November 2023 – After a warm reception on a Mises Caucus podcast, Jacob Chansley aka “QAnon Shaman” files to run for Congress as a Libertarian
- Daily Beast: “Libertarian Party Embraces Remorseless QAnon Shaman’s Run for Office”
- World Times Today: “The Libertarian Party welcomes QAnon shaman Jacob Chansley’s run for office”
- Yahoo News: “[the QAnon shaman] is considering running for the Libertarian Party in 2024, in a seat freed up by a retiring Republican.”
- KNAU: “Capitol rioter plans 2024 run as a Libertarian candidate in Arizona’s 8th congressional district”
Added new page about Mises Caucus Presidential Candidate Michael Rectenwald
November 2016 – Professor Michael Rectenwald lies about being “canceled” from NYU
- October 2016 – NY Post: Rectenwald lies and says that he was forced to go on leave
- October 2016 – NYU News: Rectenwald lies and says that NYU made him take the leave of absence, but goes on to say it wasn’t a “mandatory” leave of absence
- November 2016 – In a Washington Post Op-ed, Rectenwald lies and claims that he “was strongly encouraged to take a paid leave of absence “
- November 2016 – NY Mag: Rectenwald says “I do intend to remain on leave” which shows he could have sought to return to NYU
- November 2016 – NYU releases email correspondence showing that the leave of absence was Rectenwald’s decision with him saying “I unequivocally need the leave of absence” and that Rectenwald declined the offer to return to teaching
Rectenwald’s denying his support for Trump and the GOP:
- November 2023 – At the LP South Carolina debate Rectenwald claims “I have never.. I have not been any kind of promoter of the Republican Party”
- October 2023 – Rectenwald claims that he never supported Donald Trump
Rectenwald’s support for Trump and the GOP is well documented:
- Between October 2019 and June 2023 – Rectenwald donated 53 times to a GOP PAC.
- August 2023 – Rectenwald is still registered as a Republican
- July 2023 – Rectenwald’s backup twitter account tweets that he will be voting for Trump
- February 2023 – Rectenwald writes an article stating that “the Republican Party represents the only” path to “salvaging what remains of the constitutional republic”
- November 2022 – Rectenwald tweets “Trump is giving a world-historical speech right now. It’s almost over. It was so moving I am actually crying”