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Welcome back to False Flag! Reality-TV villain Spencer Pratt’s apparent failure to make it to the Los Angeles mayoral runoff has set off voter-fraud accusations from Donald Trump and his supporters. There’s also been no shortage of schadenfreude from Pratt’s critics.
What happened here is no mystery. Pratt was a Republican campaigning on MAGA-slop videos in a blue city at a time when national trends heavily favor Democrats. Since rising to national prominence on The Hills nearly two decades ago, Pratt’s claim to fame has been that he’s a uniquely obnoxious person. Who wouldn’t vote for a mayor like that!
Apparently, a lot of Angelenos. Still, Trump supporters seem eager to fold Pratt’s likely defeat into a larger narrative about cheating lefties—a politically useful story to tell ahead of the midterms when you can expect many more, and much louder, cries of fraud. I broke it down with Sam Stein this morning in an action-packed “MAGA Monday.” Check back next Monday at 10 a.m. EDT for another round!
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Kash Deploys the FBI Into the MAGA Civil Wars
Not content going after just Democrats, the nation’s top law enforcement agency is now investigating right-wing critics of the president.
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FBI wades into the MAGA civil war
Trump world has been roiled for nearly a year with internal divisions—over Israel, Jeffrey Epstein, the Charlie Kirk assassination, and on and on.
But now, the Trump loyalists appear to have realized something: They control the world’s leading law enforcement agency and can use it to settle these meddlesome internal squabbles!
Last week, the FBI promised to investigate one of the players in the ongoing MAGA fight over Candace Owens, providing the strongest indication to date that the bureau will start going after right-wing influencers who are critical of Trump.
What stood out was not just that the FBI announced the investigation on X, but ...
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