'Trump rants about Dr Seuss and claims China will kill us all in return to Fox News
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Speaking during a rare post-presidency appearance on Fox News on Monday morning, the former president claimed that the Democrats are using "woke" tactics in order to achieve their policy goals.
"In order to accomplish the Green New Deal nonsense, they are destroying it with woke - when China looks at woke they see the biggest problem we have is Dr Seuss.
"In the meantime they are building factories and trying to kill us in so many different ways," Mr Trump said without citing any evidence or listing examples.
"Frankly, they think our country is stupid when they look at us [...]
"Taking down the statues to great heroes and so many other things. I do not because I want to do what's right and they are destroying our country," he added, seemingly in reference to the removal last summer of several statues of members of the Confederacy and historical figures with ties to slavery.
[... Republican] House minority leader Kevin McCarthy released a bizarre five-minute video of himself reading Green Eggs and Ham.
[... Unlike Republicans,] Democratic politicians have not made the books being pulled from publication a concern since the announcement was made, as the Biden administration focuses on implementing its first policies.'
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'Treasure Hunter, Satanism Expert, and Mike Lindell [MyPillow] Team Up
Trump and most of his supporters long ago gave up on efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election. But in Arizona, the dream of a Trump victory lives on, drawing in a bizarre cast of characters intent on rooting out nonexistent fraud.
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the group organized a rally featuring Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) and "MAGA Hulk," a muscular pro-Trump personality.
Lindell, who has become one of the most visible backers of pro-Trump groups and media outlets, declared in a video played at the event that the group's work "should be heard around the world" and claimed that Trump would be back in office by this summer.
"Arizona is a hotbed," Lindell added. "We're gonna get to the machines."
[...] Dr. Lyle Rapacki, a far-right activist who has claimed "demonic" forces are afoot in the fight over the Maricopa ballots [...]
Rapacki knows about demons. Amidst the satanic panic in the 1980s, in which law enforcement, the media, and parents across the country became convinced of fictitious tales about children being abused by satanic cults that often centered around schools or daycares, Rapacki held himself out to law enforcement as an expert on satanism.
The author of a book called Satanism: The Not So New Problem, Rapacki claimed in a 1988 interview with The Oregonian that satanic forces are all around us, worshipped by doctors, lawyers, and other seemingly upstanding people in a generational satanic pact for power.
"True Satanism is a secret, serious, totally committed movement that has gone on for thousands of years,'' Rapacki said at the time. "They worship a deity called Lucifer like the Christians worship Jesus Christ.''
Despite his outlandish views, Rapacki has managed to gain some sway with Arizona Republicans. [...] "both a conservative political operative with influence on some Republican state lawmakers and an irrelevant crackpot." Much of Rapacki's clout in Arizona has come from "priority communications" he distributes to activists that purport to draw on intelligence sources, though critics have countered that they're often repackaged articles from fringe websites [...].
[...] After a conservative blog questioned his rights to use the title "Dr.," Rapacki claimed he was being targeted for fighting devil worshipers.
"I was among a handful of individuals who dared to stand and expose Witchcraft and the Occult in America," Rapacki wrote.
[...] One potential candidate for the recount: Jovan Hutton Pulitzer, an inventor who claims to have invented a mysterious technology to detect voter fraud. After the election, Pulitzer was heralded by Trump supporters who saw earlier, more conventional recounts fail to produce any evidence of voter fraud. Instead, they want a "Pulitzer audit," a ballot inspection premised on Pulitzer's little-understood technology.
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Pulitzer originally gained notoriety during the dot-com boom as the inventor of the much-mocked CueCat, a cat-shaped barcode scanner that was meant to let people reading magazines scan barcodes in ads, taking them to related websites. [...] "one of the most ridiculed products of the internet era" [...]
Pulitzer resurfaced as an amateur treasure hunter in 2015 on a History Channel show, styling himself as the "COMMANDER of TreasureForce" and positing that a Roman sword ostensibly found on a Canadian island proved that ancient Romans had visited Canada. Scientific analysis showed that the sword was, in fact, a modern replica.
Pulitzer returned to notoriety in the weeks after Trump's defeat, claiming he had developed a technology that could detect "kinematic artifacts"—essentially, folds in paper—that would prove whether or not the ballots were legitimate. As Pulitzer's mystery technology was heralded by MAGA fans, it also came in for ridicule from elections officials, with the Georgia secretary of state dubbing Pulitzer a "failed treasure hunter."
[...] Pulitzer himself has retweeted calls for a "Pulitzer audit" in the county, which would rely on Pulitzer deciding whether ballots are legitimate based on a supposed technology that few, if any, people aside from Pulitzer understand.
"We want the best people to perform the audit, and if what Jovan has is going to give us what we need is the best, then we want Jovan," [...]
"Wrapped up physical evidence collection with a Purple Heart Vet willing to dumpster dive for his Country." [...]
"Camera footage shows that those three attempted to unlawfully pry open our warehouse doors, but were unsuccessful," [...] "They did, however, climb into the dumpster outside the building and remove trash."
A day after the dumpster-diving incident, ballot-hunters had a new conspiracy theory: the ballots were burned in barns holding chickens. On March 6, a fire broke out at a Maricopa County chicken farm owned by Hickman Family Farms, burning 160,000 chickens alive. Hickman's vice president, Clint Hickman, is also a Republican member of the Maricopa Board of Supervisors who has repeatedly shot down the idea that the election was fraudulent.
[...] drove out to the scene of the farm, reporting ominously in their newsletter that the air smelled less like burned chicken flesh and more like burned paper, like ballots.
"At the site it is rather peculiar that there is no rancid burning smells of animals or feathers," the newsletter notes. "The most predominate odor is that of burned wood or paper."'
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