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As the Jan 6. hearing aired, Fox News ran an ad-free Tucker Carlson show pushing the debunked claim the riot was an FBI plot
In the edition of his show broadcast during the Jan 6 hearings, Carlson sought to discredit them us…
Tom Porter
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'Smoking gun': Former AG Eric Holder said a note where Trump told DOJ 'just say the election was corrupt' is proof of a crime
Eric Holder discussed bombshell evidence of Trump's campaign to pressure the DOJ to overturn the el…
Tom Porter
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Jan. 6 panel has evidence on Trump showing 'a lot more than incitement,' member says
Jan 6 committee member Jamie Raskin hinted at evidence showing the former president was involved in…
Tom Porter
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'What it looks like when the rule of law unravels:' Liz Cheney fired back at Newt Gingrich for suggesting jailing members of the Jan 6 panel
Gingrich in an op-ed called on House Republicans to take action against members of the committee in…
Tom Porter
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Trump lawyer John Eastman is refusing to hand over 37,000 pages of emails to the Capitol-riot committee, report says
Eastman, who wrote a memo on how to overturn the 2020 vote for Trump, is involved in a protracted b…
Tom Porter
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Trump's spokesperson responded to the scathing Jan. 6 hearing by pumping out voter-fraud conspiracy theories
Trump's allies have continued to relentlessly promote the election fraud disinformation that fuelle…
Tom Porter
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Parts of Trump's base are turning on him, fueled by discontent with stances on vaccines and the Capitol riot
Trump's decision to cancel a speech on the anniversary of the riot, and to champion vaccination, ha…
Tom Porter
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QAnon networks are evading Twitter's crackdown on disinformation to pump out pro-Capitol-riot propaganda, study says
According to a new study, large QAnon networks are evading Twitter's disinformation crackdown to fl…
Tom Porter
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Former Trump advisor Peter Navarro reveals he's been served a federal grand jury subpoena over the Jan. 6 riot, but says only the former president can authorize him to testify
Navarro, who refused to comply with a subpoena from the January 6 committee, wrote that the new cou…
Matthew Loh
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The Jan. 6-style attack on Brazil's capital came after Bolsonaro followed the Trump election playbook
"As in the US, a central grievance of Brazil's far-right protesters was that the elections were som…
John Haltiwanger
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RNC description of the Capitol riot as 'legitimate political discourse' was added at the last minute without proper checks, report says
The description appeared in the RNC's censure of Reps. Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, two Republica…
Tom Porter
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Trump's former national security advisor slammed the RNC for suggesting the Capitol riot was a 'legitimate political discourse'
The RNC chair censured Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, claiming they were going after "ordinary citi…
Tom Porter
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Georgia prosecutor says more Trump associates will likely be subpoenaed as part of her probe into the campaign to overturn the 2020 election
Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis has issued subpoenas for several Trump associates, and …
Tom Porter
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Ted Cruz's friends and advisers ditched him over his attempts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election, report says
Cruz faced a backlash from his circle for supporting Donald Trump's attempt to cling on despite los…
Tom Porter
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Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene teased that she may run for president, delighting Infowars host Alex Jones
"In the future we'll definitely see what happens, we'll see what the people think about something l…
Tom Porter
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Republican Gov. Larry Hogan says it's insane anyone would view the Jan. 6 Capitol riot as 'just tourists looking at statues' in apparent jab at GOP lawmaker
"To think that the violent protesters who attacked the Capitol...on January 6 was just tourists loo…
Katie Balevic
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Texas GOP Rep. Louie Gohmert gave an American flag that flew over the Capitol as a gift to a Jan. 6 rioter after her release from federal prison
Gohmert referred to Dr. Simone Gold, who took a plea agreement for charges tied to her involvement …
Sarah Al-Arshani
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Rep. Jamie Raskin says 'whipping up mob violence to destroy fair elections' is the 'oldest domestic enemy' of US democracy
Rep. Jamie Raskin said that inciting mobs to overturn elections is America's "oldest domestic enemy…
Kayla Gallagher
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger says most Republicans in Congress privately don’t believe Trump’s election-fraud claims but repeat them in public anyway
Kinzinger, a Republican outspoken against Trump, also said "a lot" of his GOP colleagues had privat…
Tom Porter
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Trump's advisor showed him a tweet from AOC to fire him up during the commercial break of CNN's town hall: report
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's tweet said CNN should be "ashamed" of itself for losing "total control' …