NBC News reports: A Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol wearing a “Make Space Great Again” hat had two guns and 400 rounds of ammunition in his van when he was arrested Thursday near former President Barack Obama’s home, federal authorities said Friday. A federal prosecutor said in court Friday that Taylor Taranto, a 37-year-old man first identified by online …
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ABC News reports: The Justice Department should not avoid prosecuting Donald Trump in relation to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack if a prosecution is warranted, Rep. Liz Cheney said in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” co-anchor Jonathan Karl. “I think it’s a much graver constitutional threat if a president can engage in these kinds of activities, and the …
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“They are forced to go in front of a federal judge who sits there in a black robe, stares down at them from the bench, and demands that unless they want serve long sentences in a federal gulag, that they confess. “They confess to their political failures, to their — the fact that they endorse Donald Trump, the fact that …
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The Washington Post reports: Georgia Republicans planned to spend the anniversary of the attack on the U.S. Capitol praying — not just for those killed or hurt during the Jan. 6 riot but also or the “‘J6 Prisoners” and “J6 Patriots” who stormed the building in a futile attempt to keep President Donald Trump in power. But after bipartisan blowback, …
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Courthouse News reports: A federal judge took prosecutors at their recommendation Friday in giving a two-month prison stint to a former Marine who filmed the Capitol insurrection on his GoPro and then refused to hand over his footage. Boyd Allen Camper told FBI agents that the GoPro was in a place that can’t be found — a description that drew …
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Buzzfeed News reports: Far-right internet troll Tim Gionet, better known as Baked Alaska, was arrested Friday for his role in the deadly insurrection at the US Capitol. Gionet was arrested by the FBI on charges of “knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority” and “violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds,” a criminal …
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