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'Are you stupid or what': Marjorie Taylor Greene buried in mockery after claiming Pelosi was 'complicit' in Jan. 6 attack

Controversial Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) is under fire after she accused House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) of being "complicit" in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

At least five people died after a mob whipped up by Trump's false claims of a stolen election ransacked the seat of US democracy in a thwarted bid to prevent the transfer of power to President Joe Biden.

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Jamie Raskin: Donald Trump must be prosecuted 'because of the magnitude of the attack on democracy'

Representative Jamie Raskin (D-Maryland) explained on Sunday's edition of Face the Nation why the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol recommended to the Department of Justice that it should indict former President Donald Trump for four crimes against the United States.

The bipartisan panel submitted its findings and suggestions earlier this week ahead of the Friday release of its final 845-page report on Trump's multifaceted scheme to nullify his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden and remain in power. The Committee's 18-month probe included interviews with more than a thousand witnesses and Trump Administration officials. It also held a series of hearings to help the public understand what happened during the leadup, execution, and aftermath of Trump's failed coup.

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'This Court is this Court': Expert foresees no future Supreme Court nominations for President Joe Biden

On April 7th, 2022, Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit was confirmed by the Senate to a lifetime appointment as the first Black woman Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Jackson was nominated by President Joe Biden on February 20th to replace liberal Associate Justice Stephen Breyer after he announced his retirement from a twenty-eight-year tenure on the bench. Jackson was sworn in on June 30th.

The Court's two other left-wing Associate Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were respectively added in 2009 and 2010 by then-President Barack Obama. His third pick – Merrick Garland, the current attorney general – was denied a hearing by then-Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) because McConnell deemed the timing to be too near to the 2016 presidential election, which former President Donald Trump won.

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‘Stunning revelation’ calls Mitch McConnell’s impeachment vote into question: Dem strategist

During a Sunday appearance on MSNBC, Democratic strategist Fernand Amandi described a recent Politico report as a “stunning revelation.”

On Saturday, the publication reported that “two days after pro-Donald Trump rioters attacked the Capitol, then-national security adviser Robert O’Brien got a call from Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell and an aide who asked him to look into something he’d been hearing: retired military personnel sympathetic to Donald Trump might be preparing to prevent Joe Biden’s inauguration.”

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Proud Boys leaders' best defense is to claim they were 'angry knuckleheads': legal expert

According to a top criminal defense attorney, there is a wealth of evidence that will likely put the leadership of the far-right Proud Boys in prison for years and their best possible argument is to plead that they are "not bright" enough to pull off an insurrection.

In a report on the trial of Proud Boy head Enrique Tarrio, who has been accused of seditious conspiracy by prosecutors, the Guardian's Victoria Bikeimpis wrote jury selection is ongoing, and legal observers are wondering what kind of defense strategy his attorneys will attempt.

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Trump rages at special counsel Jack Smith and calls Biden 'mentally disabled' as he wishes 'everyone' a Merry Christmas

Former President Donald Trump lashed out at President Joe Biden, the January 6 committee, and his other perceived rivals in two Truth Social posts on Christmas Eve.

"The Unselect Committee’s January 6th Report is a Hoax, no different than RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA, and all of the other Scams that the Disinformation laden Democrats have been planting for years," Trump wrote. "If I weren’t leading by a lot in the Polls, against both parties, this continuation of falsehoods and lies would end quickly. I won in 2016, did much better in 2020 (RIGGED!), and the Radical Marxists don’t want to run against me or MAGA in 2024. I had almost nothing to do with January 6th. FREE SPEECH!"

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GOP senator worries DOJ might seriously consider Jan. 6 criminal referrals against Trump

A Republican senator has said that he is concerned that the U.S. Department of Justice will indict former President Donald Trump after the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack issued criminal referrals, according to Newsweek.

One America News Network this week asked North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer what he thought about the criminal referrals.

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Trump could spend ‘the remaining days of his misanthropic life behind bars’: Jan. 6 committee member

A member of the House select committee investigating last year's deadly assault on the US Capitol said Friday that former President Donald Trump could spend the rest of his life in prison.

During an interview on Yahoo News’ "Skullduggery" podcast, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) described Trump as the "kingpin" of the attack on the Capitol and the attempt to overturn the 2020 election.

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Biden signs repeal of military vaccine mandate that GOP hated

President Joe Biden (D) has signed an $847 billion defense policy bill that repeals his administration's requirement that all U.S. military members get vaccinated against COVID-19.

The National Defense Authorization Act, signed by Biden on Friday, states that the requirement will be repealed within 30 days of becoming law, Politico reported.

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Two Texas businessmen pitched Trump on plan to overturn 2020 election: J6 report

Two Texas businessmen, with ties to former Gov. Rick Perry, met with former President Donald Trump a week after the 2020 election and presented him with a fringe theory that state legislatures could overturn election results, according to the congressional report on the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol that was released Thursday.

The theory fueled one of the main strategies Trump's closest allies pushed to overturn the 2020 election results, even though legal experts, including those within Trump's White House, dismissed the idea as unlawful and said there was no evidence of widespread fraud.

The two Austin-area businessmen, Morgan Warstler and John S. Robison, met with Trump in an Oval Office meeting on Nov. 10, 2020, according to the report. The exact nature of what they discussed was not detailed, but Warstler tweeted in June that he had told the “whole Trump team in Oval” that “State legislatures can choose the electors-no matter what current state law OR state courts say” — in essence empowering Republican-controlled state lawmakers to overturn President Joe Biden’s win.

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Congress rebukes Trump with passage of the Electoral Count Reform Act

WASHINGTON — The U.S. House of Representatives just ended their legislative year. Besides passing $1.7 trillion omnibus package to fund the government, lawmakers also tucked a measure in the package that sternly rebukes former President Donald Trump’s actions leading up to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, along with his 187 minutes of inaction as his supporters carried out an attempted coup on his behalf.

In 2021, the constitutional crisis was averted when former Vice President Mike Pence stood firm in the face of an intense, if petty, pressure campaign led by Trump himself and an armed mob chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” as evidenced in the newly released Jan. 6 committee report. Never again, or so Congress hopes.

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Biden dropped F-bomb repeatedly over border crisis: new book

A new book details the real anger President Joe Biden has towards the lingering border problem between the southern United States and Mexico, an important reveal as Biden prepares for his trip to Mexico in January.

Chris Whipple's new book, "The Fight of His Life: Inside Joe Biden's White House," due to be released in January, details a highly upset President Biden during the worse portions of the illegal immigration crisis that grew out of control while his administration attempted to rein in the problem and go on damage control with the general public.

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Trump 'started to scare' his closest allies as he 'lost touch with what was real': report

A new report from New York Magazine takes a brief look into the second half of Donald Trump's presidency, when he was becoming "isolated" due to the COVID-19 pandemic and reportedly "started to scare even those who had been willing for years to forgive anything."

One former White House aide told NY Mag's Olivia Nuzzi that the pandemic "really f***ed up his head."

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