Trump compares January 6th riot to Black Lives Matter protests
January 6 select committee Chair Bennie Thompson told reporters the panel’s final meeting will take place early next week and the release of its final report will be on 21 December.
Donald Trump is ramping up his efforts to delegitimise its findings, falsely claiming once again that Nancy Pelosi was responsible for the Capitol’s vulnerability on the day and even suggesting in an interview Democrats “wanted” the violent insurrection to happen.
It has also emerged that an intelligence analyst tried to prevent the storming of the Capitol after stumbling across the plot online some 16 days before the attack. A report says the Department of Homeland Security did not act on the information.
Meanwhile, Mr Trump’s latest effort to thwart the Department of Justice investigation into his retention of the classified documents found at Mar-a-Lago has failed, with a judge he himself appointed dismissing a lawsuit brought by his team.
The House oversight committee has now asked the National Archives to investigate a storage unit where more classified items were found, as well as other Trump properties.
GOP congressman texted Meadows calling for Trump to declare martial law
Donald Trump’s White House chief of staff Mark Meadows handed hundreds of text messages to the House select committee investigating the attack on the US Capitol, fuelled by the former president’s baseless narrative that the 2020 election was “stolen” from or “rigged” against him.
A trove of messages that Mr Meadows was ordered to provide the committee include links to far-right websites with dubious legal theories and support for antidemocratic power grabs, according to messages obtained by Talking Points Memo.
In one message, Republican congressman Ralph Norman urges Mr Meadows to tell then-President Trump to embrace : declare martial law.
Oliver O’Connell14 December 2022 02:00
Evangelicals may be turning away from Trump
Since the heady days of Donald Trump’s first presidential campaign, Caleb Campbell’s congregation has been split in two. The pastor of an evangelical church in the northern suburbs of Phoenix, Arizona, he has watched his flock both energised and repulsed by the real estate tycoon’s political rise.
“When Trump would come to town, we had members of our congregation inside the building for the rally and some outside the building protesting,” he tells The Independent. “I was naive. I remember thinking that obviously people see right through this. I was shocked to discover that most people really earnestly supported not only his policies, but also his cruel and dehumanising rhetoric.”
Oliver O’Connell14 December 2022 01:15
North Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation said it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, the former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year.
N. Carolina AG to weigh charges in Meadows voter fraud case
The North Carolina State Bureau of Investigation says it has submitted to state prosecutors the findings of its voter fraud probe into Mark Meadows, a former White House chief of staff to President Donald Trump, who was simultaneously registered to vote in North Carolina and two other states earlier this year
The Associated Press14 December 2022 00:30
Watch: Mitch McConnell hits out at Trump’s midterm picks and GOP ‘candidate quality’
Mitch McConnell hits out at Trump’s midterm picks and ‘candidate quality’ in GOP flop
Oliver O’Connell13 December 2022 23:45