While a violent mob attacked the Capitol, equipped with a gallows for his vice president, President Donald Trump endorsed the crowd’s chants of “Hang Mike Pence” when speaking to his advisors, according to the Jan. 6 committee. “Maybe our supporters have the right idea,” Trump said, according to committee Vice …
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Former President Donald Trump talked to advisers about issuing a mass pardon for the people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a report Wednesday from Politico. Trump, two sources tell the publication, mused about whether he could issue broad legal immunity for people who engaged …
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“One year ago today, in this sacred place, democracy was attacked, simply attacked,” President Joe Biden began from the Capitol’s Statuary Hall marking in a speech marking the anniversary of Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. Biden did not mince words about who was to blame for the riot. “For …
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Donald Trump‘s planned Jan. 6 press conference is no more, and some Republicans are breathing a sigh of relief now that he seems to have realized using the anniversary of a deadly insurrection to push conspiracy theories isn’t a great idea. The former president on Tuesday canceled his event at …
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Jacob Chansley, also known as the QAnon Shaman, was sentenced to 41 months in prison on Wednesday for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. The sentence, tied for the biggest yet to be handed down for any of the nearly 700 people charged as a result …
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