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Requests for additional Army National Guard support during the Jan. 6 riots in the U.S. Capitol building were initially denied by officials in the Pentagon. As protests became increasingly violent on Capitol Hill, Capitol Police Chief Steven Sund called the Pentagon where a representative from the office of the Secretary of the Army said that additional National Guard support “wasn’t going to be possible.” Days before the storming of the Capitol building, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser made an official request for Army National Guard support in anticipation of protests in the District. Likely influe...
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A photo now seen by millions shows a person in military fatigues on the Senate floor with several zip tie restraints on his belt during the riots that shook the Capitol building. That man now joins more than 60 others who have been arrested for their actions on Jan. 6. Eric Gavelek Munchel was arrested in Tennessee and confirmed by the U.S. Attorney’s Office to be the armored man carrying plastic restraints in the Capitol building on January 6. Munchel’s arrest comes after the FBI’s public release of his photo asking for information leading to his identification. He was identified in just days...
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Several pictures from the Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol show people posing in private offices and gleefully vandalizing the Capitol building. More than 60 people have now been federally charged with trespassing, theft and possession of firearms and explosives. The photo of a man sitting at Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s (D-California) desk with his feet up led to his subsequent arrest and charging with theft. From another viral photo, a Florida man was arrested after being pictured waving to a camera while carrying Speaker Pelosi’s lectern. The FBI has publicly released an image with 12 people who ...
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After receiving hundreds of complaints in recent days, former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, currently the personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, is now the subject of a New York Bar Association inquiry seeking his disbarment. The Bar Association in a public statement cited Giuliani’s behavior at the Trump speech hours before the Capitol riots as their main cause for the inquiry. At the event, Giuliani said, “Let’s have trial by combat” to the crowd which would soon storm the Capitol building leading to six deaths. The Bar Association prevents its members from any actions which “advoca...
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Democrats introduced fines for lawmakers who refuse to wear face masks on the House floor, following the positive COVID-19 diagnoses of at least three House members after they were forced to take shelter with maskless colleagues during the riot at the U.S. Capitol. Mask wearing in the House chamber has been required since July, however, there has been few repercussions for those failing to comply. Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) previously warned that failure to wear a mask on the floor would result in removal by the sergeant at arms. In December, she added a threat of not being granted sp...
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New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced today that the city will be canceling several Trump projects because of the president’s involvement in the Capitol riots. Mayor de Blasio said specifically that “inciting an insurrection against the U.S. government clearly constitutes criminal activity. The City of New York will no longer have anything to do with the Trump Organization.” The canceled projects include Trump’s management of two ice skating rinks near the Central Park Carousel and a new golf course at Ferry Point in the Bronx. The Trump Organization is expected to suffer massive financ...
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Weeks before the joint congressional session to certify the Electoral College results of the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump was publicly and privately urging his vice president, Mike Pence, to object to the certification. Pence ignored Trump’s wishes and certified the results Wednesday after riots shook the Capitol. Since then, Trump had not spoken to Pence – until Monday night when the two met briefly in the Oval Office at Trump’s request. Pence announce on Tuesday night that he would not agree to the House of Representative’s demand that he invoke the 25th Amendment to t...
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“Supporting Josh Hawley … was the worst decision I’ve ever made in my life,” former Sen. John Danforth (R-Missouri) told the Associated Press on Thursday. Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Missouri), a mostly unknown first-term senator, has been making national headlines after appealing to pro-Trump protesters on the Capitol on Wednesday, and supporting President Donald Trump’s demonstrably false accusations of widespread voter fraud. Hawley still refuses to accept President-elect Joe Biden as the winner of the 2020 presidential election. Hawley, a lawyer with degrees from Yale and Stanford, surprised many...
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Govs. Phil Scott (R-Vermont), Larry Hogan (R-Maryland) and Charlie Baker (R-Mass.) have all individually called for the resignation or removal of President Donald Trump as a result of his inciting of crowds this Wednesday and their subsequent storming of the Capitol building. Scott specifically wrote in a Twitter post Wednesday, “Enough is enough. President Trump should resign or be removed from office by his Cabinet, or by the Congress.” “Make no mistake, the President of the United States is responsible for this event. President Trump has orchestrated a campaign to cause an insurrection th...
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In a 7 p.m. phone call Wednesday night, personal lawyer to President Donald Trump, Rudy Giuliani begged a senator to delay the session to certify the Electoral College “ideally until the end of tomorrow.” In the chaos that consumed the Capitol building, Giuliani left a voice message for Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Alabama), who planned to object to the certification on Wednesday, but reached a different number. “I want to discuss with you how they’re trying to rush this hearing and how we need you, our Republican friends, to try to just slow it down so we can get these legislatures to get more ...
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