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Just in: Thirty members of Congress now demand US Capitol Police chiefs release details of which lawmakers and staff allowed visitors into the Capitol — amid reports that Trump protestors did reconnaissance.
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New: Justice Clarence Thomas says in Atlanta: “We can’t be an institution that can be bullied into giving you just the outcomes you want” — though his wife Ginni Thomas attempted to do just that as she sought to help overturn Biden’s 2020 election win.
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Just in: Twitter suspends House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 hours.
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Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer now comes down hard at GOP for standing in the way of the organizing resolution: “McConnell will not dictate to the Senate — McConnell is no longer the Majority Leader.”
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President Biden now has access to the entirety of Trump’s private conversations with Putin — including the ones he ordered hidden in the NSC’s top-secret codeword system to limit access, Politico reports.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Members of the House committee investigating the Capitol attack said Sunday they uncovered enough evidence for the Justice Department to consider an unprecedented criminal indictment against Donald Trump for seeking to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
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House Republican Lauren Boebert now sets off the metal detector and refuses to comply with US Capitol Police, waking into the chamber. USCP not making a big deal but $5,000 fine comes out of member’s pay.
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New: Trump says at Arizona rally tonight the FBI should “give me immediately back everything” seized from Mar-a-Lago because “it’s mine” — which would mean nothing was planted.
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Just in: Twitter suspends House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene for 12 hours.
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Breaking via NY Times: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi immediately approved the request from Sergeant at Arms to deploy National Guard during the Capitol attack — contrary to GOP letter faulting her for the delay.
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Just incredible that this Trump-Secret Service altercation story is distracting from the major news that Trump knowingly told armed supporters to march on the Capitol — and Meadows spoke to Stone and Flynn the night before January 6. And then wanted a pardon.
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Just in: Bipartisan group of House members introduce resolution to award US Capitol Police officer Eugene Goodman — who lured a Trump mob away from the unguarded Senate chamber — the congressional gold medal.
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New: Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger on CBS Face the Nation says of Trump: “If he truly believes the election was stolen, he’s not mentally competent to be President”
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BREAKING: Jan. 6 committee subpoenas former Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone
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Breaking: House votes to make Washington DC the 51st state, 216-208.
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One year on, still cannot get a straight answer to how 140 House Republicans said they would object to Biden’s win on basis of fraud, and yet not object to House Republican wins that came on the same ballot.
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New: AG Merrick Garland says SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade has eliminated a fundamental right — adds “the FDA has approved the use of the medication Mifepristone. States may not ban Mifepristone based on disagreement with the FDA’s expert judgment about its safety and efficacy.”
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Wow — Nielsen reports a whopping 20 million people watched Jan. 6 committee opening hearing last night: ABC with 4.8M, MSNBC with 4.1M, NBC with 3.5M, CBS with 3.3M, CNN with 2.6M.
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Just cannot seem to get a straight answer how 140 House Republicans will object to Biden’s win on the basis of widespread voter fraud, and yet not object to House Republican wins that came on the same ballot.
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BREAKING: Former Trump White House advisor Peter Navarro indicted by federal grand jury for criminal contempt of Congress
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New: Marjorie Taylor Greene says she doesn’t recall speaking to anyone at the White House about Jan. 6 — except she recorded a video outside the West Wing days before saying: “We had a great planning session for January 6.”
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New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney on CNN says of Ginni Thomas in something of an escalation: “The committee hopes she will agree to come in voluntarily but the committee is fully prepared to contemplate a subpoena if she is not.”
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NEW: Jan. 6 committee establishes the Trump campaign was a complete grift — they raised $250 million after the election for the “Official Election Defense Fund” which did not exist and the money instead went to Trump hotels and his own Save America PAC
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Nevada’s Clark County registrar Joe Gloria says at news conference just now they won’t complete ballot count until November 12 and that only instance of voter fraud was a Trump supporter who tried to vote twice.
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Source confirms Justice Dept under Barr blocked a warrant for Giuliani — meaning House Judiciary chair Nadler may have been right all along that Berman ouster from SDNY was to disrupt probes implicating Trump.
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Major question from the inaugural Jan. 6 committee hearing tonight: why were Republican members of Congress asking for pardons for their roles in what happened on Jan. 6 if they did nothing wrong
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NEW: DOJ suggests Trump counsel and Trump custodian — understood to be Christina Bobb — committed obstruction by representing that all docs from WH were in one storage location when they weren’t, and that all docs were turned over in response to subpoena when they weren’t
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Former House Speaker John Boehner on Sen. Ted Cruz in 2016: “Lucifer in the flesh — I get along with almost everyone, but I have never worked with a more miserable son of a bitch in my life.”
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Source confirms that Republican Sen. Ted Cruz’s staff asked Houston Police for assistance at the airport before his flight to Cancun — meaning he diverted emergency resources away from Texas for his own gain.
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Wow — Steve Bannon’s lawyer David Schoen to Judge Nichols: “What’s the point of going to trial if we don’t have any defences”
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Hunter Biden: “My mother and sister killed when I was two, my father suffering a brain aneurysm, and my brother dying from brain cancer, I come from a family forged by tragedies and bound by a remarkable love.”
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Just in: Biden admin moves to scrap Trump border wall — canceling construction contracts, repairing environmental damage in the Rio Grande and returning to the Pentagon more than $14bn in funds seized by Trump.
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NEW: Trump wants to evenly split the cost of appointing a special master — but DOJ says “as the party requesting the special master, Plaintiff should bear the additional expense of the Special Master’s work.”
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NEW: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney shows that witnesses have been receiving mafia-style calls and messages from people close to Trump telling them the former president knows they will remain “loyal” in depositions. Attempted witness tampering.
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New via Reuters: Fox News Network loses bid to dismiss $1.8 billion Dominion defamation lawsuit over election coverage
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Bernie Sanders says on CNN just now that Senate Dems will use reconciliation to pass new relief package: “If they want to criticize me for helping to feed children who are hungry, they can criticize me.”
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New via NY Times: Ginni Thomas told the Jan. 6 committee through he lawyer that she sees no reason to testify to the panel — weeks after saying she would be happy to testify
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NEW: Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that WH lawyer Cipollone told her on Jan. 6 don’t let Trump go to the Capitol because “we’re going to get charged with every crime imaginable” including defrauding the electoral count or obstruction.
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NEW: AG Merrick Garland says he’s watching the Jan. 6 committee hearings, adding “I can assure you the January 6 prosecutors are watching the hearings as well”
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BREAKING: Cook Political Report projects Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff as winners of the Senate runoffs in Georgia — giving Democrats control of the Senate.
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Just in: Source confirms the US Attorney’s office is in possession of security camera footage of possible rioters being given tours before the Capitol attack — but nothing else. No visitor logs or entry records.
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New: Jan. 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger says on CNN that new witnesses have come forward in the wake of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony
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SCOOP: Trump used an official White House phone with a 202-390 prefix to call Sen. Mike Lee on Jan. 6 — which means it should have been in the presidential call log but was not, raising prospect of tampering.
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New: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on SCOTUS overturning Roe v Wade: “Because of Donald Trump, Mitch McConnell, the Republican Party and their supermajority on the Supreme Court, American women today have less freedom than their mothers.”
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New: Jan. 6 committee member Adam Schiff says on CNN they will implicate Trump in fake electors scheme at upcoming hearing: “We will show evidence of the president’s involvement in this scheme.”
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Senate Rules chair Amy Klobuchar whacks Ron Johnson over questioning at hearing into Capitol attack, saying he’s always a problem: “Ron Johnson has again engaged in a conspiracy theory — that’s what he does.”
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Guardian US: New revelations appear to show the chief watchdog for the Secret Service and DHS took deliberate steps to stop the retrieval of texts, and then sought to hide the fact that it had decided not to pursue that evidence.
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Just a reminder that Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh had described Roe v Wade “settled as precedent” in his Senate confirmation hearing, while Justice Neil Gorsuch said it was “settled law” during his hearing.
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Fox News has not mentioned their hosts’ texts to Mark Meadows on Jan. 6 once since they were exposed last night
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So contrary to what Republicans claim, Trump did incite the Capitol attack — per Brad Parscale.
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House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene now hurriedly scrubbing her support of death threats against Dems off social media — deleting 19 posts off Twitter in the last 12 hours. But screenshots still exist.
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New: Trump lies in statement about President Biden’s remarks about Jan. 6, saying he “used my name today to try to further divide America” — when Biden didn’t even dignify Trump by once uttering his name
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ABC News/Ipsos Poll: Nearly 6 in 10 Americans believe former President Donald Trump should be charged with a crime for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack
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New: Trump lawyer Alina Habba told NY State AG in May that she personally searched for materials in that investigation all over Mar-a-Lago — raising the possibility she might have come across the classified docs without a clearance, making her a potential witness in the DOJ case.
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New: Jan. 6 committee is considering a “second series of hearings” sometime towards the end of August, after next week’s prime time finale on Thursday, per source familiar.
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New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney tells ABC they have “first-hand testimony” that Trump was in his private dining room watching TV during the Capitol attack, as I reported for
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Source confirms to me that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo cancelled his Europe trip after Luxembourg’s foreign minister called Trump a criminal and EU officials declined to meet him — simply unprecedented.
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Jan. 6 committee’s Jamie Raskin: “Spare us the nonsense talk about executive privilege rejected now by every court that has looked at it. This is America, and there’s no executive privilege here for presidents, much less trained advisors to plan coups and organize insurrections.”
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Jan. 6 committee member Jamie Raskin — visibly angry — slams Trump effort to stop Biden’s certification: “This is what political scientists call a self-coup. It’s a coup organized by the president against the constitutional framework itself.”
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NEW: Trump White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told Trump DOJ official Jeffrey Clark about his plan to help Trump overturn 2020 election, per testimony — “Congratulations. You just admitted your first act as Attorney General would be committing a felony.”
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Just in: Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference at Mar-a-Lago
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Strikes me as not insignificant that the British documentary filmmakers — who have no reason to comply with Jan. 6 committee subpoenas — readily comply because it’s the right thing to do. Meanwhile some Americans who worked for the US govt put up every obstacle they can.
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Bottom line: Text messages to Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows appears to show that GOP members of Congress and the Trump White House conspired to overthrow Biden’s election victory on Jan. 6
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New: Federal judge denies motion from former Trump strategist Steve Bannon to dismiss his contempt of Congress case. Trial next month.
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No overstatement to say tonight was one of the most important investigative moments for the Jan. 6 committee — revealing they had evidence Trump obstructed Congress and conspired to defraud the United States
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New: Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson says they will ask Ginni Thomas to appear before investigators in light of her contacts with Trump lawyer John Eastman — “It’s time for us to invite her to come talk.”
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One of the leaders in the Oath Keepers conspiracy in the US Capitol attack is claiming she met with Secret Service agents on Jan. 6 — tying the White House closer to the insurrection than previously known.
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NEW on PARDONS: Republican congressman Mo Brooks sent an email on 11 January 2021 seeking pardons for “Every Congressman and Senator who voted to reject the electoral college vote submissions of Arizona and Pennsylvania.”
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New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney says on CBS Face the Nation that people have got to understand the danger to democracy posed by Trump: “He can never be near the Oval Office again.”
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Breaking via NY Times: One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald Trump believed that the former president was “guilty of numerous felony violations” per a copy of his resignation letter.
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New: Justice Dept warns GOP-led audit of the 2020 election ballots in Arizona that turning over materials to Cyber Ninjas — operated by Trump supporter — could violate federal voting and civil rights laws.
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Wow — House Dem Bennie Thompson says now that he thinks McCarthy refuses to support a 9/11-style commission into Jan. 6 because he has information damaging to Republicans that he’s desperate to keep hidden.
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New: Jan. 6 committee vice chair Liz Cheney says on ABC about the prospect of winning her Wyoming GOP primary: “The single most important thing is protecting the nation from Donald Trump. And I think that that matters to Americans more than anything else.”
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Remarkable how Mar-a-Lago is supposedly so secure that there’s no issue with Trump storing classified docs — but so easy to access that Kanye West can walk in for dinner with Nick Fuentes
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Now three entries — 96, 97, 98 — have hit the Trump Mar-a-Lago docket under seal in the last five minutes
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Breaking on Fox News: House Republican Scott Perry says FBI agents seized his cell phone earlier today — a day after federal investigators raided Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence
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New: Roger Stone created a new Twitter account today
@RogerStoneUSA
— only for it to be suspended just over six hours later
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House Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene says just now that Georgia’s “elections should be decertified” but then clarified that she only meant the presidential result — because otherwise she’d lose her own seat.
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BREAKING: Jan. 6 committee says they have evidence to suggest “reconnaissance tours” took place prior to the Capitol attack — and asks for cooperation from House Admin GOP Rep. Barry Loudermilk.
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Just in: Trump withdraws suit against NY State AG Letitia James — the type of frivolous case that was cited by the judge who last night imposed sanctions of nearly $1 million against Trump and his lawyer Alina Habba
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NEW via Breitbart: Trump under investigation per search warrant for:
18 USC 2071 — Concealment, removal or mutilation
18 USC 793 — Gathering, transmitting or losing defence information
18 USC 1519 — Destruction, alteration or falsification of records in Federal investigations
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Just in: National Archives confirms they released hundreds of pages of Trump White House documents to the Jan. 6 committee yesterday evening after the Supreme Court rejected Trump’s executive privilege claim
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Senate just voted 92-6 to break filibuster and advance legislation to combat hate crimes against Asian-Americans
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Just in: Jan. 6 committee was asked late last night by Steve Bannon’s attorney to delay the vote tonight recommending criminal prosecution for defying subpoena — but the request was denied.
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Just in: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer tells Dem colleagues that the Senate will debate and consider changes to the filibuster on or before Jan. 17 — MLK day — to advance voting rights legislation.
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Source confirms to me now that the communications director for House Republican Lauren Boebert has resigned — matching Axios scoop.
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Scooplet: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is said to intend to give VP Pence until Sunday night to invoke 25th Amendment to remove Trump from office, per source — and will otherwise move forward with impeachment.
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Breaking via Politico: FBI arrests former State Department aide Federico Klein on charges related to the Capitol attack, the first known instance of a Trump appointee facing criminal prosecution over the insurrection.
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New: Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco tells CNN that federal prosecutors are reviewing fake Electoral College certifications sent to the National Archives that declared Trump the winner of states he lost.
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Breaking on WSJ: FBI removed 11 sets of classified documents, including some marked as Top Secret, as well as information about the President of France, binders of photos, a handwritten note and an executive grant of clemency for Roger Stone.
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Reminder that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell knew that the Capitol attack was incited by Trump — but asked for a “favor” from GOP senators to make sure the Jan. 6 commission did not happen
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New: Sen. Angus King effectively says yes to nuke filibuster should Republicans use it to block voting rights protections, HR1: “Between a Senate rule and democracy itself, I know where I will come down.”
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New: Sources say former Trump aide Stephanie Grisham told the Jan. 6 committee to talk to Trump’s onetime lead US Secret Service agent Anthony Ornato — who gave Meadows the intel around Jan. 4 that there could be violence at the Capitol
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BREAKING: Jan. 6 committee subpoenas the lead participants in scheme to send fake Trump slates of electors to Congress
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Just in: House Speaker Nancy Pelosi now demands that Acting Defense Secretary Miller halt attempts to install Trump ally Michael Ellis as new NSA general counsel 72 hours before the start of the Biden admin.
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Just in: The Department of Justice is expected tomorrow to ask as many as 56 separate US attorneys appointed by former President Trump to submit their resignations, CNN reports citing a senior DOJ official.
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President Biden tells House Dems that oil companies are to blame for high gas prices — saying he authorized thousands of new drilling permits but they’ve gone unused bc companies want to use profits to buy shares.
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Breaking via Yahoo News: Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has sent so-called “target” letters to prominent Georgia Republicans informing them they could be indicted for their role in the fake electors scheme.
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Steve Bannon was quietly given a heads-up this week that he will likely be indicted Thursday
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