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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.

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Proud Boys: Key soldiers in Trump's plot

"Proud Boys led a mob" in what looks a lot like a "coordinated plan" led by Donald Trump, Jan. 6 committee argues

Salon

House Jan. 6 panel revelation on pardons raises questions - Roll Call

Cheney’s accusation opened up questions about pardons and how laws and ethical rules will apply to lawmakers after the panel investigation.

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Capitol riot panel blames Donald Trump for Jan. 6 ‘attempted coup’

Testimony on Thursday showed how Trump desperately clung to his own false claims of election fraud, beckoning supporters to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.

Chicago Sun-Times

Watch the chilling video House investigators played at the Jan. 6 hearing

The Jan. 6 committee’s insurrection supercut is a harrowing reminder of how close we came to disaster.

Mic

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

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…

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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

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

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

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

The House panel investigating the Jan.

Asharq Al-Awsat

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

US Capitol riot: Donald Trump accused of orchestrating ‘attempted coup’ at prime-time congressional hearing

The former president was blamed by the congressional panel for ‘lighting the flame’ of the attack on January 6, 2021

Evening Standard

Laying bare Trump’s coup attempt, Jan. 6 hearings forced us not to look away

Viewers who tuned in Thursday to the first night of public hearings by the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were not Washington political theater as usual. On the contrary, the broadcast portion of the largest-scale investigation in congressional history was a clean, concise production of real substance.…

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The Guardian - US

House January 6 panel shows it still has surprises in store in televised hearing

Analysis: Committee presented evidence that Trump said Pence ‘deserved’ hanging and that Republican members of Congress sought pardons

The Guardian - US

January 6 hearing: five key takeaways from the first primetime Capitol attack inquiry

The House select committee presented their findings that the US Capitol attack was the ‘culmination of an attempted coup’

The Independent UK

‘He lit the flame’: Jan 6 hearing uses Ivanka, Kushner, Barr and violent video to paint Trump as insurrectionist in chief

The January 6 committee’s overarching message was clear: ‘The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over’

Al Jazeera

Key takeaways from US Congress hearing on January 6 Capitol riot

Trump took centre stage as US lawmakers pushed to highlight the danger and violence of the 2021 attack on US Capitol.

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The Conversation

Jan. 6 hearing gives primetime exposure to violent footage and dramatic evidence – the question is, to what end?

A violent mob of Trump supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, intent on disrupting a joint session of Congress that was meeting to count electoral votes and declare Democrat Joe Biden the winner of the 2020 presidential election.

ABC News

Donald Trump, the Proud Boys and shocking video: The key moments from the first January 6 committee hearing

Armed with new videos, text messages and emails, the committee investigating the riots at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, has laid out its evidence for the American public. Here's what we learned.

Axios

"I was slipping in people’s blood": Eyewitnesses testify at Jan. 6 hearing

"It was carnage. It was chaos. I can’t even describe what I saw."

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — As rioters battered police and stormed inside the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump grew angry with advisers pleading with him to do something, Vice Chairwoman Liz Cheney said Thursday in the first hearing by the House select committee investigating the attack.

Los Angeles Times

Jan. 6 attack on Capitol the ‘culmination of an attempted coup,’ chairman says

WASHINGTON — Americans watching the first Jan. 6 Select Committee hearing Thursday night were jolted back to the horror of the Capitol attack in early 2021, with the panel deploying never-before-seen footage of violence and graphic, emotional testimony from an officer wounded in the melee to place then-President Donald Trump…

France 24

Trump spurred ‘attempted coup’ at US Capitol, January 6 panel tells hearing

The House panel investigating the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol laid the blame firmly on Donald Trump Thursday night, saying the assault was hardly spontaneous but an “attempted coup” and a direct result of the defeated president’s effort to overturn the 2020 election.

The Independent UK

Jan 6 police officers cry in hearing as committee shows video of violence

Video incorporates bodycam footage, documentary scenes

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