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Oscar winner Sean Penn has planned to take a closer look at the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack in a new film that is expected to be "a nightmare" for President Donald Trump, The Daily Beast reported on Tuesday.

Penn is slated to direct the untitled movie. He has spoken out against Trump, and the story will focus on a police officer "caught in the crossfire," The Beast reported. Academy Award-nominated actor Bradley Cooper is expected to star in the lead role, and the film will be produced by Warner Bros.

"Penn’s interest in writing such a narrative comes as little surprise," according to The Beast. "The One Battle After Another actor is not one to shy away from politics. And, in 2022, he attended a public hearing of the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol."...

America is coming up on the three-year anniversary of the day former President Donald Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol. The attack upended the orderly and peaceful transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden during Congress’ certification of the 2020 election and ultimately resulted in the loss of seven lives and dozens of injuries to law enforcement officers.

The FBI has arrested more than 1,200 people on federal charges related to the siege of the Capitol. The leaders of the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — two far-right extremist groups — are already serving long prison sentences for seditious conspiracy, and hundreds of others have pleaded guilty or been convicted by juries on various charges.

Trump himself faces 18 charges related to the effort to overturn the election across two separate cases, one brought by a special counsel and the other by the Fulton County, Ga., district attorney. (Trump faces separate felony charges related to his allegedly mishandling classified documents and falsifying business records, and he’s also party to a civil fraud trial that could shut down his businesses.)...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) plans to mark the third anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol by appearing alongside a Jan. 6 offender and a far-right conspiracy theorist at a local GOP event in Florida, according to an invitation obtained by Raw Story.

Slated to appear alongside Greene is Derrick Evans, a former West Virginia state lawmaker who served a three-month prison sentence for impeding law enforcement at the Capitol on Jan. 6, and Ann Vandersteel, a far-right media personality who promoted the “Pizzagate” conspiracy theory and is a tribune of the far-right anti-government sovereign citizen movement.

Billed as an opportunity to honor World War II veterans, the event featuring Greene is scheduled to take place at a church in Vero Beach, Fla. The event is co-hosted by the Indian River County GOP, which has posted notice of the event on its Facebook page, and the Vero Beach chapter of Conservative Watch USA....

This is the second part of a two-part Raw Story series exploring pro-Trump organizer Cindy Chafian’s actions before, during and after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Read Part 1 here.

Cindy Chafian, who handled permits for two pro-Trump warm-up rallies in Washington, D.C., and then hosted her own rally on the eve of President Donald Trump’s “Stop the Steal” speech at the Ellipse, stood atop the U.S. Capitol’s inaugural grandstand the afternoon of Jan. 6, 2021.

Standing beside her, Mariposa Castro, a former yoga and tea shop owner from California, excitedly addressed viewers on her Facebook livestream as rioters busted out a window to a Senate conference room....