Her prophetic dreams and fundie commitments weren’t her only qualifications for secretary of state, though. Hamm also has substantial experience combatting Satan and satanists: apparently the neighborhood surrounding her local community college is “known for having a lot of Satanic activity,” and she’s had a number of hostile encounters with Satanists trying to take over her house. In fact, according to her book, Hamm has been battling these forces her whole life, ever since she attended a daycare as a child that was later revealed, at least in her imagination, to be a front for Satan worshippers (“this was a Satanic coven claiming to be a preschool so they could train children in Satanic rituals,” says Hamm), just like in the fictional accounts that launched the Satanic panic of the 1980s. Her apparently biggest victory against her neighbors, however, came when she putatively managed to kill a witch through prayer: apparently this witch – a neighbor “who live two doors down” – was trying to kill her, something Hamm realized on the basis of “a dream that someone has tried to break into my home, murder me and light my house on fire;” she responded by praying hard, and the next morning her mother told her that someone had broken into the home of the witch, “murdered her and lit the house on fire.” With a CV like this, no wonder she thought you should vote for her as secretary of state. Apparently she received the backing of people like Mike Lindell and Michael Flynn.
Her campaign was predictably characterized by delusional rantings and conspiracy theories, in particular concerning the 2020 presidential election – according to Hamm, Trump actually won all 50 states in 2020 and would apparently soon (in 2021) be returned to the White House to serve a full 10 years in office, and she’s got proof: she (of course) dreamt it, and accordingly “feel fairly certain that that is what happened and that it’s only fraud that made it look otherwise.” (That said, God also told her that Trump “sacrificed greatly” by leaving office after losing the 2020 election because he is “a good father” who knows that “sometimes their children do not learn lessons unless they learn it the hard way.”) And the nefarious forces that be (libruls) were after her, too, but she refused to bend: although she and her family knew “they might kills us ... there are some things worth dying for;” for instance, Hamm “would rather be dead than live in a communist country.” Here is Hamm and Delora O’Brien weighing in on the War on Christmas. And here is Hamm declaring that Black Lives Matter “is really evil at its core” and “a completely evil, corrupt organization that has harmed our country;” also, “two of the main leaders are witches.”
Of course, she perceived that massive voter fraud would be a central challenge to her campaign, and as a means to forestall such challenges she deployed prayer. So Hamm prayed that if anyone tries to steal votes from her, “God will send the angels to steal the vote back” and she also asked her fans to join her in praying that “if they create fraudulent ballots” to steal the California election, “they’re incinerated”. “Let’s ask the angels to go burn ‘em up. No fake ballots!”. (If she did get elected, she promised that she would fight to “make it hard” for people to vote so that “people who are not educated” on the issues – like knowledgeable about which side is backed by Satan and which side is not – are prevented from voting.) When she failed to clear the GOP primary, she predictably insisted that the election had, in fact, been stolen, sort of neglecting to notice that given her framing of the issue during her campaign, it sort of follows that God Himself must be to blame for the result.
Following her loss, Hamm became convinced that she was destined to serve as press secretary for then-former President Donald Trump when he would be reelected in 2024. She regularly travelled to Mar-a-Lago and urged her viewers to give daily prayers for Trump and against the Democrats, whom she claimed were partnering with Satan to keep Trump from getting elected again. Part of what she would bring to the table in a role as press secretary would be prophetic warnings for Trump. In March 2023, for instance, she released a video in which she claimed to have learned (apparently through her usual sources of information) that “globalists” were planning to kill most of humanity, and she had asked God how to respond; apparently God ordered her to “decree” that He would send a “death angel” to the Capitol in May 2023 to kill a swath of elected leaders: “I’m here to tell you that an angel came to our house and told us that the death angel is visiting the Capitol in the month of May,” Hamm announced. Well, May came and passed with no large-scale slaughter of legislators, so Hamm (“super frustrated”) followed up with another video in which she prayed for God not to change his mind and still send the “death angel” to “kill these globalists” as He had promised (apparently keeping promises is not God’s strong suit): “Lord, please don’t change your mind,” prayed Hamm. “Lord, even now we do agree in Jesus’ name, please send this death angel to kill these globalists who have told us they want to kill 85 percent of us. And so, Lord, we need you to intervene. We need you. […] We need you to step in and send the death angel, in Jesus’ name.”
Diagnosis: Wheeee! Apparently even the most wild-eyed fundies in the MAGA movement seem to tend to be wary of this one, but she still has some followers. Completely bonkers at every possible level.
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