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At the dawn of 2023, Zachary Levi was riding high.

Following a five-year run as the titular star of the NBC spy caper “Chuck,” the actor positioned himself as a legit leading man in film thanks to the breakout success of “Shazam!” The DC tentpole was a low-risk proposition for Warner Bros. that delivered strong reviews and a $368 million global box office haul against a $90 million budget. But in the run-up to the sequel that year, Levi ignited a furor when he weighed in vaguely on the Covid vaccine debate. In response to a Twitter user who asked, “Do you agree or not that Pfizer is a real danger to the world?” Levi wrote, “Hardcore agree.”

It was the kind of vaccine skepticism that had already dinged the career prospects of fellow superhero stars Letitia Wright and Evangeline Lilly, but Levi doubled down. The following year, he endorsed presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr....

Filmmaker Oliver Stone found himself confused with another man named Stone, who is also associated with the world of U.S. politics, while testifying before Congress about the assassination of John F. Kennedy.

Stone, the director behind the controversial 1991 political thriller JFK, was appearing before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets on Tuesday to advocate for the reinvestigation of the assassination of President Kennedy. The annual meeting comes weeks after the National Archives released over 2,000 files related to the Kennedy assassination.

But the lauded filmmaker was likely stumped when Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert asked him a question about a book he didn’t write.

“You wrote a book accusing Lbj of being involved in the killing of President Kennedy. Do these most recent releases confirm or negate your initial charge?” Boebert asked, referring to the declassified Kennedy documents.

“No, I didn’t,...

Anyone who has watched Prime Video's Reacher knows that you don't want to mess with Alan Ritchson as the titular mercenary. It seems that you don't want to mess with Ritchson either if your name is Matt Gaetz. Although the Reacher star could very well be a giant teddy bear most of the time, he gives off a vibe that he has no problem telling it like it is and does not have a soft spot for bullies on any level. Ritchson is especially not mincing words when it comes to disgraced former congressman Matt Gaetz. As it turns out, they were once childhood classmates, and he doesn't think Gaetz is remotely a good person.

During a chat with GQ, Ritchson was asked for his opinion on the politician since they share a past as classmates. Ritchson came straight to the point about how he felt about him, and he did not sugarcoat it.

With Donald Trump winning back the White House, his Big Lie that Jan. 6 was just an enthusiastic rally that got out of hand, rather than an insurrectionist mob he unleashed to disrupt the count of the 2020 electoral college, has new currency.

A new congressional Republican report, spearheaded by Maga lapdog Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) has recommended a criminal probe of former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) for co-chairing the House Jan. 6 investigation. Loudermilk’s report reached a through-the-looking-glass conclusion that Cheney & co. had promoted “a false, pre-determined narrative that President Trump...

Days after discussing the notion of President Joe Biden possibly reversing course and pardoning his son, Hunter Biden, before leaving office, The View cohosts had even more to say about the subject once it actually happened. On Monday’s (December 2) first post-Thanksgiving episode, four cohosts — Whoopi Goldberg, Ana Navarro, Sunny Hostin, and Alyssa Farah Griffin — were on hand to discuss the Potus’s pardon, which went against his own prior promises. While Hostin and Navarro were overwhelmingly in favor of it, and Goldberg was ambivalent but understanding of the decision, Griffin was categorically against Biden’s decision, and the conversation became a bit tense between them before the end. “Listen, I get it. I mean, we got to convict a felon as president,” Goldberg said first. “I kind of feel like I look at the list of folks that You Know Who pardoned during the first term: He granted 237 acts of clemency,...

The Maga world has sent Jimmy Kimmel's head spinning once again. This time, it comes as Lauren Boebert and others from Donald Trump's orbit continue to join the video-sharing platform Cameo.

Cameo allows customers to pay celebrities for personalized messages in short video clips. There are hundreds of reality TV stars, athletes, actors, comedians, and more on the site. Now, there is a sitting member of Congress. Or at least there was.

Kimmel's monologue on Tuesday night shared the news that Representative Lauren Boebert of Colorado joined Cameo. Interested parties had the option to send Boebert money for a birthday wish, motivational message, or just to say hello.

Of course, Kimmel couldn't let any Boebert news go without referencing her infamous theater antics. The comedian made some not-so-subtle jokes about the Colorado Republican.

But apparently, Boebert's Cameo career was short-lived. Kimmel revealed that her page disappeared not long after going live.

Donald Trump’s early administration picks have been characteristically controversial, but none has inspired as much shock, consternation, and flat-out outrage as his nomination of Matt Gaetz to serve as attorney general.

Gaetz has been the subject of sexual misconduct allegations for years, and amid growing public pressure the House Ethics Committee is considering whether to release a report detailing the findings of its investigation into these allegations, along with allegations of illicit drug use and other improprieties.

Gaetz resigned from Congress days before the committee was originally scheduled to...

Playing Donald Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn in Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice is not the first time Jeremy Strong has tackled recent American history. Before the actor became synonymous with Kendall Roy in Succession, he played parts in The Big Short, Selma and Parkland. While the actor feels a slight discomfort discussing acting choices for a film whose main subject “poses such a clear and present danger to you and I,” Strong is no less proud of the work. “I am happy with how it turned out and happy that I went for it,” he says. “I almost didn’t.”

Deadline: What made you run toward this role and this film?

Jeremy Strong: You run toward it, because it’s so dangerous. Because it’s been done before brilliantly. It was done by Al Pacino [in Angels in America] in a really definitive way, that had such an impact on me.

A lawyer representing a woman accusing former Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) of having sex with her when she was a minor is pressing the House Ethics Committee to release a report on their investigation into the allegations despite Gaetz’s resignation from Congress.

On Wednesday, Gaetz tendered his resignation after President-elect Donald Trump tapped the Florida congressman to serve as his attorney general. The resignation came days before the Ethics Committee was scheduled to vote on the release of an investigative report into allegations that he had engaged in sexual misconduct,...

Donald Trump has branded Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice a “fake and classless movie” and “politically disgusting hatchet job” after the film opened in the top 10 at the North American box office over the weekend.

The former US president, who is vying to return to the White House when voters go to the polls on November 5, took umbrage over the dark drama, which chronicles Trump’s coming-of-age in the 1970s and 1980s under the tutelage of McCarthyite and attorney Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong).

Posting on the Truth Social platform on Monday, Trump also claimed the film’s release through Briarcliff Entertainment...

A “Trump Boat Parade” in Jupiter, Florida, on Sunday was joined by neo-Nazis waving swastika flags, shouting “White Power,” “Heil Trump,” and “Make America White Again!”

The showboating of yachts and wake boats on behalf of Trump’s candidacy is a revival of the “Trump Armada” trend from 2020, when MAGAdonians with literal boatloads of disposable income met up to cruise around a harbor and create more than a little whitewater while waving Trump flags.

This event in Jupiter, one of the wealthiest areas of the state, was touted by Trump...

In middle-of-the-night Truth Social post, Donald Trump weighed in the movie The Apprentice, unsurprisingly calling it a “cheap, defamatory and politically disgusting hatchet job.”

Back in May, Trump had threatened to sue over the movie, with his attorneys filing a cease and desist demand. That may have delayed the ability of the producers to obtain a distributor, but once they did, Trump and his team have yet to file any litigation.

The Apprentice tells of the early days of Trump in 1970s and ’80s Manhattan, where Roy Cohn teaches his “apprentice” how to fight back against a federal lawsuit alleging that Trump and his father engaged in discrimination against Black applicants seeking to rent housing from them.

The most objectionable scene appears to be one where Trump (Sebastian Stan) sexually assaults his then-wife Ivana. The scene is based on one of Ivana Trump’s depositions, which she later said was...

Sebastian Stan was tasked with gaining 15 pounds when he took on the role of Donald Trump in “The Apprentice” — a feat he managed with the help of Coca-Cola. “I actually started drinking a lot of Coca-Cola. Tell you, if you drink four Coca-Colas a day, a lot of things happen to your body. Don’t do it,” he told “Entertainment Tonight.”

“I think it is important that we try and understand this person beyond just, you know, the red tie and the flare and the mannerisms and everything, and just try to get underneath it,” Stan added.

Stan’s weight gain method of choice was somewhat appropriate, given Trump’s own love of soda. Of course, Trump doesn’t go for the sugary version — he shared in 2017 that he drinks 12 Diet Cokes a day.

“The Apprentice” is set in 1970s and ’80s New York, a time during which a young...

Lives of historical figures often get cinematic treatment to tell sweeping tales of real life events, and Ali Abbasi’s The Apprentice captures former president Donald Trump in a key moment before the 2024 presidential election. Starring Sebastian Stan as Trump, Jeremy Strong as Roy Cohn and Maria Bakalova as Trump’s first wife Ivanka, the film marks the latest in a catalog of films that explore the lives of political people. From United States Presidents to their wives and First Ladies, to Supreme Court Justices to scientists and brilliant minds, nobody is off limits, especially if the stories are triumphant. Others have more tragic endings.

The 2024 Academy Awards showed just how popular a biopic can be amongst voters with Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer netting Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Actors and actresses do almost anything to become the real-life person they portray in a biopic, from working with...

Alex Jones‘ media company is being liquidated, and both his fans and his enemies are racing to get their hands on his empire.

Jones filed bankruptcy on his Infowars show and its parent company, Free Speech Systems, after being court-ordered to pay Sandy Hook families who sued him for defamation after he claimed the victims of the 2012 school shooting were paid actors. The conservative media personality owes the families around $1.5 billion in damages, though it is unlikely he will be able to pay them in full.

Jone’s entire brand is on sale – the Infowars name, production rights, archives, social media accounts, equipment, e-commerce site, customer lists and hundreds of domain names are being auctioned off, according to auction firms Tranzon Asset Advisors and ThreeSixty Asset Advisors. The assets can be bought individually or as a package.

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Donald Trump is still mad he lost in 2020, and this year he and his allies are determined to upend the electoral process to make sure it doesn’t happen again. Intimidation is a key part of the plan. The Maga faithful have spent the past four years threatening election officials, and last month the former president promised to jail election officials, workers, or anyone else guilty of “unscrupulous behavior.”

Roger Stone has some ideas of his own. In undercover audio provided exclusively to Rolling Stone by liberal documentarian Lauren Windsor,...

Plot: A depiction of the early days of Donald Trump’s (Sebastian Stan) business empire and how his friendship with Roy Cohn (Jeremy Strong) paved the way for his rise to power.

Review: The Apprentice is one of those movies everyone seems to have an opinion about, regardless of whether they’ve seen it or not. Indeed, only a privileged group who saw it at Cannes and Telluride can really say what it is or isn’t, and now, thanks to a special, invite-only surprise screening at TIFF (where it’s not playing as part of the official selection), you can add JoBlo to that list.

So, I walked into The Apprentice expecting a dark, political drama akin to the work of Oliver Stone. This isn’t that movie, with director Ali Abbasi making this a somewhat apolitical work. Trump’s foray into politics isn’t mentioned beyond one or...

If you thought that Kamala Harris and Liz Cheney singing from the same electoral choirbook last week was a political head-turner, wait to you see who The Apprentice director Ali Abbasi is linking up with.

Proving that political and artistic bedfellows can be unpredictable, Abbasi reposted some praise his film and one of its stars Jeremy Strong received Tuesday from Donald Trump acolyte and ex-Richard Nixon operative Roger Stone.

“I knew Roy Cohn. Roy Cohn was a friend of mine,” Stone wrote on X. “The portrayal of Roy Cohn by actor Jeremy Strong in the new movie “The Apprentice ” is uncanny in it’s [sic] accuracy.”

As I have been saying #TheApprentice is not taking sides politically. It’s entertaining and surprising and I feel it’s a fair portrayal of these colourful and polarising characters. Watch the movie and find out if you agree with me and @RogerJStoneJr . https://t.

Several months after its debut at the 77th Cannes Film Festival, the highly-anticipated The Apprentice is releasing in theaters. The Iranian-Danish filmmaker Ali Abbasi directed the biopic that follows Donald Trump's rise to prominence in the real estate business during the 1970s and 1980s, with the former United States president not involved in the making of the film. The Apprentice debuted to positive reviews following its Cannes debut.

Despite the largely positive reception, The Apprentice's release became controversial as the film struggled to find a U.S. distributor following legal action from Trump and his supporters. Other controversies revolved around Washington Commanders owner Dan Snyder, who demanded a recut after investing via the production company Kinematics because he was under the impression that the film would have a favorable depiction of Trump. The Apprentice eventually landed Briarcliff Entertainment as a U.S. distributor, ensuring the project would be...

Anna Delvey will be one of the contestants competing for the mirror ball trophy on “Dancing With the Stars” this season, and the hosts of “The View” are pretty pissed off about it.

During Thursday’s episode of the ABC talk show — the same network that airs “DWTS” — the hosts unanimously called out the move, calling it a double standard and a reward for criminal activity.

“I think back to all the families who’ve had family members arrested by Ice, who have gone to the courts to get their dad, or their brother, or their mother back, and this woman, they gave her permission to go do this,” Whoopi Goldberg said. “Now, should I think there’s a reason? Is there a two-tiered system here with Ice?”

Host Sunny Hostin, who has repeatedly talked about how she supports “consequence culture” over “cancel culture,” agreed, reminding viewers that Delvey went...

Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s documentary A Storm Foretold takes a look inside the political machinations of Donald Trump’s long-time adviser, Roger Stone. Over the course of three years, from Stone’s 2019 indictment through the aftermath of the 2020 election, Guldbrandsen’s cameras follow the infamous “dirty trickster” as political tensions mount in America.

Stone made his career by pushing boundaries and playing hardball in GOP politics. As an outside consultant, he advised Republicans on impactful, though sometimes underhanded, strategies. This approach served him well for decades, but it also attracted many critics. By the time of Trump’s 2016 campaign, Stone had developed a reputation as one of Washington’s most controversial figures. His no-holds-barred style helped engineer Trump’s surprise victory, yet it also put him on a collision course with the law.

The film profiles Stone as the Russiagate investigation ensnares him and several key Trump allies. Despite facing felony charges,...

CNN anchor/correspondent Alisyn Camerota’s memoir “Combat Love: A Story of Leaving, Longing and Searching for Home,” is being developed for film and TV from Tiwary Entertainment Group, the producers behind Broadway musicals like Alanis Morisette’s “Jagged Little Pill” and Green Day’s “American Idiot.”

The memoir explores Camerota’s teenage years in the 1980s music scenes and gritty clubs of the Jersey Shore and New York City. She shares stories of her backstage shenanigans with punk bands like the Ramones, and trying to get herself into the world of her favorite local band, Shrapnel.

“Combat Love” also details Camerota’s fragmented relationship with her mother. She left home at the age of 16, and in the memoir retraces her path toward becoming a TV reporter.

Camerota has been in journalism for three decades, and has earned two Emmys (for coverage of the death of George Floyd and arrest...

Hulkamania is going to run wild at the Republican National Convention. As reported by multiple outlets, Terry “Hulk Hogan” Bollea will speak before Donald Trump officially accepts the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday night.

What’s more, longtime Trump supporter Kid Rock will perform at the event after boasting on social media that he would be on hand to support the “American badass president.” He also hinted at doing something wild, asking, “Are you scared?”

CNN anchor Jake Tapper has posted a video of Kid Rock’s soundcheck, during which he appeared to be rehearsing a new song inspired by the assassination attempt on Trump. Check it out below.

Hogan has teased political aspirations over the past several years. In 2018, he claimed that former Trump advisor Roger Stone was pushing him to run for US Senate. More recently, the former WWE wrestler told Fox & Friends that “we need somebody in...

Ahead of the first presidential debate, Donald Trump is taking a leaf out of his Election Day playbook and attempting to preemptively discredit a strong performance by President Joe Biden. The former president and his allies have spent the days leading up to the rematch between the 2020 rivals accusing Biden of everything from doping, to secretly using an earpiece, to the unsportsmanlike use of Mountain Dew.

There is no evidence that Biden receives performance enhancing drugs ahead of major public appearances, but Trump’s allies have picked up on the thread regardless.

Florida District Court Judge Aileen Cannon’s handling of Donald Trump’s classified documents case — and her perceived favoritism towards the former president — has been under a wave of national scrutiny for some time now. According to a report from The New York Times, the growing ethical questions could have been avoided had Cannon heeded the advice of senior judges in the Southern District of Florida, who counseled her to pass the case to a more experienced judge.

According to the Times, when Cannon drew the case in 2023 two judges,...

If there’s anything more alarming than Donald Trump and his allies’ plans to wreak havoc on the 2024 election, it’s how comfortable they are telling anyone who asks exactly what they plan to do. In an undercover recording obtained by liberal journalist Lauren Windsor, longtime Trump consultant and professional electoral agitator Roger Stone brags that the former president and his cadre are on “offensive footing” ahead of the election, and are better prepared to challenge election results in November than they were in 2020.

“At least this time when they do it,...

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Chide and Seek

Former New York Governor, former Donald Trump lawyer, and current guy who owes $150 million to election workers he defamed Rudy Giuliani celebrated his 80th birthday this weekend. It was a typical Maga party, complete with seditious pals like Roger Stone and Steve Bannon, a Sinatra cover band, and presumably all the booze in the world. Oh, and several process servers who, alerted by Giuliani gloating on social media about how successfully he’s been dodging subpoenas for trying to subvert democracy (in Arizona this time), waited until “Happy Birthday” was sung to put the legal documents in Rudy’s baffled hands.

Hubris, thy name, this week anyway, is Rudy. Such a massive self-own was irresistible to late-night, with Jimmy Kimmel opening with a pithily gleeful,...

Don’t be confused about the title The Apprentice. This is not a movie version of the NBC reality TV series in any way, but instead a smart, sharp and surprising origin story of the man who hosted it. In this case the actual “apprentice” is Donald Trump, infamous real estate developer, former President of the United States and current presumed GOP nominee for 2024.

But the political Trump is not in Iranian-Danish director Ali Abbasi’s compelling film, which instead zeroes in on a specific period of Trump’s life in the early ’70s when he was in his 20s and struggling to make a name for himself in the world of real estate in New York City. But it isn’t just about him — it is equally focused on his unique relationship with his lawyer, the notorious Roy Cohn, often referred to as vicious, cruel, ruthless and sadistic, a...

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Down the Shore with Hannibal and Frank

Donald Trump used one of his precious days off from falling asleep during his campaign fraud trial to relax with some of his New Jersey faithful down at the Shore. The Trump campaign’s claims of 100 thousand attendees has been broadly laughed out of Jersey, with fact-averse Maga minions (including Trump henchman Roger Stone) posting photographic proof of the teeming crowd that turned out to be an actually enthusiastic throng storming the beaches of Rio de Janeiro for a 1994 Rod Stewart concert.

No matter, as Trump wowed the crowd with attacks on everyone from the legal officials involved in his criminal prosecution to local legend Bruce Springsteen, and vocal praise for, um, noted fictional serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter,...

Film-maker Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s A Storm Foretold gives unsettling new insight into Donald Trump’s longtime ally

Democrat in contact with FBI after Roger Stone’s alleged death threat

Making a film about Roger Stone very nearly killed Christoffer Guldbrandsen and that, for once, is not a bit of Stone or Trump-style hyperbole.

Guldbrandsen’s 91-minute documentary A Storm Foretold takes a shocking swerve when CCTV footage shows him suffering a heart attack, losing consciousness and collapsing on the floor of a gym, where people rush to his aid. A heart surgeon who happened to be working out saved the Danish film-maker’s life.

Former President Donald Trump is in D.C. on Tuesday sitting in on an appeals court hearing regarding his claim of “absolute immunity” from criminal prosecution for acts he may or may not have committed as president. The arguments are already getting absurd.

Judge Florence Y. Pan, a member of the three-appellate judge panel that will rule on the question, asked Trump’s attorney, John Sauer, if — hypothetically — a president could order S.E.A.L. Team Six to assassinate their political rival and be immune from criminal prosecution.

Sauer...

It’s quiet for specialty openings after the holidays, in the thick of awards season. But one film needed this weekend — Abramorama documentary A Storm Foretold by Danish director Christoffer Guldbrandsen about the Maga movement and the Jan. 6 insurrection. The filmmaker captured footage over years of on-and-off access to Roger Stone.

It’s booked for over 20 rolling playdates in the next two weeks so far including the Quad Cinema in New York where Guldbrandsen will be holding Q&As all weekend.

Stone was former president Donald Trump’s closest political confidante and the film spans several years through Jan. 6, 2021. As Congress gathered that day to approve the election and declare Joe Biden the winner, less than a mile away, Donald Trump was urging a crowd to march towards the Capitol. Hours later, five people were killed and 141 wounded. With Stone as its central character, A Storm Foretold sees the storming...

“Saving Western civilisation is hard work,” complains Roger Stone, only half-jokingly, with that twinkle in his eyes that might make him easy to like if one were not the type to pay attention. Watching Christoffer Guldbrandsen’s documentary, one can feel the moments when the filmmaker is drawn to him despite knowing better. Stone has a companionable quality which makes the casual way in which he discards people who are no longer useful to him all the more painful. It never seems to have occurred to him that one day he might be on the receiving end.

Filmed during the dying days of Donald Trump’s presidency, the film is assembled from a mixture of interviews, observations and reflections on Guldbrandsen’s part, the latter made during those moments when he finds himself out in the cold. Stone is one of those people who likes to reassure himself of his own power by giving.

Back in September, Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, was sentenced to 22 years in federal prison on “seditious conspiracy” charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, raid of the U.S. Capitol.

According to the Justice Department, the far-right group “played a central role in setting the January 6th attack on our Capitol into motion,” and as its leader, Tarrio created a special group within the militant organization called the Ministry of Self Defense that “established a chain of command, chose a time and place for their attack, and...

At the end of Alan Moore and Brian Bolland’s 1988 one-shot Batman: The Killing Joke, the Joker lays out his worldview in plain terms. After testing his theory that “one bad day” could make even the most decent person into a madman like himself, the Joker tells his nemesis, “It’s all a joke! Everything anybody ever valued or struggled for… it’s all a monstrous, demented gag!”

Even more than the grisly sights of The Killing Joke—in which the Clown Prince of Crime sets out to prove his theory by brutalizing Batgirl Barbara Gordon and tormenting her father Commissioner Gordon—that line has set the course of Joker stories of the past several decades. Fans and creators alike try to push the Joker to edgier extremes, forgetting how Batman answers when his nemesis asks why he isn’t laughing. “Because I’ve heard it before,” he responds. “And...

On Thursday night, the Justice Department unsealed nine new tax-charges against Hunter Biden. The new charges come as the president’s much-maligned son finds himself at the center of countless right-wing conspiracies, GOP-led investigations into his foreign business dealings, and a DOJ special counsel probe Biden doesn’t sit down for many interviews, but he did recently talk to his long-time friend and confidant: musician and activist Moby.

The first part of the lengthy two-part installment of the “Moby Pod” was recorded before the DOJ’s new charges, and released on Friday.

Exclusive: Abramorama has acquired North American distribution rights to A Storm Foretold, a documentary about Trump adviser Roger Stone that becomes more urgent as the 2024 presidential election inches closer with every passing day.

Danish filmmaker Christoffer Guldbrandsen directed the documentary, which is based on intimate access he gained to Stone over a sustained period beginning in 2018, in the middle of Trump’s presidency. He was with Stone right up through the 2020 election and he documented the self-described political dirty trickster’s attempts to sow doubts about the election results.

The U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack plays footage shot by Christoffer Guldbrandsen.

Interestingly, while that footage was screened in the context of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, A Storm Foretold has yet to be seen by American audiences. Guldbrandsen’s U.S. premiere, set for this past September at the Camden International Film Festival, was canceled after...

Political commentator Meghan McCain has opened up about a heated situation with former Fox News host Tucker Carlson following the death of her father, Sen. John McCain (R-Arizona), in 2018.

On a new episode of her Meghan McCain Has Entered The Chat podcast, McCain accused Carlson of getting angry with her for criticizing political consultant Roger Stone after he tweeted that her father would “burn in hell for all eternity” in 2017.

McCain then responded to Stone via Twitter, now X.

“I tweeted something like, ‘Burn in hell’ or ‘Go to hell, Roger Stone,’ and I felt good about it, and I stand by that tweet,” McCain explained.

Shortly after, McCain was at a party in London and received a text from Carlson, which she paraphrased during the podcast episode.

“[He said], ‘What you said about Roger Stone is so gross and so disgusting, he’s a good man,’ or something like that,” she said.

Danish filmmaker Cristoffer Guldbrandsen, director of the documentary A Storm Foretold, has been on a journey into the heart of darkness of American politics.

His voyage over several years put him in close contact with Trump whisperer Roger Stone, landed him in the middle of the Select Congressional Committee’s investigation into the January 6 insurrection, and, at one point, almost cost him his life.

Guldbrandsen says his mission began with a desire to understand what was going on in the U.S., formerly a paragon of democratic ideals that had tilted dangerously toward nationalism and authoritarianism under President Trump.

Director Christoffer Guldbrandsen

“That was my motivation was to try to understand it, to charge at it,” he tells Deadline. “The knee-jerk reaction was, ‘What is going on with the Americans?’ It’s obviously not my fight. I’m not a part of it, but there’s no question of what...

Update: Power was restored to the Camden Opera House as of Sunday morning — and sunshine was restored to coast Maine. Today’s screenings at festival venues are proceeding as per normal; the Sunday lineup of screenings at the opera house, where power had gone out on Saturday, includes Dawn Porter’s The Lady Bird Diaries and The Arc of Oblivion, directed by Ian Cheney. The in-person portion of the festival wraps today; the virtual component runs from Sept. 18-25.

Update: Ciff Executive and Artistic Director Ben Fowlie and Board Chair Caroline von Kuhn sent a message to festivalgoers this afternoon, thanking them for their “patience and support as we navigate the impacts that weather and power outages have had on our programs.” The message noted, “When the power went out at the Camden Opera House this morning at the beloved Points North Pitch, the standing ovation for the Points North...

Enrique Tarrio — the capo of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6 — has been sentenced to 22 years in federal prison for his part in the seditious conspiracy to block the peaceful transfer of power to President Joe Biden following the 2020 election. Tarrio’s two-decade sentence — the stiffest yet for a Jan. 6 defendant — was handed down Tuesday afternoon in a packed Washington, D.C., courtroom.

Tarrio’s prison term tops that delivered to Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers, who received 18 years for leading that militia’s seditious conspiracy plot on Jan.

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and five other co-defendants pleaded not guilty in the Georgia election interference case on Tuesday. The pleas came after Politico reported earlier in the day about a new trend seems to be emerging among those charged alongside Donald Trump: shift the blame onto the former president.

Thus far, 18 of the 19 defendants, including Trump, have pleaded not guilty. Hearings and court documents reviewed by Politico contain hints that some of them may be planning to point their finger at the former president in order to save themselves.

A video obtained by MSNBC shows Donald Trump’s former political advisor Roger Stone dictating the rationale behind a plan to undermine the certification of Electoral College votes days before the outcome of the 2020 election was announced.

In the video, Stone, speaking slowly to an associate who is transcribing his words, states that “the final decision as to who the state legislatures authorize the send to the electoral college is a decision made solely by the legislature.”

“Any legislative body may decide on the basis of overwhelming evidence of fraud...

Republican presidential candidate Ron DeSantis is talking up the prospect of Democrat and Joe Biden rival Robert Kennedy, Jr., serving in his administration.

In a new interview with right-wing commentator Clay Travis, DeSantis was asked whether he’d consider the anti-vax conspiracy theorist Kennedy as a running mate. DeSantis, who has campaigned vigorously (and fecklessly) to appeal to vaccine skeptics, downplayed that idea, arguing that the Democrat was “averse to our base” on 70 percent of the issues.

But the Florida governor was warm to Kennedy serving in the Cabinet, because...

A New Jersey man who had his prison sentence commuted by then-President Donald Trump has been arrested again for allegedly defrauding investors out of millions of dollars.

Eliyahu “Eli” Weinstein, 48, and four other men are being charged with defrauding at least 150 people out of $35 million in a “Ponzi-like scheme,” according to a statement from the office of the U.S. attorney for New Jersey.

In addition to Weinstein, the office charged Aryeh “Ari” Bromberg, 49, and Joel Wittels, 57, also of Lakewood; Shlomo Erez, 55, a citizen and resident of Israel; and Alaa Hattab,...

Recently-fired former Fox News host and current Twitter talk show anchor Tucker Carlson shared what he believes it means to be an American: pure unadulterated hate.

“If you’re an American, you have a right to decide who you hate,” Carlson told the audience at the annual Turning Point Action conference on Saturday evening. “You have a fundamental right… If you’re an adult, you get to decide, and you get to decide on the basis of whatever you want.”

Carlson was practically giddy at the reception he received from...

Three investors have been indicted by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for their plans to make Donald Trump’s Twitter alternative Truth Social live.

The three men, Michael and Gerald Shvartsman and Bruce Garelick, violated their insider trading rules confidentiality agreement by making $23 million in October 2021 through illegal trading.

Neither Trump, his company nor Trump Media & Technology Group Corp, who owns Truth Social, was accused by the SEC of wrongdoing.

Trump was recently indicted on 37 federal counts for illegally retaining classified government documents and storing them in a toilet at his Mar-a-lago residence in Florida. He also announced that his kids will not be returning to the White House, should he win the 2024 election.

Rumors were circulating back in December 2021 that the company in charge of taking Truth Social public, Digital World Acquisition Corporation (Dwac), was in trouble. These rumors began after traders from Dwac betrayed their partners’ trust...

Last month, supporters of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid created a Super Pac titled Heal the Divide. On its website, the group — whose name is borrowed from Kennedy’s own campaign slogan — advises voters that “Only Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. can unite the Nation to start healing America,” and allows visitors to donate both in dollars and cryptocurrency.

There’s nothing abnormal about a candidate getting a Super Pac, even a candidate making a long-shot bid like Kennedy’s. What is abnormal, however, is that Kennedy is running...

Donald Trump and his former attorney general, Bill Barr, have been trading public barbs as Barr turns on his ex-boss, calling Trump a “consummate narcissist” who will “put his own interests, his own ego above everything else.”

Barr was on Face the Nation just a week after Trump called him a “gutless pig” in an appearance on Roger Stone’s radio show, during which Trump unleashed a torrent of insults against his former attorney general. In the wake of that interview, Barr on Sunday compared Trump to a “defiant nine-year-old...

Donald Trump has been arrested again.

The former president turned himself over to authorities in Miami on Tuesday, to be arraigned after being charged last week with 37 federal counts related to his handling of classified material. Trump stayed at his nearby Doral resort on Monday night, and left for the Wilkie D. Ferguson Jr. federal courthouse a little after 1:30 p.m. local time.

The court prohibited journalists from bringing any phones or electronic devices into the courthouse, although a transcript of the proceedings was provided. Trump was not be...