I have a bad habit: teasing the MAGA dingers.
The Hoopleheads admire Trump’s style of lying and try to imitate it. My first real encounter with organized MAGA dishonesty involved a man named Gary Morris.
Years ago, I got into an argument with a group of Republican activists at Republican headquarters. They called the police and I was cited for trespassing. The dingers never tell the end of the story. When the case finally reached court, the prosecutor dropped the charge and all records connected to it.
That was the beginning.
At the time, Gary Morris was head of the local Republican Party. Morris dug through the internet looking for anything he could use against me. Eventually he found an old Facebook post I had made. It was satire. In the picture I wore a MAGA hat and joked that I “wanted to see what it felt like to be stupid.”
Ironically, Morris reposted the photo himself, complete with the insulting caption directed at the Hoopleheads. To this day the dingers still circulate the picture, but somehow the caption always disappears.
Then Morris decided to escalate things.
He filed a restraining order against me and falsely claimed I had a gun. In the satirical Facebook post I had joked about “cleaning my gun.” In reality, I have never owned a handgun. The entire point of the joke was to poke fun at simple-minded gun worship.
At the time, I did not bother fighting the restraining order because I viewed it as a minor annoyance. Later I realized it was part of a pattern Morris would use repeatedly.
I had no idea what kind of lying rat Morris really was until I learned he was telling people I had twice been arrested for assault in North Dakota.
Here was the trick: Morris found another man with the exact same name as mine living in Stanton, North Dakota, who actually had assault charges. I never lived in Stanton, although I once lived about fourteen miles away. That was enough for the Hoopleheads to spread the lie endlessly.
Morris also found a YouTube video involving Senator Cramer. In that incident I confronted Cramer over a young woman with a disabled baby. I wanted to give the senator money to pass along to help her, but he refused to take it. I finally stuffed the money into his shirt pocket.
The story spread wildly, and suddenly the Hoopleheads were claiming I had “assaulted” Senator Cramer.
One major problem with that story: Senator Cramer himself publicly stated on a radio program that I did not assault him. Morris ignored that inconvenient fact and kept spreading the lie anyway.
I cannot prove it, but there is considerable evidence that Morris or one of his allies made a false report to Senator Cramer’s office while pretending to be me. Whoever made the call stirred things up enough that Capitol Police investigators flew all the way to my home in Payson to question me.
Two investigators interviewed me for roughly an hour. My guess is they checked my phone records, realized I had never made the call, and quietly concluded the entire thing was political theater. I never heard from them again.
But Morris was not finished.
Angry over his constant lying, I confronted him at a Tea Party meeting. Morris refused to discuss any of it and instead claimed that merely confronting him amounted to assault. Once again he filed for a restraining order.
This time I fought back in court.
Morris claimed under oath that I had spit on him. That was false. A friend who witnessed the entire encounter was prepared to testify that no such thing happened.
During the hearing, I asked Morris where the spit supposedly hit him. He answered, “It was a spray.”
That was lie number one under oath.
Next I asked him where he obtained the information claiming I had assault charges in North Dakota. Morris claimed it came from a Washington Post article.
Another lie.
The article actually said the opposite.
That made lie number two under oath.
I even had video footage of the confrontation with Morris, but the judge refused to allow it to be shown. Interestingly enough, the judge was a Republican whom Morris had helped elect. Funny how that works sometimes.
Morris continued spreading the false assault story for years afterward. One day I heard him repeating it on KMOG radio. I called in to confront him, though at the time I did not realize he was the guest on the program.
Not long afterward, police arrived at my home, arrested me, and hauled me off to jail.
Another political setup.
The second courtroom encounter with Morris turned out very differently from the first. This judge was from Scottsdale and, unlike the earlier experience, actually seemed interested in facts.
I argued that Morris was a pathological liar. This time I brought witnesses who testified directly about Morris’s dishonesty.
In court, Morris was exposed as a liar.
The following week he resigned from his position in the Republican Party.
The lying Morris started became a tradition in the local Hooplehead community. Michael Heather picked up the lie, and when I confronted him he fled just like the rest would. The man who is now Mayor of Payson and the darling of the local Tea Party , Steve Otto spread the lie. When Gary Morris lied on KMOG radio the radio station broadcast a retraction the next day. In the presence of the people at town hall waiting for the meeting to begin, I confronted Steve Otto about his lying. He refused to talk and claimed I assaulted him.
On Facebook the Hoopleheads continue to lie although public records are available to prove them wrong. Some of the liars are Denise Alexander, Paul Frommelt and others. I have offered to meet all the liars in a public forum to debate the lies, but they want no part of it. Frommelt says he carries a gun, but he still uses the standard line of the liars that I might hurt him. To explain the entire story of the Republican liars is too long for today, but in closing I will say Trump has made lying a sport among his followers.
One thing that explains MAGA liars and how they function. If an honest person tries to attend a Hooplehead Tea Party meeting and ask questions that embarrass the liars on stage they will be prohibited from coming again. If the Tea Party or Republican Party has one of their featured liars at a meeting normal people are stopped at the door. On the other hand anyone is welcome and allowed to speak at the Democratic meetings. Try to tell a MAGA the truth and they claim assault and lie on line like its going out of style.
Anyone can search public records, I had a Bill Butcher and Associates Dectective agency give me a notarized copy of a search of all records in the United States that involved me. There is no record I have ever been convicted or hurt anyone. However, Denise Alexander, Paul Frommelt, and the rest of them go on lying with no shame. I checked my own public records I found a couple traffic tickets, and the case that was dismissed when they drummed up the arrest at Republican Headquarters, but they still go on lying. It is the same with some of Denise Alexanders current lies. I was arrested for being a Democrat and put in jail. One big problem for Denise, and Paul, the charge was thrown out before I ever went to court. That is the way the Republicans in Payson work. They falsely accuse you of something, get you arrested, and then when you go to court the charges are dismissed. However, they lie on line claiming you were guilty. Like Trump they don't have an once of decency, and cheating, lying, and stealing doesn't bother them at all. To take the cake they pray before they lie.
