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

    Initially relegated to a fringe theory on the edges of the Republican Party, the revisionist history of Jan. 6, which Trump amplified during the early days of the GOP primary campaign to rouse his most devoted voters, remains a rally centerpiece even as he must appeal more broadly to a general election audience.

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

    Those who study authoritarian regimes say voters should pay attention as Trump vows to pardon Jan. 6 offenders.

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

    WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.At a weekend rally in Ohio, his first as the presumed Republican Party presidential nominee, Trump stood onstage, his hand raised in salute to the brim of his red MAGA hat, as a recorded chorus...

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

    By LISA MASCARO, MARY CLARE JALONICK and JILL COLVIN Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — 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

  • Georgia House Republicans consider erecting statue of Justice Thomas at state Capitol

    Georgia Republicans are taking steps over Democratic opposition to erect a statue of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas at the state Capitol.

  • Local Jan. 6 defendants likely to appear in-person in D.C. federal court

    WASHINGTON — Two local Bartholomew County residents who were arrested earlier this month and charged with assaulting law enforcement officers and storming the U.S. Capitol during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack will likely have to appear in-person for a court hearing in Washington, D.C., in June, according to federal prosecutors. Continue reading at The Republic News.

  • White House says public needs ‘truth’ about Jan. 6 when asked about NBC tapping McDaniel

    President Joe Biden believes that the press plays a “critical” role in protecting democracy, the White House said, when asked for the president’s reaction to NBC News hiring former Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel as a political analyst. Journalists’ roles include ensuring the public “knows” the truth and facts about Jan. 6, per White […]

  • The next Clarence Thomas? Abortion pill case spotlights rightwing judge and his wife’s shadowy connections

    Judge James Ho ruled to restrict mifepristone. His wife Allyson is linked to the anti-abortion group that brought the caseExplainer: the mifepristone caseHow abortion pill case court could undo the FDAWhen the former president Donald Trump appointed the Texas attorney James Ho to the fifth circuit court of appeals in 2017, lawyers at the prominent law firm Gibson Dunn – where Ho worked before his appointment – had a problem: how to replace the politically connected Ho. Turns out, they didn’t...

  • 'This is a political career killer': White House valet heard Trump warn Pence on Jan. 6

    A onetime White House valet for Donald Trump told House investigators that the former president threatened Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, and his way of dealing with documents was to "throw them on the floor," newly released records show. This new perspective inside the Trump Administration appears in the Jan. 6 Select Committee's transcribed interview with a White House staffer who was near the former president on the historic day when rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol, Rep. Barry...

  • Rep. Barry Loudermilk, House investigator, says Jan. 6 committee engaged in political smear of Trump

    Rep. Barry Loudermilk says investigators on the Jan. 6 committee created a final report as a political hit job on former President Donald Trump instead of an analysis of security failures the day the U.S. Capitol was breached by pro-Trump protesters.

  • Peter Navarro is 1st Trump White House official to serve prison time related to Jan. 6 attack

    Peter Navarro is now the first senior Trump administration official to serve prison time related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. Former President Donald Trump said his former trade advisor “was treated very unfairly.” Navarro reported to prison on Tuesday to begin serving his four-month sentence after being found in contempt of Congress for refusing to cooperate with the House Jan. 6 committee. Navarro was defiant in remarks to reporters near the Miami prison complex and has maintained that he...

  • NY Times continues forgiving Justice Thomas

    Pausing their constant worry over Joe Biden's age and prospects amongst the Irish, the New York Times has taken a moment to question people's questioning of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas' complete lack of ethics. As if the New York Times pitchbot is running things, the old Grey Lady decided to offer up a piece on how the embattled Justice keeps helping out the Federalist Society's Little Lebowski Urban Achievers and the evil Democrats who plague him. — Read the rest