Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

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 …

CNN reports: Matthew Pottinger, who served on former President Donald Trump’s National Security Council before resigning in the immediate aftermath of January 6, 2021, will testify publicly at Thursday’s prime-time hearing held by the House select committee investigating the US Capitol attack, according to multiple sources familiar with the plans. Pottinger is slated to appear alongside former Trump White House …

Axios reports: The Jan. 6 committee expects to receive the Secret Service’s deleted text messages from Jan. 5 and 6, 2021 by Tuesday, panel member Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.) said Sunday. The committee subpoenaed the Secret Service for information on Friday after an agency watchdog notified the Senate and House Homeland Security committees that text messages from Jan. 5 and …

The right wing Washington Examiner reports: The lawyer behind a plot to send fake electors to Congress and keep former President Donald Trump in the White House won’t get his phone back from federal investigators. A federal judge in New Mexico wrote that he isn’t going to keep investigators from using the contents found on John Eastman’s phone from being …

The Guardian reports: The House select committee investigating the Capitol attack has issued a subpoena to the US Secret Service for text messages from 5 January and 6 January 2021 understood to have been erased, pursuing what investigators suspect might be an instance of corruptly destroyed records. The subpoena issued late on Friday – the first to an executive branch …

Law & Crimes reports: Two men from upstate New York who unloaded cans of chemical spray directly upon police officers trying to protect the Capitol on Jan. 6 will spend more than three years behind bars. Cody Mattice, 29, and James Mault, 30, traveled with several other people from the area of Rochester, New York, to Washington, D.C., making the …

CNN reports: A Washington, DC, police officer has corroborated to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, details regarding a heated exchange former President Donald Trump had with his Secret Service detail when he was told he could not go to the US Capitol after his rally, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN. The officer with the …

NBC News reports: A progressive political group in Michigan helped file a lawsuit Thursday that seeks to remove GOP candidate Ryan Kelley from the ballot in the governor’s race, citing his arrest on Jan. 6 charges. The suit, filed by a Michigan voter with the help of Progress Michigan, requests Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson and the Board of State …

CNN reports: The US Secret Service erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, shortly after they were requested by oversight officials investigating the agency’s response to the US Capitol riot, according to a letter given to the House select committee investigating the insurrection and obtained by CNN. The letter, which was originally sent to the House and Senate …

CNBC reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot said its next hearing will focus on how former President Donald Trump’s failure to quell the violent mob for several hours showed a “supreme dereliction of duty.” The committee’s eighth public hearing, expected to air in prime time July 21, marks its last scheduled presentation of evidence implicating …

CNN reports: Former President Donald Trump tried to call a member of the White House support staff who was talking to the House select committee investigating January 6, 2021, two sources familiar with the matter tell CNN. The support staffer was not someone who routinely communicated with the former President and was concerned about the contact, according to the sources, …

Portland’s CBS affiliate reports: A ninth person with ties to Oregon and Southwest Washington has been arrested and accused in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Lilith Saer was arrested on July 7 in Portland. She’s facing charges for entering and remaining in a restricted building with the intent to impede or disrupt an official proceeding and disorderly …

Raw Story reports: On CNN’s “New Day,” correspondent Kristin Holmes reported that Donald Trump has been “riveted” by the televised hearings being conducted by the House select committee looking into the Jan 6th insurrection and that he has been badgering friends and aides about how he is coming across in them. “Trump is always watching, we are told, riveted, according …

The Insider reports: John Bolton, who served in an array of key government roles across multiple Republican administrations, casually told CNN’s Jake Tapper that he’s helped plan coups in other countries. The admission came on Tuesday as Bolton and Tapper discussed former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented effort to overturn the results of a US presidential election. Bolton, who served as …

CNBC reports: In text messages sent on the evening of Jan. 6, long-time Trump supporter Brad Parscale said that the riot was “about trump pushing for uncertainty in our country.” “A sitting president asking for civil war,” Parscale said in texts to Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign official who was reportedly involved in organizing Trump’s pre-riot rally. Pierson replied: …

The Washington Post reports: President Trump recently tried to call an unnamed witness in the investigation of the House select committee probing the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot — an effort that the panel has since referred to the Department of Justice, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), its vice chairwoman, said Tuesday. The revelation came toward the end of a hearing …

CBS News reports: The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol is holding another public hearing on Tuesday, this time focusing on the role of extremists in the assault and the links between former President Donald Trump’s associates and the far-right groups. While aides said the committee would not disclose who would be appearing in …

Law & Crime reports: A Maryland man who counted himself among the first Donald Trump supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was convicted on Tuesday of a felony and six misdemeanors. Nicholas Rodean, a 28-year-old from Frederick, broke windowpanes next to the Senate door, leading to his felony charge of destruction of government property, prosecutors say. U.S. …

ABC News reports: An Ohio man who accused Joe Biden, other Democrats, and the mainstream media of “treason” is set to testify in a public hearing Tuesday before the House committee investigating the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year, according to a source familiar with the matter. The hearing is expected to focus on the rise of radical extremism …

The Associated Press reports: The Jan. 6 committee is set to highlight the way violent far-right extremists answered Donald Trump’s “siren call” to come to Washington for a big rally, as some now face rare sedition charges over the deadly U.S. Capitol attack and effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election. The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol siege …