Even self-loathing gay MAGA is imploding

Milo is outing Benny Johnson--as well as Charlie Kirk and the Nazi Nick Fuentes. Johnson in turn threatened to sue. And George Santos looks on as the stunned voice of morality. It just gets nuttier!

Marjorie Taylor Greene trashed Donald Trump and the GOP on “60 Minutes” this past weekend—causing Trump to erupt in anger at the network he thought he’d just co-opted—and Nancy Mace wrote an op-ed in the New York Times yesterday vilifying intransigent Republican leaders, who are just bowing to Trump

Far right Kentucky Congressman Thomas Massie led the charge on a vote to release the Epstein files, defying Speaker Mike Johnson and Trump, forcing it down their throats. Republicans in both the House and Senate are now holding up the defense spending bill unless the Trump administration releases unedited videos of strikes conducted against boats Trump claims are drug smugglers.

And a battle raged among Republicans for weeks over Tucker Carlson’s legitimizing Holocaust-denying, Hitler-loving Nick Fuentes within the GOP, while Trump was sidelined—and, as Rolling Stone notes, Fuentes has won.

MAGA is tearing itself apart.

And that’s also occurring in that creepy, self-loathing little corner occupied by gay MAGA.

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Milo Yiannopoulos—the former alt-right gay warrior who was banished from Trump World in 2017 after it was revealed just before his CPAC keynote that he apparently supported sex with teenage boys—over the weekend expanded on his outing campaign against MAGA podcaster Benny Johnson, who is vying to be the new Charlie Kirk.

And Yiannopoulos, appearing on Tim Pool’s big MAGA conspiracy podcast along with George Santos, also introduced the idea that Kirk may have been a closet case too!

That was enough to make Santos, the sociopathic convicted fraudster and gay former drag queen—newly released from prison after Trump commuted his sentence—suddenly outraged that anyone would promote…a lie.

Seriously!

Johnson, who has a huge reach and thought he had a big win when he interviewed FCC chairman Brendan Carr—who said he’d being going after Jimmy Kimmel, but lost the war in the end—has pushed ugly anti-LGBTQ garbage for years. And yet, as I wrote a few weeks ago, there’s been a lot of discussion on both the left and the right about the sexual orientation of Johnson, who obsessively shares photos of his wife and children.

Progressive podcaster Keith Edwards pointed to several things a few months ago, including queer novelist Saeed Jones remarking that he “made out” with Johnson—in a closet!—at a Christmas party when they both worked at BuzzFeed in the 2010s (before Johnson went full-blown MAGA), something Jones said, “haunts me to this day.” Jones wrote on social media, “I’m definitely not the only man Benny Johnson has made out with,” and that “men will literally become traitors to their country rather than go to therapy.”

Yiannopoulos—who, by the way, now ridiculously claims he’s “ex-gay” and called homosexuality “demonic” in an interview with Tucker Carlson last week—had asked back in March on X:

WHICH happy-go-lucky podcast host gets trashed and has sex with young boys in the latters’ hotel rooms at Turning Point conferences, leaving his wife weeping in the arms of other men downstairs amid the AIPAC leaflets and trestle tables?

It was taken as a not-so-thinly veiled claim about Johnson. Now Yiannopoulos confirmed on Pool’s show that he was pointing to Johnson, sending a suddenly dumbstruck Santos to the fainting couch.

“One of the most distinctive things about the right-wing in this country is its homosexual overtones. Benny Johnson posts pictures of his children every two days—it’s weird. And everybody knows what went on with Benny Johnson in those lobbies and those hotel rooms at SAS [Student Action Summit, at Turning Point USA]. Everybody knows,” Yiannopoulos said with conviction.

“I don’t know what you’re talking about,” Santos replied, feigning complete astonishment.

“Men, younger men. Not underage, at least I don’t know that. His wife was crying drunk in the lobby three SAS’s in a row about how her husband was upstairs with boys,” Yiannopoulos said. “Go ask her.”

“Come on,” a simply stunned Santos replied. “Come on. Come on, Milo. Aren’t you afraid of being sued?”

That obsessively scheming George Santos is thunderstruck in disbelief by someone bringing forth outlandish claims is enough to have you rolling on the floor laughing until your guts spill out.

But it gets better. Milo says that he “thinks” Charlie Kirk was gay too, and pushes a claim making the rounds of the conspiracists that Kirk and his wife were planning to divorce.

This queerifying of the recently deceased MAGA patron saint of hate—canonized by the Catholic convert JD Vance—and whose likeness has now been made into a hideous, newly unveiled monument—was just too much for Santos, who finally grabbed the smelling salts.

“Why would you even go there, to say something like that?” asked an outraged Santos. “The man’s dead!”

Yes, George Santos, convicted of wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, money laundering, and theft of public funds, having ripped off hundreds of people and the U.S. government—and who lied about his own dead mother, claiming she died in the World Trade Center on 9/11 when she wasn’t even in the country—suddenly cares about the integrity of dead people.

And, I’m sorry, but conjecturing that someone may have been gay, even if they are dead—and even if it’s not true—is not a bad thing.

Santos, newly free and anointed by Trump, seems to be having delusions about leading gay MAGA, while Yiannopoulos is trying to claw hiw way back from the dead—all as the MAGA mothership is crashing down.

Johnson has seemingly now threatened to sue Yiannopoulos, in a post in which he said he is “duty-bound” to defend himself—but didn’t quite mention what it was about.

But a gleeful Yiannopoulos—who also now says Nick Fuentes is gay, after the Nazi went on Piers Morgan, denigrated women and said he never had sex with a woman —-shot back and told Johnson, in a post he addressed to Johnson and his wife, that he’s got all the receipts:

Dear free speech warrior Benny, dear Kate:

A few notes for your consideration.

— I know more about defamation than any lawyer you will hire. Benny is a public figure. Malice is a nonstarter. I have receipts, and the truth is a total defense against any claim of defamation or libel. Do you want to lose a defamation case to MILO YIANNOPOULOS OF ALL PEOPLE about whether or not you are gay? Do you want to even fight one? The people who have poured money into making you a big deal are about to lose their entire investment.

— I know more about your marriage than you think I do, and I have evidence, and I have witnesses. I know who to subpoena. I know what questions to ask. About nocturnal liaisons dangereuses with chaps in assless chaps and about being caught in flagrante delicto at conferences attended by students, some of whom may have been under 18. (I guess we’ll find out!)

— Discovery will destroy your career beyond any possibility of redemption, Benny, which was never my intention and never in my heart because I believe that family is making you a better man, as I think it did Charlie Kirk, but this will be the inevitable result of your actions. I just want you to be honest because I believe that’s important and I believe that it is in the public interest to report on people who present one way and act another.

I have a feeling Johnson will not be filing a lawsuit any time soon.

Since that post, Yiannopoulos has been trolling Johnson with screenshots of stories Johnson wrote back when he was at BuzzFeed, like this one in 2014 (before he went MAGA).

It doesn’t matter how much of all this is true, by the way, though a fair amount seems so—except for the absurd notion that anyone is “ex-gay.”

The bigger takeaway is that this is another example of MAGA’s implosion, with lots of people making big and small power grabs as Trump loses his grip, with many of them tearing one another down. And I am here for it.