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Michigan Live reports: A former church leader will stand trial on 60 charges related to sexual abuse after a Washtenaw County judge added 30 more counts based on preliminary testimony. Supporters of the eight men and one boy who testified against Zachary Radcliff, 29, could be heard crying in the courtroom as Judge J. Cedric Simpson read off the additional charges. …

Fox News reports: Conservative voters believe Vice President JD Vance will become the Republican Party’s presidential nominee in the 2028 election cycle, a straw poll conducted at the 2025 CPAC found. “You guys are the conservative movement, you guys are the thought leaders, the opinion leaders. We asked folks who they thought would be the Republican nominee, who they preferred …

From a 2023 Christian Post report: As his movie “Sound of Freedom” ranks No. 1 at the box office in Latin America, filmmaker and actor Eduardo Verástegui has officially registered to run as an independent candidate in Mexico’s 2024 presidential election. Believing he can create positive changes in Mexico if elected president, the entertainer and founder of the Viva México …

France 24 reports: France’s far-right leader Jordan Bardella said Friday he had cancelled his speech at a right-wing meeting in Washington after a “gesture alluding to Nazi ideology” by conservative firebrand Steve Bannon. “I had been invited … to make a speech on the links between the United States and France, as well as the recent electoral dynamic of patriot …

Newsweek reports: A Republican group is hoping to rally support to change the Constitution to allow President Donald Trump to seek a third term. The “Third Term Project” presented its proposals at the CPAC at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center in Oxon Hill, Maryland, on Thursday. Republican Representative Andy Ogles of Tennessee introduced a House joint resolution in …

The New York Times reports: It’s the political equivalent of homecoming week for conservatives, a chance to revel over President Trump’s return to power and the dismantling of government institutions despised by the MAGA movement. But as the Conservative Political Action Conference got underway outside Washington on Thursday, the group’s influential chairman, Matt Schlapp, was embroiled in another scandal involving …

Mediaite reports: Billionaire Elon Musk made a widely debunked claim that a “massive amount” of tax dollars are “going to legacy media companies” at CPAC on Thursday. This claim originates from President Donald Trump when he stated on Truth Social that billions of taxpayer dollars had “been stolen at USAID, and other agencies” and given “to the fake news media” …

The Hill reports: Elon Musk joined the CPAC stage Thursday wielding a chainsaw, underscoring his efforts to slash the federal budget and workforce through Trump’s so-called DOGE panel. Dressed in a black MAGA hat and sunglasses and chain, Musk walked on stage and was joined shortly after by Argentine President Javier Milei, who gave him a black chainsaw that the …

Media Matters has the transcript from CPAC: STEVE BANNON (HOST): Jayne let’s talk to some of these good War Room posse folks before they go up to hear the Vice President. JAYNE ZIRKLE: Your name and what brings you here today? GUEST: Hi, I’m Gordon White and I came here to say Trump 2028. ZIRKLE: Oh yeah. BANNON: Alright. Hold …

“I think that our culture sends a message to young men that you should suppress every masculine urge. You should you should try to cast aside your family. You should try to suppress what makes you a young man in the first place. “And I think that my message to young men is don’t allow this broken culture to send …

“We are gonna be talking about – from woke capitalism to the culture warriors – to there’s some really fun panel names. One of them actually mentions Joy Reid, where it’s basically this fight against this Trump derangement syndrome, media narrative of their goal to destroy the president, destroy MAGA supporters. “The young voters were such a decisive factor in …

Yashar Ali reports at The Reset: Matt Schlapp, the Chairman of the American Conservative Union, which hosts the CPAC convention, allegedly engaged in lewd conduct and allegedly sexually assaulted a man at a restaurant and bar in Virginia on Saturday night, six witnesses and the man who alleges he was assaulted tell me. Schlapp has repeatedly been accused of sexual …

Michigan Live reports: A former youth pastor charged with more than 30 felonies for sexually abusing children will stay in jail. Washtenaw County District Court Judge J. Cedric Simpson denied Zachary Joseph Radcliff’s bond after hearing from prosecutors how the 29-year-old temporarily fled to Virginia during the ongoing investigation and repeatedly contacted a victim who came forward. This means, absent …

Michigan Live reports: A Washtenaw County youth pastor already facing life in prison has been arraigned on nearly two dozen additional felony charges, including more counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct. Zachary Joseph Radcliff, 29, has been charged with a total of 33 felonies after he was arraigned on 22 new charges Nov. 26 before 14A-1 District Court Judge J. …

Michigan Live reports: An Ypsilanti-area youth pastor is accused of forcing a girl to perform oral sex on him and using a social media app to arrange payment for photographs of children, according to police. Zachary Joseph Radcliff, 29, allegedly used Snapchat to arrange meetups with children where he would pay them for videos and photographs, Sgt. Gilberto Oliveria with …

Michigan Live reports: Zachary Joseph Radcliff, 29, was arraigned on two charges of aggravated “child sexually abusive activity,” two charges child sexually abusive activity and six charges of using the internet to communicate with another to commit a crime. He is facing up to 25 years in prison. Radcliff is a church leader at Oakwood Church, confirmed Victoria Burton-Harris, Washtenaw …

“We will see what happens with this most terrifying of hurricanes in the Gulf. At some point we have to ask ourselves if there’s a Divine attempt to get our attention and stop all the insanity in our modern existence.” – CPAC chairman and allegedly groper of man meat Matt Schlapp, whose insurance carrier in March 2024 paid $480,000 to …

CNN reports: The Republican operative who accused American Conservative Union chairman Matt Schlapp of sexual assault last year received a significant financial settlement in exchange for dropping his lawsuit against Schlapp, multiple sources familiar with the case told CNN. The $480,000 settlement was paid to Carlton Huffman through an insurance policy, according to a source familiar with the details. Schlapp’s …

“From the beginning, we asserted our innocence. Our family was attacked by a left-wing media that is focused on the destruction of conservatives regardless of the truth and the facts. “But we emerge from this ordeal stronger as husband and wife, stronger as parents to our five daughters, stronger as friends to those who stood by us. “Our faith in …

The New York Times reports: A lawsuit has been dropped against Matt Schlapp, the head of one of the nation’s largest conservative advocacy groups, after his accuser said the allegations were the result of a misunderstanding. Carlton Huffman, 40, had accused Mr. Schlapp, 56, the head of the American Conservative Union and an adviser to former President Donald J. Trump, …