The January 6, 2021, siege of the US Capitol is looming large in voters' minds this election cycle, as former President Donald Trump continues to double down on his promise to pardon his supporters who were charged and convicted with participating in the deadliest attack on the capitol building since the War of 1812.According to a recent CNN analysis, both Trump and President Joe Biden have seized on January 6 as a way to rally their respective bases. Trump has used it as a day in which he...
CNN’s Anderson Cooper talks to The New York Times reporter Luke Broadwater about his reporting on newly revealed testimony to the January 6th committee by one of former President Donald Trump’s valets.
Broadly speaking, Donald Trump’s legal troubles can be broken up into two categories: the former president’s criminal cases and his civil cases. The former pose a dramatic threat: The presumptive Republican nominee is currently facing 88 criminal counts across four jurisdictions. The latter might seem less serious — none of them, for example, would land Trump in prison — but it’d be a mistake to shrug off the significance of civil litigation. E. Jean Carroll’s case, for example, is a civil suit,...
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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Former President Donald Trump saluted January 6, 2021, Capitol rioters at a rally in Dayton, Ohio, on Saturday.The Context:Trump, who was in Ohio for a campaign stop at the Buckeye Values PAC rally, honored and thanked the participants of the deadly siege on the U.S. Capitol."Please rise for the horribly and unfairly treated January 6 hostages," an announcer said. Trump then saluted and the crowd stood as the "J6 Hostages' Song," a rendition of the National Anthem, played. The song, "Justice for...
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,...
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
Donald Trump intentionally called for violence on Jan. 6 and he's poised to do it again, according to a former Republican lawmaker. Former Republican congressman Joe Walsh appeared on MSNBC's Ayman on Sunday. He was asked if it's possible that Trump is preparing his supporters for a scenario in which he loses the upcoming election and seeks their help overturning it as he did in 2021."Now he has a much longer lead way to prepare his base of his for a hostile takeover," the host suggested.ALSO...