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‘Seditious conspiracy’: Madison Cawthorn and Republicans hit with ethics complaint over Capitol coup
An ethics complaint has been filed against three Republican members of Congress over their participation in events that led to the violent and deadly January 6 attempted coup at the U.S. Capitol.
Reps. Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina, and Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona are accused of “a seditious conspiracy to use force to prevent Congress from carrying out its constitutional and statutory duties to count the votes of the Electoral College," by the Campaign for Accountability, a government ethics watchdog founded by two former members of CREW.
QAnon fed employee was under FBI surveillance -- and stormed the Capitol anyway: report
A California QAnon adherent who was also a Federal Aviation Administration employee was under investigation by the FBI when he stormed the U.S. Capitol along with other rioters on Jan 6, HuffPost reports.
Kevin Strong was placed under investigation a week before the Capitol riots after a witness told the FBI that Strong believed he had "Q clearance" and that World War III was going to occur on Jan. 6. The witness also said that Strong hung a "WW1WGA" flag -- which represents the popular QAnon slogan "where we go one, we go all" -- at his home, and believed QAnon would cover the cost of a truck he recently purchased.
Trump ‘threw America under the bus’: Pentagon official rips Trump’s cowardly incitement of insurrection
Adam Ciralsky of Vanity Fair was embedded with Pentagon leadership during the final week of the Trump presidency -- and "came away both relieved and deeply concerned by what I witnessed" he reported Friday.
On the evening before the violent insurrection by his supporters, Trump reportedly warned Pentagon officials they would need 10,000 troops.
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