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Donald Trump Jr. suggested Thursday night that most Jan. 6 insurrectionists didn't know they were inside the Capitol — and shamed Sen. Lindsey Graham for saying they shouldn't receive pardons.

"We're not condoning violence or anything like that, but the vast, vast, vast majority of the people in there, I believe, didn't even know they were in there," Trump Jr. told Newsmax TV. "They're standing inside the velvet ropes taking selfies. If only these people — whether it's Lindsey (Graham), whether it's Mitch (McConnell) — were one-tenth as aggressive on the looters, rioters murderers from BLM and the other Antifa riots ... as they are against your grandmother who may have been within 1,000 miles of Washington, D.C., maybe we'd actually see some progress. But since we don't have those people, or at least not many of them, we will continue to get steamrolled by the radical left."

Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Thursday found himself astonished at new revelations of former President Donald Trump's attempts to stay in power despite losing to President Joe Biden in 2020.

While appearing on CNN, McCabe was asked by host Wolf Blitzer about a reported plot by Trump advisers to seize data from the National Security Agency in their attempt to overturn the election.

On Thursday's edition of CNN's "The Lead," congressional correspondent Manu Raju reported that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) is privately urging his caucus not to take too offensive a posture against President Joe Biden's Supreme Court nominee, who he has pledged will be the first Black woman to serve as a justice.

"There's a growing split on the Republican side about how to handle this nomination," said anchor Jake Tapper.

70,000 electric customers in Texas are without power once again after a winter storm hit the Lone Star state, despite Republican Governor Greg Abbott‘s promise after last year’s massive outage that reportedly killed about 700 people, that the lights would stay on this winter.

Certified Broadcast Meteorologist for Fox San Antonio and NBC San Antonio, Brad Sowder posted a photo of some of the damage from the storm:

A leading House Democrat on Wednesday demanded the ouster of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy over his push to spend $11 billion on a new fleet of largely gasoline-powered USPS delivery trucks, a plan that flies in the face of President Joe Biden's proposed shift to zero-emission government vehicles.

Rep. Gerry Connolly (D-Va.), chair of the House subcommittee that oversees the USPS, warned in a social media post late Wednesday that DeJoy is aiming to "spend billions on gas-powered vehicles despite clear goals set by President Biden and Congress to electrify the federal fleet."

President Joe Biden's nominees to serve on the Federal Reserve's powerful board of governors were greeted at a Senate confirmation hearing Thursday with praise from Democrats and skepticism from Republicans, who questioned their qualifications and views on climate change.

The appearance before the Senate Banking Committee was the first by the three racially diverse candidates whom Biden announced last month to fill the empty seats on the seven-member board, which will lead the world's most influential central bank as it deals with a historic inflation spike and the economy's recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Bulwark editor Charlie Sykes began his Thursday news digest with an observation that Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) is remarkably compliant when it comes to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

Hawley called on President Joe Biden to stop the U.S. support for Ukraine to enter NATO, Axios reported this week. According to Hawley, the U.S. should get tough on a slate of issues from immigration to China and even pornography and video games. That doesn't extend to Putin, however.

Donald Trump commemorated the 15th month anniversary of his loss to Joe Biden by once again repeating his debunked lies about election fraud.

Although Trump lost by 7,060,347 and 74 electoral college votes, he has refused to acknowledge defeat despite losing so thoroughly that he still would have lost even if he had flipped his home state of New York (which he lost by over 20 points).

One Bulwark writer is ready to lock up former President Donald Trump and has a list of steps to do it.

Writing Thursday, appellate lawyer Chris Truax explained that Trump's behavior can be charged if only there was someone willing to do it.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren on Wednesday joined physicians and dozens of her House Democratic colleagues in urging the Biden administration to immediately halt Medicare Direct Contracting, a Trump-era pilot that could result in complete privatization of the cherished public healthcare program by decade's end.

"It is completely baffling to me that the Biden administration wants to give the same bad actors in Medicare Advantage free rein in traditional Medicare," Warren (D-Mass.) said during a hearing held by the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Fiscal Responsibility and Economic Growth.

The Republican National Committee got the short end of the stick when it agreed to pick up legal bills accumulated by former President Donald Trump.

"According to financial disclosures filed on Monday, Trump-affiliated committees paid their various lawyers and firms a combined $2.3 million for their services between July 1 and Dec. 31. That may seem like a lot—and in absolute terms it is for any politician—but the amount is actually less than 30 percent of the $8 million in legal expenses Trump’s political groups incurred during the first half of the year," The Daily Beast reported. "And yet, while Trump was cutting back, the Republican National Committee saw an unusual off-year bump. When the national party ledgers closed on Dec. 31, they had racked up more than $5.3 million in legal fees during the back half of 2021—a marked increase over the first half of the year, and more than double Trump’s own costs over the same period."