Right Wing Round-Up: A Safe Space for Antisemitism

  • Lucille Sherman @ Axios: Students for Trump founder charged with assault.
  • Fournier, 27, was arrested in Johnston County last Tuesday and accused of assaulting the woman, identified as his girlfriend, “grabbing her right arm and striking her in the forehead” with a handgun.

  • Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: MAGA lawyer rails against ‘the devil and his minions’ after his kids stop calling him.
  • Right-wing attorney L. Lin Wood lamented that another Thanksgiving had passed without a call from any of his children.

  • Angry White Men: Stew Peters: The ‘Demonically-Possessed, Evil Israeli Government’ Orchestrated Oct. 7 Massacre.
  • White nationalist broadcaster Stew Peters floated a new conspiracy theory about the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas in an episode of his Rumble show. During an interview with Matt Wallace, a crypto-promoting Elon Musk fanboy, Peters declared that Hamas’ Oct. 7 massacre of 1,400 Israelis was a false flag attack.

  • Tim Dickinson @ Rolling Stone: Conspiracy Kingpin Shows Twitter Is a Safe Space for Antisemitism.
  • In recent days however, there’s been nothing covert about Peters’ intent.

  • John Fea @ Current: Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem: Trump should drop out of the 2024 presidential race to “preserve his legacy.”
  • Evangelical theologian Wayne Grudem, my former theology professor at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School (I took one course with him), made waves when he endorsed Donald Trump in 2016 and 2020. … Now Grudem seems to have left the Trump train.”

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