A year to the day since the US Capitol riots, Sky News looks back on a traumatic day for America and whether Donald Trump could return.Thursday 6 January 2022 17:54, UK Donald Trump This is a modal window. Video Unavailable Donald Trump was impeached for a second time after...
President Donald Trump has just completed his first week in office - and he’s been busy. In just his first day, he signed over one hundred executive orders, including pardoning more than 1,500 people involved in the Capitol riots. Here are some of the key moments....
After the January 6 Capitol riots that left five dead, including aCapitol police officer, false rumors claimed antifa was behind the attacks. In fact, among thehundreds of criminal complaintsfiled so far, dozens involve suspects affiliated with right-wing organizations includingOath Keepers,Proud Boys...
Some point to Trump as the driver behind the backlash against DEI, while others argue the way the programs were forced on Americans led to a revolt. President-elect Donald Trump speaks at a House Republicans Conference meeting at the Hyatt Regency on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on No...
This leads right into this decision. The simplest way of understanding this decision is: The Capitol riots happened. Trump posted a bunch of videos and posts that ostensibly encouraged people to stop acting badly at the Capitol [and] kind of supported it. [It’s] pretty messy, actually, in...
White nationalism, which has festered in the United States since its very start, bloomed under Trump. Propaganda and recruiting for anti-minority organizations jumped and hate crimes climbed. The Capitol riot on Jan. 6 may be just the beginning of more violent threats from white nationalists, te...
Ashley Babbitt was fatally shot by a Capitol Police officer during the January 6, 2021, Capitol riots. Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran, was among a group of insurrectionists attempting to breach the Speaker’s Lobby, a secure area near the House chamber. Babbitt attempted to climb...
What about riots in US cities? Soviet-style whataboutism outlasted the Soviet Union. “In 2001, my Murray Hill neighbor was the comedian ‘Professor’ Irwin Corey, then an 87-year-old unreconstructed Marxist,” recounted William Voegeli, the editor of the Claremont Review of Books. “On ...
The culmination of Trump’s ‘Big Lie’ surrounding the 2020 presidential election, last year’s Capitol riots marked a focal point in America’s political polarization and may have brought the country closer to a constitutional crisis than we previously believed. WTH is Project Exodus Relief?How...
A rioter holds a Trump flag inside the US Capitol near the Senate chamber on Wednesday, January 6. Win McNamee/Getty Images Members of the DC National Guard stand outside the Capitol after the riots. John Minchillo/AP Law enforcement officers point their guns at a door that was vandalized ...