Less than a month after he expressed eagerness to provide testimony on live television, former President Donald Trump sued the House January 6 panel to block a subpoena ordering him to testify. In a lawsuit filed Friday night in the Southern District of Florida, Trump’s legal team argues that while ex-presidents have voluntarily agreed to … Read more
Former President Donald Trump filed suit Friday against the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, seeking to block the panel’s subpoena that required him to testify and hand over documents related to the effort to overturn the 2020 election. The 41-page lawsuit, filed in federal court in Florida, comes just … Read more
Rick Wilson, co-founder of the Never Trumper group The Lincoln Project, attacked former Vice President Mike Pence after an excerpt of his new book was published in the Wall Street Journal. As part of the book, Pence talks about an ad in which the Lincoln Project taunted Pence and Trump after the election. “In a … Read more
In the wake of the break-in and attempted murder at the home of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosithe threat of right wing political violence is at the top of people’s minds again going into the midterm elections. In his speech last week on the topic, President Joe Biden warned about “the dangerous rise in … Read more
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., on Wednesday vowed that the GOP will investigate corporations that stopped donating to Republicans who supported claims of a “stolen” 2020 election if the party wins back the House in November. Greene, in an appearance on former Trump adviser Steve Bannon’s “War Room” podcast, accused businesses of silencing their employees … Read more
Investigators are ramping up efforts to penetrate the “privilege firewall” former President Donald Trump has used to avoid scrutiny of his Jan. 6 discussions in “secret court proceedings” in D.C., according to CNN. The Justice Department last week asked a federal judge to force Trump White House counsel Pat Cipollone and deputy White House counsel … Read more
The House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots has handed over what the Atlanta Journal Constitution describes as “key evidence” to Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis. In particular, the AJC reports that Willis and her team are interested in testimony from former Trump advisers that he privately acknowledged legitimately losing the election … Read more
Former Republican Rep. Denver Riggleman, R-Va., served as a key researcher in the early days of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on Congress. After a digest of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s, R-Colo., role in helping insurrectionists on Jan. 6, Riggleman told MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan that she is one of three dozen … Read more
United States Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and other Republican lawmakers holed up in a janitorial closet during the January 6th, 2021 Capitol insurrection, according to excerpts from Cruz’s new book that were obtained by Newsweek. “Toward the end of our two-hour session, as Senator James Lankford from Oklahoma was speaking, there was a commotion from … Read more
Fox News host Shannon Bream challenged Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, over his role in a plot to overthrow the 2020 presidential election. During an interview on Fox News, Bream noted that Lee has been accused of participating in a plot to use fake electors to change the outcome of the presidential election. Lee was caught … Read more