Antonia Hitchens

Antonia Hitchens is a staff writer at the New Yorker.

Diary: At CPAC

Antonia Hitchens, 20 March 2025

Two weeks before​ Donald Trump’s inauguration, I ran into a man who calls himself the Retribution Pastor by the swimming pool at Mar-a-Lago. Joel Tenney, who comes from the largest family in Iowa, had worked to turn out voters for the caucuses last January, and occasionally led the crowds at Trump rallies in prayer. ‘Retribution means justice,’ he liked to tell them....

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