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'He misled people': GOP's Asa Hutchinson breaks down how Trump planned and carried out insurrection
January 17, 2021
Arkansas Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Sunday castigated President Donald Trump for leading a "cult of personality" within the Republican Party.
In an interview on Fox News Sunday, host Chris Wallace asked Hutchinson, "What responsibility do you think President Trump bears for the attack on the U.S. Capitol?"
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"Well, he asked all the people to come to Washington for the rally," Hutchinson explained. "And then he used very aggressive language in the rally itself and he misled people -- and his followers -- as to what happened during the election, that it was stolen and that our checks and balances are not working."
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"And while I do believe there can be an effective review always to make sure our systems of elections work well, the Electoral College is what is critical to our nation," he continued. "I supported that and his challenge to that was wrong and did not serve our nation well and it was demonstrated on January 6."
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Even though Hutchinson supported the impeachment of former President Bill Clinton, he said that he would not have voted for Trump's second impeachment because he only had a few days left in office.
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The governor predicted that the Senate trial would be a "very challenging time."
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"Having gone through the impeachment before, I do think it's important that the Senate hear both the legal arguments about that, about what happened, but also the facts and make a judgement," he said. "And I think at this point, the outcome is unpredictable."
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Watch the video below from Fox News.
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Rand Paul slammed for 'breathtaking political cowardice' over fear of impeaching Trump
January 17, 2021
In his column for the conservative Bulwark, for Republican National Committee spokesperson Tim Miller slammed Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) over comments he made in an interview where he expressed worries that the Republican Party would lose a substantial number of voters if they voted to impeach the president for sedition.
In the interview, Paul stated, "I didn't agree with the fight that happened last week. I voted against over-turning the election. But at the same time, the impeachment is a wrongheaded, partisan notion. If Republicans go along with it, it will destroy the party. A third of the Republicans will leave the party."
<p>According to Miller, Paul's admission was a stunning display of cowardice.</p><p>"The preponderance of failures by Republican elected officials over the last two months, and especially over the last two weeks, are due to purely political calculations. They can't engage in a War on Terror against people they believe are their own voters," Miller wrote. "The political cowardice here is breathtaking. Imagine thinking that one-third of your constituents were terrorist sympathizers and not attempting to do something about it. But while this Republican cowardice shouldn't be excused, at least you can understand it."</p><p>According to Miller, Republicans have been the do-nothing party for the past year, failing to hold any confirmation hearings and leaving the country leaderless.</p><p>"Why are we in this position? Because before January 6 they were terrified of hurting Donald Trump's feelings by taking any actions which suggested that Joe Biden was going to be the next president. And now they are keeping out of session so that they don't have to confront the article of impeachment that the House has passed," he wrote. "In other words: Because they were desperate to protect Trump, both then and now."</p><p>You can <a href="https://thetriad.thebulwark.com/p/the-republican-partys-final-humiliation" target="_blank">read more here</a>.</p>
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Right-wing extremists are sharing information on building IEDs before inauguration: report
January 17, 2021
According to a report from Axios, right-wing extremists still furious about the results of the 2020 presidential election are still making plans and pushing new conspiracy theories before Wednesday's Inauguration Day that will see the transfer of power from Donald Trump to former Vice President Joe Biden.
With the HuffPost reporting that the president has fallen into disfavor with some of his previous supporters because he has called for calm -- leading some to call him a "traitor" and a "coward" and saying he should be executed -- Axios reports that "Domestic extremists are using obscure and private corners of the internet to plot new attacks ahead of Inauguration Day. Their plans are also hidden in plain sight, buried in podcasts and online video platforms."
<p>According to their report, "A Proud Boys group with more than 30,000 members widely believes that any talk of militia activity on Jan. 20 is a government-planned false-flag operation designed to spark violence that can be blamed on the far right, according to screenshots from Telegram conversations that researchers shared with Axios," with Axios adding, "Data from Zignal Labs provided to Axios found, in the last four days, more than 51,000 mentions on social media of the idea that planned armed protests surrounding President-elect Biden's inauguration are a left-wing plot to enact stricter gun control."</p><p>State law enforcement officials are worried about local attacks launched by the Boogaloo boys with Bryce Webster-Jacobsen, Director of Intelligence at cyber intelligence firm GroupSense, claiming, "We're seeing fliers on message boards<strong> </strong>for more localized events by Boogaloo groups in state capitals in Oregon and Washington."</p><p>Of concern to law enforcement officials is the fact that "screenshots from manuals [are] being shared among fringe-right groups on Telegram on how to use small arms, build IEDs and use basic combat principles," according to information provided by researchers.</p><p>You <a href="https://www.axios.com/fringe-right-attacks-plot-online-b1d1190f-b96b-4efc-8989-b897ed43ca80.html" target="_blank">can read more here</a>.</p>
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