Mike Pence has accused Donald Trump of endangering “me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” on Jan. 6. Speaking to ABC’s David Muir about his upcoming memoir So Help Me God, the former vice president added that on the day of the Capitol riot, “the president’s words …
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A week before Jan. 6, on a Zoom call organized by far-right Christian Nationalists seeking to reinstall Donald Trump in the White House, a man with a booming baritone voice bowed his bald head and began to pray. “We remember the promises of old,” he said, before invoking the book …
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Video obtained by CNN shows Wayne County Republican officials instructing poll workers to act as “undercover agents” and counteract “bad stuff” happening in the election by “secretly” breaking rules regarding cell phone and pen usage in polling places. The Zoom call happened a day before the Aug. 2 Michigan primaries …
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Two years after the January 6 insurrection, a plurality of Americans say the most important issue facing the country is the threat to democracy. That threat is not just rioters at the U.S. Capitol, a coup plot by an outgoing president, court rulings limiting voting rights, or politicians denying verified …
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D ays after the insurrection at the Capitol — where he’d been close enough to the rioting to get tear-gassed — Pastor Sean Moon posted an incendiary rant to Instagram. Wearing his trademark crown of bullets and speaking to the camera from behind a golden AR-15 assault rifle, Moon declared …
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Guy Reffitt, a recruiter for a right-wing anti-government militia movement and the first person to be convicted at trial for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol, has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. Back in March, Reffitt, a 49-year-old from Wylie, Texas, who …
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As she opened the House Jan. 6 committee hearing Tuesday, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney ticked through a list of names of people Donald Trump’s legal team have attempted to pin the blame for the Capitol attack, naming the president’s lawyers, MAGA-friend lawmakers, and others. Mark Meadows, Trump’s former White House …
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Department of Justice prosecutors revealed that former President Trump’s lawyer Justin Clark was interviewed by FBI investigators on June 29. According to Politico, the DOJ revealed the interview had taken place early Monday through a court filing related to the criminal contempt case against former Trump advisor Steve Bannon. According …
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With the Justice Department and Jan. 6 committee taking a close look at Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election, he and his cronies could certainly use a fall guy, and it looks like they’ve found their patsy: right-wing lawyer John Eastman. Eastman worked for Trump as the attorney …
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Twitter is fighting a Jan. 6 committee request for its employees’ internal communications —including Slack messages about moderating Tweets related to the Capitol attack, three sources familiar with the matter tell Rolling Stone. The social media giant is asserting a First Amendment privilege to push back on the panel’s demand …
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