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… The […]
Tag: January 6
8/2/2022
DEFENSE/TRUMP ADMIN: “The Defense Department electronically wiped the phones of some former top officials who served under then-President Donald Trump, including deleting text messages related to last year’s attack on the US Capitol. Government lawyers made that admission in a court filing tied to a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit by American Oversight, a government […]
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
2020 ELECTION/ELECTORAL COLLEGE: “Previously undisclosed emails provide an inside look at the increasingly desperate and often slapdash efforts by advisers to President Donald J. Trump to reverse his [2020] election defeat in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack, including acknowledgments that a key element of their plan was of dubious legality and lived up […]
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 […]
7/1/2022
SECRET SERVICE: “Two Secret Service sources told CNN on Friday [July 1, 2022] that they heard about former President Donald Trump lunging at the driver of his presidential SUV on January 6, 2021. The pair of sources, who spoke under the condition of anonymity, backed up much of former Trump aide Cassidy Hutchinson’s explosive testimony […]
6/30/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “…Cassidy Hutchinson also forgot to tell the Unselects that she was desperate to go to Florida with certain others of the Trump staff, long after January 6th had come and gone. If I was so evil, why did she fight so hard to stay a part of the MAGA TEAM? This is all documented […]
6/30/2022
DOJ/SECRET SERVICE: “Social Climber Hutchinson lied about my attack on our great Secret Service [in her testimony to the January 6 committee], lied about her writing the White House note, lied about my throwing food at a wall in the Oval Office, & lied about my wanting to be surrounded by ‘people with guns’ during my […]
6/30/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/LEGAL: “Former President Donald J. Trump’s political organization and his allies have paid for or promised to finance the legal fees of more than a dozen witnesses called in the congressional investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, raising legal and ethical questions about whether the former president may be influencing testimony with a direct bearing […]
6/29/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “The lies and fabricated stories being told to the partisan [January 6] Highly Unselect Committee, not only by the phony social climber who got caught yesterday, but by many others, are a disgrace to our, in serious decline, Nation. No cross examination, no real Republicans, no lawyers, NO NOTHING. Fake stories and an all Fake Narrative being produced, with ZERO pushback […]
6/29/2022
SECRET SERVICE: “The woman [Cassidy Hutchinson], who was a BIG Trump fan long AFTER January 6th (if her Fake Stories were true, why would she want to be?), was let go and not wanted in Florida, so she made up phony and completely outrageous stories, the craziest of which has already been proven to be a complete lie. The Secret Service […]
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: “Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson testified about a number of previously undisclosed items Tuesday [June 28, 2022]… Hutchinson also testified that Trump threw his lunch against the wall because he was so upset that his aides and the Secret Service hadn’t taken him to Capitol Hill. And she said that, just weeks earlier, […]
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 […]
6/28/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/SOCIAL MEDIA: “Former President Donald Trump on Tuesday unleashed a dozen social media posts in the wake of the testimony of a former top White House aide [Cassidy Hutchinson] before the January 6 committee, calling the staffer a ‘total phony,’ ‘third rate social climber’ and suggesting she was a ‘whacko’ because of her handwriting… As […]
6/27/2022
CONGRESS/INVESTIGATIONS: “House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said on Monday [June 27, 2022] that everything is good between him and Donald Trump as the former president publicly questions whether it was wise to keep more Republicans off of the House January 6 committee… McCarthy repeated his long-held defense of the decision, arguing that House Speaker Nancy […]
6/23/2022
2020 ELECTION/DOJ: “Witnesses described Trump’s desperate efforts to rope the Justice Department into a plot to overturn the [2020] election — trying at every turn to persuade government attorneys to act as an extension of his campaign… Frustrated that the department’s leadership wouldn’t falsely claim the election was ‘corrupt,’ Trump nearly replaced the acting attorney […]
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 […]
6/14/2022
2020 ELECTION/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “Rudy Giuliani denied Tuesday [June 14, 2022] that he was drunk when he urged former President Donald Trump to declare victory on election night as votes were still being counted, and said he was ‘disgusted’ by a Trump aide who’d testified otherwise before the Jan. 6 committee. ‘I REFUSED all alcohol […]
6/13/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/RUDY GIULIANI/TRUMP PEOPLE: “A drunken Rudy Giuliani advised then-President Donald Trump to declare victory on election night 2020 despite the fact that Fox News had called Arizona for Joe Biden and votes had yet to be fully counted in other battleground states, former advisers to the president told the Jan. 6 select committee… On […]
6/13/2022
CAMPAIGN FINANCE/INVESTIGATIONS: “The committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said that former President Donald Trump’s campaign fundraised off of baseless allegations of election fraud but spent very little of the money on legal action. Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., said Monday morning [June 13, 2022] that the House select committee would show ‘that the Trump […]
6/13/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/WILLIAM BARR: “Former attorney general Bill Barr… told the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riots in recorded testimony that Trump was making increasingly outlandish claims about rigged voting machines and fraudulent vote dumps that the former president claimed were swinging the 2020 election against him… ‘And I was somewhat demoralized […]
6/13/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/VOTER FRAUD: “The Jan. 6 committee used its second hearing [on June 13, 2022] to lay out evidence that Donald Trump must have known better: that he was repeatedly informed that his claims of widespread voter fraud were bogus and that he had lost the 2020 election — and he pressed forward in trying […]
6/10/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to talk of the [2020] Election Fraud and Irregularities that took place on a massive scale, and decided to use a documentary maker from Fake News ABC to spin only negative footage. Our Country is in such trouble!” -Donald Trump, “ICYMI: Truth […]
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 […]
6/9/2022
INVESTIGATIONS: “The Unselect Committee didn’t spend one minute studying the reason that people went to Washington, D.C., in massive numbers, far greater than the Fake News Media is willing to report, or that the Unselects are willing to even mention, because January 6th was not simply a protest, it represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country to Make America Great […]
6/9/2022
2020 ELECTION/INVESTIGATIONS/RUSSIA: “The Unselect Committee of political Thugs, essentially the same group who brought you the now fully debunked and discredited RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA HOAX (and many others!), refused to study and report on the massive amount of irrefutable evidence, much of it recently produced, that shows the 2020 Presidential Election was Rigged and Stolen. They want NOTHING to do with that topic because […]
6/9/2022
INVESTIGATIONS/NANCY PELOSI/NATIONAL GUARD: “The Unselect Committee has now learned that I, as President, suggested & offered up to 20,000 National Guard, or troops, be deployed in D.C. because it was felt that the crowd was going to be very large. Crazy Nancy Pelosi turned down the offer, she didn’t like the way it looked. Likewise, the Mayor of D.C. Had they […]
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 […]
4/15/2022
2020 ELECTION/CONGRESS/GOP: “Two Republican members of Congress repeatedly pressed former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows for evidence of widespread voter fraud before turning skeptical of former President Trump’s election conspiracies, texts reported by CNN reveal. Why it matters: The texts from Rep. Chip Roy (R-Texas) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) in the aftermath […]
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 […]
2/22/2022
LAWSUIT/SUPREME COURT: “Now that the National Archives already released records to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, the Supreme Court of the United States unceremoniously jettisoned former President Donald Trump’s petition, which asked whether the committee’s records request ran afoul of the ‘Constitution or laws of the United States.’ […] In an order […]
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. […]
3/25/2021
ANTIFA/BLM: “What I’m concerned about is Antifa, and BLM, and some of the horrible things that we witnessed… When they take over Portland, and they take over the court house. They destroyed the building… You have to see what the streets of Portland look like. They have been burning the city down, and nobody does […]
3/24/2021
2020 ELECTION/CAMPAIGN FINANCE/PAC: “An NBC News analysis of campaign finance filings found that in the five weeks after the election, those charged in the Capitol riot increased their political donations by about 75 percent compared to the five weeks leading up to the election. Many had made very few or no donations at all in […]
3/5/2021
CONGRESS/LAWSUIT: “A House impeachment manager and intelligence subcommittee chairman filed a federal lawsuit Friday against former president Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Rudolph W. Giuliani and Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), claiming they should be held liable for injuries and destruction caused by their incitement of the Jan. 6 mob assault on the Capitol. Rep. Eric […]
3/5/2021
FBI/TRUMP ADMIN/WHITE HOUSE STAFF: “A member of the far-right nationalist Proud Boys was in communication with a person associated with the White House in the days just before the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, according to a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation. Location, cellular and call record data revealed a call tying […]