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Jonathan Bernstein: Why Trump’s own appointees are setting the record straight

How do presidents get in trouble? Monday’s Jan. 6 committee’s hearing on Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the 2020 election didn’t focus on that general question, but it did demonstrate something familiar to students of the presidency.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Jan. 6 committee is just getting started

Like prosecutors priming a jury, the House Select Committee made a powerful case to the nation Thursday night and Monday that Donald Trump ginned up the insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021. He meant it to consummate a coup that he had been plotting even before the presidential election that he…

Orlando Sentinel

Jan. 6 hearings: What we've learned, and what's next

House investigators are trying to make a methodical case that President Donald Trump’s lies about the 2020 election led directly to the insurrection by his supporters at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

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What would happen if the Jan 6 committee issues a criminal referral for Trump?

Committee members have disagreed whether to formally request charges against ex-president

The Independent UK

Jan. 6 committee delays Wednesday hearing, citing need to compile video evidence

WASHINGTON — The House Jan. 6 select committee postponed its Wednesday hearing, which was scheduled to examine the way in which Donald Trump used the waning days of his presidency to install Jeffrey Clark as acting attorney general to perpetuate his voter fraud claims when others in the Justice Department…

Tribune News Service

Don Jr seems to goad Jan 6 committee into recommending charges against his father in odd tweet

Twitter user blast Trump Jr after he says Jan 6 panel is ‘just political theater’

The Independent UK

1/6 panel postpones hearing with ex-Justice Dept. officials

The committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature Trump-era Justice Department officials

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Jan 6 committee: What to watch for during Thursday’s hearing focused on pressure campaign against Pence

Panel’s third hearing will focus on efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence into unilaterally rejecting electoral votes from swing states won by Joe Biden

The Independent UK

"The Big Ripoff": Jan. 6 committee zeros in Trump fundraising emails tied to fraud claims

It's the committee's clearest attempt yet to establish potential criminal liability by Trump associates.

Axios

Garland says he is watching January 6 hearings amid pressure to investigate Trump

US attorney general says official guidelines do not prevent him from investigating ex-president

The Guardian - US

Treasure hunters allege the FBI made off with Civil War-era gold and covered it up

The FBI says it recovered nothing of value at the site in Pennsylvania. But treasure hunters who led agents there think the FBI found tons of gold and cut them out of a finder's fee.

WEKU

Trump ignored repeated warnings from Barr, advisers that election fraud claims were ‘bogus’

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted in video depositions their repeated admonitions to former President Donald Trump that his election fraud claims were groundless, in the second hearing this month by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection…

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 panel says Trump fleeced his base and 5 other takeaways from the 2nd hearing

It wasn't in prime time this time, but the Jan. 6 committee held an eyebrow-raising hearing Monday. Here are six takeaways from what we learned during this second of seven hearings.

WEKU

Hugo Chavez, dead voters, ‘2,000 Mules’: Discredited Trump theories resurface at Jan 6 hearing

Panel investigates how ex-president pushed wild claims his own advisers knew were false

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Al Jazeera

5 key takeaways from second January 6 US Capitol riot hearing

Second public hearing this month focuses on how Donald Trump’s advisers told him that election fraud claims were false.

The Independent UK

Too big to jail: The story of HSBC and the Mexican drug cartel

If you sell a gram of cocaine on the street you’re going to jail. If you’re complicit in laundering billions of dollars for a drug cartel, your organisation may just pay a fine. Chris Blackhurst recounts the greatest banking scandal in history

The Independent UK

Merrick Garland says he’s ‘watching’ Jan 6 hearings amid calls for Trump to face criminal charges

‘I would like to see the justice department investigate any credible allegation of criminal activity on the part of Donald Trump,’ California Democrat says

Los Angeles Times

Trump became ‘detached from reality’ over voter fraud claims, Barr tells Jan. 6 panel

WASHINGTON — Former Attorney General Bill Barr told the Jan. 6 House select committee that former President Donald Trump became “detached from reality” amid his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election results and that allegations of voter fraud were “bogus.”

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Axios

Trump refused calls from top officials to shut down false fraud claims

The committee's Day 2 goal was to reveal how deliberately the former president peddled election conspiracies.

The Independent UK

Sanctions sought against FBI over Civil War gold dig videos

A lawyer for a father-son team of treasure hunters is accusing the FBI of either lying to a federal judge about having video of its 2018 dig for legendary Civil War-era gold, or illegally destroying the video

Texas Observer

Mexico’s Repo Man

The Mexican state of Veracruz hired a prominent lawyer to recover billions laundered in the Houston suburbs. Then things went awry.

Los Angeles Times

Stepien, Barr repeatedly told Trump that fraud claims were false

WASHINGTON — Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien and former Attorney General Bill Barr recounted in video depositions with the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol insurrection their repeated admonitions to former President Donald Trump that his election fraud claims were groundless, testimony that set the tone for…

Al Jazeera

Trump knew there was no election fraud: Jan 6 panel – a timeline

In second hearing this month, congressional committee highlights that advisers told Trump fraud allegations were false.

The Independent UK

Bannon threatens to impeach ‘everybody’ if Jan 6 hearings lead to criminal charge against Trump

Bannon was indicted in the fall by the DoJ for not complying with the January 6 committee’s subpoena

The Independent UK

Jan 6 hearings – live: Trump ‘Big Lie’ session to start as panel urge criminal probe of ex-president (cloned)

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