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Schiff, the grand inquisitor of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial and a fierce prosecutor on the January 6 committee, announced for the Senate last week, just as Kevin McCarthy was booting him off
Matt Gaetz of Florida, boasted during a Jan. 6 Fox News appearance that he had run out of things to demand McCarthy give up in return for cooperation to secure the speakership.
As some might recall, there was a bit of a contretemps on Jan. 6, 2021, over Vice President Mike Pence’s purported power to reject duly cast electoral votes.
Can you grasp how small $9.25 billion is as part of a nearly $6 trillion federal budget? Or against the backdrop of the $31 trillion national debt?
That’s what some Trump-supporting rioters were yelling as they ransacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in search of congressional Democratic leaders and then-Vice President Mike Pence.
Against this backdrop of stonewalling, it is impressive how much new detail about Trump’s behavior around Jan. 6 has been unearthed.
Wednesday’s hearing of the Jan. 6 committee should serve as a reminder that this is the first off-year election since a violent mob ransacked the Capitol. And, despite Dr. Joseph R.
Instead, Biden’s approval rating (43 percent) has jumped 6 points since late July, according to averages at RealClearPolitics.
As the Jan. 6 committee has conclusively demonstrated, Donald Trump orchestrated a failed insurrection to delay or block the counting of the electoral votes that formally elected Joe Biden.
But these days, there is a cynical attitude that nothing will change with the Jan. 6 hearings.
Will the Jan. 6 hearings be a ratings smash? Or will they merely give Democrats and never-Trumpers new reasons to revile the former president?
The underlying message in the Utah Democrats’ endorsement of McMullin is the same one that has animated the Jan. 6 committee in the House: In the battle against the forces out to nullify free elections
Bush’s ill-fated “Mission Accomplished” sentiments about Iraq, Biden said on July 6, “The virus is on the run, and America is coming back.”
Certainly, Republican intransigence and the GOP’s indefensible and willful amnesia about Jan. 6, 2021, play a major role.
When modern-day Visigoths sacked the Capitol on Jan. 6, I recalled a story that former Virginia Republican Sen. John Warner told me about Richard Nixon’s concession in 1960.
Donald Trump will not go away, except to dodge requests for records and information from the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol undertaken in an attempt to overthrow
Even if the nation staggers through December with its credit unsullied and its diplomatic corps replenished, there is the sad-eyed Jan. 6 anniversary to worry about.
But these days, Republicans have deliberately become the party of amnesia over Jan. 6 as Trump spreads his conspiratorial bile about a stolen election.
In a Monday editorial, The Wall Street Journal pointed out that if Republicans go along with the “stolen election canard … they’ll give Democrats an opening to tie them to the Jan. 6 riot and Mr.
If the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is now conveniently remembered in GOP circles as a fun-loving tourist escapade, then Kevin McCarthy feels empowered to try to scuttle a serious House investigation