Jan 6 hearings – live: Trump rages at Ivanka as NY Post publishes harsh editorial
Liz Cheney tells Republicans defending rioters: ‘When Trump is gone, your dishonour will remain’
The January 6 House select committee’s held its first prime-time hearing on Thursday, featuring bombshell revelations introduced by Reps Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney.
The panel is set to hold its next hearing at 10am ET on Monday 13 June.
Former President Donald Trump expressed his rage after the committee played excerpts of interviews with his former Attorney General Bill Barr, daughter Ivanka Trump, and son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Mr Trump called Mr Barr “weak” and a “coward” after he told the House panel that Mr Trump’s false claims of a stolen election was “bulls***”.
Ms Trump, one of her father’s most trusted advisors, also said she didn’t think the 2020 election was stolen and respects Barr. Her father countered she had “checked out” before the 2020 election and was being deferential to Barr.
Meanwhile, the Rupert Murdoch-owned New York Post published a harsh editorial accusing Mr Trump of being a “prisoner of his own ego”.
In her opening statement, GOP lawmaker Ms Cheney, noted a number of her party sought pardons from Mr Trump for their part in trying to overturn the election: “Tonight, I say this to my Republican colleagues who are defending the indefensible: There will come a day when Donald Trump is gone, but your dishonour will remain.”
Some 20 million Americans tuned in to watch, ratings show — equivalent to the audience for Sunday Night Football. That figure does not include streaming services.
Republican congressman suggests he could support Trump facing criminal charges
A Republican congressman has suggested that he would be open to supporting a referral to the Justice Department urging the agency to pursue criminal charges against Donald Trump, in what may be one of the first signs that the January 6 committee’s evidence is breaking through to Republicans.
John Bowden has the story.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 18:15
What to expect from the second Jan 6 hearing
Monday’s hearing is expected to focus on the former president’s efforts to sow distrust in the US election system and the overall result of the 2020 election among a wide swath of the US population; Donald Trump and his team spent months spreading false claims about voter fraud, election fraud, foreign interference and a wide range of conspiracies to explain how the GOP president who swamped Hillary Clinton in 2016 had turned around in four years and lost Georgia, Arizona and Michigan to now-President Joe Biden.
John Bowden12 June 2022 15:19
ICYMI: Trump furiously denies saying ‘Hang Mike Pence’
Former president Donald Trump responded to a revelation from the House select committee investigating the riot at the US Capitol on January that he agreed with rioters that his vice president Mike Pence should be hung.
“I NEVER said, or even thought of saying, ‘Hang Mike Pence,’”Mr Trump said on his own social media platform Truth Social. “This is either a made up story by somebody looking to become a star, or FAKE NEWS!”
Read the full story by Eric Garcia here:
Maroosha Muzaffar12 June 2022 07:00
GOP candidate: ‘Hitler is the kind of leader we need today’
ICYMI: A Republican House candidate has come under fire for supposedly lauding Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s ability to fire up “the crowds” and saying that he was “the kind of leader we need today”.
Businessman Carl Paladino was speaking to Buffalo, New York radio station WBEN in February last year when he made the controversial comments.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 04:57
Trump calls violent Capitol attack ‘greatest movement’ in US history
ICYMI: With just hours to go before the start of the House January 6 select committee’s first prime-time hearing, former president Donald Trump claimed the violent attack on the Capitol perpetrated by his supporters was “not simply a protest” but actually “the greatest movement” in US history.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 04:09
Donald Trump Jr launches fresh social media attack on Amber Heard
During a tense prime-time hearing on Thursday night, the House panel directly blamed former President Donald Trump for the 2021 insurrection, which they said was an “attempted coup”.
Mr Trump Jr apparently wasn’t paying attention to what was unfolding at the hearing, as took to Instagram to post an image with the words “believe all women? Really? All of them? That’s the dumbest thing I’ve Amber Heard”.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 01:09
Mike Pence’s team failed to verify Trump’s election false fraud claims, memo shows
Mike Pence’s legal team could not verify any of Donald Trump’s major claims of election fraud following his defeat to Joe Biden, a newly revealed memo shows.
The then-vice president’s team went through Mr Trump’s allegations that he was cheated out of victory before the certification of the election results, and found them either minor or unverifiable, according to POLITICO.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 00:35
Wisconsin judge finds GOP election investigator in contempt
ICYMI: A Wisconsin judge on Friday found the investigator hired by Republicans to look into former President Donald Trump‘s 2020 loss in the battleground state in contempt because of how his office responded to open records requests related to the probe.
The ruling against the office led by Michael Gableman, a former Wisconsin Supreme Court justice who briefly worked for Trump, came after Gableman berated the judge and refused to answer any questions on the witness stand. Gableman had not wanted to testify, but Dane County Circuit Judge Frank Remington ordered him to appear.
Remington did not immediately announce a penalty in court on Friday, saying he would provide that in a written decision.
Graeme Massie12 June 2022 00:05
Newsmax host belittles Capitol police officer as ‘attractive blonde’ and downplays attack
A host on the right-wing Newsmax channel branded a Capitol police officer who gave evidence at the January 6 hearing “self-aggrandising” and “an attractive blonde”.
Greg Kelly mocked Officer Caroline Edwards and claimed that her evidence to the panel was that she “fell down” during the violent attack by Donald Trump’s supporters.
Graeme Massie11 June 2022 23:32
Told repeatedly he lost, Trump refused to go
ICYMI: Donald Trump was told the same thing over and over, by his campaign team, the data crunchers, and a steady stream of lawyers, investigators and inner-circle allies: There was no voting fraud that could have tipped the 2020 presidential election.
But in the eight weeks after losing to Joe Biden, the defeated Trump publicly, privately and relentlessly pushed his false claims of a rigged 2020 election and intensified an extraordinary scheme to overturn Joe Biden’s victory.
Graeme Massie11 June 2022 23:03
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