2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Attorneys for Donald Trump asked a judge on Tuesday evening [March 19, 2024] to stay proceedings in various civil cases that seek to hold the former president liable for damages stemming from the Jan. 6 riot, once again seeking to starve off the legal consequences of his actions in the aftermath of […]
Tag: Capitol building
3/19/2024
OHIO/RALLY: “Republican Donald Trump has launched his general election campaign not merely rewriting the history of the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, but positioning the violent siege and its failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election as a cornerstone of his bid to return to the White House. At a weekend rally in Ohio, his […]
3/19/2024
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Donald Trump adviser Peter Navarro, who was convicted of contempt of Congress last year, is set to surrender Tuesday at a federal Bureau of Prisons facility in Miami to begin serving his four-month sentence… Navarro, who was closely involved in Trump’s attempts to overturn his 2020 presidential election loss in the lead-up […]
2/16/2024
IMMUNITY/LEGAL/SUPREME COURT: “Lawsuits seeking to hold Donald Trump personally accountable for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol can move forward after the former president chose not to take his broad immunity claim to the Supreme Court. Trump had a Thursday deadline to file a petition at the Supreme Court contesting an […]
2/8/2024
2024 ELECTION/NANCY PELOSI/SUPREME COURT: “The Supreme Court heard arguments on Thursday pertaining to whether states can throw Donald Trump off the 2024 presidential ballots if they determine he violated the 14th Amendment… Trump lawyer Jonathan Mitchell rejected the notion that the violent assault on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, qualified as an insurrection. […]
1/3/2024
2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/MAINE: “Former President Donald Trump sued Maine’s secretary of state Tuesday for disqualifying him from the state’s [2024 election] primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, opening another legal front in the saga over whether voters in some states will be barred from selecting the […]
1/3/2024
2024 ELECTION/COLORADO/MAINE: “Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday appealed a decision made by Colorado’s Supreme Court to remove him from the state’s [2024 election] presidential primary ballot because of his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. The filing comes one day after the former president appealed a decision made by […]
11/3/2023
2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/PARDONS: “Former President Donald Trump called people serving prison sentences for participating in the Jan. 6 riot ‘hostages, not prisoners’ during a campaign event held at an oil and gas service facility in Houston on Thursday. ‘I call them the J6 hostages, not prisoners. I call them the hostages, what’s happened. And it’s […]
8/24/2023
LEGAL/SOCIAL MEDIA/TWITTER: “Former President Donald Trump has returned to X, the social media site formerly known as Twitter, firing off his first message in more than 2 1/2 years shortly after he surrendered at an Atlanta jail on charges he conspired to overturn his election loss. He posted a photo of his mug shot and […]
8/8/2023
2020 ELECTION/LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday kept up his attacks on special counsel Jack Smith and vowed to continue talking about his criminal cases even as prosecutors sought a protective order to limit the evidence that Trump and his team could share. In the early voting state of New Hampshire, Trump assailed Smith […]
8/2/2023
2020 ELECTION/DOJ/LEGAL: “Donald Trump was indicted on felony charges Tuesday [August 1, 2023] for working to overturn the results of the 2020 election in the run-up to the violent riot by his supporters at the U.S. Capitol, with the Justice Department acting to hold him accountable for an unprecedented effort to block the peaceful transfer […]
7/27/2023
DOJ/LEGAL: “Former United States President Donald Trump has said that his lawyers warned the Department of Justice (DOJ) against charging him over the 2021 Capitol riot, during a meeting with federal prosecutors on Thursday [July 27, 2023]… ‘My attorneys had a productive meeting with the DOJ this morning, explaining in detail that I did nothing […]
5/11/2023
2020 ELECTION/MEDIA: “Donald Trump’s hour-plus appearance on a cable news town hall forum on Wednesday night was barely over when his political rivals – both announced and prospective – began firing out tweets, statements and press releases attacking the Republican front-runner for next year’s White House election. The forum, hosted by CNN’s Kaitlan Collins, was […]
5/10/2023
PARDONS: [Audience question: “My question to you is: will you pardon the January 6th rioters who were convicted of federal offenses?”] “I am inclined to pardon many of them. I can’t say for every single one because a couple of them, probably, they got out of control. But, you know, when you look at Antifa, […]
4/27/2023
2020 ELECTION/2024 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “A federal appeals court on Wednesday night moved former Vice President Mike Pence closer to appearing before a grand jury investigating efforts to undo the results of the 2020 presidential election, rejecting a bid by lawyers for former President Donald Trump to block the testimony. It was not immediately clear what […]
4/18/2023
SOCIAL MEDIA: “Donald Trump returned to Instagram on Tuesday, posting for the first time since 5 January 2021, the day before the former US president incited the deadly attack on Congress which led to his suspension from major social media platforms. Trump, who is now running to regain the White House, used his return to […]
3/6/2023
2020 ELECTION/DOJ: “At least 1,000 people so far have been arrested on charges related to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters [related to the 2020 election], the Department of Justice said Monday [March 6, 2023]. About 518 people have pleaded guilty to federal crimes so far, […]
3/2/2023
2020 ELECTION/DOJ/LAWSUIT: “The Justice Department said Thursday [March 2, 2023] former President Donald Trump doesn’t deserve absolute immunity from three civil lawsuits accusing him of inciting the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021 [following the 2020 election]. ‘No part of a President’s official responsibilities includes the incitement of imminent private violence,’ department lawyers said in […]
1/5/2023
LAWSUIT: “The longtime partner of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the Jan. 6 riot, filed a wrongful death lawsuit Thursday against former President Donald Trump and two men involved in assaulting Sicknick. Sicknick, 42, died a day after the attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of Trump supporters on Jan. […]
12/28/2022
2020 ELECTION: “A federal judge indicated Wednesday that then-President Donald Trump’s remarks on Jan. 6, 2021, telling a crowd to ‘fight like hell’ before the Capitol attack could have signaled to his supporters that he wanted them “to do something more” than just protest [the outcome of the 2020 election]. In a court order in […]
12/22/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “Former Defense Secretary Mark Esper testified that he and others had to dissuade then-President Donald Trump from using active-duty military troops to quell the racial protests breaking out in the summer of 2020. Trump was upset about the civil unrest around the country in the wake of the murder of George Floyd in Minnesota, […]
12/19/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House select committee examining the Jan. 6 attack at the U.S. Capitol has held its final public meeting. The panel voted to approve criminal referrals for former President Donald Trump regarding his failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election… [M]embers point to Trump as the main instigator behind the Capitol attack. ‘That […]
10/21/2022
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS: “In an extraordinary move, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol subpoenaed former President Donald Trump on Friday, putting the panel into a legal confrontation with Trump, who has slammed the committee as politicized. The committee ‘assembled overwhelming evidence’ that Trump ‘personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part […]
10/14/2022
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS: “The U.S. House Jan. 6 committee’s unanimous decision to subpoena former President Donald Trump is unusual. But presidential subpoenas are not unprecedented — and the outcomes of prior clashes between the executive and legislative branches provide some context for the tensions surrounding the committee’s Oct. 13 decision. The subpoena noted that 30 […]
10/13/2022
CONGRESSIONAL HEARINGS: “The House committee investigating last year’s attack on the US Capitol voted to subpoena Donald Trump, a dramatic challenge to a former president just weeks before Republicans and Democrats face off in an election that will determine control of Congress. The committee, in a unanimous vote on Thursday, agreed to demand documents and […]
10/4/2022
2020 ELECTION/FBI: “Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes began planning to resist the result of the 2020 U.S. presidential election days after the vote, telling followers that Donald Trump ‘will need us and our rifles,’ an FBI witness testified on Tuesday. Rhodes and four co-defendants – Thomas Caldwell, Kenneth Harrelson, Kelly Meggs and Jessica Watkins – […]
9/1/2022
2020 ELECTION/PARDONS: “Donald Trump said on Thursday [September 1, 2022] he would pardon and apologize to those who participated in the deadly attack on the US Capitol on January 6 if he were elected to the White House again. ‘I mean full pardons with an apology to many,’ he told Wendy Bell, a conservative radio host […]
8/9/2022
CLASSIFIED DOCUMENTS/FBI/INVESTIGATIONS: “Federal agents searched former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home on Monday [August 8, 2022] in part because they believed additional classified information remained at the private club after the National Archives retrieved more than a dozen boxes of White House documents from the resort earlier this year, people familiar with the matter said… […]
8/2/2022
2020 ELECTION/LAWSUIT/POLICE: “A federal judge on Tuesday [August 2, 2022] denied former President Donald Trump’s bid to dismiss three lawsuits brought by police officers injured in the Jan. 6 riot, rejecting his assertion that he is ‘absolutely immune’ from the claims. The lawsuits, brought on behalf of four U.S. Capitol Police officers, seek to hold […]
8/2/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Pat A. Cipollone, the White House counsel under former President Donald J. Trump who tried to stop some of his more extreme efforts to overturn the 2020 election, has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury investigating activities in the lead-up to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, a person familiar […]
7/28/2022
LEGAL: “Former President Donald Trump is claiming ‘absolute immunity’ in all civil suits pertaining to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Trump’s preliminary statement to the court has been released, in which the former president’s legal team dismisses the possibility of civil suits against Trump entirely, citing presidential immunity. ‘This appeal requires the adjudication of a […]
7/26/2022
MITCH MCCONNELL: “Former President Donald Trump gloated over a poll identifying Mitch McConnell as the least popular US senator… In the latest attack in his feud with the Senate minority leader, Trump posted a screenshot Monday [July 25, 2022] of a Morning Consult poll on his Truth Social page. It was accompanied with the comment: […]
7/22/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Former President Trump on Thursday[July 21, 2022] vented his anger with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) during the House select Jan. 6 committee’s hearing… Trump appeared to lose his temper after the Jan. 6 committee played a clip of McConnell’s speech on the Senate floor during Trump’s second impeachment trial in which […]
7/22/2022
2020 ELECTION/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Stephen K. Bannon, the right-wing podcaster and longtime confidant of former president Donald Trump, was convicted Friday [July 22, 2022] of contempt of Congress for his refusal to provide documents or testimony to a House committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Bannon, 68, is the closest person to Trump to […]
7/12/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/QANON: “The Jan. 6 select committee plans to make its most complex case yet at its public hearing Tuesday [July 12, 2022]: that Donald Trump’s words and actions influenced extremists and brought them to the steps of the Capitol… The panel intends to highlight how adherents to the antisemitic, fringe conspiracy theories of QAnon […]
7/12/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “Former President Donald Trump railed against the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol again on Tuesday [July 12, 2022], ahead of a hearing that’s expected to focus on his inner circle’s ties to far-right militia groups. Trump reiterated his claim that the 2020 presidential election was stolen, once again […]
6/28/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/SECRET SERVICE: “Former President Donald Trump Tuesday denied that he tried to grab the steering wheel of the ‘Beast’ presidential limousine on Jan. 6 after a Secret Service agent told him he couldn’t go to the Capitol… ‘Her Fake story that I tried to grab the steering wheel of the White House Limousine in order […]
6/28/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/SECRET SERVICE: “Former President Donald Trump lunged at a Secret Service agent in a rage in the presidential limousine when told he could not be taken to the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a former White House aide testified Tuesday. “I’m the ‘effing’ president, take me up to the Capitol now!” Trump insisted, according […]
6/14/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “Former President Donald Trump released a 12-page statement bashing the Capitol-riot investigation on Monday, saying it was trying to stop him from running for president again… Trump said in his statement: ‘The January 6th Unselect Committee is disgracing everything we hold sacred about our Constitution. If they had any real evidence, they’d hold […]
6/10/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House panel investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night [June 9, 2022], saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an ‘attempted coup’ and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election. With a never-before-seen 12-minute video […]
6/7/2022
2020 ELECTION/SECRET SERVICE: “Shortly before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Secret Service agents scrambled to try to secure a motorcade route so then-President Donald Trump could accompany his supporters as they marched on Congress to demand he stay in power [after losing the 2020 election], according to two people briefed […]
6/7/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former White House adviser Peter Navarro appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show Monday night [June 6, 2022], where he complained about his arrest this week for refusing to comply with a January 6 Committee investigation into the Capitol riot. Navarro’s arrest came after ignoring a subpoena to testify before a federal grand jury on […]
5/31/2022
TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump economic adviser Peter Navarro said he has been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury this week and turn over documents related to the Jan. 6 riot, including ‘any communications with formal President Trump and/or his counsel or representative.’ Navarro made the claim in a lawsuit he filed Tuesday against […]
5/24/2022
2020 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI: “Donald Trump’s onetime attorney Rudy Giuliani testified to the House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack at length on Friday but declined to discuss the involvement of congressional Republicans in efforts to overturn the 2020 election result, according to sources familiar with the matter. The move by Giuliani to refuse […]
5/4/2022
DONALD JR/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP FAMILY: “Donald Trump Jr., the son of former President Donald Trump, met on Tuesday [May 3, 2022] with the House select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. Trump Jr. was a high-profile surrogate for the Trump campaign and was among the most prominent supporters of […]
4/15/2022
2020 ELECTION: “An Ohio man who claimed he was only ‘following presidential orders’ from Donald Trump when he stormed the US Capitol [on January 6 to protest the 2020 election result] has been convicted by a jury that took less than three hours to reject his novel defence for obstructing Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s […]
4/14/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/STEPHEN MILLER/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House adviser Stephen Miller on Thursday testified virtually for roughly eight hours before the House select committee investigating the US Capitol insurrection, a source familiar with the meeting told CNN… Miller is under subpoena by the committee and had resisted attempts to appear, including by suing to block […]
4/13/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN/TRUMP ADMIN: “President Biden has authorized the National Archives and Records Administration to hand over a new tranche of Trump White House documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. In a letter released Wednesday by the archives, Biden declined to assert executive privilege over the records — […]
4/7/2022
2020 ELECTION: “Former president Donald Trump voiced regret Wednesday [April 6, 2022] over not marching to the U.S. Capitol the day his supporters stormed the building, and he defended his long silence during the attack by claiming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and others were responsible for ending the deadly violence… The 45th president has repeatedly […]
4/6/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/IVANKA/TRUMP FAMILY: “Ivanka Trump, eldest daughter of former President Donald Trump and a top White House aide while he was in office, reportedly testified for about eight hours on Tuesday before the bipartisan congressional committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Ivanka, 40, was forthcoming in her remote testimony, according […]
3/29/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “Internal White House records from the day of the attack on the U.S. Capitol that were turned over to the House select committee show a gap in President Donald Trump’s phone logs of seven hours and 37 minutes, including the period when the building was being violently assaulted… The House panel is now investigating […]
3/29/2022
2020 ELECTION: “While they say that January 6 was an ‘attempted coup,’ which it was not, they should add that the Election on November 3 [2020] was the actual coup. All you have to do is look at the massive evidence in Swing States, available upon request (with much more to come). Our Country is […]
3/4/2022
ATTORNEY GENERAL/WILLIAM BARR: “Former Attorney General William Barr said in an interview aired on Friday that he believes former President Trump is responsible for the Capitol riot ‘in the broad sense of that word.’ […] ‘I do think he was responsible in the broad sense of that word, and that it appears that part of […]
2/16/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/JOE BIDEN: “As the saga of Donald Trump’s White House records continues to unravel, President Joe Biden has determined that call logs from Jan. 6, 2021 — the day a large group of violent Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol — should be handed over to investigators looking into the deadly riots. In a letter […]
2/10/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol [over the 2020 election] has discovered gaps in official White House telephone logs from the day of the riot, finding few records of calls by President Donald J. Trump from critical hours when investigators know that he was making them. Investigators have […]
2/4/2022
NANCY PELOSI: “If Nancy Pelosi does her job on security, there is no ‘January 6.’ So the corrupt Unselect Committee should stop its work immediately! The Committee is nothing but a cover up for Pelosi’s failure to act and Biden’s failed Administration. The more time the Fake News Media spends talking about this, the less time […]
2/1/2022
2024 ELECTION: “If I run and I win [the 2024 election], we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly. We will treat them fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.” -Donald Trump via Domenico Montanaro, “Trump escalates racist rhetoric and plays on white grievance […]
1/21/2022
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “The select House committee investigating the January 6 Capitol riot has received more than 700 pages of Trump White House documents that it had sought for several months, NBC News reported Friday. The panel received those records from the National Archives less than two days after the Supreme Court refused a request […]
1/6/2022
2020 ELECTION/JOE BIDEN: “President Joe Biden on Thursday marked the first anniversary of the January 6 insurrection by forcefully calling out former President Donald Trump for attempting to undo American democracy, saying such an insurrection must never happen again… ‘For the first time in our history, a President had not just lost an election. He […]
1/6/2021
CIVIL UNREST: “A jailed Capitol-riot defendant said he was disappointed in Donald Trump for canceling his January 6 press conference and suggested that the former president had abandoned his supporters… [Edward Jacob] Lang then addressed Trump directly, saying: ‘January 6 you better do a press conference, man. We are rotting in jail because we stood […]
1/4/2022
CIVIL UNREST/RALLY: “Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday [January 4, 2022] canceled a news conference he had scheduled for Jan. 6, the one-year anniversary of his supporters’ deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol. Trump said in a statement that he would instead discuss many of the same topics he would have addressed at the […]
12/29/2021
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/SUPREME COURT: “Lawyers for former President Donald Trump told the Supreme Court on Wednesday [December 29, 2021] that a Washington Post interview with the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol shows the committee is trying to establish a criminal complaint against Trump, something the lawyers say is beyond […]
12/23/2021
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS: “The [2020] election numbers are not defensible. Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Georgia, Nevada, and probably New Hampshire, Minnesota, New Mexico, and others were all won, and in some cases big, by a certain Republican Presidential Candidate, me. So, after one month, a very public offer to debate, I have no takers—not even the […]
12/23/2021
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS: “Has it been at all noticed that I offered to debate anybody, on television or otherwise, about the RIGGED Presidential Election of 2020. This was a publicly stated challenge—I have been called a ‘ratings machine,’ and therefore would be good for television economics—which have not been doing so well lately. With all the […]
12/21/2021
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS: “Why isn’t the Unselect Committee of highly partisan political hacks investigating the CAUSE of the January 6th protest, which was the rigged Presidential Election of 2020? Does anybody notice that they want to stay as far away from that topic as possible, the numbers don’t work for them, or even come close. The […]
12/21/2021
2020 ELECTION/DEMS/GOP: “In many ways a RINO is worse than a Radical Left Democrat, because you don’t know where they are coming from and you have no idea how bad they really are for our Country. The good news is there are fewer and fewer RINOs left as we elect strong Patriots who love America. […]
12/19/2021
2020 ELECTION: “Former President Donald Trump downplayed the seriousness of the Jan. 6 insurrection — an attack that led to five deaths and cost millions of dollars in damages to the U.S. Capitol — during stops in Houston and Dallas this weekend. ‘What happened on Jan. 6 was a protest against a rigged election, that’s […]
12/13/2021
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS/TRUMP PEOPLE: “The select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot recommended that the House hold former President Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows in contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena… Meadows had handed over thousands of records, the committee said, before reversing course and refusing to cooperate, citing Trump’s assertion […]
12/10/2021
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack a PowerPoint recommending Donald Trump to declare a national security emergency in order to return himself to the presidency. The fact that Meadows was in possession of a PowerPoint the […]
12/7/2021
CONGRESS/ROGER STONE/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Roger Stone, a longtime adviser to former President Donald Trump, is refusing to be deposed or to hand over documents to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, his attorney said in a letter dated Monday [December 6, 2021]… Last month, the panel subpoenaed Stone and other Trump allies to […]
12/2/2021
INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUIT: “As Donald Trump’s lawyers try to block the White House from releasing records to the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the former president faces a flurry of other investigations that could come to a head in the coming weeks and the new year. That includes two major state criminal investigations — […]
11/22/2021
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The select House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack told a federal appeals court on Monday [November 22, 2021] that it urgently needs extensive records from former President Trump’s White House, arguing that more time would hinder its probe… Trump is appealing the case after a trial judge rejected his lawsuit to block […]
11/15/2021
JOHN KELLY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “John Kelly, Donald Trump’s former White House chief of staff, did not mince words about his ex-boss as rioters violently stormed the Capitol on January 6, according to a new book. ‘If he was a real man, he would go down to the Capitol and tell them to stop,’ Kelly said of […]
11/14/2021
2020 ELECTION: “Why aren’t they investigating the people and states who cheated on the election causing the protest of January 6th? Why aren’t they investigating the people who ruthlessly and violently burned down and took over Democrat-run cities, beating and murdering people along the way? Instead they are viciously investigating those who protested the November […]
11/12/2021
2020 ELECTION/MIKE PENCE: “Donald Trump defended rioters at the Capitol on 6 January who threatened to ‘hang Mike Pence’, his vice-president, according to recorded remarks released on Friday [November 12, 2021]… Trump was speaking to the ABC chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Karl, for his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show… The recording […]
11/12/2021
CONGRESS/STEVE BANNON/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon was indicted by a federal grand jury Friday, charged with contempt of Congress for refusing to answer questions from the House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. The indictment is a first. No one has been prosecuted before for contempt of Congress when executive privilege was […]
11/9/2021
2020 ELECTION: “The Unselect Committee of politically ambitious hacks continues to subpoena people wanting to know about those protesting, on January 6th, the insurrection which took place during the Presidential Election of November 3rd. There is so much proof, but the Fake News Media refuses to print it or show it in any way, shape, […]
10/25/2021
2020 ELECTION/ARIZONA/PARDONS: “Rep. Paul Gosar encouraged people to plan rallies on Jan. 6 because then-President Donald Trump could provide them a ‘blanket pardon’ in another investigation, according to a new story in Rolling Stone. Citing two unnamed sources who participated in the main rally near the White House, which was followed by violence at the […]
10/18/2021
INVESTIGATIONS/LAWSUITS: “Donald Trump is suing the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives to block the release of his White House’s records related to the Capitol attack. The former president’s lawyers filed the 26-page suit in D.C. district court on Monday, declaring the committee’s investigation ‘a vexatious, illegal fishing expedition.’ […] Trump’s legal team […]
10/13/2021
2020 ELECTION: “Why isn’t the January 6th Unselect Committee of partisan hacks studying the massive Presidential Election Fraud, which took place on November 3rd and was the reason that hundreds of thousands of people went to Washington to protest on January 6th? Look at the numbers now being reported on the fraud, which we now […]
10/12/2021
2020 ELECTION/MEDIA: “Not even possible to believe the lies, exaggerations, and outright fraud committed by very poorly rated Morning ‘News’ Shows about the January 6th protest [at the Capitol building]. They say whatever comes to their mind, like writing a fictional novel. The press has lost its way at a level that is not even […]
10/12/2021
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is exploring ways to enforce its subpoenas after former President Donald Trump asserted executive privilege, an attempt to keep documents from his time in office from being turned over… The committee is seeking records from the Trump White House and testimony from […]
10/11/2021
CIVIL UNREST/DOJ/QANON: “Former president Donald Trump praised the woman who was shot and killed during the January 6 riot at the Capitol as a ‘truly incredible person’ in a video message played at a memorial event on what would have been the 36-year-old’s birthday. Trump issued a message of support for Ashli Babbitt, an Air […]
10/7/2021
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “Donald Trump intends to assert executive privilege in a congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol, a move that could prevent the testimony of onetime aides, according to a letter sent by lawyers for the former president… The move sets the stage for a likely clash with House Democrats who are […]
8/20/2021
CIVIL UNREST/FBI/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “The FBI hasn’t found any evidence that the January 6 assault on the US Capitol was part of an organized plot to overturn the election results… The officials also said that the FBI has ‘so far found no evidence’ that former President Donald Trump or ‘people directly around him were involved […]
8/11/2021
CIVIL UNREST: “I spoke to the wonderful mother and devoted husband of Ashli Babbitt, who was murdered at the hands of someone who should never have pulled the trigger of his gun. We know who he is. If that happened to the ‘other side,’ there would be riots all over America and yet, there are […]
7/26/2021
ANTIFA/BLM/INVESTIGATION/NANCY PELOSI/NATIONAL GUARD: “Nancy Pelosi is spending a great deal of time, effort, and money on the formulation of a Fake and highly partisan January 6 Committee to ask, ‘what happened?’ Will Nancy investigate herself and those on Capitol Hill who didn’t want additional protection, including more police and National Guard, therefore being unprepared despite […]
7/21/2021
2020 ELECTION/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “When former president Donald Trump sat down for an interview in late March at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., he described the events of Jan. 6 as largely peaceful and his supporters as friendly, saying the audience he addressed at a rally on the Ellipse before the attack on the […]
7/11/2021
CIVIL UNREST: “Former President Donald Trump on Sunday [July 11, 2021] widely praised those who attended the Jan. 6 rally that preceded the insurrection at the Capitol… Speaking on ‘Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo’ on the Fox News Channel, he also said the rally participants were patriots, that some of them were unjustly arrested […]
6/15/2021
2020 ELECTION: “Rep. Carolyn B. Maloney, the Chairwoman of the Committee on Oversight and Reform, released new documents showing President Trump’s efforts to pressure the Department of Justice (DOJ) to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election… Documents obtained by the Committee in response to this letter show that in December 2020 and […]
6/4/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA: “Facebook said on Friday [June 4, 2021] that Donald J. Trump’s suspension from the service would last at least two years, keeping the former president off mainstream social media for the 2022 midterm elections, as the company also said it would end a policy of treating posts from politicians differently from those of […]
6/3/2021
CIVIL UNREST/MIKE PENCE: “Former Vice President Pence on Thursday [June 3, 2021] called Jan. 6 a ‘dark day’ in U.S. history, his strongest statement yet on the Capitol insurrection. What he’s saying: ‘…President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office,’ the former VP said in a public address in Hillsborough County, […]
5/27/2021
CIVIL UNREST/LAWSUITS/RUDY GIULIANI: “Former President Donald Trump and his onetime personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani on Thursday asked a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit accusing them of conspiring to incite the deadly invasion of the U.S. Capitol. The lawsuit, brought by Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., and 10 other House Democrats, accuses the defendants of violating […]
5/18/2021
CIVIL UNREST/CONGRESS/GOP/MITCH MCCONNELL: “Republicans in the House and Senate should not approve the Democrat trap of the January 6 Commission. It is just more partisan unfairness and unless the murders, riots, and fire bombings in Portland, Minneapolis, Seattle, Chicago, and New York are also going to be studied, this discussion should be ended immediately. Republicans […]
5/7/2021
2020 ELECTION/CIVIL UNREST: “A Capitol riot suspect was persuaded to storm the building on Jan. 6 after spending hours watching Fox News and listening to former President Donald Trump’s election fraud lies, his lawyer said… Joseph Hurley, a Delaware-based lawyer, blamed Antonio’s behavior on him watching Fox News too much… Hurley said that because Antonio […]
4/10/2021
2020 ELECTION/GOP/MIKE PENCE: “Trump, speaking at a Republican National Committee gathering at his Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla., excoriated a number of Republicans even as he publicly called for party unity… Trump said the crowd at his rally preceding the Capitol attack was so large — falsely claiming that ‘some people say it was […]
3/31/2021
LEGAL (LAW & LITIGATION)/POLICE: “Two Capitol Police officers are suing former President Donald Trump over ‘physical and emotional injuries’ they suffered in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, which they say the former president incited. Officers James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby accuse Trump of directing the assault and aiding and abetting the actions of […]
3/31/2021
SOCIAL MEDIA/TRUMP POST-PRESIDENCY: “Facebook removed a video featuring former President Donald Trump, a company spokesperson confirmed to NBC News on Wednesday, citing the former president’s indefinite suspension from the platform. The removal tests just how far Facebook is willing to interpret its suspension, which followed the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6. The […]
3/27/2021
MICK MULVANEY/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Mick Mulvaney, who stepped down as Trump’s special envoy to Northern Ireland after the insurrection, called Trump’s comments that his supporters were ‘hugging and kissing’ police officers and posed ‘zero threat,’ despite widespread violence, ‘manifestly false.’ […] ‘It’s not right to say there was no risk, I don’t know how you can […]
3/25/2021
2020 ELECTION/CIVIL UNREST: “It was a zero threat, right from the start. It was zero threat. Look, they [rioters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021] went in, they shouldn’t have done it. Some of them went in, and they are hugging and kissing the police and the guards, you know, they had great relationships. […]