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CPAC the Conservative Political Action Conference runs at the beginning of every year and its always an interesting event, to say the least.

Its often attended by Republicans, right-wing commentators, prominent media personalities and other right-wing activists. The event began in 1974, but has really picked up steam in the last decade, even more so after Trumps election. This year, its in - person at The Rosen Shingle Creek in Orlando, Florida. Speakers include former U.S. President Donald Trump, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, and Sean Hannity

On that note here are the top 10 of the most outrageous things which have ever happened at CPAC.

1. Member of Happy Science cult talks at CPAC 2021

Hiroaki Jay Aeba, a prominent Japanese conservative, will be speaking at CPAC 2021 he first spoke at the event in 2011. Aeba is the chairman of the Japanese Conservative Union, a right-wing political organization, and he helped found CPAC Japan, which has been running for the last four years in Tokyo. Seems above board - but Aeba is also a prominent member of the Happy Science cult, a Japanese cult who claims to be the incarnation of multiple gods.

2. Trump Jr makes #MeToo a CPAC joke, CPAC 2019

In 2019, Donald Trump Jr took part in a panel at CPAC, with other prominent right-wing commentators, including Charlie Kirk, who founded Turning Point, a right wing organisation catering to students and young people. Don Trump JR then suggested that Jerry Falwell Jr, one of the other panellists, should have been called Trump, (she was named Reagan). He then bizarrely said hashtag me too, which is almost unsurprising for Don Jr.

3. Diamond and Silk notice the last four letters of Democrats spells rats, CPAC 2020

Who could forget Diamond and Silk, two entertainers or right-wing commentators (its unclear what exactly they do), who have been Trump stalwarts since Day One. Theyre frequent guests on Fox News and InfoWars, and in 2020, they made a bizarre speech at CPAC where they pointed out that the last four letters of Democrats spelled rats, which is technically true but not really that noteworthy. They also pointed out that the last four letters of Republican spell out I can, which also just doesnt feel that special.

4. Trump admits that he isnt concerned at all about Covid-19, CPAC 2020

In 2020, CPAC was held just before the coronavirus pandemic caused states to lockdown. During that time, people were worried about potential superspreader events and even after people who had been at CPAC tested positive for Covid-19, Trump said that he wasnt concerned at all about the spread of the pandemic, which seems to have been an omen for darker times ahead.

5. Trump kisses a flagpole and mocks Greta Thunberg, CPAC 2020

In 2020, Trump kissed a flagpole and mocked Greta Thunberg during his speech, during which he also called prominent Republican senator Mitt Romney a low life. He also complimented Joe Bidens wife, while insulting now president Joe Biden, and then delved back into insulting the media. Pretty standard stuff for Trump, but it was still pretty bizarre to watch it altogether.

6. Trump admits he is balding, CPAC 2018

In 2018, Trump admitted during a keynote address that he was balding and that he does try a lot to hide a certain bald spot.

7. Ann Coulter upsets everyone, CPAC 2007 and 2008

Ann Coulter, the right-wing media personality, made several offensive remarks during her appearances at CPAC in 2008, but potentially one of the strangest was saying that the best thing that had ever happened to the campaign of Barack Hussein Obama was when he was born half black. The year before, she also called another media personality a homophobic slur.

8. Republican governor says he would rather go Waterboarding than listen to 70 political speeches, CPAC 2013.

While CPAC has been running for several years, media coverage of the event really started to pick up after Trump was elected. But previous years also had their fair share of controversy see Salons roundup of the most offensive remarks made on stage at CPAC 2013. The most outrageous of which might have come from Bobby Jindal, the former governor of Louisiana, who said that he would rather be waterboarded a controversial and common torture technique - than listen to 70 political speeches at CPAC, an event that he had chosen to both go to and actively participate in.

9. Nigel Farage and Marion Marechal-Le-Pen appear, CPAC 2018

Nigel Farage of UKIP and Marion Marechal-Le-Pen both spoke at CPAC in 2018 Marechal-Le-Pen warned attendees of the dangers of transhumanism, which is commonly used to refer to a movement of people who want to live forever with the aid of technology and science, but obviously wasnt what Le Pen was referring to. Farage took the opportunity to attack George Soros and praised Viktor Orban, the far-right prime minister of Hungary, for having the courage to stand up to him.

10. Organisers booed for asking attendees to wear masks, CPAC 2021

On the first day of CPAC 2021, when organisers told conference-goers to wear masks as they should at a primarily indoor event, they were booed off the stage. This is despite the fact that it is against the law to not wear a mask indoors in Florida at the moment, particularly in a gathering of the size of CPAC.

More: Marjorie Taylor Greenes despicable transphobic display proves she has no understanding of the Equality Act

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10 of the most outrageous things that have ever happened at CPAC - indy100

Theyre doing it again. The New York Times is aggressively hiding relevant facts on a matter of public interest simply in order to promote the narrative of black victimhood.

OK, we didnt get away with it last time, but we probably will this time. Lets try!

Daunte Wright is the half-black man fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota earlier this year. According to Nexis, he has appeared in well over 100 articles in the Times. But one thing Times readers will never be told is that Wright was facing criminal charges for trying tochoke a woman to deathwhile robbing her at gunpoint.

They will also never hear about the lawsuit accusing Wright and an accomplice of shooting a guy during acarjacking.

In a bold departure from customary practice, the Times did make two passing references to another lawsuit claiming Wrightshot a guy in the head,permanently disabling him, but in both cases, quickly added: The lawsuit offers no direct evidencetying Mr. Wright to the shooting.

And those are just the crimes hes accused of committing lately, during the brief year and a half since he turned 18 and was no longer treated as a juvenile.

When it comes to Wrights legal problems, the Times didnt even pull its usual trick of putting all the interesting information in paragraph 20. These grisly allegations, as set forth in police reports and lawsuits, have been completely, 100 percent censored from the Newspaper of Record.

This isnt a genteel refusal to put the victim on trial. Wrights short but exciting criminal record is highly relevant to theconvulsionsthis country has been going through since George Floyds death at the hands of the police in 2020 convulsionspainstakingly fosteredby the Times.

Contrary to the medias black victimhood narrative, theres a very good reason Wright was in a position to be confronted by the police and in a way that most people are not.

In addition to allegedly committing a slew of gun crimes before the age of 20 (based on only one year and six months of public records), Wright was stopped for driving withexpired license plate tags. He didnt have car insurance. He also didnt have a drivers license. (And yes, white people are busted for these infractions all the time.)

When the officers ran his name, they discovered that Wright was driving on a suspended license, there was arestraining order against him, and a bench warrantfor his arrest on a weapons charge. They hadno choice: They had to arrest him. But as one officer began to handcuff him, Wrightresisted, jumped back in his car, and was about to flee along with an officer trapped in the passenger window, trying to get control of the gears.

Thats when Wright got shot.

This composite image from two police body cam videos and one dash cam video shows the events of a traffic stop on April 11, 2021, that led to the shooting death of Daunte Wright. The videos were shown in court on December 13, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during the trial of former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potter for Wrights death. (Court TV via AP)

This police body cam image shows former Brooklyn Center police officer Kim Potters reaction after shooting Daunte Wright during a traffic stop on April 11, 2021. The video was shown in court on December 10, 2021, in Minneapolis, Minnesota, during Potters trial for first- and second-degree manslaughter in the death of Wright. (Court TV, via AP)

In other words, this case isnt exactly a primo example of Driving While Black. Thats why the New York Times hides all the pertinent facts.

For example, last week, the Times finally glancingly mentioned Wrights lack of a drivers license and insurance. (Thats if you dont count a recent article about how Minnesota lawsadversely affect minorities even regulations about drivers licenses and renewal of tags.)

On the other hand, the Times has run16 articlesabout Wrights air freshener! (E.g.: How a Common Air FreshenerCan Result in a High-Stakes Traffic Stop). That 16 more than all its articles on Hunter Bidens laptop!

What is the Times talking about? It seems that, immediately after the shooting,Wrights mother told the mediathat hed been stopped merely for having an air freshener hanging from his rearview mirror AND NOW HE WAS DEAD!

Thats completelyuntrue, but its the story the Times is going with. No new information will be allowed to penetrate the papers BLM cocoon.

Times reporters must have heard about the armed robbery/choking incident, because theyve repeatedly quoted Wrights accomplice in the crime, Emajay Driver. OnApril 13,November 30,December 8, andDecember 17the Times ran some version of this quote:

He loved to make people laugh, said Emajay Driver, a friend of Mr. Wright. He was just great to be around. There was never a dull moment.

And thats all we get from Mr. Driver.

New York Times:Say, we saw that police report about you and Daunte nearly choking a woman to death while committing an armed robbery. So naturally, we have to ask: Do you by any chance have any heartwarming stories about him?

Somewhat more important than Dauntes love of laughter are the details of that incident, given at length in Americas Greatest Newspaper, the U.K.s Daily Mail.

On December 1, 2019, Wright and Driver crashed at the apartment of a 20-year-old woman theyd been partying with. The next morning, the womans roommate went out to get $820 in rent money, handed it to her, then left for work.

Just before the attack, Wright locked himself in the victims bathroom for a noticeably long time in order to makevideos of himself with a gunand to empty abottle of hand sanitizeronto his gun. (Daunte, with his simple, trusting nature, apparently believed anurban legendthat sanitizer blocks fingerprints.)

Minutes later, as the three of them were exiting the apartment, Wright suddenly blocked the door, pointed the gun at the womans head, saying, Give me the f-ing money. I know you have it. (Me to the New York Times:Give us the f-ing facts. We know you have them.)

She refused, asking, Are you serious? Wright barked, Were not playing around, and grabbed her by the neck, choking her, as she dropped to her knees, with the gun in his other hand still pointed at her head. You look into his eyes, the victim later said, andits so evil.

Next, he tried ripping her shirt open to get the money, perhaps having seen her hiding it in her bra earlier. She screamed, and Wright began choking her again. (As Wrights accomplice so poignantly said, there was never a dull moment with this guy.)

Finally, Wright and Driver ran off, hopping into a white Cadillac that was waiting for them.

They were arrested five days later. Driver pleaded guilty to first-degree aggravated robbery, his second felony conviction. He was facing 20 years in prison, but only got probation, leading some to speculate that hed made a deal to testify against Wright.

Again: the Times hasnt printed a single detail of Wrights give-me-the-f-ing-money robbery attempt. Or the lawsuit about the carjacking. In one of more than 100 articles, there were two brief mentions of his alleged shooting a guy in the head.

As for the trial of Kim Potter, the officer who shot Wright, neither the prosecution nor defense disputes that it was a mistake, that she thought she was holding her Taser. Several officers, and the defenses use-of-force expert, testified that Potterwould have beenfully justified in shooting Wright in order to protect the other officer from being dragged by the car.

But Wright loved to make people laugh. Thats all the Times wants you to know.

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Ann Coulter: The Daunte Wright NYT Readers Dont Know!

Ann Coulter supported Donald Trump during his 2016 presidential campaign, but things have changed for the conservative pundit.

Now, she is questioning the former presidents intelligence and even accused him of betraying his base on a recent podcast appearance with Andrew Sullivan.

I was well familiar with what a narcissistic, ridiculous, tacky, vulgar, arriviste this guy was. That I knew about. The one thing I underestimated, in fact, did not see at all, is I had no idea how abjectly stupid the man is, Coulter admitted. I didnt think he was a genius, but I didnt think he was that stupid.

Coulters big gripe is that he ignored campaign promises he made to his loyal followers, a group she characterizes as these poor, left-behind Americans who were waiting their whole lives for someone to care about them. And he says he cares about them and he not only betrays them, but he lies to them.

To her, the big lie to Trump supporters was the promise of the giant border wall, which she considered key to any 2020 election victory.

The one thing hes got to do is build the wall. My theory was, if he doesnt build the wall he loses reelection. He didnt build the wall; he lost reelection, she said.

She also questioned his intelligence for emphasizing that border wall above everything else.

I couldnt imagine anyone could be so stupid to run on one thing. ... Hes just a very, very, very stupid man, she said.

By contrast, Coulter has found things to like about Joe Biden. Back in September, she praised the president for keeping another promise Trump broke and getting American troops out of Afghanistan, according to Business Insider.

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(The Hill) Conservative punditAnn Coulteris predicting the end ofDonald Trumps hegemony in the GOP, saying the former president is done.

Trump is done, Coulter, a onetime Trump booster turned critic, wrote in an email to The New York Times. You guys should stop obsessing over him.

Coulters comments camein anarticle published in the Times on Sundayabout the mounting tensions between Trump and Florida Gov.Ron DeSantis(R) amid speculation of a potential showdown for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination.

While DeSantis has so far sought to tamp down rumors that hes angling for a possible White House bid, his rise within the GOP and growing national profile have irked Trump, who sees the Florida governor as owing his political success to him.

Trump has privately griped about DeSantiss refusal to publicly commit to foregoing a 2024 run if the former president chooses to mount another bid for the White House.

But Trump has also begun to sharpen his stance on DeSantis publicly. In an interview with a South Florida radio host last month, Trump appeared to issue a challenge to the Florida governor, saying that he would beat DeSantis in a 2024 primary if he decided to run.

If he wanted to run, thats OK with me, Trump said. I think wed win by a lot.

Trump also appeared to take a swipe at DeSantis during a recent interview with the conservative One America News Network in which he slammed politicians who wont say whether they received a COVID-19 booster shot as gutless. DeSantis has repeatedly dodged questions about his booster status.

Coulter pounced on Trump over those commentsin a tweetlast week calling the former president a liar and con man.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantiss booster status, and I can now reveal it, Coulter wrote. He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up.

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Conservative pundit Ann Coulter says Trump is done - Fox 56

Conservative pundit Ann Coulter has launched an attack on Donald Trump, calling the former president a "liar and con man" after he criticized politicians who refuse to say whether they've received a COVID-19 booster shotan apparent swipe at Florida Governor Ron DeSantis.

Trump made the comments during an interview on the One America News Network, condemning "gutless" public figures who won't confirm or deny if they have had the third dose of the vaccine.

He said: "I've had the booster. Many politiciansI watched a couple of politicians be interviewed and one of the questions was, 'Did you get the booster?' because they had the vaccine, and they're answering like In other words, the answer is 'yes' but they don't want to say it because they're gutless."

Although Trump did not mention DeSantis by name, the remarks are thought to be in part directed at the governor, who has swerved questions about whether he has had a booster shot in recent weeks.

Coulter, who was once a staunch supporter of Trump but turned on him for his failure to act on his promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, mocked him for the booster remarks on Twitter on Wednesday.

"EXCLUSIVE: Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis's booster status, and I can now reveal it," Coulter tweeted.

"He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up."

Coulter, who published the fawning book In Trump We Trust, E Pluribus Awesome! in 2016, has levelled a numbers of insults at the former president in more recent years.

During an interview on Andrew Sullivan's Dishcast podcast on November 5, 2020, she called Trump "abjectly stupid" and accused him of "directly betraying his base" for not building the wall despite this being his main campaign promise.

In May 2020, Coulter described him as disloyal.

Newsweek has contacted Trump's office for comment.

DeSantis is one of the high-profile GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly dodged questions about whether they have had the COVID-19 booster, even though his office previously confirmed that he had a single dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine last April.

"I've done whatever I did, the normal shot, and that at the end of the day is people's individual decisions about what they want to do," DeSantis told Fox News' Morning Futures in December when asked about the booster.

In a statement to NBC regarding Trump's remarks, DeSantis' spokeswoman, Christina Pushaw, said: "President Trump did not mention Governor DeSantis in that interview, so I wouldn't want to make assumptions."

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Ann Coulter Blasts 'Liar and Con Man' Donald Trump Over Ron DeSantis Booster Criticism - Newsweek