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Former President Donald Trump issued a severe smackdown to his Republican haters in a statement on Sunday, characterizing them as talentless fools.

Had the feckless, cowardly, go-along-to-get-along, Chamber of Commerce, Koch-addicted, Romney-McCain-Bush, National Review GOP won the day, Hillary Clinton would have won, and Roe would have been affirmed last week by a 7-2 majority.

Politico ran a hit piece on U.S Senate candidate and former Missouri governor Eric Greitens based on an anonymous poll they later admitted “felt unfair.”

Democrats, media pundits, and Hollywood stars threw tantrums on social media on Sunday after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) told Fox News Sunday that he would not vote for President Joe Biden’s multi-trillion-dollar “Build Back Better” bill.

Appearing Tuesday on CNN’s The Lead, The Bulwark editor-at-large and Never Trump pundit Bill Kristol said people in his social circle who voted for President Joe Biden in 2020 will likely not support him again in the wake of the fatally botched withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan.

Philip Klein, editor of National Review Online, calls the $1.2 trillion “bipartisan” infrastructure deal currently proceeding in the Senate “a pathetic surrender that has been built on a mountain of lies.”

President Joe Biden has nominated former Arizona Senator Jeff Flake, a prominent “Never Trump” Republican, as his choice for U.S. Ambassador to Turkey.

For some in Never Trump, the close identification of Trump with the pro-Israel cause may have prompted them to abandon it.

Adam Kinzinger’s shift leftwards is what happens when Democrats control the media, and the map.

Never Trump Republican candidate Michael Wood, who was endorsed by Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) and received a campaign donation from Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY), suffered an enormous defeat in Texas’s Sixth Congressional District special election over the weekend, placing ninth in the race and barely reaching three percent of the vote.

Former President George W. Bush told The Dispatch podcast on Friday that if the Republican Party “stands for … White Anglo-Saxon Protestantism, then it’s not going to win anything.”

Meghan McCain, daughter of the late Sen. John McCain, said her father “despised” Lincoln Project cofounders Steve Schmidt and John Weaver. 

Steve Schmidt, MSNBC pundit, resigned from the Lincoln Project on Friday and claimed he was sexually abused by a man when he was 13. He also described his resignation as partly motivated by a desire to create a vacancy on his organization’s board of directors for a woman.

Lincoln Project TV host Nayyera Haq resigned from the Never Trump organization Friday amid a growing number of allegations of sexual harassment against co-founder John Weaver. 

John Weaver — the co-founder of the anti-Trump super PAC Lincoln Project — addressed the “inappropriate” sexually charged messages that he has been sending to men, stating that he is gay.

Joe Biden plans to create a “position that reaches out to conservatives,” according to Cedric Richmond, whom the former Vice President has tapped to lead the White House Office of Public Engagement.

Never Trump stalwart Jonah Goldberg published an essay Friday in which he argued that President Donald Trump “is trying to steal an election he clearly and unequivocally lost.”

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) is fighting back against far-left Democrats and Never Trump Republicans who are targeting supporters of President Donald Trump by adding them to a list and “holding them accountable” after the election, highlighting Pete Buttigieg staffers who have signaled support for the effort.

Despite the Lincoln Project’s joining together with Democrats against Trump, it appears the friendship may be on shaky footing.

The Lincoln Project, a political action committee (PAC) opposing Donald Trump, raised nearly $60 million since its establishment last year.

“We’ve had to beat the really stupid dumb people, the Never Trumpers, we’ve had to beat the RINOS — that’s ‘Republican in name only.’ RINO. I love that term,” Trump said as the crowd laughed.

Two ads from the Women Speak Out PAC were blacklisted by Facebook after the Dispatch published a fake fact check, a bald-faced lie that claimed the ads were “partly false.”

Democrats hoped that Republican defections from President Donald Trump would help former Vice President Joe Biden in the 2020 election, but an article in The Nation observes that Trump is consolidating support, even from “Biden Republicans.”

Bret Stephens, a Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist and author who opposed Donald Trump bitterly in 2016 and thereafter, has written in praise of the 45th president for negotiating peace agreements between Israel and some of its Arab neighbors.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the Democratic Party’s key impeachment witness, declared that he now is “absolutely a Never Trumper” in his first-ever television interview with NBC Nightly News.

Shortly after President Donald Trump’s 2016 inauguration, a co-founder of the Transition Integrity Project (TIP), a group that recently “war-gamed” potential outcomes of the 2020 elections and transition, outlined varying ways to oust Trump including declaring him mentally unfit and carrying out a military coup.

Former consultants for failed Republican presidential primary candidate Jeb Bush are now working with a “Never Trump”-associated group to help Democrat Joe Biden and his running mate Kamala Harris win the swing state of Florida.

The left fumed over a naturalization ceremony aired during the Republican National Convention’s second night.

Former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen’s former allies at the agency are now working with failed Never Trump leaders to elect Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden.

The Democrat Party launched “Republicans for Biden” on Monday, the first day of the Republican National Convention, featuring over two dozen former GOP lawmakers who are endorsing the former vice president.

Governor Phil Scott of Vermont, who did not vote for President Donald Trump, said Friday that he would not vote for Trump in 2020, either.

War is their sweet spot, and because Trump not only opposed their stupid wars and will oppose their next stupid wars, but is a peacemaker, he’s got to go…

Several high-profile establishment Republicans have expressed opposition to President Trump and have signaled that they will actively support his Democrat opponent, Joe Biden (D), in November.

Never Trump stalwart Bill Kristol, the former editor and founder of the now-defunct Weekly Standard, tweeted Tuesday that the presidential debates should be canceled in favor of three vice presidential debates.

For the Sunday opening monologue of his Fox News Channel “The Next Revolution” program, host Steve Hilton took on the so-called Never Trumpers that dominate parts of the political media.

Evan McMullin, a former CIA operative and 2016 presidential candidate, blamed the “Trump cult” for the death of Herman Cain from coronavirus on Thursday.

“Love watching pathetic Never Trumpers squirm!” Trump wrote, noting that Ridge struggled to justify a “sudden love” for Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler.

Dr. Manny Sethi, a candidate for the GOP nomination for U.S. Senate in Tennessee, decided to surround himself with Never Trumpers, including his campaign manager who believes President Donald Trump is a “divisive, short-fingered vulgarian.”

The founder of a prominent political action committee opposing President Donald Trump’s reelection was arrested on Tuesday in part of a public corruption probe.

The Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson received a brutal roasting on CBS’ The Late Show with Stephen Colbert when the animated hosts of the show’s “Tooning Out the News” segment lampooned the Never Trump political consultant for his group’s coziness with the George W. Bush administration.