Jamie Raskin says Trump has ‘essentially’ admitted to January 6 crimes
The January 6 committee is turning its focus to the states for its next public meeting.
The panel will meet on Tuesday for its fourth public hearing. The subject of the hearing will be Donald Trump’s efforts to personally pressure elected officials in Georgia and Arizona to interfere in the electoral process and overturn his defeat in their respective states.
In Georgia, lawmakers are set to give special attention as several state officials outline how Donald Trump went above and beyond to call on personal loyalties and even threaten criminal prosecution as he coaxed those in the Peach State to do his bidding.
Meanwhile, Rep Adam Kinzinger has published evidence of vivid death threats he has received in recent weeks in response to the panel’s work, which he said was unprecedented in his congressional career.
What to expect at Tuesday’s January 6 committee hearing
Tuesday’s meeting of the January 6 commitee will take the focus out of Washington, DC to Georgia and Arizona — two states where Donald Trump attempted to pressure local officials to interfere in the certification of election results reporting his defeat.
The unprecedented campaign by a sitting president to meddle in the official processs in order to stave off his defeat was made clear in a now-infamous phone call between Mr Trump and Georgia’s top voting official in which Mr Trump urged him to “find” more than 11,000 votes.
Read more about what to expect tomorrow from The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg:
John Bowden20 June 2022 22:18
GOP effort to bus migrants out of Texas is racking up costs
Greg Abbott’s plan to charter buses to transport undocumented migrants out of his state has already cost the state nearly $3m – and transported a proportionately-low number of migrants for that total.
What the White House once derided as a “publicity stunt” has led to less than 2,000 migrants leaving the state over the course of two months.
Read more in The Independent:
John Bowden20 June 2022 21:15
Twitter adds warning to Greitens ad
Twitter has joined Facebook in enforcing its rules against Missouri Senate candidate Eric Greitens over an ad appearing to call for “hunting” of Republicans who are in his eyes insuffiiciently conservative.
But unlike Facebook, Twitter has elected to only place a warning on the tweet itself, while allowing the video to remain.
Read more about the ad from The Independent’s Eric Garcia:
John Bowden20 June 2022 20:32
Texas’s Republican Party affirms support for election fraud lies
The Republican Party of Texas met over the weekend and laid out its party platform. At the top of the list: a full-throated endorsement of the false claim that Joe Biden was elected president in part or entirely due to fraud.
Somehow, that wasn’t the most shocking part of the party’s far-right platform, which has been wholly overtaken by the right-wing fringe of the conservative movement.
The Independent’s Andrew Naughtie breaks down the Texas GOP’s new extreme bent:
John Bowden20 June 2022 19:52
Trump-backed candidate who joined anti-drag panic used to frequent drag shows
A Republican candidate for governor in Arizona running with the support of Donald Trump is being branded a hypocrite after it was revealed that she previously attended drag shows and was a fan of the art before joining the right-wing fearmonguering over the issue that has erupted in the past year.
Kari Lake is now blaming the media for exposing her sudden change of views.
Read more from The Independent’s Johanna Chisholm:
John Bowden20 June 2022 19:06
Poll: Most Americans think Trump should face Jan 6 charges
While Donald Trump insists to his followers that the 6 January committee is subjecting him to a “witch hunt”, it seems that most Americans disagree, with a new poll indicating that the majority think he should…
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