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House Probe Looks Into Trump Admin’s Riot Response

Politico reports: Seven House committees launched a sweeping investigation Thursday into the federal government’s handling of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol — fueled by thousands of Donald Trump supporters who backed his false claim that the 2020 election was stolen — and the intelligence and security breakdowns that preceded it. In letters to 16 agencies across the Executive …

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Trump Defends DC Rioters: “They Love Our Country”

Mediaite reports: In an interview with Fox News host Laura Ingraham on Thursday night, Trump complained that the rioters who attacked the Capitol are being prosecuted, while decrying Antifa and Black Lives Matter as violent and deadly groups. “They don’t go after those people, but they go after people, I guess you would call them lean toward the right, and …

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STUDY: US Response Cost Nearly 400K COVID Deaths

Reuters reports: The United States squandered both money and lives in its response to the coronavirus pandemic, and it could have avoided nearly 400,000 deaths with a more effective health strategy and trimmed federal spending by hundreds of billions of dollars while still supporting those who needed it. That is the conclusion of a group of research papers released at …

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Axios: Trump In Talks With Existing “Upstart” Platform

Axios reports: Donald Trump has been in talks with no-name app vendors as he contemplates partnering with an existing platform to create his own social media network, according to sources familiar with the private discussions. Driving the news: Among the social networking apps the former president and his digital adviser Dan Scavino have homed in on is a relatively unknown …

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Riot Prosecutor: Trump Could Be “Criminally Culpable”

The Hill reports: Michael Sherwin, the federal prosecutor who previously led the criminal investigation into the Capitol riot, said former President Trump could be culpable for his role in the raid. Sherwin told CBS News’s “60 Minutes” in an interview that aired Sunday that it was “unequivocal” that the former president was “the magnet that brought the people to D.C. …

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Politico: Trump Working To Take Down GA Sec Of State

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump is expected to endorse Rep. Jody Hice in a campaign to unseat Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger in next year’s Republican primary, according to three people familiar with Trump’s decision. Trump publicly seethed about Raffensperger after the November election, when the secretary of state refused to support Trump’s false claims that Georgia’s 16 …

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Trump’s Private Jumbo Jet Is Languishing In Disrepair

CNN reports: Trump’s personal Boeing 757 was always the crown jewel of his wealth — the ultimate sign that he had made it. He’s used it as a backdrop for sleek photo shoots, campaign rallies, VIP tours, for shots of him eating his Big Macs and KFC, plated, with a knife and fork. Trump loved to show it off — …

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COVID Outbreak Closes Mar-A-Lago Until Further Notice

The Associated Press reports: Former President Donald Trump’s Palm Beach club has been partially closed because of a COVID outbreak. A receptionist at the Mar-a-Lago club confirmed the news, saying it was closed until further notice, but declined to comment further. A person familiar with club operations said that, out of an abundance of caution, the club had partially closed …

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San Antonio Wax Museum Removes Statue Of Trump Because Customers Were Punching And Scratching It

The San Antonio Express-News reports: San Antonio doesn’t have Donald Trump to push around — and claw — anymore. At least not for the time being. Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks on Alamo Plaza moved the wax figure of the former president to a storage room because a few museum visitors — with intense feelings and a lack of self-restraint — kept …

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Army Denies Medals For Soldier Pardoned By Trump

USA Today reports: The Army has rejected an appeal to return medals for valor to retired Maj. Mathew Golsteyn, a Special Forces soldier former President Donald Trump pardoned for alleged murder in Afghanistan. It was one of three high-profile cases in which Trump interceded on behalf of troops accused of war crimes. The decision regarding Golsteyn, reached last June, was …

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Trump Urges Followers To Get “Great, Safe” Vaccine

The Independent reports: Donald Trump has told his supporters, many of whom he acknowledge are hostile to the idea of vaccines, that they should still get vaccinated against Covid. “I would recommend it,” he told Maria Bartiromo of Fox News, in one of his first interviews since leaving office. “I would recommend it to a lot of people who don’t …

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US Intel: Russia Tried To Help Trump In 2020 Election

USA Today reports: Russia and Iran engaged in multi-faceted, covert influence campaigns aimed at swaying the outcome of the 2020 presidential election, according to a declassified assessment released Tuesday by U.S. intelligence officials. The report from the Director of National Intelligence said U.S. officials did not find evidence that foreign actors tried to alter “technical” aspects of the voting process, …

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Chicago Trump Tower Jumped COVID Vaccine Line

Block Club Chicago reports: Trump Tower somehow vaccinated its staff members against coronavirus — and the city’s health department is looking into what happened. A vaccination provider came to the luxury tower — which serves condo residents and hotel guests — last week to vaccinate staff through an event organized by tower management, multiple sources told Block Club. Hotel and …

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Birx Says Her Military Training Kept Her Silent When Trump Suggested Injecting Disinfectant To Treat COVID

Mediaite reports: It was one of the most unforgettable, cringeworthy moments of Donald Trump’s presidency. And now, one of his key administration figures, who was in the room at the time, is opening up about sitting through it silently. In an interview with ABC’s Terry Moran Monday, former coronavirus response coordinator Dr. Deborah Birx recounted the stunning Apr. 23 briefing …

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WH Would Welcome Trump Push For COVID Vaccine

The Hill report: The Biden administration would welcome former President Trump getting more involved in vaccine outreach efforts, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki said Monday, but she signaled there would be no formal invitation for Trump to do so. “If former President Trump woke up tomorrow and wanted to be more vocal about the safety and efficacy of the …

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Scam PAC Targets Trump Supporters For Donations

Politico reports: Over the past few weeks, POLITICO has received a number of robocalls from generically named political groups asking for cash in order to help in very Trump-specific missions. A donation of $100, for example, would help return Trump to Twitter. Or, for a similar amount, a potential donor can “stop Kamala Harris and socialism,” the calls claim. Other …

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Fauci Urges Trump To Tell His Supporters To Get Vax

Axios reports: NIAID Director Anthony Fauci told “Fox News Sunday” that “it would make all the difference in the world” if former President Trump urged his supporters to take the coronavirus vaccine. Republicans — particularly men in the party — are the least likely demographic to say they plan to get vaccinated against the virus, recent polls suggest. “If he …

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Biden’s First Address Got Higher Ratings Than Trump’s

Deadline reports: Poised as the opening salvo in a coast-to-coast political pitch to further sell the already-popular initiative to the public, Biden’s 8 PM ET remarks were covered live on all four broadcast networks and Univision as well as all of the cabler newsers and online. On ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox, the Presidential Address to the Nation snared an …

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Putin Characterizes US Capitol Riot As Mere “Stroll”

The Associated Press reports: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday characterized the January insurrection at the U.S. Capitol by supporters of former President Donald Trump as a “stroll.” Putin made the comment in a meeting on increasing investment activity, during which he said Russia is interested in stability in the United States. “Some of the people who took a stroll …

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Trump’s Acting Defense Secretary On Day Of Riot Says It’s “Pretty Much Definitive” Trump Incited Mob [VIDEO]

Vice News reports: One of the most senior Cabinet officials in the Trump administration, Acting Secretary of Defense Chris Miller, has told VICE on Showtime that he believes the speech made by former President Donald Trump on the morning of January 6 was responsible for causing the mob to violently attack the Capitol later that day. Trump installed Miller after …

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