Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

Mediaite reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) was defiant Friday during a speech in Tampa, Florida, when he unironically declared he would never “run” from a fight. The comments were made fewer than one calendar day after the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack showed the country video of him quite literally running from danger.Hawley, dressed in jeans …

The Washington Post reports: A far-right internet personality pleaded guilty Friday to joining the mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol, where he streamed live video that incriminated him and other rioters, according to a court filing. Anthime Gionet, known as “Baked Alaska” to his social media followers, faces a maximum sentence of six months imprisonment after pleading guilty to a …

The Insider reports: Sen. Josh Hawley may have a hard time living down his brief moment in the spotlight during Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing. Missouri Democrats, it seems, want to make sure of that. They are planning a “Hawlin’ Hawley 5K” race to mock the Missouri Republican for fleeing rioters in the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after …

Politico reports: Two of the senior-most aides to former President Donald Trump — Tim Murtaugh, communications director for his reelection campaign, and Matthew Wolking, a campaign spokesman — slammed their candidate for failing to acknowledge the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the days following the Jan. 6 attack. Murtaugh called Trump’s silence “shitty.” He then said: …

Mediaite reports: The official House Republican Twitter account was not enjoying Thursday evening’s hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, posting a string of bonkers tweets attacking the witnesses and declaring the proceedings to be “heresy.” Another since-deleted tweet attacked former Deputy White House Press Secretary Sarah Matthews, who is testifying at …

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 …

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 …

USA Today reports: When rioters breached the Capitol building, filling its hallways with rioters and chants to hang former Vice President Mike Pence, the Secret Service detail began “to fear for their own lives.” During the January 6 Committee’s eighth public hearing, the committee played a recorded interview with a White House security official who had access to Secret Service …

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 …

The Insider reports: Twitter users had a field day with Sen. Josh Hawley’s cameo role during Thursday’s January 6 committee hearing. The committee showed the now-infamous photo of the Missouri Republican raising his fist in solidarity with protesters gathered outside security gates as he walked across the East front of the US Capitol from a safe space behind barriers. Then, …

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 …

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 …

From the Justice Department: A Memphis, Tennessee area man was found guilty today by a jury in the District of Columbia of felony and misdemeanor offenses for his actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol breach. His actions and the actions of others disrupted a joint session of the U.S. Congress convened to ascertain and count the electoral votes related …

From an op-ed published by the New York Times: The inquiry by the House’s Jan. 6 committee has produced many startling findings, but none to us more alarming than the fact that while rioters tried to thwart the peaceful transfer of power and ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, the president and commander in chief, Donald Trump, abdicated his …

From the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo: Shane Jenkins went to the U. S. Capitol in Washington, DC., on January 6, 2021, to peacefully protest what he believes to be election fraud. He is currently being held in the D. C. Department of Corrections without bond and no trial date in sight. Clearly he is a political prisoner. The court appointed …

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. …

Rolling Stone reports: The Jan. 6 committee plans to use its Thursday night hearing to call out insurrection-friendly lawmakers who cowered during the Capitol attack but have since downplayed the insurrection’s severity, according to two sources familiar with the committee’s planning. “They have plans to paint a really striking picture of how some of Trump’s greatest enablers of his coup …

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. …

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, …

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 …