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January 6 Committee
Could Liz Cheney Actually Face Criminal Charges Over January 6? A Republican-led House committee calls for Cheney to be investigated by the FBI, but Biden could make her legal problems disappear.
The January 6 Committee’s Best and Worst Cases Against Trump The Justice Department has been given a grab bag of options for prosecution.
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Dec. 20, 2022
Ivanka Trump Gave the January 6 Panel What It Needed Was she “entirely frank” and “forthcoming” in her testimony? The panel says no — but at least she gave the hearings some star power.
January 6 Committee on Donald Trump: Lock Him Up After a monthslong investigation, the January 6 committee issued criminal referrals against Donald Trump to the Justice Department.
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Sept. 14, 2022
Will the January 6 Committee End With a Bang or a Whimper? The House select committee is planning at least one more hearing, and it has plenty of time to reach a fitting conclusion.
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July 27, 2022
Will the House Find a Way to Screw Up Electoral Reform? The Senate has come up with a fix to the law that made January 6 possible. It would be folly for the lower chamber not to accept it.
Lock Him Up?: 8 Big Takeaways From the January 6 Committee The committee’s latest session encapsulated both the most impressive and most frustrating aspects of these hearings.
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July 22, 2022
Steve Bannon Found Guilty of Contempt of Congress The longtime Trump adviser could now face up to two years in prison after refusing to provide documents and testimony to the January 6 committee.
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July 22, 2022
The Wildest Revelations From the January 6 Committee In hearings and press reports, witnesses accused Trump of approving of the “hang Pence” chant and attempting to join the mob at the Capitol.
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July 21, 2022
Trump’s Incriminating Inaction During the Capitol Riot The eighth January 6 hearing showed that after months of frantic scheming, Trump had no interest in telling his supporters to stand down.
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July 20, 2022
Senators Finally Strike Deal to Fix the Electoral Count Act Just in the nick of time, a bipartisan Senate group has unveiled a bill that would thwart a repeat of Trump’s January 6 coup attempt.
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July 18, 2022
Liz Cheney, January 6 Hearings Star, Is Bombing Back Home While Cheney’s performance is dazzling D.C., polls show her losing badly to Trump-backed Harriet Hageman in Wyoming’s GOP congressional primary.
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July 16, 2022
What Exactly Did Trump Hope to Gain From the Capitol Riot? The House select committee can help answer one of the biggest remaining mysteries about Trump’s plot to steal the election.
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July 12, 2022
When All Else Failed, Trump Turned to the January 6 Mob The latest January 6 committee hearing focused on Trump’s decision to summon a mob to overturn the election after his fraud claims collapsed.
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July 12, 2022
Get the Look: Oath Keepers General Counsel’s Playful, Minimalist Kitchen Kellye SoRelle borrowed her Zoom background from Queer Eye (and West Elm).
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July 12, 2022
Trump’s Lawyers Screamed at Each Other in ‘Unhinged’ Oval Office Meeting Trump’s conspiratorial advisors tried to convince him of some crazy ideas before it devolved into a “shouting match,” with Giuliani hurling insults.
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July 11, 2022
Is the January 6 Committee Really Saving Democracy? The hearings feel more like a postmortem than a rescue operation.
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July 8, 2022
Republicans Exonerate Trump by Whitewashing January 6 Rank-and-file Republicans are convincing themselves the Capitol riot was an act of legitimate protest. So who cares whether Trump was involved?
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June 29, 2022
Filmmaker Alex Holder Says Trump Was ‘Utterly Irrational’ After January 6 The documentarian talks about what he saw before, during, and after the attack on the Capitol while he was embedded with the First Family.
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June 29, 2022
Cassidy Hutchinson Shows Trump’s Complicity in the Attack on the Capitol The former top aide provides a clear and damning account of the White House on January 6 and the man who started the riot.
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June 28, 2022
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June 23, 2022
How Trump Found the One Justice Department Lawyer Willing to Steal the Election Testimony of top officials showed how far the president was willing to go to get the department illegally involved in his coup.
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June 21, 2022
January 6 Committee Explores Trump’s Postelection Reign of Terror The former president and Rudy Giuliani tried to intimidate and smear anyone standing in their way, including local-election workers.
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June 17, 2022
Republicans Will Do It Again They have not been chastened by the revelations of the January 6 committee.
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June 16, 2022
Did Ginni Thomas Tell John Eastman Supreme Court Secrets? Emails show Trump’s lawyer John Eastman hoped the Supreme Court would help overturn the 2020 election. And he was in contact with one justice’s wife.
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June 16, 2022
January 6 Hearings Build Case for a Trump-Eastman Criminal Conspiracy A California judge had already concluded that Trump and his lawyer acted criminally. The House select committee showed why that’s no exaggeration.
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June 16, 2022
Congressman: January 6 Participant Wasn’t Doing Recon on Capitol Tour Barry Loudermilk says a January 5 tour he led, which Republicans had previously denied had happened, was completely innocent.
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June 14, 2022
Trump’s Coup Attempt Nearly Included a Saturday-Night Massacre Wild new reporting sheds light on DOJ underling Jeffrey Clark’s plot to become attorney general to help Trump overturn the election.
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June 13, 2022
Trump Always Said He Would Declare Victory Prematurely. Only Giuliani Listened. The 45th president carefully set the stage for his fake victory claim. At the January 6 hearings, his advisers suggest they never took him seriously.
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June 6, 2022
Ivanka and Jared Cast As Stars of January 6 Hearing The January 6 committee wants to hook TV viewers for this week’s hearings. Airing Javanka’s recorded testimony might do the trick.
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May 6, 2022
Rudy Giuliani Will Take Cameo Orders, Won’t Talk to January 6 Panel Trump’s former attorney canceled his appearance at the last minute. But if the House panel has $325, there might be another way.
Why the January 6 Committee Alleged ‘Criminal Conspiracy’ by Team Trump It’s still unlikely that Trump lands in jail, but the panel is raising the specter of criminal charges as it gets closer to unveiling his full plot.
RNC Claims It’s Merely Defending Fake Electors, Not Rioters Ronna McDaniel says “legitimate political discourse” referred to “alternate” electors … who were also part of Trump’s election-coup plot.
Republican Senators Once Blamed Trump for January 6. They Forgot. Many Republicans harshly criticized Trump even as they voted to acquit in his second impeachment trial. One year later, they’re defending the rioters.
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Feb. 3, 2022
Could Trump’s Fake Electors Be Charged With a Crime? The Feds are reportedly looking into holding either fake electors or their Team Trump coordinators liable for the plot to overturn election results.
Steve Bannon Indicted for Contempt The two charges came after Bannon refused to comply with a House subpoena in the investigation into the January 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
January 6 Committee May Finally Spur Electoral Count Act Fix If House Democrats move to fix the flawed procedures for confirming elections, Republicans may be compelled to go along or devise their own reforms.
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Oct. 7, 2021
Trump Tells Former Advisers to Ignore Subpoenas From 1/6 Select Committee A Trump attorney reportedly wrote to Steve Bannon, Mark Meadows, and others telling them not to cooperate with the House select committee.
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Sept. 24, 2021
House 1/6 Committee Subpoenas Trump Advisers Including Steve Bannon Lawmakers are looking for records detailing how Trump acted and who he talked to during and before the Capitol riot.
