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Aide: Trump dismissed Jan. 6 threats, sought to join armed mob at Capitol
Jun 28, 2022 11:16 PM - Former President Donald Trump dismissed the presence of armed protesters headed to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and even endorsed their calls to "hang Mike Pence," a key former White House aide told House investigators Tuesday. And Trump fought security officials for control of the presidential SUV as he struggled to get to the Capitol, the aide said, though that account is being disputed.
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1/6 Takeaways: Angry Trump, dire legal warnings and ketchup
Jun 28, 2022 7:28 PM - The House Jan. 6 committee held a surprise hearing Tuesday delivering alarming new testimony about Donald Trump's angry, defiant and vulgar actions as he ignored repeated warnings against summoning the mob to the Capitol and then refused to intervene to stop the deadly violence as rioters laid siege.
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The story behind AP report that caused Trump to throw lunch
Jun 28, 2022 7:08 PM - The news story that reportedly caused former President Donald Trump to throw his lunch against a White House wall came because of an interview that former Attorney General William Barr had arranged with The Associated Press.
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Darren Bailey gets long-sought Trump endorsement in GOP race for governorJun 26, 2022 2:43 PM - Calling Darren Bailey "the man to take on and defeat one of the worst governors in America," former President Donald Trump on Saturday endorsed the downstate farmer in the GOP gubernatorial primary race -- a boost in the waning days of what has become a heated and expensive contest.
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Facts Matter: Alleged Trump statement on Jan. 6 is fake
Jun 25, 2022 4:07 PM - In this week's Facts Matter column, Bob Oswald examines claims President Trump made a social media post about Jan. 6, President Obama changed the name of Pride month, thousands of cattle were killed by chemtrails and more.
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Jan. 6 committee hears of Trump's pressure on Justice Department
Jun 23, 2022 5:30 PM - Donald Trump hounded the Justice Department to pursue his false election fraud claims, contacting the agency's leader "virtually every day" and striving in vain to enlist top law enforcement officials in a desperate bid to stay in power, according to testimony Thursday to the House panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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We fought Trump pressure, GOP state officials tell 1/6 panel
Jun 21, 2022 2:42 PM - The House 1/6 committee outlined on Tuesday Donald Trump's relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election, aiming to show it led to widespread personal threats on the stewards of American democracy -- election workers and local officials who fended off the defeated president's efforts.
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The moments resonating from the Jan. 6 hearings (so far)
Jun 20, 2022 7:58 AM - While it's impossible to know what -- if anything -- covered in the initial stages of the hearing will stick much beyond the week's news, there are already breakout moments and characters.
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1/6 panel: Plan for Pence to reject electors 'nuts,' 'crazy'
Jun 16, 2022 3:09 PM - Donald Trump's closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to reject the tally of state electors and overturn the 2020 election as "nuts," "crazy" and even likely incite riots, witnesses revealed in stark testimony to the Jan. 6 committee on Thursday.
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1/6 panel postpones hearing with ex-Justice Dept. officials
Jun 14, 2022 1:24 PM - The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol has postponed a hearing that was to feature dramatic testimony from former Justice Department officials who were pressured by then-President Donald Trump to pursue his false election fraud theories.
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