Quick Glance: Times Up: Committee Withdraws Trump Subpoena on January 6th
- As the committee investigating the 2021 Capitol riot nears the end of its work, legislators have run out of time to get Trump's papers.
- The subpoena issued to former President Donald Trump by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol attack has been withdrawn as the investigation concludes and Republicans prepare to assume control of the chamber in January.
- "Therefore, through this letter, I hereby formally withdraw the subpoena issued to former President Trump, and notify you that he is no longer obligated to comply or produce records in response to said subpoena," Thompson added.
Quick Glance: Committee final report, January 6: Donald Trump "lit that fire" of Capitol insurgency
- WASHINGTON (AP) – The House Judiciary Committee's final report, released on January 6, asserts that Donald Trump criminally engaged in a "multi-part conspiracy" to overturn the lawful results of the 2020 presidential election and failed to act to prevent his supporters from attacking the Capitol, bringing to a close an extraordinary 18-month investigation into the former president and the violent insurgency two years ago.
- According to the research, the fundamental cause was "one man," Trump.
- Hundreds of White House staffers and associates pleaded with Trump to make a strong statement.
- According to the report, "virtually everyone on the White House staff" who was interviewed by the committee denounced Trump's 2:24 p.m. tweet.
Quick Glance: A committee on January 6 proposes criminal charges against Donald Trump.
- The proposal is mostly symbolic, with the US Justice Department determining whether or not to charge Mr Trump.
- Democrat Bennie Thompson, chair of the committee, said, "We have every confidence that the work of this committee will help provide the road map to justice."
- Ms Cheney noted that prosecutors are now assessing the ramifications of the behaviour highlighted in the committee's findings.
- According to Mr. Trump's lawyer, John Eastman, "A criminal 'referral' from a congressional committee is not binding on the Department of Justice and carries no more legal weight than a 'referral' from any American citizen."
Quick Glance: House panel will propose criminal prosecutions on January 6, chairman says
- A House subcommittee will provide evidence to the Justice Department alleging certain individuals, maybe including former President Donald Trump, committed federal crimes in an attempt to alter the results of the 2020 election.
- He refused to name the charges or subjects on which the panel would recommend prosecution.
- Criminal contempt of Congress, obstruction of justice, obstruction of an official government proceeding, and conspiracy are among the other possible charges.
- Last week, a jury found two leaders of the right-wing Oath Keepers group guilty of seditious conspiracy, as well as three other members on lesser charges.
Quick Glance: United States Department of Justice subpoenas Wisconsin county election officials for Trump communications
- McDonell served as clerk during the 2020 election and related recounts in Dane and Milwaukee counties, where Troupis attempted to throw out hundreds of thousands of absentee ballots in order to overturn Trump's loss in Wisconsin.
- The Trump campaign characterized Garland's choice of Smith as "a totally expected political stunt by a feckless, politicized, weaponized Biden Department of Justice."
- Troupis, a former Dane County circuit judge recruited by Trump's campaign to monitor recounts, got a document outlining the strategy on November 18, 2020.
- Troupis also supervised Trump's legal team, which was appointed in 2020 to oversee the county recounts.
Quick Glance: 5 key points from the Jan. 6 report, ranging from Trump's lies to the 'unimaginable'
- "Donald Trump lit that fire."
- The committee aired a clip of Barr recalling telling Trump to his face that the Justice Department had discovered no evidence of widespread voter fraud, as Trump claimed.
- "It became heated" after beginning calmly, according to White House counsel Eric Herschmann.
- Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (pictured) told the committee that Trump approached him directly and requested him to appoint alternate electors, falsely claiming that he had won the state of Arizona rather than Biden.
Quick Glance: January 6, Committee Will Refer Criminal Cases to DOJ
- Chairman Bennie G. Thompson (D-Miss.) delivers opening remarks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the United States Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on Thursday, October 13, 2022.
- As a consequence of their investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol, the House Jan. 6 committee has decided to submit criminal referrals to the Justice Department.
- Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) informed reporters on Tuesday that the committee will issue criminal recommendations, but he did not specify who the referrals would be for or what criteria would be used.
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Quick Glance: The January 6 Committee Returns With Merrick Garland in Mind
- This includes a concerted operation to gather supporters, many of whom were armed, near the White House and direct them to march to the Capitol, where lawmakers were doing the normal chore of certifying the election results.
- Trump continues to defend his behavior that day.
- A anticipated 66% of Republicans oppose charging Trump for his role in the chaos, while an expected 73% of Democrats support charging him.
- For the Democrats on the panel, this may be their greatest chance to halt Trump's rise to the presidency.
Quick Glance: Ginni Thomas informs the Jan. 6 committee of the 2020
- According to her lawyer, Thomas is "happy to cooperate with the Committee to clear up the misconceptions about her activities surrounding the 2020 elections."
- Despite a lack of evidence, Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, told a House committee probing the January 6 insurgency that she still believes the 2020 presidential election was stolen.
- "Thompson told Grayer that Thomas answered "some questions" and that her interview could be used in the next hearing "if something of worth exists."
- "Thomas had significant concerns about fraud and irregularities in the 2020 election," he explained.
Quick Glance: Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, will address committee questions on January 6 - lawyer
- September 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has agreed to meet Virginia "Ginni" Thomas, wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, in the coming weeks, her counsel said on Wednesday.
- "I can confirm that Ginni Thomas has agreed to participate in a voluntary interview with the Committee," Mark Paoletta, Thomas' attorney, confirmed in an email.
- A lawyer for Thomas earlier stated that Thomas had no involvement in the Jan. 6 attack and had never discussed election litigation strategy with Eastman.
Quick Glance: A witness who took part in the insurgency on January 6 embraces and apologizes to officers
- After testifying about his role in the deadly insurgency at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Stephen Ayres apologized to the officers who guarded the building.
- According to Ayres, "everyone" expected Trump to join them on the march to the Capitol.
- Officers Dunn, Fanone, Hodges, Edwards, and Gonell are in attendance. pic.twitter.com/zNp09AozP4
- Her late husband, Jeffrey Smith, committed himself days after being viciously battered during the Jan. 6 attack. https://t.co/g1puUmRUKx
Quick Glance: 'Looks... Pretty Bad': Secret Service Erased January 6 Texts After Being Requested
- According to the Secret Service, the messages were deleted as "part of a device-replacement program."
- "What is going on with the Secret Service?"
- "What secrets might they be keeping in order to serve the former president?" he wondered.
- "I'm not getting in the car," Pence is said to have told Secret Service personnel on January 6.
- "People need to understand that if Pence had listened to the Secret Service and fled the Capitol, this could have turned out a whole lot worse," a legislative official who was not authorized to comment publicly told the site.
Quick Glance: Ronald Reagan Biographer Informs Laura Ingraham Why the Presidential Library Invited Liz Cheney Is a "Mystery"
- Craig Shirley projected that Republican candidates would refuse to attend presidential library debates, and that donations to the library would decline.
- A Ronald Reagan biographer expressed confusion Thursday about why the Reagan Presidential Library welcomed Rep.
- "Donald Trump is not going to go to the library for a debate."
- Other Republican presidential contenders will not debate at the Reagan Library as a show of solidarity."
Quick Glance: The Jan. 6 committee focuses on Trump's activities during the mob attack on the Capitol.
- Judy Woodruff is joined by Carol Leonnig, an investigative writer for The Washington Post, and Jamil Jaffer, a law professor at George Mason University and former associate counsel to President George W. Bush, to discuss.
- His chief of staff told the White House attorney, "Look, Pat, the president doesn't want to do anything."
- The vice president is deserving of the chanting "Hang Mike Pence."
- It's unthinkable that any president would say that about the vice president, let alone while the Capitol is under siege.
Quick Glance: Even Trump would not pardon Matt Gaetz for the 6th of January. Voters should not do the same | Editorial
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Quick Glance: Conservative judge warns that Trump is a "clear and present danger to US democracy"
- According to J Michael Luttig, the former US president and his Republican allies are openly planning a "attempt to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but [to] succeed"
- "Almost two years after that fateful day … Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy." Luttig stated.
- Except that's what the former president and his allies are telling us... the former president and his allies are carrying out that blueprint for 2024 in broad daylight, right in front of the American people."
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Quick Glance: A committee hearing on January 6 will cast Pence's pressure campaign as key to a drive to reverse the 2020 election.
- The House Judiciary Committee returns to former President Donald Trump's efforts to put pressure on then-Vice President Mike Pence on Thursday.
- "Donald Trump wanted Mike Pence to do something no other vice president has ever done: the former president wanted Pence to reject the votes and either declare Trump the winner or send the votes back to the states to be counted again," said committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss. "Mike Pence said no," Thompson went on to say.
- "Mike Pence said no," said Pence.
Quick Glance: Proud Boy claims membership has "tripled" after Trump instructed them to "stand back and watch"
- According to Jeremy Bertino, Trump's suggestion to "stand by" increased the group's numbers "exponentially," with "potential for a lot more eventually."
- Instead, Trump said, "Proud Boys, stand back and stand by."
- " A clip of an interview with Proud Boys member Jeremy Bertino aired during the televised January 6 hearings on Thursday night."Bertino was questioned if the number of Proud Boys members grew as a result of Trump's remarks.
Quick Glance: Who is Wandrea ArShaye 'Shaye' Moss, and why is she testifying before the committee on January 6?
- They pointed to a video posted by a conservative political action committee that purported to show election workers, including Moss and her mother, stuffing ballots into "suitcases."
- , stated at the June 21 hearing.
- Moss testified on June 21 that she became an election worker because her family had always underlined the importance of voting, a right that her grandmother frequently pointed out was not available to previous generations.
- When Schiff inquired how many people remained on the job after the 2020 election, Moss replied that no permanent election worker or supervisor remained on the job, including herself.
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Quick Glance: Joy Behar Slams Donald Trump's "Recovering Addicts" for Trying to Repent Now: "Where Were You All That Time?"
- The View panel savaged former Vice President Mike Pence during Hot Topics, revealing Wednesday that he never believed Trump could win the election.
- Joy Behar didn't have to think long before launching into her loathing for Pence and those who worked alongside him in the Trump White House.
- "These people who are now all like recovering addicts, recovering addicts in the Trump world that come on, even on this show, they come and they go on all the shows and they suddenly turn on Trump," Behar explained.