All posts tagged "David French"

A former Republican and New York Times columnist signaled Friday that MAGA's "identity crisis" has imploded in a splintered fight between right-wing influencers.

David French, a lifelong conservative who left the GOP because of its embrace of Donald Trump, told CNN anchor Dana Bash that the group that right-wing podcasters are calling each other out during Turning Point USA's event in Arizona — the largest gathering among that coalition since MAGA podcaster Charlie Kirk was killed.

At the event, podcaster Ben Shapiro argued that the conservative movement was "in danger" and called out Dinesh D'Souza, Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson....

MSNBC's Morning Joe hosts were gobsmacked over an opinion piece in The New York Times about a top Trump administration prosecutor threatening Georgetown University Law School over its alleged continued use of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in its curriculum.

The piece by David French revolves around a letter sent to the law school's dean by Ed Martin, the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia. Martin was a 2020 election denier who lead the "Stop The Steal" movement that resulted in the Jan. 6 Capitol riots.

MSNBC's Mika Brzezinski read a portion of the letter on-air. ...

A conservative columnist laid into former President Donald Trump's running mate, Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), on MSNBC Wednesday for his decision to write a blurb for a book by a far-right extremist who helped generate the "Pizzagate" conspiracy theory about D.C. politicians sex-trafficking children in the basement of a pizza shop with no basement.

There's no way that Vance didn't know who he was signing on for, columnist David French argued.

"I want to start with this, because I was thinking about the fact that you and I work in a world in which people ask to blurb books," said anchor Chris Hayes. "You've written books, I've written books. sometimes people will blurb books without reading them. I never do that, precisely so that I'm never in this position. But I do feel like if someone asked me to blurb a book whose title was 'Unhuman,' I'd be like, 'what's this one about?' I feel like that's not — I feel like that's not really something I want to endorse."...