Trump demands release of all Jan. 6 'protesters'
2 years, 1 month ago

Trump demands release of all Jan. 6 'protesters'

Raw Story  

Donald Trump on Friday demanded amnesty for everyone involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. "My great respect goes out to the jurors for their courage and understanding in coming to an absolutely correct decision," Trump posted to Truth Social. IN OTHER NEWS: ‘The target on Trump's back is growing bigger’: Legal expert says new grand jury testimony is a ‘huge deal’ "The upcoming Election is very big, but these acquittals of two innocent men greatly set the Radical Left back—but now they should immediately release Great Patriots, Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips, from prison in Houston where they are being held for, essentially, finding millions of illegal, Election-changing ballots," Trump wrote. They weren't the only people Trump does not want held accountable for their role in pushing his "big lie" and inciting the Capitol attacks. On Friday, the Department of Justice announced, "in the 21 months since Jan. 6, 2021, more than 880 individuals have been arrested in nearly all 50 states for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol, including over 270 individuals charged with assaulting or impeding law enforcement."

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Trump says lawmakers who investigated Jan 6 riots should be jailed after he vows to pardon rioters
Trending News
2 weeks, 1 day ago

Trump says lawmakers who investigated Jan 6 riots should be jailed after he vows to pardon rioters

Firstpost  

After pledging to pardon Jan. 6 rioters on his first day in office, President-elect Donald Trump said that he would like to see those who investigated the insurgency behind bars. In the 45-minute-long NBC interview aired on Sunday, Trump insisted that members of the now-defunct House select committee tasked with investigating the deadly January 6 insurrection should be in jail. …

January 6 Rioters Think Donald Trump’s Victory Is Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card
54 years, 11 months ago

January 6 Rioters Think Donald Trump’s Victory Is Their Get-Out-of-Jail-Free Card

Wired  

Brandon Fellows, 30, spent several years in jail on charges linked to the January 6 Capitol insurrection. “I want to get a couple: a rifle, a pistol.” On the campaign trial, Trump repeatedly promised that, if elected, he’d grant pardons and clemency to the January 6 rioters. He yoked his own litany of legal woes, including those linked to January …

Trump Once Again Expresses Solidarity With Jan. 6 Domestic Terrorists
2 months, 1 week ago

Trump Once Again Expresses Solidarity With Jan. 6 Domestic Terrorists

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Less than three weeks before the election that could return him to the White House, Donald Trump again expressed solidarity with the violent domestic terrorists who assaulted the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, leaving 140 police officers injured and five dead. “That was a day of love,” Trump said Wednesday evening as he repeated a number of …

Trump’s Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Could Be Back In The Headlines Just In Time For The Election
2 months, 4 weeks ago

Trump’s Jan. 6 Coup Attempt Could Be Back In The Headlines Just In Time For The Election

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON — Donald Trump’s coup attempt that ended with the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol may be on the cusp of making new headlines, just weeks ahead of the November election. 6 is already baked into this election cake.” Fellow Republican David Kochel, a consultant and veteran of numerous campaigns, said he also doubts …

Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House
9 months ago

Trump is making the Jan. 6 attack a cornerstone of his bid for the White House

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — 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. Having previously vowed to pardon the rioters, he promised to help …

Trump promises to free U.S. Capitol rioters if reelected
9 months, 1 week ago

Trump promises to free U.S. Capitol rioters if reelected

Raw Story  

Donald Trump on Monday pledged to free people jailed for taking part in the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol as one of his first actions if reelected, calling them "hostages." Trump posted the comments on his Truth Social website, additionally promising to shut down the border with Mexico as part of his first acts if reelected, without providing details. …

On Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they endorse his presidential bid
11 months, 2 weeks ago

On Jan. 6 many Republicans blamed Trump for the Capitol riot. Now they endorse his presidential bid

LA Times  

Rioters walk near the West Front at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In the aftermath of the 2020 election, they wrote in “Tyranny of the Minority,” only one U.S. political party “violated all three.” Saturday marked the third anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, and Donald Trump, the president at the time, is far …

Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them
1 year ago

Trump embraces the Jan. 6 rioters on the trail. In court, his lawyers hope to distance him from them

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Donald Trump has embraced the rioters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, as patriots, vowed to pardon a large portion of them if he wins a second term and even collaborated on a song with a group of jailed defendants. Despite losing a bid to strike from the indictment references to that day’s violence, defense …

Trump Once Condemned The Jan. 6 Rioters. Now He's One Of Their Biggest Supporters.
1 year, 4 months ago

Trump Once Condemned The Jan. 6 Rioters. Now He's One Of Their Biggest Supporters.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING NEW YORK — The day after Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battling law enforcement and sending members of Congress — who were set to formally certify his reelection loss — running for their lives. That was when, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s …

Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he’s become one of their biggest supporters
1 year, 4 months ago

Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he’s become one of their biggest supporters

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — The day after Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump denounced the rioters who violently stormed the Capitol building, breaking through barricades, battling law enforcement and sending members of Congress — who were set to formally certify his reelection loss — running for their lives. That March, in an interview with Fox News Channel’s Laura Ingraham, Trump claimed …

Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he's become one of their biggest supporters
1 year, 4 months ago

Trump once condemned the Jan. 6 rioters. Now he's become one of their biggest supporters

The Independent  

Sign up for the daily Inside Washington email for exclusive US coverage and analysis sent to your inbox Get our free Inside Washington email Please enter a valid email address Please enter a valid email address SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Trump called Babbitt “an innocent, wonderful, incredible woman" …

Trump says he’ll be arrested Tuesday, urges supporters to protest
1 year, 9 months ago

Trump says he’ll be arrested Tuesday, urges supporters to protest

LA Times  

Law enforcement officials in New York have been making security preparations for the possibility that former President Trump could be indicted. That did not stop Trump from taking to social media to say “illegal leaks” from Bragg’s office indicate that “THE FAR & AWAY LEADING REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE & FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, WILL BE ARRESTED ON …

Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump’s lies to the ‘unimaginable’
2 years ago

Jan. 6 takeaways: From Trump’s lies to the ‘unimaginable’

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 committee released its final report Thursday on the “unimaginable” 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a mob assault by supporters of the defeated president, Donald Trump, that shook the nation and exposed the fragility of American democracy. “Prior to January 6th, it was unimaginable.” EIGHT CHAPTERS From the “Big Lie” of Trump’s November 2020 …

5 key takeaways from January 6 panel’s report on US Capitol riot
2 years ago

5 key takeaways from January 6 panel’s report on US Capitol riot

Al Jazeera  

Washington, DC – “One man” is ultimately responsible for last year’s attack on the United States Capitol: Former President Donald Trump. Here is a look at five key takeaways from the final report: Trump is ‘central cause’ of the riot The report unambiguously blamed Trump for the attack on the Capitol: “The central cause of January 6th was one man, …

Trump promotes Truth Social post claiming the Capitol riot was a 'false flag'
2 years ago

Trump promotes Truth Social post claiming the Capitol riot was a 'false flag'

Raw Story  

Fresh off hosting a QAnon conference at Mar-a-Lago and bringing a Holocaust denier over for dinner, former President Donald Trump on Wednesday promoted a conspiracy theory about the January 6 riot at the United States Capitol building. On his Truth Social network, the former president boosted a post from an anonymous user who baselessly claimed that the Capitol riot was …

From ‘an attempted coup’ to chaos, searing moments of Jan. 6
2 years, 5 months ago

From ‘an attempted coup’ to chaos, searing moments of Jan. 6

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — Through eight hearings, 20 live witnesses and dozens of hours of recorded testimony, the House Jan. 6 panel has focused its case squarely on former President Donald Trump. It represents seeing Trump’s last stand, most desperate chance to halt the transfer of power.” ‘CARNAGE’ AT THE CAPITOL Capitol Police Officer Caroline Edwards, one of two witnesses at the …

January 6 committee reveals how a tweet from Donald Trump and an 'unhinged' meeting at the White House sparked the Capitol riot
2 years, 5 months ago

January 6 committee reveals how a tweet from Donald Trump and an 'unhinged' meeting at the White House sparked the Capitol riot

ABC  

With the final scheduled hearing of the January 6 committee looming, the panel investigating the Capitol riot is zeroing in on former US president Donald Trump. Trump's tweet about a 'big protest' In the early hours of December 19, 2020, "President Trump turned away from both his outside advisers' most outlandish and unworkable schemes and his White House Counsel's advice …

Jan. 6 panel to pinpoint one single decision Trump made that set Capitol violence into motion: reporter
2 years, 5 months ago

Jan. 6 panel to pinpoint one single decision Trump made that set Capitol violence into motion: reporter

Raw Story  

The Jan. 6 committee will focus on a decision made late at night in the White House that spurred the violence that erupted at the U.S. Capitol. It's not clear who made the decision for Donald Trump to tweet out an invitation to his supporters to go "wild" in Washington, D.C., on the day Congress met to certify Joe Biden's …

Trump lashes out at Jan. 6 committee in angry post to his ‘Truth Social’ platform
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump lashes out at Jan. 6 committee in angry post to his ‘Truth Social’ platform

Raw Story  

Donald Trump reacted angrily on Thursday night after two hours of prime-time coverage across all of the major networks but Fox News of the latest hearing by the House Select Committee Investigating the Jan. 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol. "So the Unselect Committee of political HACKS refuses to play any of the many positive witnesses and statements, refuses to …

Trump says Jan. 6 was the 'greatest movement in the history of our Country' -- hours before House hearings begin
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump says Jan. 6 was the 'greatest movement in the history of our Country' -- hours before House hearings begin

Raw Story  

Hours before the House select committee investigation hearing on the Jan. 6 insurrection, which saw hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump storm the U.S. Capitol, the former president raged on Truth Social that the day of the riot "represented the greatest movement in the history of our Country." With the first of six nationally televised hearings that promise new videos …

Trump And His Allies Prepare Alternative Reality Of Lies To Counter Jan. 6 Hearings
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump And His Allies Prepare Alternative Reality Of Lies To Counter Jan. 6 Hearings

Huff Post  

Trump supporters occupy the West Front of the Capitol and the inauguration stands on Jan. 6, 2021. In this universe, the members of Trump’s mob who assaulted police officers and breached the Capitol, and are now being prosecuted for it, are actually “political prisoners.” The Jan. 6 committee ― which includes two Republican members, one of whom is the vice …

Trump dangles prospect of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants
2 years, 10 months ago

Trump dangles prospect of pardons for Jan. 6 defendants

Associated Press  

CONROE, Texas — Former President Donald Trump is dangling the prospect of pardons for supporters who participated in the deadly Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol if he returns to the White House. More than 100 police officers were injured, some critically, after Trump supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, following a “Stop the Steal” rally by …

Abcarian: Republicans' brazen revisionism regarding Jan. 6
2 years, 11 months ago

Abcarian: Republicans' brazen revisionism regarding Jan. 6

LA Times  

Pro-Trump rioters clash with police during the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol last year. And yet, the noxious gases had barely dissipated, the broken glass barely swept away when Republican revisionism began: Yes, a handful of people died and dozens of law enforcement officers were seriously injured in hand-to-hand combat described as “medieval,” but it wasn’t Trump’s fault. Like …

A timeline of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — including when and how Trump responded
2 years, 11 months ago

A timeline of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — including when and how Trump responded

NPR  

A timeline of the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — including when and how Trump responded Enlarge this image toggle caption Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Jon Cherry/Getty Images; Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images; Jon Cherry/Getty Images; Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images January 6, 2021, was a Wednesday. Enlarge this image toggle caption Samuel Corum/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Samuel Corum/Pool/AFP via Getty Images Shortly …

Donald Trump Justifies Capitol Riot, Says Election Was The 'Real Insurrection'
3 years, 2 months ago

Donald Trump Justifies Capitol Riot, Says Election Was The 'Real Insurrection'

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Former President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the Jan. 6 mob attack on the U.S. Capitol, calling it a legitimate protest against a rigged election. In a statement, Trump targeted Congress’ bipartisan select committee investigating the attack, which involved a horde of his supporters storming the Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 …

Trump whines for over 100 minutes at Arizona grievance festival — here are the 7 most absurd moments
3 years, 5 months ago

Trump whines for over 100 minutes at Arizona grievance festival — here are the 7 most absurd moments

Raw Story  

Donald Trump spoke for over 100 minutes during a long-winded speech at a "Rally to Protect Our Elections" in Phoenix. Doug Ducey, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, all the Republicans who are "worse than Democrats," Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, soccer's United States Women's National Team, and said his supporters have to "fight" against everyone who said he …

Timeline: What Trump Told Supporters For Months Before They Attacked
3 years, 10 months ago

Timeline: What Trump Told Supporters For Months Before They Attacked

NPR  

Timeline: What Trump Told Supporters For Months Before They Attacked Enlarge this image toggle caption Brent Stirton/Getty Images Brent Stirton/Getty Images This week's Senate impeachment trial for former President Donald Trump centers on his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, when thousands of rioters disrupted Congress, killing and injuring Capitol police officers and others in the process. …

Trump signals his coup isn’t over
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump signals his coup isn’t over

Salon  

The violent mob Donald Trump sent to attack and loot our Capitol receded during the night, but his efforts to overthrow our government continue. Primetime hosts on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News repeatedly told the lie Wednesday evening that Capitol invaders were not Trumpian thugs, but Antifa posing as Trump supporters or at least some of them were Antifa. In Salem, …

Video shows what Donald Trump was doing moments before Capitol seige attempt by his supporters
3 years, 11 months ago

Video shows what Donald Trump was doing moments before Capitol seige attempt by his supporters

India TV News  

The January 6 US capitol seige attempt by Trump supporters, upset with the loss, has been condemned by the world. Through actions such as several arrests, suspension of President Donald Trump's Twitter accounts, others have been taken, the strain on America's Democracy will not be washed away so soon, so easily. While there have been talks of impeaching Donald Trump …

"Arrest the president": Accountability demanded after fascist mob incited by Trump storms Capitol
3 years, 11 months ago

"Arrest the president": Accountability demanded after fascist mob incited by Trump storms Capitol

Salon  

This article originally appeared at Common Dreams. Demands that President Donald Trump be fully held to account for inciting the fascist mob that rampaged through the U.S. Capitol Building proliferated Wednesday as all hell broke loose in Washington, D.C., with members of Congress and journalists forced to seek shelter as the lame-duck incumbent's supporters shattered windows and clashed with law …

U.S. Capitol in lockdown after Trump unleashes violent mob on Congress
3 years, 11 months ago

U.S. Capitol in lockdown after Trump unleashes violent mob on Congress

Salon  

The U.S. Capitol went into lockdown on Wednesday afternoon as a pro-Trump mob, directed to Capitol Hill in a rally speech by the outgoing president, broke through police lines, entered the Capitol building and engaged federal guards in an armed standoff within the Senate chamber. President-elect Biden denounced the events in a televised address, calling the attack "an insurrection" from …

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