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Far-right extremists are staying home for the inauguration but plan 'to fight another day': report
January 20, 2021
Extremist supporters of Donald Trump are not showing up in large numbers on Inauguration Day, as was feared following the deadly January 6th insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"In the wake of the Capitol Hill riots, the federal government deployed 15,000 National Guard members and Washington, D.C. is under, essentially, military occupation to protect against the threat of yet more domestic terrorism. But online, many of the same far-right extremists who cheered on the chaos in Congress that killed five people only weeks ago have been advising followers to stay home, bide their time, and organize to fight another day," Vice News reported Wednesday.
"The slew of FBI arrests of extremists who participated in the storming of Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, including the QAnon Shaman and several veterans, and large-scale deplatforming on social media apps has convinced many on the far right that it's not the right time time to attack state capitals or disrupt the inauguration of President-elect Joe Biden in D.C.," Vice reported.
<p>Read the <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/88akxg/far-right-extremists-tell-one-another-to-stay-home-fight-another-day" target="_blank">full report</a>.<br/></p><p><br/></p>
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Former FBI Director James Comey had harsh words for President Donald Trump and the Republican Party in an interview with The Guardian.
"Donald Trump conveys a menace, a meanness in private that is not evident in most public views of him," Comey told the British publication.
<p>"I was sickened to watch an attack on the literal and symbolic heart of our democracy, and, as a law enforcement person, I was angered. I am mystified and angry that Capitol Hill wasn't defended. It's a hill! If you wanted to defend it, you could defend it, and for some reason it was not defended. I think that's a 9/11-size failure and we're going to need a 9/11-type commission to understand it so that we don't repeat it," Comey said of the January 6th insurrection.</p><p>Comey also voiced his views on the GOP as it stands after four years of Trump.</p><p>"The Republican Party needs to be burned down or changed," Comey said. "Something is shifting and I'm hoping it's the fault breaking apart, a break between the Trumpists and those people who want to try and build a responsible conservative party, because everybody should know that we need one. Who would want to be part of an organisation that at its core is built on lies and racism and know-nothingism? It's just not a healthy political organisation."</p><p>Comey is urging Republican senators to convict Trump, which he sees as a better outcome than the former president being charged in federal court.</p><p>"I just think, on balance, the country is better served by impeaching him, convicting him in the Senate and letting local prosecutors in New York pursue him for the fraudster he was before he took office," Comey argued.</p><p>Read the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jan/19/the-capitol-riot-was-our-chernobyl-james-comey-on-trump-the-pee-tape-and-clintons-emails" target="_blank">full report</a>.</p><p><br/></p>
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It seems that President Donald Trump had one last pardon up his sleeve -- and this time it benefitted the former husband of a top Fox News host.
CNN's Kaitlan Collins reports that "with less than hour left in office, President Trump granted one more pardon -- this time to Albert Pirro Jr, the ex-husband of Judge Jeanine Pirro, who was convicted on conspiracy and tax evasion charges."
<p>Trump in his last day in office granted pardons to several politicians convicted on corruption charges, including disgraced former Detroit Kwame Kilpatrick and former Rep. Robin Hayes (R-NC), as <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-pardon/" target="_blank">well as longtime ally Steve Bannon</a>, who was indicted for scamming the president's own supporters with the "We Build the Wall" crowdfunding scheme.</p>
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