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Jan. 6 rioters deny Trump video was real

"When did he record that?!" the woman demanded to know. "I don't see where he recorded that!"

Salon · Jul 5, 2022

7 things we've learned so far from the Jan. 6 hearings

WASHINGTON — A House committee investigating the assault on the U.S. Capitol promised revelations in the televised hearings that began last month.

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

Tony Norman: Hail to the effin' chief

If all had gone according to the former president's fever dream on Jan. 6, the morning of Jan. 7, 2021, would've ushered in an attempted decapitation of democracy.

Tribune News Service · Jul 5, 2022

Filmmaker who upended Jan 6 probe talks Trump ‘aggression’, what he saw, and how the spotlight has led to death threats

Documentarian Alex Holder tells Andrew Feinberg that former president Donald Trump’s family did not seem concerned by the prospect of violence as January 6 approached

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2022

Is Cassidy Hutchinson testimony a ‘smoking gun’ that will lead to Trump facing criminal charges?

New testimony before the January 6 committee revealed bombshell after bombshell about what Donald Trump and his closest aides were saying and doing before the violent riot

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2022

What happened to the Roe v Wade ‘night of rage’?

Conservative claims of violence among pro-choice protesters could not have been further from the scenes outside the Supreme Court, writes Rachel Sharp

The Independent UK · Jul 3, 2022

Why Trump demanded to go to the Capitol

"Violence was part of the plan. It has to be in a coup," fascism expert Ruth Ben-Ghiat tells CNN

Salon · Jul 3, 2022

Explosive testimony suggests Trump was set on a coup that evokes America’s darkest hour

The 6 January hearings already confirm a plan for insurrection and recall the civil war and its ‘lost cause’ aftermath

The Guardian - UK · Jul 3, 2022

‘It was sort of a feeling’: Trump film-maker says he feared trouble at Capitol

Alex Holder, who had extensive access to Trump and his family, says he suspected January 6 would be a likely flashpoint

The Guardian - US · Jul 2, 2022

Twitter users think they’ve found footage of Trump trying to grab steering wheel after Jan 6 speech

‘Someone’s going to have to produce better images [than] this, it just looks like a bunch of blobs to me,’ said one GOP strategist

The Independent UK · Jul 1, 2022