
"Hell," Sartre famously wrote, "is other people." And even though he coined the phrase almost 80 years ago, I like to think he somehow had the upcoming "AmpFest" in mind when he did. Because if there is a hell, then it's definitely at former President Donald Trump's Doral, Florida, resort, and if that hell is indeed "other people," then it's definitely the absolutely cursed line up of speakers and guests scheduled to make a sulfurous appearance at the next installment of the annual conference hosted by the conspiracy-addled, ultra-far right group American Priority.
As Forbes noted Wednesday, the conference — slated for Oct. 7-10 — will feature not one, or two, or three, or four, but five guest speakers who have been the personal beneficiaries of a Trump administration pardon. They are: