oath to become citizens of the United States of America.
” • In 2012 , that the Obama administration was trying to suppress the votes of servicemembers , after the allegation had already been debunked .
• In 2014 , Sekulow against Obama , alleging that “ the President wants to hand over control of the Internet to a @ @ @ @ @ @ @ China , Russian , and Iran.
” • In 2017 , Sekulow joined Sean Hannity in that Democratic National Committee staffer Seth Rich was not killed in a bungled robbery but was murdered because , according to , he was the source of the DNC emails leaked to WikiLeaks .
Sekulow and the ACLJ have been intensely opposed to laws protecting the rights of LGBTQ people in the U.S. and abroad .
The ACLJ argued on behalf of state laws criminalizing gay sex that were overturned by the Supreme Court in 2003 .
@ @ @ @ @ @ @ “ compelling interest to ban the act of homosexuality.
” Sekulow , who doesn ’ t seem to object to Trump ’ s aggressive use of executive power , complained during the Obama years that the administration ’ s decision to stop defending the Defense of Marriage Act in court meant that Americans were “ .
” For Sekulow , the criminalization of gay people is a global effort .
As we in 2017 : The Slavic Center for Law and Justice responded to the 2012 protest bythe political art collective , Pussy @ @ @ @ @ @ @ law .
The European Center for Law and Justice , in contrast , has energetically blasphemy laws in Islamist countries .
But Sekulow has the fact that blasphemy is no longer criminalized in the United States .
Sekulow has also been , the legal provision that prohibits overt electoral politicking by churches and other tax-exempt nonprofits .
Part of the deal candidate Trump offered religious-right leaders in return for their political support was a pledge to make them more politically powerful by repealing the Johnson Amendment .
Sekulow ’ s idea of “ @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ’ s In 2018 , Sekulow helped Trump push what ThinkProgress called “ ” suggesting that Trump had not really said what he said in an interview a year earlier with NBC ’ s Lester Holt .
In that interview , the president essentially said that he had fired former FBI Director James Comey because of Comey ’ s role in conducting the investigation into Trump ’ s relationship to Russian figures who may be connected to Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election .
That came just a month after Sekulow was @ @ @ @ @ @ @ t told the truth about the meeting Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials had with Russian operatives in Trump Tower in 2016 .
( He had said the subject of the June 2016 meeting was about U.S. policy about adoption of Russian orphans , not getting dirt on Trump ’ s Democratic opponent , Hillary Clinton . )
In 2017 , Slate ’ s William Saletan noted that Sekulow had not only been defending the president in a round of TV appearances , but that he had also accused Trump ’ s @ @ @ @ @ @ @ doubt Trump is trying to bury the truth , ” Saletan wrote , “ just watch his lawyer.
” Still good advice .
Correction : A previous version of this article misidentified Jay Sekulow as the leader of the Trump legal team .
It has been corrected to note that Sekulow co-leads the team with Trump attorney Pat Cipollone .


rightwingwatch--2020-01-23--Rick Wiles: The Antichrist Will Be Jewish

Yesterday , we noted that the hosts at the End Times network TruNews had been invited by the White House to cover the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , as part of the official press corps , despite the network ’ s ceaseless promotion of vehement anti-Semitism .
As we have noted before , the Trump administration has granted TruNews press credentials on multiple occasions .
Given that hosts Rick Wiles , Edward Szall , and Doc Burkhart regularly dedicate episodes of their nightly TruNews broadcast to spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories , it was no surprise that @ @ @ @ @ @ @ was broadcast from Davos , featured Wiles declaring that the Antichrist will be Jewish .
“ The unsaved Jews , because they rejected Jesus Christ as the son of God , the Messiah , and now , for 2,000 years , they have been in rebellion against God by rejecting Jesus Christ and they are still searching for a Jewish king , ” Wiles said .
“ They don ’ t want a savior ; they want a king.
” “ They did not want Jesus Christ as their king and they are @ @ @ @ @ @ @ ” he added .
“ But this person that the Jews are going to turn to , I believe , is Antichrist .
And it confirms what I have believed for a long time , [ which ] is the person that we refer to as Antichrist will be Jewish—the Son of Perdition , the Man of Destruction—but he will be Jewish and the Jews will rally to him , will worship him , and sadly , the evangelical Zionists in America will also fall for this man .
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Yesterday, we noted that the hosts at the End Times network TruNews had been invited by the White House to cover the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, as part of the official press corps, despite the network’s ceaseless promotion of vehement anti-Semitism. As we have noted before, the Trump administration has granted TruNews press credentials on multiple occasions.
Given that hosts Rick Wiles, Edward Szall, and Doc Burkhart regularly dedicate episodes of their nightly TruNews broadcast to spreading anti-Semitism and conspiracy theories, it was no surprise that last night’s program, which was broadcast from Davos, featured Wiles declaring that the Antichrist will be Jewish.
“The unsaved Jews, because they rejected Jesus Christ as the son of God, the Messiah, and now, for 2,000 years, they have been in rebellion against God by rejecting Jesus Christ and they are still searching for a Jewish king,” Wiles said. “They don’t want a savior; they want a king.”
“They did not want Jesus Christ as their king and they are still searching for a king today,” he added. “But this person that the Jews are going to turn to, I believe, is Antichrist. And it confirms what I have believed for a long time, [which] is the person that we refer to as Antichrist will be Jewish—the Son of Perdition, the Man of Destruction—but he will be Jewish and the Jews will rally to him, will worship him, and sadly, the evangelical Zionists in America will also fall for this man.”


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rightwingwatch--2020-01-22--Carl Gallups: Those Who Hate Trump Have a ‘Demonic Spirit in Them’

Trump-loving right-wing pastor and die-hard birther conspiracy theorist Carl Gallups appeared on the “ Revealing The Truth ” program last week , where he declared that progressives hate President Donald Trump because they are demonically-possessed .
Gallups said that Trump was obviously God ’ s chosen candidate because he was able to defeat 17 other Republican presidential hopefuls— ” some of them , as it turns out now we know , were deep state operatives , ” he claimed—and the fact that God favors Trump is exactly why leftists hate him .
“ The leftists , the socialists , the @ @ @ @ @ @ @ Constitution-haters , they are , whether they call themselves this or not , they are largely globalists , ” Gallups said .
“ They have this demonic spirit in them—whether they know it or not , whether they are trying to feed it or foster it or not—they do .
And the Bible tells us these things would happen.
” “ They have this spirit in them of hating all things biblical , all things godly , all things Jesus Christ , hating all things that are pure truth , hating all things @ @ @ @ @ @ @ at all , ” he continued .
“ Instead , they plunge themselves into socialism , into communism , the misuse of technology , into all kinds of evil and darkness and sexual perversion , and the confusion of marriage and gender and home and family … [ into ] this amalgamation that Satan is going to use in the Last Days .
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Trump-loving right-wing pastor and die-hard birther conspiracy theorist Carl Gallups appeared on the “Revealing The Truth” program last week, where he declared that progressives hate President Donald Trump because they are demonically-possessed.
Gallups said that Trump was obviously God’s chosen candidate because he was able to defeat 17 other Republican presidential hopefuls—”some of them, as it turns out now we know, were deep state operatives,” he claimed—and the fact that God favors Trump is exactly why leftists hate him.
“The leftists, the socialists, the God-haters—most of them are—the America-haters, the Constitution-haters, they are, whether they call themselves this or not, they are largely globalists,” Gallups said. “They have this demonic spirit in them—whether they know it or not, whether they are trying to feed it or foster it or not—they do. And the Bible tells us these things would happen.”
“They have this spirit in them of hating all things biblical, all things godly, all things Jesus Christ, hating all things that are pure truth, hating all things that have any righteousness attached to them at all,” he continued. “Instead, they plunge themselves into socialism, into communism, the misuse of technology, into all kinds of evil and darkness and sexual perversion, and the confusion of marriage and gender and home and family … [into] this amalgamation that Satan is going to use in the Last Days.”


rightwingwatch--2020-01-22--Virulent Anti-Semite Rick Wiles Has Once Again Received White House Press Credentials

As we have noted several times before , right-wing conspiracy theorist and End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles is deeply anti-Semitic and dedicates many of his TruNews programs to railing against Israel and Jews .
Despite this , Wiles and his network still regularly receive press credentials from the Trump administration to join the White House press corps in covering international events .
Most recently , Wiles and his TruNews team turned up at the World Economic Forum in Davos , Switzerland , where President Donald Trump delivered a speech and hobnobbed with world leaders .
This is the same Wiles @ @ @ @ @ @ @ entire program to declaring that the effort to impeach Trump was a “ Jew coup ” that will eventually lead to a “ purge ” in which millions of Christian are killed .
“ That ’ s the way the Jews work , they are deceivers , they plot , they lie , they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda , ” Wiles said during the program .
“ This ‘ impeach Trump ’ effort is a Jew coup and the American people better wake up to it @ @ @ @ @ @ @ led by Jews to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of the United States and it ’ s beyond removing Donald Trump , it ’ s removing you and me .
That ’ s what ’ s at the heart of it .
You have been taken over by a Jewish cabal .
The church of Jesus Christ , you ’ re next .
Get it through your head !
They ’ re coming for you .
There will be a purge .
That ’ s the next thing that happens when Jews take @ @ @ @ @ @ @ of Christians.
” Despite Wiles ’ virulent anti-Semitism , he and his network were again invited to cover the World Economic Forum and last night ’ s TruNews program featured Wiles along with co-hosts Edward Szall and Doc Burkhart broadcasting from the event and thanking Trump and the White House for inviting them .
“ We just want to thank President Trump and the White House for extending the invitation to be here , ” Wiles said .
“ Your TruNews team was sitting in the audience , very close to the stage @ @ @ @ @ @ @ up close , hear the entire speech , and we ’ re again just honored that we are here .
The White House has treated all of the media with a lot of respect and professionalism and courtesy.
” “ We are honored to be here representing the Kingdom of Heaven and our king , Jesus Christ , ” Wiles added .
“ Almighty God ’ s favor is on TruNews .
”

As we have noted several times before, right-wing conspiracy theorist and End Times broadcaster Rick Wiles is deeply anti-Semitic and dedicates many of his TruNews programs to railing against Israel and Jews. Despite this, Wiles and his network still regularly receive press credentials from the Trump administration to join the White House press corps in covering international events.
Most recently, Wiles and his TruNews team turned up at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where President Donald Trump delivered a speech and hobnobbed with world leaders.
This is the same Wiles who, last November, dedicated an entire program to declaring that the effort to impeach Trump was a “Jew coup” that will eventually lead to a “purge” in which millions of Christian are killed.
“That’s the way the Jews work, they are deceivers, they plot, they lie, they do whatever they have to do to accomplish their political agenda,” Wiles said during the program. “This ‘impeach Trump’ effort is a Jew coup and the American people better wake up to it really fast … This is a coup led by Jews to overthrow the constitutionally elected president of the United States and it’s beyond removing Donald Trump, it’s removing you and me. That’s what’s at the heart of it. You have been taken over by a Jewish cabal. The church of Jesus Christ, you’re next. Get it through your head! They’re coming for you. There will be a purge. That’s the next thing that happens when Jews take over a country, they kill millions of Christians.”
Despite Wiles’ virulent anti-Semitism, he and his network were again invited to cover the World Economic Forum and last night’s TruNews program featured Wiles along with co-hosts Edward Szall and Doc Burkhart broadcasting from the event and thanking Trump and the White House for inviting them.
“We just want to thank President Trump and the White House for extending the invitation to be here,” Wiles said. “Your TruNews team was sitting in the audience, very close to the stage. We got to see the president up close, hear the entire speech, and we’re again just honored that we are here. The White House has treated all of the media with a lot of respect and professionalism and courtesy.”
“We are honored to be here representing the Kingdom of Heaven and our king, Jesus Christ,” Wiles added. “Almighty God’s favor is on TruNews.”


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