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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] Looks Like Ron DeSantis Is Getting His Election Police Force

Read: 13/3/2022 www.vice.com

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ grand plan for an election police force has been widely panned as an absolutely terrible idea in practice by experts nationally.

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[Link] Peter Thiel Is Stepping Down From Facebook to Go Full MAGA

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

Billionaire tech investor Peter Thiel is stepping down from the board of Meta, Facebook’s parent company said Monday.

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[Link] Supreme Court Says Racial Gerrymandering Is No Big Deal

Read: 8/2/2022 www.vice.com

The Supreme Court just undercut Black voters’ power in Alabama—and signaled that it’s likely to further gut the Voting Rights Act. This ruling isn’t specifically on the merits of whether the map violated the Voting Rights Act or not—that’ll come later.

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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] Trump Knew He Tested Positive For COVID-19 Before Debating Biden

Read: 1/12/2021 www.vice.com

Then-President Donald Trump tested positive for COVID-19 three days before debating Joe Biden and almost a week before he publicly admitted he had the virus, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows reportedly revealed in his new book. Trump reportedly tested positive on Sept.

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[Link] FBI Raids Home of GOP Election Official Linked to QAnon’s Ron Watkins

Read: 17/11/2021 www.vice.com

The FBI has raided the home of a Republican election official in Colorado accused of facilitating the leak of sensitive election data to QAnon influencer Ron Watkins.

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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] 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] A Proud ‘Lady Trump’ Is Running For Nevada Governor

Read: 20/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Fiore is perhaps best known for her hardline gun rights advocacy. In December 2015, Fiore posted a family Christmas photo to Facebook showing her entire family holding guns—including her five-year-old grandson.

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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] Trump Supporters Have Already Turned on the Cyber Ninjas

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. Doug Logan, the CEO of Cyber Ninjas, the Florida-based company that conducted the bogus election ‘audit’ in Arizona over the last six months, says he won’t be conducting any more recounts—unless God tells him to.

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[Link] The GOP Plot to Steal Wisconsin Is Off to a Ridiculous Start

Read: 9/10/2021 www.vice.com

Want the best of VICE News straight to your inbox? Sign up here. No one, apparently, has learned from the mistakes of Arizona and Cyber Ninjas. Particularly not Wisconsin Republicans.

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[Link] Trump demands Pulitzer board rescind awards for Russia interference reporting

Read: 5/10/2021 www.theguardian.com

Donald Trump has again demanded the Pulitzer prize board rescind the prize for national reporting awarded to the New York Times and Washington Post in 2018, for exposing Russian election interference and links between Trump and Moscow.

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[Link] FCC Proposes Record Fine Against Pro-Trump Robocall Scam, But Will It Collect?

Read: 25/8/2021 www.vice.com

The FCC this week announced that partisan disinformation merchants Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman could face a record $5 million fine for illegal robocalls placed during the run up to the 2020 elections.

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[Link] GOP Senate Candidate Says You Should Be Worried About ‘Anti-White Racism’

Read: 9/8/2021 www.vice.com

Billionaire tech mogul Peter Thiel’s favored candidate for an Arizona Senate seat went on a recent screed against “anti-white racism,” accusing liberal teachers of turning America’s students into self-hating automatons.

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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] 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] Mike Lindell says he hired investigators to find out why Fox News won’t book him

Read: 12/4/2021 www.theguardian.com

Mike Lindell, the formerly ubiquitous purveyor of both Donald Trump’s election lies and his own range of My Pillow bedding accoutrements, says he has hired private investigators to find out why he appears to have fallen out of favor with Fox News.

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[Link] Joe Biden to have new Secret Service team amid concern about Trump loyalty

Read: 24/1/2021 www.theguardian.com

Joe Biden is expected to receive Secret Service protection with a new team that is more familiar to him and replacing some agents amid concerns that they may be politically allied with Donald Trump.

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[Link] A look inside Biden’s Oval Office

Read: 24/1/2021 www.washingtonpost.com

President Biden has filled the Oval Office with images of American leaders and icons, focusing the room around a massive portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt that hangs across from the Resolute Desk.

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