Topline Nearly half of Americans think former president Donald Trump should face criminal charges for his role in the January 6 riot, according to a new AP-NORC poll, highlighting the likely impact of...
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Trump Grabbed Limo Steering Wheel, Lunged At Security Chief In Rage At Not Being Taken To Capitol, Ex-Aide Says
Topline Then Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump addresses a rally on the West Lawn of the U.S. … [+] Capitol on September 9, 2015, in Washington, D.C. Thousands of people gathered fo...
Documentary Catches Pence’s Reaction To Call For Trump’s Removal: ‘Excellent’
Topline A documentary film crew captured former Vice President Mike Pence’s somewhat opaque reaction (“Excellent,” he says, but with restraint) to seeing a draft Congressional resolution calling for h...
Jan. 6 Panel Delays Hearings Amid New Evidence—Including Tapes Of Trump Family
Topline The House January 6 committee will delay the final hearings of its investigation into the Capitol riot and Trump Administration until next month, multiple news outlets reported Wednesday, as t...
Anti-Vaccine California Doctor Sentenced To Prison For Storming Capitol
Topline Known for spreading anti-vaccine rhetoric and COVID-19 misinformation, former emergency room doctor Simone Gold was sentenced to two months in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol on January 6...
Congressman Ridicules CNN For Building TV Set In Capitol–Before Apparently Realizing It Was A Green Screen
Topline Rep. Greg Steube (R-Fla.) ridiculed CNN Thursday for building a studio in the U.S. Capitol building in a tweet Thursday afternoon, before deleting the tweet when he apparently learned CNN’s br...
Judge Rejects Steve Bannon’s Motion To Toss Contempt Of Congress Charges
Topline A federal judge on Wednesday rejected former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon’s motion to dismiss an indictment charging him with two counts of contempt of Congress for failing to com...
S.C. Republicans Who Blamed Trump For Capitol Riot Face Off Against His Endorsed Challengers
Topline South Carolina Republican Reps. Tom Rice and Nancy Mace, who broke from former President Donald Trump following the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, will face steep primary opposition Tuesday fro...
Nothing ‘Suspicious’ About Republican-Led Tour Day Before Jan. 6
Topline Capitol Police have determined a tour of the Capitol complex a Republican congressman gave the day before the January 6 riot was not “suspicious,” despite the January 6 committee s...
Jan. 6 Capitol riot committee members are tightlipped on what to expect in this week’s hearings
Members of the Committee attend the public hearing of the U.S. House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the United States Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., June 9, 202...
Nearly 20 Million Viewers Watched The Jan. 6 Hearing In Prime Time, Eclipsing Trump’s Impeachment Trials
Last night the first live hearing of the January 6 committee was televised averaging nearly 20 … [+] million viewers. Photographer: Eric Lee/Bloomberg © 2022 Bloomberg Finance LP The first prime...
Pussy Riot Crashes Texas State Capitol, Mints Commemorative Ethereum NFT
While the eyes of the Web3 world are on Consensus 2022 in Austin, Texas, protest art collective Pussy Riot has staged an attention-grabbing protest in the city—and minted the moment as an NFT. On Thur...
Riot Defendants Say Trump ‘Asked’ Them To Storm Capitol
Topline The January 6 committee closed out its first primetime hearing Thursday with a video montage of convicted and alleged rioters claiming former President Donald Trump “asked” them to go to the C...
Trump-Backed Senate Candidate Blake Masters Baselessly Suggests Jan. 6 Rioters Were FBI Agents, Report Says
Topline Blake Masters—a controversial Trump-endorsed candidate in Arizona’s GOP Senate primary—suggested in March that many people at the January 6 Capitol riot may have worked for the FBI, according ...
Trump Reportedly Pressured Secret Service To Plan Route For Him To Accompany Supporters On March To Capitol On Jan. 6
Topline Then-President Donald Trump pressured the Secret Service for two weeks to come up with a plan for him to join his supporters on a march toward the Capitol on January 6, 2021, the Washington Po...
Pence Staffer Warned Secret Service Of Jan. 6 Security Threat, Report Says
Topline Former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, Marc Short, warned Pence’s lead Secret Service agent a day before the Capitol riot that Pence could be in danger on January 6 because Trump w...
Jan. 6 Committee Will Release ‘Previously Unseen Material’ In Hearing Next Week
Topline The House committee investigating last year’s Capitol riot plans to offer new evidence and witness testimony in a prime-time hearing next week, the first of several public hearings that the co...
Trump Endorses Loudermilk—Who’s Under Scrutiny For Capitol Tour Day Before Jan. 6
Topline Former President Donald Trump said Saturday he’s backing Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-Ga.) for reelection, with the endorsement coming just two days after the January 6 committee announced i...
Jan. 6 Defendant Becomes First Known Rioter To Speak With Committee Investigators
Topline A New York man who pleaded guilty to 10 charges related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol has testified before the congressional committee investigating the riot, according to court filin...
Oath Keepers Leader Tried To Contact Trump For Help During Capitol Riot, Court Filing Says
Topline Elmer Stewart Rhodes—founder of the extremist Oath Keepers—tried to contact then-President Donald Trump during the January 6 Capitol riot and urge him to endorse a forcible halt to the transfe...
Marjorie Taylor Greene ‘Doesn’t Recall’ Any Role In Jan. 6 Capitol Attack
Topline Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) denied any involvement with the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol building and evaded questioning about quotes she had made that alluded to political vio...
Ex-Roger Stone Aide Reportedly Called On Extremists To ‘Descend On The Capitol’ Before Jan. 6
Topline Jason Sullivan, a right-wing communications specialist and former associate of Republican political consultant Roger Stone, held a call one week before the January 6 Capitol storming in which ...
Former Police Officer Found Guilty In Capitol Riot Trial
Topline A federal jury on Monday convicted an ex-police officer who was charged with storming the Capitol with a wooden stick on January 6, 2021—the second Capitol riot defendant to be found guilty at...
Police Apprehend Fox After Congressman Bitten Near Capitol
Topline The Capitol Police captured a fox Tuesday after a recent spate of “aggressive fox encounters” on or near Capitol grounds, including an attack on Rep. Ami Bera that left Bera with torn pants. P...
Belarus Grants Asylum To California Man Wanted By FBI For Alleged Role In Capitol Riots
Topline The government of Belarus has granted asylum to Evan Neumann, a California man wanted by the FBI for his alleged involvement in the January 6 Capitol riots, a move that comes as Belarusian lea...
Proud Boys Head Detained Pending Trial Over Capitol Riot
Topline A federal judge in Miami ordered that Enrique Tarrio, a former leader of the far-right Proud Boys, be held in jail without bail while he awaits trial on charges related to the January 6 Capito...
January 6 Committee Subpoenas Kimberly Guilfoyle, Says She Helped Incite Capitol Riot
Topline The House committee investigating the Capitol riot Thursday subpoenaed Kimberly Guilfoyle—fiancée to Donald Trump Jr. and the 2020 Trump campaign’s fundraising chief—six days after she walked...