Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

Cop Injured By Rioters: “Our Own President Set Us Up”

The Huffington Post reports: After Tuesday’s bombshell hearing investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection, U.S. Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell said he holds former President Donald Trump personally responsible for the injuries he sustained defending the Capitol. “Our own president set us up,” Gonnell said in an interview with HuffPost. “I just feel betrayed. The president should be doing everything …

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Mulvaney Turns On Trump: It Will Get Worse From Here

The rats are abandoning the traitorous ship: Former White House official Mick Mulvaney is predicting things will “get worse” from here on out for his former boss Donald Trump, after explosive testimony before the January 6 congressional subcommittee on Tuesday. In a string of tweets, Mulvaney offered his own analysis of Cassidy Hutchinson’s testimony. The former White House aide alleged …

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Witness: Trump Physically Grappled With Secret Service Agent, Tried To Grab Steering Wheel To Drive To Capitol

Axios reports: Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump’s White House, said President Donald Trump demanded to be taken to Capitol after 1/6 rally and tried to grab the steering wheel from a Secret Service agent. Trump had a “very strong, very angry response” when he learned that he was not going to the Capitol, Hutchinson testified. “I’m the …

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Trump Was Told DC Rally Crowd Was Heavily Armed, Said, “Let My People In, They’re Not Here To Hurt ME”

The Associated Press reports: Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump’s White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that people rallying on the mall that morning had weapons but he told officials to “let my people in” and march to the Capitol. Hutchinson quoted Trump as directing …

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LIVE VIDEO: January 6th Committee Hearing Day Six

CBS News reports: The House Jan. 6 committee unexpectedly announced Monday that it will hold a hearing on Tuesday, June 28. The move comes days after the committee said it would not be holding more hearings until July. The hearing is scheduled to take place at 1 p.m. ET, with the committee saying it plans to “present recently obtained evidence …

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Rioter Faces 20 Years In Guilty Plea To Assaulting Cops

From the Justice Department: A Florida man pleaded guilty today to assaulting law enforcement officers for his actions during the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His and others’ actions disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related to the presidential election. Mitchell Todd Gardner II, 34, of …

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Jan. 6 Committee Zeroes In On Calls By Trump’s Spawn

The Guardian reports: The House select committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attack is closely focused on phone calls and conversations among Donald Trump’s children and top aides captured by a documentary film-maker weeks before the 2020 election, say sources familiar with the matter. The calls among Trump’s children and top aides took place at an invitation-only event at the …

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Senate Sergeant-At-Arms During Riot Dies At Age 71

Newsweek reports: Conspiracy theories have been spread online following reports that Michael Stenger, the former Senate sergeant-at-arms who oversaw security on January 6, 2021, has died. Details on the circumstances around Stenger’s death aged 71 are still unknown. Reports that Stenger had died on Monday were revealed by Politico’s correspondent Katherine Tully-McManus and Fox News’ Chad Pergram. Stenger, along with …

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Self-Proclaimed “Non-Violent” Rioter Championed By MTG Pleads Guilty To Violent Felony Assaults On Cops

Law & Crime reports: A Nevada man who had referred to former President Donald Trump as his “idol” has pleaded guilty to two felonies in connection with the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Nathaniel DeGrave, 32, pleaded guilty Monday to conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers on Jan. 6, as thousands of …

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Filmmaker: Eric Trump Was Fine With Inciting Violence

The Independent reports: The British documentarian whose footage of former president Donald Trump and his family in the days leading up to the January 6 insurrection prompted a pause in the House January 6 select committee’s hearings says Mr Trump’s son Eric was unconcerned by the possibility that his father’s supporters would react violently to his lies alleging that the …

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Jan. 6 Committee To Hold Surprise Hearing Tomorrow

ABC News reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol will hold a hearing this Tuesday, June 28, after previously revising its schedule to postpone the hearings for “several weeks.” The hearing will begin at 1 p.m. ET and members will “present recently obtained evidence and receive witness testimony,” the committee said in a release. …

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CBS Poll: 50% Want Criminal Charges For Trump

CBS News reports: Most Americans continue to feel U.S. democracy is threatened, and the Jan. 6 hearings offer a window into their different reasons why. From what they’ve seen of the hearings thus far, half the country thinks former President Donald Trump planned to remain in office through unconstitutional and illegal activities. Half think that he should, in turn, be …

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Dems Demand QAnon Mastriano Release Riot Footage

The Pennsylvania Capital-Star reports: A national group dedicated to electing Democratic governors is pressuring Pennsylvania’s Republican nominee for governor to turn over any video footage he may have recorded while in Washington, D.C. on the day of the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. The Democratic Governors Association, citing a photo recently unearthed of Mastriano in Washington on Jan. …

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Feds Arrest “Operations Leader” Of The Oath Keepers

From the Justice Department: A federal grand jury in the District of Columbia has returned an indictment, which was unsealed today, charging a member of the Oath Keepers with conspiracy and other charges for crimes related to the breach of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the …

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LIVE VIDEO: January 6th Committee Hearings Day Five

CBS News reports: Thursday will mark the fifth recent public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Committee chair Rep. Bennie Thompson said the hearing was set to focus on former President Trump’s attempts to influence the Justice Department to help him overturn the 2020 presidential election. Witnesses will include former …

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Brooks Claims He’s Willing To Testify But Only In Public

CNN reports: Rep. Mo Brooks — one of the Republican lawmakers facing calls from the January 6 committee to testify about his interactions with former President Donald Trump — said Wednesday that he is willing to testify but only in public. “My basic requirement is it be in public so the public can see it — so they don’t get …

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Former WV State Rep Gets 90 Days In Capitol Riot

NBC News reports: A former West Virginia lawmaker who stormed the U.S. Capitol on behalf of former President Donald Trump while livestreaming his felonious activity on Facebook was sentenced to three months in prison on Wednesday. Derrick Evans, who had been sworn in as a Republican state delegate just a few weeks before the Capitol attack, was arrested and charged …

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Thompson: Final Two Jan. 6 Hearings Will Be Delayed

The Hill reports: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chairman of the committee, told reporters Wednesday that the committee would hold off on the two final hearings it had planned for this month. Thursday’s hearing will continue as planned. “We’ve taken in some additional information that’s going to require additional work. So rather than present hearings that have not been the …

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Judge Delays Proud Boys’ Sedition Trial Until December

Law & Crime reports: After hearing complaints by prosecutors and defense attorneys that the Jan. 6 Committee complicated their work, a federal judge “reluctantly” agreed to postpone the Proud Boys’ seditious conspiracy trial until December 2022. The Department of Justice has long complained that the Jan. 6 Committee refused to immediately turn over all transcripts of their interviews. Those include …

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Cultist Threats Spur New Security For Riot Committee

The Washington Post reports: In the past 24 hours, there has been an uptick in the number of violent threats against lawmakers on the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, and all lawmakers on the committee are likely to receive a security detail. The committee on Tuesday held its fourth hearing, which focused …

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