MSNBC host gets emotional in interview with former DC officer on Jan. 6 anniversary
MSNBC’s Jonathan Capehart got emotional during an interview with former D.C. police officer Michael Fanone on the three-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. Right after introducing Fanone, Capehart became visibly emotional and his voice shook. “Officer Fanone, I’m gonna try to get through this,” Capehart said. “Thank you, for what you did, three…
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Florida Democratic Senate candidate: Jan. 6 like Latin American authoritarianism
Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a former congresswoman looking to unseat Florida Sen. Rick Scott (R), compared the Jan. 6, 2021, riot on the Capitol to attacks on democracy in Latin American countries. Ecuador-born Mucarsel-Powell, the first member of Congress born in South America, fled her birth country as a teenager with her family in 1985. “As a…
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Liz Cheney backs push to bar Trump from ballot under 14th Amendment – POLITICO
Legal Cheney continues to flirt with the possibility of her own third-party presidential bid. On the eve of the third anniversary of the Capitol riot, Liz Cheney said that Donald Trump’s actions that day “threaten the very foundations of our democracy.” | Andy Kropa/Invision/AP By Lisa Kashinsky 01/05/2024 06:23 PM EST Link CopiedLiz Cheney is…
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Raskin slams Trump attorney comment about Kavanaugh as ‘New York mobsters’ mentality
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) slammed a comment by former President Trump’s lawyer where she insinuated Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh will “step up” when it comes to the the former president’s ballot cases, claiming it shows a “New York mobsters” mentality. “Well, this is the way that New York mobsters think about judges,” Raskin told…
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The Jan. 6 attack continues to haunt Trump's reelection – POLITICO
ELECTIONS Views of the attack have shifted among Republicans, but it remains toxic with the rest of the electorate. The Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol continues to loom over Trump’s reelection campaign. | Win McNamee/Getty Images By Steven Shepard 01/06/2024 07:00 AM EST Link CopiedRepublican voters have steadily grown more forgiving of the Jan.…
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Fugitive Jan. 6 Participants Arrested Exactly 3 Years After Capitol Attack
Three individuals wanted for allegedly assaulting officers were tracked down to a ranch in Florida.
Opinion | Is Trump Hell? – The New York Times
AdvertisementSupported byMaureen DowdBy Maureen DowdOpinion Columnist, reporting from WashingtonThese are the men that try The Times’s soul.With the disreputable Donald Trump challenging the disfavored President Biden, the 2024 race has become the embodiment of Oscar Wilde’s witticism about fox hunting: “the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.”Bleeding young and nonwhite voters, the president finally heeded…
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Trump tells Iowans to ‘get over’ recent school shooting: ‘We have to move forward’
Former President Trump shared his condolences for the victims and their families of a recent school shooting in Iowa during a campaign stop in the Hawkeye State Friday — but then urged his supporters to “move forward.” “I want to send our support and our deepest sympathies to the victims and families touched by the…
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Trump reacts to SCOTUS Colorado hearing and Iowa shooting at rally – NBC News
Trump reacts to SCOTUS Colorado hearing and Iowa shooting at rally NBC Newssource
FBI in Florida captures 3 people linked to Jan. 6 on third anniversary of riot
The FBI apprehended three people accused of participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, at a ranch in Florida, the agency announced Saturday. FBI’s Tampa office identified the fugitives as Jonathan Daniel Pollock, his sister Olivia Michele Pollock and Joseph Daniel Hutchinson III. They are scheduled to appear in federal court in Ocala,…
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Special counsel Jack Smith argues Trump’s push to hold him in contempt in January 6 case is baseless – CNN
Special counsel Jack Smith argues Trump’s push to hold him in contempt in January 6 case is baseless CNNsource
Can Trump run for president? The US Supreme Court will decide – Euronews
The court will settle whether Donald Trump can be struck off ballots in the 2024 presidential election after his role in the 2021 Capitol insurrection. The Supreme Court said on Friday it will decide if former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot in the 2024 presidential election. Trump wants to face off against…
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New Mexico's Attorney General Declines to Prosecute Trump Fake Electors – The Messenger
New Mexico’s Democratic Attorney General Raul Torrez said Friday that he will not be prosecuting a group of voters in the state who posed as fake electors in a failed plot to overturn presidential voter results for Donald Trump. Torrez called it “disgraceful that New Mexicans were enlisted in a plot to undermine democracy and thwart…
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Major Jan. 6 Mystery Still Unsolved As Hundreds Of Capitol Rioters Convicted
We still don’t know who left the pipe bombs outside the offices of Republican and Democratic national committees.
Haley hits hurdles in challenge to Trump – The Hill
Nikki Haley is hitting hurdles as she seeks to take on former President Trump in Iowa and New Hampshire. The former U.N. ambassador scrambled this week to clarify comments she made on the campaign trail about the cause of the Civil War and faced backlash after she told New Hampshire voters they would correct the results…
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What are Trump's plans for the economy in a potential 2nd term? – ABC News
His agenda aims to hike US productivity but risks higher prices, experts said.Days away from the first ballots cast in the 2024 primary election, former President Donald Trump holds a commanding lead over his Republican rivals and tops President Joe Biden in some head-to-head polls.Trump's standing appears to stem in part from widespread frustration over…
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Prosecutors Push Back on Trump's Contempt Claims in Election Case – The New York Times
Trump Federal Election CaseAdvertisementSupported byThe filing by Jack Smith was the latest volley in a battle over the timing of the case accusing the former president of plotting to overturn the 2020 election.By Alan FeuerFederal prosecutors pushed back on Friday night against former President Donald J. Trump’s attempts to hold them in contempt of court…
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Biden makes impassioned argument Trump could destroy American democracy as he opens 2024 campaign – CNN
Biden makes impassioned argument Trump could destroy American democracy as he opens 2024 campaign CNNsource
Trump legal news brief: Supreme Court agrees to quickly decide whether Trump can be kept off ballots – Yahoo News
Trump legal news brief: Supreme Court agrees to quickly decide whether Trump can be kept off ballots Yahoo Newssource
Judge denies Giuliani request to extend filing deadline in Georgia case
A Georgia judge rejected Rudy Giuliani’s request for an extended deadline in his election interference case Friday. Giuliani requested that the Monday deadline for motions be extended due to the significant burden of case discovery. Judge Scott McAfee said the former New York City mayor “does not articulate exactly what discovery must still be reviewed,…
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Trump warns of ‘big trouble’ as Supreme Court agrees to hear Colorado ballot case
Former President Trump warned Friday that there will be “big trouble” if the Supreme Court does not rule in his favor on his eligibility for the 2024 presidential ballot. The Supreme Court is set to hear the Colorado case after the state’s Supreme Court determined last month that Trump should not be on the primary…
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Video: Trump fires back at Biden in Iowa speech – CNN
Video: Trump fires back at Biden in Iowa speech CNNsource
The Supreme Court will decide if Donald Trump can be kept off 2024 presidential ballots – The Associated Press
Copyright 2024 The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.The Supreme Court will decide whether former President Donald Trump can be kept off the ballot because of his efforts to overturn his 2020 election loss, inserting the court squarely in the 2024 presidential campaign. (Jan. 5)Former President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally at Terrace View…
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New York AG asks judge to force Trump to pay $370M in fraud case – The Hill
Former President Trump, his business and several top executives — including his adult sons — used “myriad deceptive schemes” to falsely inflate his net worth by billions, the New York attorney general’s office argued Friday in court filings ahead of closing remarks in his fraud trial next week. “The conclusion that defendants intended to defraud when…
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Trump Calls On Supporters To Stop ‘Bags Of Crap’ Who Enter Polling Places
Critics on social media alleged that the former president was “intimidating voters” in the months before Election Day.