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Trump distortions before Capitol riot are a focus of House probe

WASHINGTON — The House investigation into last year’s Capitol insurrection will move its work into the public eye as soon as April, laying out for voters evidence that they say shows former President Donald Trump and his allies stoked the violence.

Tribune News Service

Fascist counterrevolution and "ethicide"

Jan. 6 was only one symptom of the brutal assault on morality, history and justice. It's time to fight back

Salon

Bipartisan members on Capitol attack panel say they expect Giuliani to testify

Comments come after report that Trump ally is in talks about options, including in-person interview or submitting a deposition

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Rep. Raskin on Trump: "Guilty as sin"

Maryland Democrat on his bestselling book, his unbearable personal loss and bringing Donald Trump to justice

Salon

Insurgency review: how Trump took over the Republican party

From 2016 to the Capitol riot, Jeremy Peters of the New York Times delivers a meticulously reported and extremely worrying tale of how and why the US came to this

The Guardian - US

Texas Sen. Ted Cruz is peddling baseless conspiracy theory that FBI incited Jan. 6 Capitol riot

WASHINGTON — Sen. Ted Cruz has been peddling a conspiracy theory for weeks suggesting that the FBI incited the attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Tribune News Service

Virginia deputy attorney general resigns over praise for Capitol rioters

Monique Miles had referred to the rioters who stormed Capitol on 6 January 2021 as ‘patriots’

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Photos of the week ending Feb. 11, 2022 - Roll Call

Photos of the week: This week the House of Representatives made a brief appearance, an albino squirrel was spotted, as was Angelina Jolie, while appropriators tried too find a way to keep the government funded

Roll Call

Editorial: Follow Mitch’s lead: McConnell shows some backbone, a rarity in the Republican Party

Properly translating the Republican National Committee’s Orwellian statement that the Jan. 6 Capitol marauders and rioters were “ordinary citizens engaged in legitimate political discourse,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell dropped the Newspeak and said in plain English: “We all were here. We saw what happened. It was a violent insurrection…

Tribune News Service

Biden’s State of the Union speech to have limited attendance

WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address will be delivered to a limited audience in the U.S. Capitol under similar pandemic-related restrictions as last year, according to an official familiar with the arrangements.

Tribune News Service

Virginia deputy AG: Big fan of Jan. 6

Monique Miles claimed the Capitol attack was orchestrated by antifa and insisted Trump had won the election

Salon

Capitol rioter gets prison as feds reach 100 sentencings

The Justice Department has reached another milestone in its sweeping investigation of last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 investigators reportedly uncover gaps in White House call log made by Trump during Capitol attack

The congressional committee investigating the attack on the Capitol has uncovered unexplained gaps in former President Donald Trump’s official White House phone logs from Jan. 6.

Tribune News Service

Records obtained by Jan. 6 panel don't list Trump's calls

White House call logs obtained so far by the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the Capitol do not list calls made by then-President Donald Trump as he watched the violence unfold on television

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Trump evaded White House call logs on day of Capitol riots, committee finds

Mr Trump’s habit of using mobile phones belonging to his aides is causing a headache for investigators

Tribune News Service

Georgia Republicans say colleagues on Jan. 6 panel deserved RNC censure

WASHINGTON — Republican members in Georgia's congressional delegation took no issue with the Republican National Committee's censure of two GOP members serving on the committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot. But they also were unwilling to align themselves with the controversial language used, which described the insurrection as "legitimate…

The Guardian - US

Nevada lifts mask mandate as more US states ease Covid restrictions – as it happened

Governor Steve Sisolak rescinds state’s mask mandate immediately – follow all the day’s politics news

Salon

Will Madison Cawthorn be disqualified?

By fanning the flames of Capitol riot, contentious Republican freshman may have knocked himself off the ballot

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: GOP infighting over Capitol insurrection myth-making is good for America

At long last, top Republican senators have reached their breaking point over their party’s unflinching support of former President Donald Trump and inexplicable defense of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. This split is good for the nation because it means that sanity might finally be returning to the top ranks…

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 defendant plea deal could be revised. Online sleuths ID him in LA Times video

WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors are revising a plea deal for a Georgia man present at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, citing new information that online sleuths attribute to video recently released by the Los Angeles Times.

Tribune News Service

Former Trump aide Peter Navarro subpoenaed by Jan. 6 committee

WASHINGTON — Peter Navarro, the White House trade adviser under former President Donald Trump, has been subpoenaed by the House committee investigating last year’s insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

The Independent UK

Capitol rioter draped in Confederate flag pleads guilty

A Maryland man who was draped in a Confederate flag when he stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, has pleaded guilty to joining the mob's attack

Chicago Sun-Times

The politics of investigating the Jan. 6 riots

It is understandable that a party still dominated by Trump and his supporters does not want people to dwell on certain facts. It is likewise understandable that the opposing party wants to constantly remind voters of them.

The Conversation

The Jan. 6 Capitol attacks offer a reminder – distrust in government has long been part of Republicans' playbook

The Republican National Committee has legitimized the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attacks. The RNC declared on Feb. 4, 2022, that the insurrection and preceding events were “legitimate political discourse” — an assertion that Sen. Mitch McConnell soon after countered, saying that it was a “violent insurrection.”

The Guardian - US

Mitch McConnell rebukes RNC for censuring party members investigating ‘violent insurrection’

The Republican National Committee chastised Representatives Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, irking the Senate minority leader

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