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On September 12, 2025, Alma Rutgers, a local columnist published an op ed, Deciding critical seventh vote on the Greenwich BET, in the Greenwich Time and the CT Insider—both Hearst-owned newspapers—in which she blatantly lied about Greenwich Patriots.
Ms. Rutgers wrote, "The Greenwich Patriots, while not explicitly calling themselves Trump followers, did put a MAGA stamp on the local party. Perhaps hoping for another takeover after losing ground in the 2024 caucuses, they set the BET primary in motion."
Unfortunately, Ms. Rutgers LIED twice in the statement.
Had Ms. Rutgers done the most basic of fact checks or decided to make a single phone call, she might have learned the truth. The Greenwich Time knows how to reach me.
But Ms. Rutgers was not interested in the truth -- she rarely is based on what I have seen in her columns -- and instead wrote what she felt like writing, and she got it wrong.
The first lie?
That Greenwich Patriots has not explicitly called ourselves "Trump followers" ... which is a pretty foolish thing to say considering we wrote an article explicitly titled, "Connecticut Public Asked If We Supported Trump..." in which we made our feelings on our favorite president ever crystal clear.
The second lie?
Neither myself nor the Greenwich Patriots Substack was involved in the republican primary for the Board of Estimate and Taxation (BET).
Didn't write about it. Didn't work the polls. No door-knocking. Not involved in the PACs set up on either side. Didn't contribute a dime.
It gets worse.
As soon as I read Ms. Rutger's fake news, I reached out to the Editorial Page Editor, John Breunig, and also to the Managing Editor, Claire Racine, to request a correction.
To Mr. Breunig's credit, and frankly for the first time ever, I actually received a response about my request for a correction today, two days later, directly from Ms. Rutgers.
Ms. Rutgers said her only reference to me was a 2022 quote for historical context.
She then made an incorrect assumption: she said that most people she talks to had associated Beth MacGillivray with the "Patriot viewpoint" and therefore just "assumed" that "even if the Patriots did not officially endorse the losing primary slate" and even if we had "remained silent with regard to the primary" that it was somehow still an endorsement by Greenwich Patriots. It was not. We explicitly sat this one out.
I wrote back to Ms. Rutgers and Mr. Breunig to once again set the record straight.
As of the current time, around 2pm on Monday, September 15th, the libelous statements are still published on the Greenwich Time and CT Insider websites.
This is one of the reasons that so many people have stopped reading Hearst papers like the Greenwich Time -- because we know Hearst publishes biased, one-sided articles that read more like democrat party press releases (perhaps thanks to the Smith-Mundt Act) than balanced and fair reporting. And let's not forget op-eds riddled with lies, like Ms. Rutgers'.
But it's worse than that because Hearst has given a platform to Alma Rutgers to incite readers into her own Trump Derangement Syndrome.
Sure, she might not be openly calling for radical leftists to use "any means necessary" to stop Trump in the same way that our unhinged Senator Chris Murphy has done.
However, I would argue that what she is doing, with Hearst's support, is similarly repugnant.
Let's take a quick trip down memory lane, shall we?
On August 29, 2025, Rutgers told readers that the Trump Administration is turning the "Department of Justice (DOJ), the FBI, the military, and the Department of Homeland Security into weapons that target opponents and advance an authoritarian agenda"... something she said came straight out of "an authoritarian playbook."
On July 4, 2025, Rutgers warned that Trump's "autocratic attack" is "shaking our country’s foundations, threatening its Constitutional separation of powers, gutting its civil service, undermining the rule of law, forsaking due process, ignoring habeas corpus, suppressing voting rights, and quashing freedom of speech" and that "the white Christian nationalism" is taking over.
On May 24, 2025, Rutgers lamented that the promise for racial justice after George Floyd's death amidst the "heightened public understanding of “Black Lives Matter” — has been whitewashed away."
She argued that Trump's intention to "forge a society that is colorblind and merit-based” reflected a "white nationalist assault" against Dr. Martin Luther King's ideals -- and added that "surrender to a white nationalist fascism cannot be an American option."
On April 26, 2025, Rutgers railed about Trump's "unlawful detentions, deportations, imprisonments, demonization of the “other,” programs that protect our health, welfare, and safety slashed" being nothing more than "the autocratic actions of a would-be dictator who, flouting our Constitution, is transforming America into a fascist state."
She claimed that Trump was "using anti-antisemitism as justification for fascism" and told readers to resist Trump at all costs.
On March 29, 2025, Rutgers invoked the Nazi comparison, arguing that the country was in a "slide down a slippery slope into an authoritarian abyss" "reminiscent of Germany’s rapid transformation into a Nazi dictatorship" and she added that "today’s white supremacists and neo-Nazis blame us, the Jews, for orchestrating that “Great Replacement.”"
On March 16, 2025, Rutgers wrote that "With an Orwellian pardoning of the insurrectionist criminals among his very first dictatorial acts, Trump signaled that his narrow election victory – winning with only 1.5% of the popular vote — had become the success of his once-failed coup."
Once failed coup? Insurrectionist criminals?
Gimme a break with that nonsense.
Maybe Ms. Rutgers should talk to my friend Gino DiGiovanni, one of those "pardoned insurrectionists" and learn the shocking details of exactly what happened to him -- he's no criminal, but how he was treated certainly was!
On March 1, 2025, Rutgers told readers that "the authoritarian assault on America’s democracy is relentless," likening it to Revolutionary War time, writing, "I say: this evolving Patriot battle must continue to topple the would-be kings and dictator Loyalists."
I could go on.
In fact, Greenwich Patriots has previously covered Ms. Rutgers' role in pushing inflammatory and intentionally divisive democrat propaganda before -- like on election integrity, parental rights, Black Lives Matter, etc.
Based on what I can tell, it sure seems like Ms. Rutgers is complicit, along with the rest of the mainstream media, of helping to radicalize people in this country without firing a shot, but instead with words.
Shame on you, Ms. Rutgers — maybe you should take a moment to watch this video and reflect on it.
Don't worry, though, like I told you, Ms. Rutgers, I'm not holding my breath waiting for an apology or a correction because the fake news and lies have already done their job. That’s sort of the point.
In fact the very reason that Greenwich Patriots' Substack has lived on after the days of fighting real authoritarian overreach -- like the kind where people were forced to inject themselves with a dangerous, experimental substance whose side effects included myocarditis and death or risk losing their jobs or risk not being able to play a sport in school -- is because of people like you, Ms. Rutgers, and mainstream media outlets like Hearst.
People thank me and Greenwich Patriots Substack ALL OF THE TIME for being brave enough to tell the truth, even when it is difficult and even when it makes you unpopular.
Though, considering 42% of people in this state voted for my guy, I don't feel like I'm in a "small, divisive group" like Ms. Rutgers alleges, but rather that I am in very good company.
So go ahead, Alma, and keep peddling your hate and lies, but know that all it does is keep driving people over to my side where I welcome them with wide open arms.
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Why did Greenwich Patriots stay out of the BET primary? Your endorsements would have made it much simpler.