Jason Miller feared being imprisoned in 'version of Guantanamo Bay' during detention in Brazil

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Jason Miller feared being imprisoned in 'version of Guantanamo Bay' during detention in Brazil
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GETTR CEO Jason Miller, a former adviser to Donald Trump, on Wednesday, explained why he had been detained in Brazil after attending the Conservative Political Action Conference.

During an appearance on Real America's Voice, Miller told host Steve Bannon that he had been stopped at the airport by the secret police.

"There are a couple of Federales on the other side of the security check, saying, 'Mr. Miller, will you please come with us,'" he recalled. "So myself and one other from our group was led off to this... affectionally I can refer to it as the interrogation room. It wasn't quite like the episode of Law & Order."

"They said, 'Well, we just want to ask you some questions,'" he continued. "They're Supreme Court justices effectively have the power of the FBI, the DOJ, whatever. ... So they can be judge, jury and executioner. It is so nuts."

Miller said that the officials told him that they were conducting "two secret investigations."

"First question, why are you here?" he said of the interview. "Second question is who else do you work for? I'm like, I'm the CEO of GETTR. They were, like, 'Where do you get paid from?' I'm, like, my finances are none of your business. And then they said, 'Who are your people on the ground here? We want you to list the names of everyone that's here helping you.'"

At that point, Miller said that he decided to call the American Embassy and a lawyer.

"This has witch hunt written all over it," he complained. "They put this piece of paper in front of me and say if you just sign this piece of paper saying you have nothing to say then you can leave and get on the plane. I'm, like, guys, I don't speak Portuguese. I'm not going to sign some legal document."

"I know how this works," he added. "You sign it and the next thing you know, you're in their version of Guantanamo Bay."

The former Trump adviser said that he was eventually allowed to board his plane and leave the country.

Miller has been a vocal supporter of Brazil President Jair Bolsonaro, who has said that he is willing to die to prevent being removed from power.

Watch the video below from Real America's Voice.

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'What is happening here?' GOP leader's 'Bolshevik takeover' warning baffles onlookers

A GOP leader's recent warning about the Democratic Party and a "Bolshevik takeover" left onlookers baffled.

On Tuesday, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA) spoke about the upcoming elections and invoked a Red Scare with his cautionary words about the Democratic Party.

"The Bolshevik takeover of the Democratic Party is in full swing," Scalise said. "Communism is on the ballot this November."

Trump has been making similar warnings ahead of the midterms. However, online critics were more confused by Scalise's choice of words than they were scared.

"What is happening here?" former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance wrote. "Seriously. Bolshevik?"

"This communism stuff comes across as so desperate," legal and political analyst Joe Patrice reacted.

"Hitler used 'Bolsheviks' and 'communists' almost interchangeably with 'the Jews,'" Canadian political commentator Jim Stewartson posted. "That was a relatively short time after the actual Bolshevik Revolution. McCarthy's red scare was during the Cold War. Scalise's excuse is Mamdani. It's so embarrassing."

"Brother we just want affordable healthcare," commented popular internet personality Jared Shult.

"If the election is about inflation, war, the economy and @realDonaldTrump, the Republicans will lose the House and, possibly, the Senate," wrote former Obama White House official David Axelrod. "So this is their mantra for fall!"

"Bolshevik? How Retro, a return to the original Fascist counter-revolutionary rhetoric and action," author Ruth Ben-Ghiat posted. "Conjuring Communism in all its forms is apparently the new MAGA propaganda theme."

"Folks, be prepared," warned political commentator and former GOP strategist Tara Setmayer. "It's starting already. This is the GOP's strategy to distract from Trump's failures and their complicity. However, do not underestimate the effectiveness of the scare tactic without a proper strategy to combat it. Remember 'they/them?'"

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Election-denying MAGA lawmaker coasts to swing state primary victory: reports

A Trump-backed congressman overcame scandals and a McCain snub to coast to victory in a gubernatorial primary, per reports.

According to reporting by CNN and NBC News, Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) won the GOP gubernatorial primary on Tuesday night with a huge margin of victory. He's set to face off against Democratic incumbent Katie Hobbs.

Biggs won despite a Washington Post report coming out the day before the primary that dug up his involvement in a decades-old legislative episode involving a polygamist sect accused of child sexual abuse.

Cindy McCain, the wife of the late Sen. John McCain, also came out with an endorsement of Hobbs, which could still loom over him in the upcoming midterms, analysts say.

Biggs led the hard-right House Freedom Caucus as its chairman from 2019 to 2022, and called Congress "irredeemable" as he announced he won't run for re-election in 2026. He's a reported election denier who has disputed President Donald Trump's loss in 2020, according to local reporting.

Trump-endorsed Karrin Taylor Robson suspended her campaign earlier, narrowing the field. Trump had backed her before Biggs.

He coasted to victory against his challengers, Rep. David Schweikert (R-AZ), Ken Miceli and Scott Neely. He had 71 percent of the vote when it was called in his favor, according to reporting by NBC News. Schweikert came in second with less than 17 percent.

Biggs carried Trump's endorsement plus the backing of the late Charlie Kirk and Turning Point Action, per CNN reporting. Arizona is one of five states Trump won in 2024 with a Democratic-controlled governorship on the 2026 ballot, and Trump-aligned Republicans have struggled to break through there.

'Crazy' Trump election lawyers ready to 'spring on the American people': legal expert

A legal expert sounded the alarm on a pair of lawyers who he fears have a plot in mind for upcoming elections.

During an episode of Legal AF, Michael Popok warned that the Trump administration is maneuvering to "spring on the American people" in upcoming elections. While Popok said he doesn't know what the administration has in mind, he warned about the "crazies that are inside the White House," including Kurt Olsen.

"Kurt Olsen, a failed lawyer sanctioned twice by the Arizona courts for bringing up false information to the courts related to Kari Lake's attempted bid for governorship," Popok said. "He was so nuts that even team crazy, which was the name for [Rudy] Giuliani's group during the first Trump administration, wouldn't have Kurt Olsen around."

Popok was speaking about Trump's recent speech in which he warned of election security vulnerabilities. Trump's speech revealed he's "learning the hard lesson" with Iran as dropping polling numbers show "Americans believing this is a failed administration that has completely lost its way," Popok said.

With the midterms a few months away, the administration is preparing for a "bloodbath," Popok said, and that's where he's worried Olsen will come in.

"Olsen is inside the government as the director or the lawyer responsible for election integrity, of all things," Popok said. Olsen is "working with people like Cleta Mitchell, who's another right-wing conspiracy theorist who has this whole network of election integrity lawyers all around."

Popok noted, "They're the ones, the reason when you heard that Puerto Rico's voting equipment was seized or Georgia's Fulton County voting equipment was seized, that was Kurt Olsen working with the Director of National Intelligence, Tulsi Gabbard, at the time, which explained her appearance in Fulton County."

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