WASHINGTON — Two. That’s how many Republicans in the House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to create a select committee that will investigate the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6th, the worst assault on the heart of American democracy since the War of 1812. The remaining 200-odd House …
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When Rush Limbaugh, the Great Bloviater of the AM dial, signed off from the “Limbaugh Institute for Advanced Conservative Studies,” two days before Christmas, he warned the faithful in the raspy remains of his famous trumpeting baritone: “The day is gonna come, folks, where I’m not going to be able …
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WASHINGTON —There is one and only one person who would qualify as the star witness in the second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump. That person is Mike Pence. To call the former vice president a key figure in the events preceding and during the deadly January 6th insurrection …
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Donald Trump granted pardons to rappers Lil Wayne and Kodak Black on Tuesday night as part of a last-minute spree that saw Trump issue clemency to many political allies on his final full day in office. Wayne, whose real name is Dwayne Carter, pleaded guilty on a federal weapons charge …
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UPDATE (1/20): Joseph Biggs, an organizer with the Proud Boys, is the latest to be arrested and charged for participating in the riot at the U.S. Capitol earlier this month, NBC News reports. Biggs was seen in several videos and photos taken inside the Capitol, including one where he pulled …
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Related: The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence Mike Pence sowed the wind on July 15th, 2016, signing on to become the running mate of a man manifestly unfit to sit in the White House. On January 6th 2021, he reaped the whirlwind. More than any other Republican, Michael R. Pence …
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President Donald Trump‘s efforts to overturn the presidential election suffered another blow Monday as the Wisconsin Supreme Court, in a 4-3 ruling, rejected Trump’s lawsuit. This was the court’s fourth ruling within 10 days against the president, and each ruling was 4-3 — an uncomfortably narrow margin when the health …
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Contractors used armed Mexican security units who were illegally smuggled into the United States to guard the construction sites of Trump’s border wall, according to a complaint by two whistle-blowers. According to the New York Times, in unsealed court documents the whistle-blowers allege that two companies, Sullivan Land Services Co. …
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In a stunning walkback of his remarks during the 2020 presidential debate that the Proud Boys, a far-right extremist organization, should “stand back and stand by,” President Donald Trump claimed on Wednesday that he doesn’t even know who the Proud Boys are — yet he refused to explicitly condemn them. …
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Asked to condemn white supremacists on Tuesday night, President Trump instead named a militant white supremacist group and issued a call to arms. Moderator Chris Wallace asked Donald Trump if he was willing to “condemn white supremacists and militia groups.” He referenced cities such as Kenosha and Portland, hotbeds of …
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