Martin, who became the first Jan. 6 defendant to testify in his own defense, said he believed that an officer waved him into the Rotunda lobby at about 3 p.m. that day. McFadden said that he did not believe that, but that the way the officer briefly interrupted the flow of people a...
According to a recent poll conducted by YouGov and The Economist, 56 percent of Republicans would describe the January 6 events as “people participating in legitimate political discourse”, while just 19 percent would describe the scenes as a violent insurrection. Unsurprisingly, Democrats have ...
before and during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection. She said Trump was informed that there were armed protesters at his morning rally before he stood onstage and told them to "fight like hell" at the Capitol. Thenhe argued with his security detail, she said, trying to go with the crowd...
and the state of democracy in the United States. In the aftermath, numerous individuals were arrested and charged for their roles in the events. The House of Representatives impeached President Trump for the second time on January 13, charging him with "Incitement of Insurrection," though he wa...
We still have people who have grasped the short end of the stick — the impoverished, the sick who have no insurance. We still have targets of bigotry, perhaps more now than in recent years. We still have homelessness. We still have the “tempest-tost” we welcomed with the Statue of ...
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Trump repeated hislong-debunked claimthat none of the rioters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, were armed with a gun, saying that even if rioters had been charged with insurrection, “this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as insurrectionists wi...
Trump has already made many promises of what he will do after he is inaugurated on January 20, including closing the US-Mexico border, enacting a slate of tariffs and pardoning people convicted of crimes related to the January 6, 2021, insurrection. In addition to working out how to help...
Guns on January 6 Trump repeated hislong-debunked claimthat none of the rioters at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, were armed with a gun, saying that even if rioters had been charged with insurrection, “this would be the only insurrection in history where people went in as...
Critics claimed the felony charge, which carries a prison sentence of up to 20 years, was intended to prevent evidence tampering – not an insurrection in support of a president who lost reelection. The court’s decision could have significant ramifications for some 350 people who were charged...