Trump said he was 'scared of COVID' after testing positive because he knew people who died from it, Jan. 6 filmmaker says
"What he said to me was that the reason why he was sort of scared of COVID was essentially because he knew people who had died of COVID," British filmmaker Alex Holder said.
news.yahoo.comPreemptive pardons, Trump’s Justice Dept. plans and other takeaways from Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing
The hearing featured testimony from top Justice Department officials who detailed Trump’s exhaustive effort to get the department to embrace internet conspiracies, and explained how close the president came to installing atop its ranks an official whose primary qualification was his fealty to Trump.
latimes.comDocumentary crew captured Pence learning Pelosi wanted him to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump
A documentary film crew that the House Jan. 6 Select Committee subpoenaed captured former Vice President Pence’s reaction to reading a draft House resolution calling on him to invoke the 25th Amendment to the Constitution to remove former President Trump from power, CNN reported. CNN obtained the video Thursday showing Pence first saw the draft…
news.yahoo.com‘I’ve lost my sense of security’: Takeaways from testimony at Tuesday’s Jan. 6 hearing
Led by Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank), alongside committee Chairman Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R- Wyo.), the hearing featured testimony from the Republican Arizona House speaker, two officials from the Georgia Secretary of State’s office and a pair of former Fulton County, Ga., election workers.
latimes.comFox anchor: Jan. 6 witnesses outlining ‘huge, stunning, clear’ lack of voter fraud evidence
Fox News anchor Martha MacCallum on Tuesday said that witnesses testifying before the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol are laying out a “huge, stunning and clear moment” showing a lack of evidence to support former President Trump’s claims of an unfair election in 2020. MacCallum said Democrats…
news.yahoo.comArizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers refutes Trump’s description of phone call: ‘That certainly isn’t it’
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) refuted former President Trump’s description of a phone call between the two men after the 2020 presidential election, telling the members of the select House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol he never told Trump the election was rigged. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), a…
news.yahoo.comRusty Bowers says Giuliani told him: ‘We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence’
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) on Tuesday said he repeatedly pressed Rudy Giuliani for proof of his claims of election fraud after the 2020 election, but that Giuliani failed to produce any. “My recollection, he said, ‘We’ve got lots of theories, we just don’t have the evidence,’” Bowers told the Jan. 6 House committee…
news.yahoo.comCourt rejects Trump-era EPA finding that weed killer safe
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Trump administration finding that the active ingredient in the weed killer Roundup does not pose a serious health risk and is “not likely” to cause cancer in humans. The California-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ordered the Environmental Protection Agency to reexamine its 2020 finding that glyphosate did not pose a health risk for people exposed to it by any means — on farms, yards or roadsides or as residue left on food crops.
news.yahoo.comTrump says he would look ‘very, very seriously’ at pardons for Jan 6 defendants if reelected
Former President Trump said on Friday that he would look “very, very seriously” at pardoning those charged in connection with storming the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, if he ran for and became president again. Speaking during a Faith and Freedom event in Nashville, Tenn., Trump said the defendants charged in the Capitol riot were…
news.yahoo.comWalmart pulls MyPillow products from stores
Walmart said it pulled MyPillow products from its stores as the pillow company’s founder and CEO Mike Lindell continues to falsely claim the 2020 presidential election was rigged against former President Trump. A Walmart spokesperson confirmed the products’ removal after Lindell posted a series of live videos on his Facebook page in which he talked…
news.yahoo.comJudge: Trump’s theory about Pence’s election powers has ‘no basis’
The idea that Vice President Mike Pence could have effectively deemed Trump the winner of the 2020 election is legally baseless and amounts to "constitutional mischief," retired federal Judge J. Michael Luttig tells the Jan. 6 committee.
latimes.comFormer Trump lawyer told Giuliani he wanted to be on pardon list after Jan. 6
During the third public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, it was revealed that President Trump’s lawyer John Eastman told Rudy Giuliani after the riot that he wanted to be included on the presidential pardon list.
news.yahoo.comTrump berated Pence on Jan. 6 phone call: hearing testimony
The House select committee investigating the Capitol insurrection played video testimony on the Jan. 6 phone call between President Trump and Vice President Pence. Former White House adviser Ivanka Trump said the conversation was “pretty heated,” while others testified that Trump called Pence a “wimp” and “the P-word.”
news.yahoo.comTrump’s pressure campaign on Pence is focus of third hearing on Jan. 6 insurrection
The committee will lay out the last-ditch plan pushed by California lawyer John Eastman and former President Trump to persuade Pence to reject the votes of certain states or send results back to state legislatures to determine whether fraud occurred.
latimes.comPence’s Jan. 6 tightrope: Owning his role while courting Trump voters
As former vice president Mike Pence positions himself to take on Trump for the Republican nomination in 2024, he has sought to stand by his actions on Jan. 6 without becoming known for attacking the former president.
washingtonpost.comJan. 6 panel's 1,000 witnesses: From Trump aides to rioters
The House Jan. 6 panel has interviewed more than 1,000 people who were directly or indirectly involved in the U.S. Capitol insurrection as it's probed the violent attack and former President Donald Trump’s unprecedented efforts to overturn his election defeat.
Accounting firm: Trump financial statements aren't reliable
The accounting firm that prepared former President Donald Trump’s annual financial statements says the documents, used to secure lucrative loans and burnish Trump’s image as a wealthy businessman, “should no longer be relied upon” after investigators said they found evidence he and his company regularly misstated the value of assets.
Kellyanne Conway memoir 'Here's the Deal' coming out May 24
Former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway has a memoir out May 24: “Here’s the Deal” is billed by her publisher as a look beyond the headlines of the Trump administration and her family life, including her husband and prominent Trump detractor, George Conway.
2 Iranians charged with threatening US voters in 2020
Two suspected Iranian computer hackers have been charged in a broad campaign of election interference aimed at intimidating American voters during last year’s presidential race and undermining confidence that the results of the contest could be trusted.
South Texas was already a political battleground. New maps could alter game plans.
With proposed maps out, U.S. Rep. Vicente Gonzalez, D-McAllen, says he might switch to a neighboring district where U.S. Rep. Filemon Vela, D-Brownsville, is retiring. The initial maps are also sure to impact decisions in regional legislative races.
US House votes to ease entry process for Afghan interpreters
The U.S. House of Representatives has easily passed legislation that would make it easier for Afghans who worked for the American military or NATO to relocate to the U.S. The bill, which drew bipartisan support, eliminates a requirement that special visa applicants get a medical exam before they leave Afghanistan.