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[Link] Trump Tried to Call a Jan. 6 Committee Witness and DOJ Has Been Notified
Read: 12/7/2022 www.vice.com
Former President Donald Trump called a witness to the House Jan. 6 Select Committee, the committee’s top Republican said Tuesday—a potentially illegal act that the committee has shared with the Justice Department. Wyoming Rep.
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[Link] Jared Kushner ‘voluntarily’ gives Capitol attack panel information in testimony
Read: 3/4/2022 www.theguardian.com
Jared Kushner testified Thursday before the House select committee investigating the 6 January attack on the Capitol, becoming the first member of Donald Trump’s family to speak to investigators.
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[Link] ‘The walls are closing in’: Trump reels from week of political setbacks
Read: 23/1/2022 www.theguardian.com
The last time Donald Trump heard such hammer blows, they were from renovations at Mar-a-Lago that displeased the former president. But not even that sound would have left his ears ringing like last week’s avalanche of bad news that some believe nudged a criminal indictment one step closer.
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[Link] ‘It Has Gone Too Far’: Don Jr. Begged His Dad to Stop the Jan. 6 Rioters
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
As the Capitol riot was unfolding, some of the biggest names in the conservative movement were working their connections in the White House to get former President Donald Trump to do something—anything—to stop it.
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[Link] Proud Boys and Oath Keepers Sued By DC Attorney General for Jan. 6
Read: 14/12/2021 www.vice.com
This is a developing story. Please refresh for updates. The D.C. attorney general is suing the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for damages for allegedly “planning, promoting, and participating in” the Jan. 6 attack on Congress, he announced Tuesday.
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[Link] Marjorie Taylor Greene Says Jailed Jan. 6 Defendants Abused ‘Because of the Color of Their Skin’
Read: 8/12/2021 www.vice.com
Georgia Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene claimed that the people behind bars for their alleged role in the Jan.
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[Link] Ex-National Guard Official Accuses Army of ‘Stalinist’ Lies About Jan. 6
Read: 6/12/2021 www.vice.com
A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and covering up their roles in delaying a military response to the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. Col. Earl Matthews, a senior National Security Council and Army official who was the top attorney for the D.C.
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[Link] Jan. 6 Organizers Used Burner Phones to Talk to Trump Family: Report
Read: 24/11/2021 www.vice.com
White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows reportedly told an aide to pick up three burner phones and said it was “of the utmost importance” to use cash.
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[Link] Mnuchin and Pompeo Discussed Ousting Trump After Jan. 6, Book Says
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Two of the Cabinet members closest to former President Donald Trump had multiple conversations about whether to remove him from office using the 25th Amendment, according to a new book released Tuesday.
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[Link] ‘QAnon Shaman’ Sentenced to More Than 3 Years in Prison for Capitol Riot
Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com
Jacob Chansley “made himself the very image of the riot,” the judge who sentenced him said. Jacob Chansley, the “QAnon Shaman” also known as Jake Angeli, was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison today.
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[Link] A Jan. 6 Rioter Crawled Through Swamps to Seek Asylum in Belarus
Read: 9/11/2021 www.vice.com
An American who is accused of punching a police officer during the Capitol riots is now seeking political asylum in the eastern European country of Belarus.
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[Link] The Lawyer Behind Trump’s Infamous Jan. 6 Memo Has a Galling New Defense
Read: 9/11/2021 slate.com
As the California state bar considers whether to initiate disciplinary proceedings against John Eastman for his role in Donald Trump’s attempt to steal the 2020 election, the former dean of Chapman Law School has begun to mount a defense of his infamous legal memo on the “January 6 scenario.
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[Link] The plan to tighten Australia’s voter ID laws is just a clumsy uptake of US culture wars
Read: 7/11/2021 www.theguardian.com
It resembles many initiatives of the Morrison government, and most of the ideas which have emerged from Australian conservatism more broadly in the past decade or more, in that it is opportunistic, unoriginal, and so unnecessary as to be baffling.
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[Link] Tucker Carlson Made a Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ and it Looks Completely Unhinged
Read: 28/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. It’s come to this: Fox News and Tucker Carlson are producing a new documentary on the Capitol riot that appears to portray the insurrection as a false flag operation against Trump supporters.
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[Link] Lawyer Who Told Trump Pence Could Block the Election Says Riot Was FBI ‘Setup’
Read: 27/10/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Capital Rioter Begged to Be Released From ‘Cult-Like’ Patriot Wing of DC Jail
Read: 26/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. An alleged Capitol rioter was released to the custody of his parents Tuesday after a judge in the case said he was surrounded by the “toxic environment” of the D.C. jail holding dozens of January 6 defendants.
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[Link] ‘History will not judge us kindly’: Facebook employees rip Zuckerberg in leaked messages
Read: 26/10/2021 nypost.com
Facebook employees say Mark Zuckerberg’s obsession with growth has overridden ethical concerns and allowed hate speech and incitements to violence to spread unchecked, internal messages leaked to media outlets show.
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[Link] A Pair Of January 6 Planners Just Rolled On Their Congressional Accomplices
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Arizona Republican Rep. Paul Gosar, a close ally of former President Donald Trump, reportedly floated a “blanket pardon” to two organizers of the January 6 pro-Trump rallies that descended into a violent attack on the U.S.
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[Link] Capitol Police Officer Arrested For Aiding January 6 Rioter
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. A U.S. Capitol Police officer was arrested on Friday for allegedly warning a rioter to destroy evidence that they’d made it into the Capitol on January 6.
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[Link] A Capitol Rioter Represented Himself in Court and it Went Very, Very Wrong
Read: 15/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Brandon Fellows, a 27-year-old from Albany, New York, was charged with multiple crimes including obstruction of an official proceeding, which could land him in prison for up to 20 years.
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[Link] Trump Recorded a Birthday Video for Capitol Rioter Ashli Babbitt
Read: 12/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Former President Donald Trump recorded a video message praising Ashli Babbitt, the QAnon supporter who was shot dead by Capitol Police during the Jan. 6 insurrection, pledging his “unwavering” support to her family and friends.
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[Link] MAGA QAnon's 2 Biggest Celebrities Are at War
Read: 11/10/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. And the spat is splitting their supporters down the middle.
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[Link] Proud Boy, Already Awaiting Trial, Allegedly Crashed His Boat While Drunk
Read: 5/10/2021 www.vice.com
Rae, 38, is currently on federal supervised release while awaiting trial for charges linked to storming the Capitol on Jan. 6. Nowhere in the order setting Rae’s terms of release did a judge say that getting arrested for alleged drunken boating was an acceptable activity while out on bond.
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[Link] Trump Called to Insist His Penis Didn’t Look Like a Toadstool, Press Sec Says
Read: 28/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. For a former press secretary who held zero briefings during her 9-month tenure, Stephanie Grisham certainly has a lot to say about the culture of the Trump White House in her new book, namely that it was a pit of sexual harassment.
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[Link] Oath Keeper Snitched on Himself to FBI Agent During Tattoo Session, Docs Say
Read: 8/9/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Roberto Minuta, who’s facing serious conspiracy charges for his alleged role on Jan.
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[Link] Capitol attack committee issues sweeping requests for official records
Read: 26/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
The House select committee tasked with investigating the 6 January attacks on the Capitol has issued its first round of sweeping demands for records from multiple US government agencies.
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[Link] Mo Brooks: ‘Socialism’ Is Why a Guy Threatened to Blow Up the Capitol
Read: 21/8/2021 www.vice.com
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[Link] Top Republicans move to protect Trump from Capitol attack fallout
Read: 7/8/2021 www.theguardian.com
Top Republicans in Congress are embarking on a new campaign of revisionism seven months after the attack on the Capitol, absolving Donald Trump of responsibility and blaming the House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, for the 6 January insurrection perpetrated by a mob of Trump supporters.
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[Link] FTC Slams Facebook For Lying About Why it Shut Down Misinformation Research
Read: 7/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. In a rare rebuke against a big U.S.
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[Link] QAnon Thinks Cop Suicides After the Capitol Riot Are a Cover-Up
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. QAnon conspiracy theorists firmly believe that pretty much everything is fake or a cover up. The stolen election, the COVID-19 pandemic, and of course, the Capitol riots, in which QAnon followers played a central role.
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[Link] No One Knows How This Proud Boy Got $1 Million for Bail
Read: 5/8/2021 www.vice.com
The recent back-and-forth in court documents filed this week is part of Nordean’s ongoing battle to get out of jail before trial.
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[Link] Retired US general says the Trump White House 'was complicit in the planning' of the January 6 insurrection
Read: 31/7/2021 www.businessinsider.com
Retired Lt. Gen. Russel Honoré, who was tasked by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi with conducting a review of the US Capitol's security after January 6, on Tuesday said President Donald Trump's White House was complicit in orchestrating the insurrection.
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[Link] Laura Ingraham says Capitol police beaten by Trump mob have ‘nobody to blame but themselves’
Read: 30/7/2021 www.independent.co.uk
Fox News' Laura Ingraham attacked Capitol Police officers on her Wednesday night show. Following a speech about her perceived failures of Dr Anthony Fauci, she went on to discredit officers: “Fauci has no one to blame but himself, ditto for the Capitol police who testified on Wednesday”.
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[Link] In a Different Capitol Siege, Republicans in Oregon Call for Accountability
Read: 11/6/2021 www.nytimes.com
G.O.P. lawmakers in the state are calling for the resignation of a legislator who appears to have encouraged protesters to breach the State Capitol in December. A little more than two weeks before a mob of supporters of Donald J. Trump stormed the U.S.
[Link] Suspect in Capitol riot who left a note for Nancy Pelosi says he called her the 'less offensive' 'biatch,' not 'b----' in new argument for bail
Read: 28/4/2021 www.businessinsider.com
An Arkansas man arrested and charged in connection to the Capitol insurrection is arguing slang semantics in a new request for bail.
[Link] Capitol Rioters Face the Consequences of Their Selfie Sabotage
Read: 9/4/2021 www.nytimes.com
Joe Biggs and his fellow Proud Boys left an incriminating social media trail for federal investigators before and during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6. WASHINGTON — On Jan.
[Link] Capitol riot defendant flips to help prosecutors against Proud Boys
Read: 9/4/2021 www.cnn.com
At least one of the Capitol riot defendants has flipped against the Proud Boys, agreeing to provide information that could allow the Justice Department to bring a more severe charge against the group's leadership, according to an attorney involved in the case.
[Link] The man who put his feet up on a desk in Pelosi’s office during the Capitol riot throws a tantrum in court.
Read: 4/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETMarch 4, 2021, 12:46 p.m. ETRichard Barnett of Gravette, Ark., posed for photographs while sitting at a desk in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office during the siege at the Capitol.Credit...
[Link] Second police officer dies by suicide after Capitol attack
Read: 28/1/2021 thehill.com
Acting MPD Chief Robert Contee identified the officer as Jeffrey Smith, who he said was injured while trying to help contain the mob of former President Trump's supporters attempting to stop Congress from certifying President Biden's electoral victory.