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Jan 6 hearing: Trump’s campaign chief to testify alongside fired Fox News editor on election claims

House committe has said hearing is ‘focused on the Big Lie’

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Top aides repeatedly told Trump fraud claims were baseless, Jan 6 panel hears

William Barr said ex-president’s allegations were ‘bullshit’ while several advisers told him not to declare victory on election night

The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2022

House Jan. 6 panel revelation on pardons raises questions

WASHINGTON — A House select committee revealed Thursday that “multiple” Republican members of Congress had requested pardons from former President Donald Trump after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol — but only named one of them.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Here's the video Fox doesn't want to air

Fox News host Tucker Carlson abruptly cut away as Jan. 6 committee showed shocking Capitol riot footage

Salon · Jun 10, 2022

Jonathan Bernstein: Jan. 6 panel made the case against Trump

At long last, the House Jan. 6 committee held its first hearing, and made it a pretty good one. Right at the top, Chairman Bennie Thompson gave us the right wording: Former President Donald Trump’s actions and those of his associates were an effort to “overthrow the government.” That’s what…

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Only one major cable news channel did not carry the Jan. 6 hearing live: Fox News

Airing the hearing would have required Fox to broadcast flat contradictions of what its personalities have told their audience in the past year and a half: that the riot was a mere legal protest.

WEKU · Jun 10, 2022

Four key questions for the January 6 committee hearings to answer

The select committee will unveil its findings over a series a public hearings which will begin Thursday at 8pm

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022

Jared Kushner attacked for calling Trump counsel’s threats to quit ‘whining’ in ‘slimy’ Jan 6 appearance

‘Jared Kushner is a slimy weasel,’ one social media user says

The Independent UK · Jun 10, 2022

Capitol Riot Panel Blames Trump for 1/6 ‘Attempted Coup’

The House panel investigating the Jan.

Asharq Al-Awsat · Jun 10, 2022

Capitol riots: Panel investigating insurrection blame Donald Trump for ‘attempted coup’

Riots at the Capitol building were 'the culmination of an attempted coup, a brazen attempt, as one rioter put it shortly after January 6, to overthrow the government'

Irish Mirror · Jun 10, 2022