Donald Trump‘s habit of tearing up official documents has come into focus in recent weeks as some of the material the Jan. 6 committee received from the National Archives had reportedly been ripped into pieces and taped back together. It turns out that not everything the former president tore apart …
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Sitting in his cramped office late last month, Tim Ramthun said he’d started to hear something intriguing from his colleagues in the Wisconsin state legislature. A hard-line Republican lawmaker, Ramthun is leading the effort to decertify Wisconsin’s 2020 presidential election and “reclaim” its 10 electors. He’s friendly with MyPillow CEO …
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Former President Donald Trump took White House records to Mar-a-Lago that were clearly marked as classified, The Washington Post reported on Thursday. Some of the documents were assigned a “top secret” designation. The revelation comes a day after The New York Times reported that the National Archives was concerned the …
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Republican Sen. Marco Rubio refused to say former President Donald Trump was wrong to press then-Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, and he later called the Jan. 6 committee “a partisan scam.” During an appearance Sunday on Face the Nation, host Margaret Brennan asked Rubio if he agreed …
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The Jan. 6 committee recently got its hands on a draft executive order instructing the National Guard to seize voting machines following the 2020 election, but it hasn’t been clear who wrote the order or to what extent former President Trump was involved in the scheme.The New York Times reported …
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Donald Trump had something important to say as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day drew to a close on Monday. Since Twitter banned him following the attack on the Capitol, the former president has made the bulk of his announcements through his Save America PAC. This one, however, came on …
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When President Biden addressed the nation on Thursday morning, he asked Americans a seemingly rhetorical question: “Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm?” “Of course we are not!” true patriots are meant to answer in their heart of hearts, feeling all the feels …
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“We’re ashamed of nothing.” Reps. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) and Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) don’t feel too bad about what happened on Jan. 6. The far-right lawmakers on Thursday hosted what they described as the Republican “response” to a slate of Democratic events commemorating the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack …
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Republicans spent the anniversary of the Jan. 6 insurrection rewriting history, peddling the lie that Democrats stole the 2020 election and insisting that the people who stormed the Capitol were peaceful patriots. All indications are that the messaging is working as intended: Republican voters show no signs of punishing their …
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Adrian Fontes never thought he would need to draw on his training as a Marine in his job as a top election officer for Maricopa County, Arizona. Yet there he was in late 2020, meeting with members of the sheriff’s department and other law-enforcement agencies about establishing a secure perimeter …
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