Trump Lies

Trump Refused Call From Pentagon, But Called Senators

Rolling Stone reports: President Trump ignored a Jan. 6 call from Pentagon officials seeking a coordinated response to the Capitol attack, according to national security officials’ testimony released Thursday. Trump instead was calling Republican senators to ask them to delay certification of the 2020 election, according to testimony given to Congress’ Jan. 6 committee and released at Thursday’s hearing. In …

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Trump Ignored Pleas To Call Off Riot For 187 Minutes

The New York Times reports: As a mob of his supporters assaulted the Capitol, former President Donald J. Trump sat in his dining room off the Oval Office, watching the violence on television and choosing to do nothing for hours to stop it, an array of former administration officials testified to the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack in …

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Outtakes Show Trump Refusing To Say Election Is Over

Yahoo News reports: A day after an angry mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump filmed a three-minute video in the East Room of the White House condemning the violence. It took him nearly an hour to tape the message. In outtakes shown during the House select committee’s prime time hearing on Thursday …

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LIVE VIDEO: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Day Eight

The New York Times reports: The wall-to-wall cable news and network coverage of Thursday’s prime-time Jan. 6 committee hearing will once again have a notable gap: Fox News. Fox will not carry the hearing live, instead reserving what are typically its highest-rated hours for its usual programming lineup of Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham. Its sister network, Fox …

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Melania Claims She Didn’t “Immediately Denounce” Riot Because She Was Very Busy Photographing WH Carpets

Fox News reports: Former first lady Melania Trump said Thursday that she was “fulfilling” her official duties as first lady of the U.S. on Jan. 6, 2021, telling Fox News Digital exclusively that had she been fully informed of the events taking place at the Capitol during the day, she “would have immediately denounced the violence.” “As with all First …

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Trump Wanted To Take Back Speech Given After Riot

Rolling Stone reports: The day after the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, then-President Trump released a video finally, reluctantly agreeing to a transfer of power to the “new” Biden administration. As soon as two days after the release of the White House video, however, Donald Trump wanted a mulligan. A person with direct knowledge of the matter tells Rolling Stone that …

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Criminal Probe Opened Into Secret Service’s Texts

CNBC reports: The Department of Homeland Security’s internal watchdog has opened a criminal investigation into the destruction of Secret Service phone text messages related to the days around the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, two sources familiar with the matter told NBC News. The Secret Service was informed of the probe Wednesday night by the office of the Inspector General of …

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Trump’s Spent $2M On Lawyers For Jan. 6 Witnesses

The Daily Beast reports: It’s been widely reported that former President Donald Trump has covered legal expenses for witnesses testifying before the Jan. 6 committee, but the full amount that Trump has been forking over has largely remained a mystery. A new federal filing has fleshed that number out. And it turns out, it’s a lot higher than previously reported. …

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Video Outtakes Show Trump Refusing To Condemn Riot

The Washington Post reports: One day after the last rioter had left the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, President Donald Trump’s advisers urged him to give an address to the nation to condemn the violence, demand accountability for those who had stormed the halls of Congress and declare the 2020 election to be decided. He struggled to do it. …

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Prosecution Rests In Bannon’s Criminal Contempt Trial

NPR reports: The prosecution against former Trump political adviser Steve Bannon inched toward a conclusion Wednesday after the Justice Department presented evidence that Bannon flouted multiple warnings that he risked criminal charges for defying a subpoena and rested its case. Outside the courthouse afterwards, Bannon spoke briefly to reporters. He asked why Jan. 6 committee Chairman Bennie Thompson wasn’t present …

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Trump Aide Rants About “Anti-White” Jan. 6 Committee

CNN reports: A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony, where he railed against the lawmakers and attacked other witnesses, according to audio posted to his Telegram. The aide, Garrett Ziegler, met with the House panel on Tuesday. In …

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Senators Intro Bipartisan Reform Of Electoral Count Act

NPR reports: After months of negotiations, a bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday announced two proposals related to election administration, including one to reform the Electoral Count Act, a widely criticized 1887 law that governs the process of casting and counting Electoral College votes and that came under fresh scrutiny following attempts to invalidate the presidential election results on Jan. …

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Giuliani Ordered To Testify Before Georgia Grand Jury

NBC News reports: A New York judge has ordered Rudy Giuliani to testify before the Georgia special grand jury hearing evidence in an investigation into possible 2020 election interference by former President Donald Trump and others, court filings show. The order came after Giuliani, who was Trump’s personal attorney, failed to appear at a July 13 hearing before the judge …

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New Docs Detail Trump’s Plan To Exploit 2020 Census

The New York Times reports: A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed that the Trump administration pushed to add a citizenship question to the census to help Republicans win elections, not to protect people’s voting rights, a House committee report concluded on Wednesday. The report from the Committee on Oversight and Reform, the culmination of a yearslong …

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DOJ: Running For President Won’t Immunize Trump

Bloomberg News reports: The Justice Department’s investigation into efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results won’t be deterred if the former president declares his intention to run again, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco said. “We’re going to continue to do our job, to follow the facts wherever they go, no matter where they lead, …

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Secret Service Turns Over Single Text Message To DHS

CNN reports: The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month’s worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, and obtained by CNN. The revelation provides insight into the concern raised in a recent …

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Trump Presses WI Speaker To Decertify 2020 Election

Milwaukee’s ABC News affiliate reports: Assembly Speaker Robin Vos says former President Donald Trump called him last week in another attempt to convince Wisconsin Republicans to decertify the state’s 2020 presidential results. The conversation came after the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled absentee ballot drop boxes in the state illegal. “It’s very consistent,” Vos said of the call in an interview …

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Prosecutors: Bannon Thought He Was “Above The Law”

NBC News reports: Former Donald Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon “decided he was above the law” when he blew off the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, a federal prosecutor told jurors Tuesday in opening statements of Bannon’s contempt of Congress trial. Bannon “chose to show his contempt for Congress’ authority and its processes” by refusing to comply …

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11 Georgia Fake Electors Deemed “Criminal Targets”

Politico reports: Eleven of the 16 Republicans who falsely signed certificates claiming to be Georgia’s valid presidential electors say they’ve been deemed criminal “targets” by the Fulton County district attorney [photo], who is investigating efforts by Donald Trump and his allies to overturn the 2020 election results in the state. In a court filing seeking to be excused from testifying …

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Secret Service Claims It Can’t Recover Deleted Texts

CNN reports: The US Secret Service produced an “initial set of documents” to the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday, in response to a subpoena last week that was issued amid reports of potentially missing text messages from the day of the insurrection. “Our delivery included thousands of pages of documents, Secret Service cell phone …

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