MAGA Republicans stooped to new lows this week with their extremism, hypocrisy, chaos, and — as President Biden would call it — malarkey. In case you missed it: Donald Trump lied more than twenty times during his speech at the Republican National Convention; Project 2025 got their preferred candidate for vice president in JD Vance; new reporting showed Vance’s extensive (and extreme) anti-choice record; multiple people with Project 2025 ties spoke at the RNC; the RNC welcomed convicted criminals with open arms to their convention; and MAGA Republicans abandoned their promised national “unity” at the RNC.

Donald Trump lied more than twenty times during his speech at the Republican National Convention.

CNN: “Former President Donald Trump accepted the Republican presidential nomination on Thursday with the most dishonest speech of the four-day Republican National Convention, making more than 20 false claims by CNN’s count.

“Many of the false claims were ones Trump has made before, some of them for years. They spanned a wide variety of topics, including the economy, immigration, crime, foreign policy and elections. Some of them were wild lies, others smaller exaggerations. Some were in his prepared text (like the absurd claim that he left the Biden administration a world at peace), while he ad-libbed others (such as his usual lies that Democrats cheated in the 2020 election and that the US is experiencing the worst inflation it has ever had).”

Trump picked ultra-MAGA extremist JD Vance as his running mate.

Jaime Harrison: “Vance embodies MAGA – with an out-of-touch extreme agenda and plans to help Trump force his Project 2025 agenda on the American people. Vance has championed and enabled Trump’s worst policies for years – from a national abortion ban, to whitewashing January 6, to railing against Social Security and Medicare. Let’s be clear: A Trump-Vance ticket would undermine our democracy, our freedoms, and our future. There is so much on the line, and it’s more important than ever that we reelect President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris this November.”

Project 2025 celebrated when Trump chose their ally Vance — the guy they were “really rooting” for.

The New Republic: “Project 2025 Leader Is Overjoyed by Trump’s Vice Presidential Pick”

Nick Corasaniti, New York Times: “[Kevin Roberts] reacted to the news [of Vance’s VP selection] ‘with a broad smile on my face’ and said that ‘privately, we were really rooting for him.’”

Gram Slattery, Reuters: “Vance is very close to Heritage and even wrote the forward for a book from the think tank’s president. Project 2025 is of course organized by Heritage.”

Vox: “Kevin Roberts, the president of the right-wing Heritage Foundation and the driving force behind Project 2025, told Ward that ‘[Vance] is absolutely going to be one of the leaders — if not the leader — of our movement.’”

New reporting shows Vance wants abortion to be “illegal nationally” and is open to stopping women from crossing state lines to get reproductive care.

CNN: “JD Vance said in 2022 he ‘would like abortion to be illegal nationally’”

“‘I certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally,’ Vance said in January 2022 on a podcast when running for Senate.

“During a podcast interview in January 2022, then-candidate JD Vance said he ‘certainly would like abortion to be illegal nationally’ and was ‘sympathetic’ to the view that a national ban was necessary to stop women from traveling across states to obtain an abortion.”

Washington Post: “Vance urged DOJ to enforce Comstock Act, crack down on abortion pills”

ProPublica: “He argued that conservatives needed to take action against corporations that, say, defended abortion rights or punished employees who spoke out against abortion access. ‘If we’re unwilling to make companies that are taking the side of the left in the culture wars feel real economic pain, then we’re not serious about winning the culture war,’ he said.”

Project 2025 authors Tom Homan and Peter Navarro, Project 2025 advisory board member Ric Grenell, and Project 2025 enthusiast JD Vance all spoke at the RNC.

CNN: “Project 2025’s proposals for reforming the country’s immigration laws appear heavily influenced by those who helped execute Trump’s early enforcement measures. Former acting US Customs and Border Protection chief Mark Morgan and former Immigration and Customs Enforcement chief Tom Homan – the faces of Trump’s polarizing policies – contributed to the project, as did Kathy Nuebel Kovarik, one of the policy advisers pushing to end certain immigrant protections behind the scenes.”

E&E News: “[The authors of Project 2025 include] former Trump Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Ben Carson and former Trump White House aide Peter Navarro, who’s serving in federal prison after he was convicted of contempt of Congress.”

The Advocate: “Grenell will be special adviser for national security and foreign policy at the [Project 2025 advisory board member] American Center for Law and Justice, based in Washington, D.C.”

Vance: “I’ve reviewed a lot of [Project 2025]. There are some good ideas in there.”

After Trump pledged to pardon January 6 insurrectionists, the RNC welcomed convicted criminals to their convention with open arms.

Axios: “While the GOP has long declared itself the party of ‘law and order,’ this year’s Republican National Convention tells a different story with several convicted felons being welcomed at the event. […]

“Former Trump adviser Peter Navarro’s appearance at the RNC on Wednesday night was greeted with a standing ovation. Navarro was released from federal prison just hours earlier, after serving a four-month sentence over actions related to the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. […]

“Paul Manafort, Trump’s 2016 campaign chairman was sentenced to 7.5 years in prison in 2019 as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into possible Russian interference in the 2016 election.”

MAGA Republicans promised national “unity” at the RNC – it didn’t last long.

Donald Trump: “[Democrats] are destroying our country… These people want to cheat, and they do cheat, and frankly it’s the only thing they do well.”

Governor Jim Justice: “We become totally unhinged if Donald Trump is not elected in November”

Senator Ted Cruz: “Democrats cynically decided they wanted votes from illegals more than they wanted to protect our children.”

Governor Ron DeSantis: “The Democratic Party lies in ruins… the woke mind virus is dead.”