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.
Those who study authoritarian regimes say voters should pay attention as Trump vows to pardon Jan. 6 offenders.
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...
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
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 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 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...
Trump is calling for Liz Cheney and other members of the House Jan. 6 committee to be jailed and also said liberal Jews "hate" their religion and Israel
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Dictatorships tend to consolidate their power very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that a population may not fully comprehend the magnitude of what has happened to their society. This “shock and awe” is employed to underscore—as immediately as possible—the dictator’s power and to intimidate opposition by convincing people to believe that opposition is futile. In the United States, Donald Trump has freely acknowledged his intent to become a dictator on “Day One” if he is reelected. On March 12,...
A new document dump paralleling the one in prosecutor Alvin Bragg's criminal case against Donald Trump appears to show the ex-president has been deceitful about his former lawyer, Michael Cohen.Brian J. Karem, the former White House correspondent who has previously given insight into how the ex-president might be feeling, wrote in an article published on Saturday that he had filed his own public records request on the Trump and Cohen case several years ago."The government lies," Karem declared...
Donald Trump has spent years demanding the prosecution—or direct imprisonment, without the bother of a trial—of his critics. Lock her up, anyone? This weekend, at a campaign rally in Dayton, Ohio, he added some new names to his list. He called for jailing former Rep. Liz Cheney and the entire Jan. 6 House Select Committee. He also reiterated his plan to pardon insurrectionist supporters imprisoned for their actions on Jan. 6. Most of those jailed have either been convicted or are awaiting...