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The Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance has officially filed indictments of Trump Organization CEO Allen Weisselberg and the Trump Organization. The indictments were filed late Wednesday and the documents are in the system and will be public Thursday.

The charges are believed to be tax-related and Weisselberg is expected to turn himself in early in the morning, said Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold.

During an appearance in Texas Wednesday, former President Donald Trump pretended that he was still the president, examining the border and the impact his unfinished and poorly built "wall" was having.

While there, CNN host Jim Acosta shouted out whether Trump would ever apologize for his role in instigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He was booed by the pro-Trump audience there.

"We have found a purpose in life and we know what must be done," Ricky C. Willden wrote on the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo on a page that raised $1,300 for 13 Proud Boys to travel from California to Washington DC for the Jan. 6 rally, according to a report in the Washington Post. He signed off: "We are no longer Standing By! God bless America!"

In DC, the 39-year-old Willden joined a mob at the east door of the Capitol and cheered as the doors open, according to the US Justice Department, which announced his arrest today. As rioters surged towards the door, public video shows Willden "raising his hand and spraying an unknown substance from a green can toward police officers who were standing guard," according to the government.

Ahead of the Jan. 6 attacks on the U.S. Capitol, far-right militia groups and supporters of President Donald Trump were plotting in plain sight to "take the Capitol" and attempt to overthrow the government for their candidate.

CNN reported Wednesday that the "Department of Homeland Security officials are warning that the same sort of rhetoric and false narratives that fueled the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol could lead to more violence this summer by right-wing extremists."

The Daily Beast reported Tuesday that a lower-level Marine was serving in the American armed forces while plotting to blow up the Democratic National Committee headquarters.

He obviously isn't the first. There was an individual who left bombs at the DNC and the Republican Party headquarters on Jan. 6, in an effort to distract police from the attacks on the Capitol.

House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) is coming to the aid of Tucker Carlson, saying, that he wants answers about the claim that the National Security Administration read the emails of the Fox News host.

Fox reporter Chad Pergram paraphrased McCarthy saying, that he wants answers and he's tasking Devin Nunes to do it.

The thought is that President Donald Trump's CFO Allen Weisselberg and/or the Trump Organization will be officially indicted on Thursday. While the former president claims that it isn't a big deal and isn't going to impact him personally, those on "Deadline White House" with Nicolle Wallace think otherwise.

MSNBC commentator and former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) disputed that, saying that Trump won't admit it, but it will ultimately be a problem for him.

The New York Times published a 40-minute documentary Wednesday that extensively detailed the attack on the Capitol in new vantage points previously reported only with videos.

Among the pieces detailed in the documentary was a graphic showing each of the doors and windows breached by the attackers and what the police faced at each of those entrances.

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is going all in on the Jan. 6 commission. She is one of just two Republicans who are supporting the commission, but she released a statement that made it clear she has strong opinions about it.

"The attack on January 6th was an unprecedented assault on Congress and the functioning of our democratic process," she began, noting that most of the officials understood the gravity and seriousness of what happened. Since then, she said that "the courage of my party's leaders has faded."

Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle said that she would ask the impaneled grand jury if they'll look into the condo collapse in Surfside, Florida, that happened just under one week ago.

By Tuesday evening, however, Fernandez Rundle announced that the grand jury would look into the collapse, reported the Washington Post.

In a bizarre story Tuesday night, Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Tom Cotton (R-AR) broke out into push-ups during a fundraising event in Iowa. It's unclear why the display of masculinity was necessary before an audience of 200 passionate Iowans, but it was performed.

Cotton, who was an Army Ranger, should be no stranger to push-ups, which led former member of Parliament Louise Mensch to ask why his were so meager. Grassley, who is 87 years old now, needed help getting up after the display. Others who agreed noted that they couldn't even manage to get an honest push-up out of a politician this day in age.

Doubling down on Tuesday night about his conspiracy that the National Security Agency was reading spying on him and trying to bring down his Fox News show, Tucker Carlson maintained he was right.

According to Carlson, the statement from the NSA denying that they do the kind of spying that Carlson has alleged. He parsed the words saying that it clearly means that they've read his emails and he's been vindicated because they are spying on him.

MSNBC host Rachel Maddow railed against the "Beltway press" for pretending that the times are normal and that today's Republican Party and Republican officials will ever cooperate with Democrats on any legislation.

Maddow noted that Republicans are mad that Democrats are forming the Jan. 6 Select Committee after they voted down legislation that their own people negotiated with Democrats. The bill would have created a bipartisan commission to investigate the Capitol attack agreeing to the Republican demands. But the legislation was stopped. Now, Republicans are miffed that Democrats are forming a committee without their input or involvement.