Trump Corruption

The Guardian reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is expected to show at its fourth hearing on Tuesday that Donald Trump and top advisers coordinated the scheme to send fake slates of electors as part of an effort to return him to the White House. The panel is expected to also examine Trump’s campaign to …

Politico Playbook reports: The House select committee investigating Jan. 6 sent a subpoena last week to Alex Holder, a documentary filmmaker who was granted extensive access to President Donald Trump and his inner circle, and who shot interviews with the then-president both before and after Jan. 6. The existence of this footage is previously unreported. A source familiar with the …

Talking Points Memo reports: Ahead of the Jan. 6 Select Committee’s hearing on Tuesday, member Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) told the Los Angeles Times that the panel plans to demonstrate Mark Meadows’ “intimate role” in the then-President’s scheme to pressure Georgia state legislators into overturning the election results. Additionally, Schiff said the committee is set to release new information about …

Axios reports: Former President Trump’s taped phone call pressing Georgia’s Republican secretary of state in January 2021 to “find 11,780 votes” should be “enough” to indict him, a former Watergate prosecutor told MSNBC on Sunday. While Trump has dismissed both the Fulton County investigation and the Jan. 6 committee hearings as “witch-hunts,” former Watergate prosecutor Nick Akerman told MSNBC’s “The …

The Hill reports: Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) on Sunday said that former President Trump intended to “accelerate the violence” against his vice president, Mike Pence, during the Capitol attack on Jan. 6, 2021. “You know, when he sent out the tweet attacking his vice president, he already knew that the violence was underway,” Lofgren said on CBS’s “Face the Nation” …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: Former President Donald Trump made it clear that he has not endorsed anyone, including Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), for speaker of the House. Toward the end of a recent interview, Trump interjected to correct conservative talk show host Wayne Allyn Root after he said Trump endorsed McCarthy for speaker. “No, I haven’t,” Trump …

CNN reports: Rusty Bowers, a Republican and Arizona state House speaker, will testify at a Tuesday hearing focusing on former President Donald Trump’s pressure on state officials to overturn Joe Biden’s victory in 2020,. Bowers will join Georgia’s election officials — Brad Raffensperger and Gabe Sterling — who will be part of a panel before the January 6 committee detailing …

Mediaite reports: In a poll taken as the Jan. 6 hearings rolled out, Americans approve of criminally charging former President Donald Trump for his role in the attack — by a whopping 17-point margin. Respondents to a Navigator Research poll released this week were asked “Do you support or oppose the Department of Justice filing criminal charges against Donald Trump …

ABC News reports: A federal judge on Friday ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion — a voting machine company at the heart of a number of “Big Lie” conspiracy theories — against far-right news outlet Newsmax is allowed to proceed. Judge Eric M. Davis denied Newsmax’s motion to dismiss the $1.6 billion civil suit. In the original complaint …

The New York Times reports: Over and over, at key moments when the Capitol was breached, the group used the same set of tactics: identifying access points to the building, riling up other protesters and sometimes directly joining in the violence. When met with resistance, leaders of the group reassessed, and teams of Proud Boys targeted new entry points to …

The Hill reports: Former President Trump said on Friday that he would look “very, very seriously” at pardoning those charged in connection with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, if he ran for and became president again. Trump said the defendants charged in the Capitol riot were “having their lives totally destroyed and being treated worse than terrorists and …

Georgia Public Radio reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his top deputy Gabriel Sterling will testify at Tuesday’s hearing of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol, to shine more light on one of the more brazen attempts to overturn the 2020 election. Raffensperger famously rebuffed former President Donald Trump’s …

“Mike Pence had a chance to be great. He had a chance to be frankly historic. “But just like Bill Barr and the rest of these weak people, Mike, and I say it sadly ‘cause I like him, but Mike did not have the courage to act. “The election was perfect. And the Democrats are sitting back, saying ‘No way,we’re …

From the world’s most famous liar: Such LIES & MISREPRESENTATIONS by the Unselects, and absolutely nobody allowed to challenge what is being said. As an example, I never suggested to V.P. Pence to “overturn” the Election (although Thomas Jefferson “took” the Georgia votes), but that he send the votes back to the various Legislatures so that they could determine if …

CBS News reports: Former President Trump’s trade adviser Peter Navarro pleaded not guilty Friday to two charges of contempt of Congress. The charges against Navarro stem from his refusal to comply with a subpoena from the House select committee investigating the assault on the Capitol that took place on Jan. 6, 2021. The committee had asked Navarro to testify and …

The New York Times reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot has been trying to draw more eyes to its televised hearings by uploading clips of the proceedings online. But YouTube has removed one of those videos from its platform, saying the committee was advancing election misinformation. The excerpt, which was uploaded June 14, included recorded testimony …

The Insider reports: Former White House aides testified to the January 6 committee that former President Donald Trump made a profanity-laden call to then-Vice President Mike Pence on the morning of January 6, 2021. “I remember hearing the word ‘wimp’. Either he called him a wimp — I don’t remember if he said, ‘you are a wimp, you’ll be a …

Mediaite reports: The third day of January 6 hearings included a stunning revelation that lawyer John Eastman emailed Rudy Giuliani to request a pardon from then-President Donald Trump. Rep. Pete Aguilar (D-CA), the committee member then leading the hearing, brought up an email from Eastman to Giuliani, in which Eastman “requested he be included on a list of recipients of …

NBC News reports: The House Select Committee aired footage showing a deposition with Eastman, who repeatedly invoked his Fifth Amendment right in response to questions. When asked whether he had told Trump that then-Vice President Pence could move to reject electors from seven states, Eastman replied with one word: “Fifth.” “Dr. Eastman pled the Fifth a hundred times,” Rep. Pete …

NPR reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol will hold its next hearing at 1 p.m. ET on Thursday, focusing on how Trump pressured Pence not to count lawful electoral votes. In a video previewing the hearing, Rep. Liz Cheney, the top GOP panel member, said Thursday’s hearing would present Trump’s “relentless effort” to …