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Bill Barr's parting gift to Trump

Barr said Trump seemed "detached from reality." As the former AG surely knows, that could be a legal escape hatch

Salon · Jun 17, 2022

Michael Phillips: Why do the Jan. 6 hearings make me miss Nixon and Watergate?

I miss Watergate.

Chicago Tribune · Jun 16, 2022

County's refusal to certify the vote hints at election chaos

The conspiracy theories about Dominion voting equipment that erupted during the 2020 presidential contest flared this week in a remote New Mexico county in what could be just a preview of the kind of chaos election experts fear is coming in the fall midterms and in 2024

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

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Jan 6 hearings: What have we learned from the committee so far?

The next January 6 hearing starts at 1pm ET on Thursday

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

Trump complains Jan 6 committee is ignoring him

Mr Trump is irate because the select committee has not responded to a statement that is rife with the same lies that were debunked at Monday’s hearing

The Independent UK · Jun 15, 2022

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 · Jun 15, 2022

Noah Feldman: William Barr is handing Republicans a Trump exit strategy

William Barr’s testimony before the Jan. 6 committee forms part of the former attorney general’s strategy for saving his reputation in the history books. That’s a heavy lift, given Barr’s distinguished service to Donald Trump’s presidency via distortion of the conclusions of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report and his politicization…

Tribune News Service · Jun 14, 2022

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First Thing: Trump repeatedly told fraud claims baseless, panel hears

William Barr said ex-president’s allegations were ‘bullshit’, while several advisers told him not to declare victory on election night. Plus, The Bourne Identity at 20

The Guardian - UK · Jun 14, 2022

Trump blasts US Capitol riot hearings as ‘mockery of justice’

Trump accuses a committee investigating his role in the Capitol riot of being a ‘kangaroo court’ to distract Americans.

Al Jazeera · Jun 14, 2022

Former Philly elections official tells Jan. 6 panel that Trump tweet led to ‘graphic’ threats

PHILADELPHIA — Al Schmidt, the only Republican official in Philadelphia to oversee voting during the 2020 presidential election, on Monday told the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol that with a single tweet, then-President Donald Trump unleashed a barrage of death threats against him and…

The Philadelphia Inquirer · Jun 13, 2022

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

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

The latest January 6 hearing delved into Donald Trump and the 'Big Lie'. These were the big moments

In the second hearing into the former US president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election, several Trump insiders described the chaos that unfolded on election night as an "intoxicated" Rudy Guliani concocted a plan to postpone the inevitable.

ABC News · Jun 13, 2022

Trump loyalists push desperate counter narrative to combat damaging January 6 testimony

The Republican faithful defiantly claim the House committee is illegitimate, politically motivated and out of touch

The Guardian - US · Jun 13, 2022

Ex-Trump AG Bill Barr shown laughing at Dinesh D’Souza documentary purporting to prove voter fraud

Former AG has consistently upheld legimitacy of 2020 election

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

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The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

‘Bulls**t’, ‘Nuts’, ‘Idiotic’: Trump knew he lost election but pushed fraud claims anyway, 6 Jan committee hears

The revelations come on the second day of testimony from the 6 January committee investigating the attack on the Capitol

Roll Call · Jun 13, 2022

Trump pushed ‘big lie’ despite knowing it was false, ripped small donors off, Jan. 6 panel says - Roll Call

Donald Trump did not care that his top aides told him the 2020 election was not stolen. The result was the Capitol riot, a committee says.

The Independent UK · Jun 13, 2022

Former Trump campaign manager Bill Stepien won’t appear at Jan 6 hearing, due to ‘family emergency’

Stepien’s counsel will appear instead.

Los Angeles Times · Jun 13, 2022

Two Trump impeachment trials later, Rep. Zoe Lofgren will lead hearing on his Jan. 6 actions

WASHINGTON — Rep. Zoe Lofgren was at work on Capitol Hill each of the four times Congress moved to impeach a president in modern U.S. history, first as a staffer and later as representative — the only member with such experience.

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Chicago Sun-Times · Jun 13, 2022

Sun-Times/WBEZ Poll: Most Illinois Republican voters don’t believe Trump really lost in 2020

Nearly two-thirds of Illinois Republican voters say former President Donald Trump should run in 2024. The survey found an overwhelming majority fall into the election-denier category — believing Trump should still be in the White House.

Tribune News Service · Jun 13, 2022

Martin Schram: Cheney lifts the rug, reveals GOP's failures

“We cannot just sweep this under the rug. We need to know why it happened, who did it and people need to be held accountable for it. And I'm committed to make sure that happens.”

The Guardian - US · Jun 11, 2022

The January 6 panel said Trump incited an ‘attempted coup’. Will it kill him or make him stronger?

If Merrick Garland acts on revelations and decides to prosecute, Trump will play the victim of a deep state conspiracy

Los Angeles Times · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 committee's prime-time opener draws 20 million viewers

The prime-time telecast of the House Select Committee hearings on the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol was watched by 20 million TV viewers across multiple networks on Thursday.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 panel to zero in on Trump’s alleged culpability in riot

WASHINGTON — The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has made clear that it intends to connect every provable thread about an “attempted coup” to Donald John Trump.

Tribune News Service · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 hearings need to deliver additional viral moments to reach Americans

WASHINGTON — The Jan. 6 hearings opened with a shocking portrayal in prime time of how then-President Donald Trump’s efforts to subvert his election loss touched off a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Roll Call · Jun 10, 2022

Jan. 6 panel to zero in on Trump’s alleged culpability in riot - Roll Call

The Jan. 6 committee will seek to show that Donald Trump was central to a conspiracy to overturn the 2020 presidential election.

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