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New York Times:
Trump Is Said to Have Discussed Pardoning Himself — The discussions occurred in recent weeks, and it was not clear whether he has brought it up since he incited a mob of supporters to attack the Capitol. — President Trump has suggested to aides he wants to pardon himself in the final days …
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CNBC:
'I can't stay here' — Mick Mulvaney resigns from Trump administration, expects others to follow — President Donald Trump's former chief of staff and current special envoy to Northern Ireland said Thursday that he's resigning from his diplomatic post. — Mick Mulvaney told CNBC …
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Tom LoBianco / Business Insider:
SCOOP: Pence opposes 25th Amendment efforts to remove Trump following Capitol riot, VP advisors tell Insider … - Vice President Mike Pence is not supporting calls to remove President Trump from office via the 25th Amendment, two Pence advisors told Insider. — “Not happening” said one of the Republicans close to Pence.
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Randy Krehbiel / Tulsa World:
Inhofe: “I've never seen Mike Pence as angry as he was today” — U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe has been in Congress 34 years and in politics more than 50. As mayor of Tulsa, he once had garbage dumped on his lawn by angry residents. — But it's unlikely anything matched what he experienced Wednesday …
Jim Acosta / CNN:
Trump pressured Pence to engineer a coup, then put the VP in danger, source says — (CNN)President Donald Trump and top White House officials did little to check in on Vice President Mike Pence while he and members of his family were inside the US Capitol when Trump-backed rioters stormed …
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Politico:
‘He screwed the country’: Trump loyalty disintegrates — It was, for many of President Donald Trump's own allies, the final straw. — What began as a rally intended to support Trump became a permanent and irreversible stain on his presidency Wednesday afternoon, as fans of the outgoing president stormed …
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Fox News, The Week, HotAir, New York Times, The Federalist and Reason
Philip Rucker / Washington Post:
Aides weigh resignations, removal options as Trump rages against perceived betrayals — President Trump was decamped in the White House residence Wednesday night, raging about his perceived betrayals, as an array of top aides weighed resigning and some senior administration officials began conversations …
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Politico:
Pence expected to attend Biden's inauguration
Pence expected to attend Biden's inauguration
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Kylie Atwood / CNN:
State Department political appointee fired by White House after tweeting Trump was unfit for office
State Department political appointee fired by White House after tweeting Trump was unfit for office
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Washington Examiner and KVIA-TV
The Daily Beast:
Trump Whines to Advisers: Why Can't I Tweet?!
Trump Whines to Advisers: Why Can't I Tweet?!
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CNBC, The Guardian and Washington Post
Associated Press:
The Latest: Mulvaney says he's quitting after Capitol riot
The Latest: Mulvaney says he's quitting after Capitol riot
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Lawfare:
Can Trump Be Stopped? — The hours since Wednesday afternoon have seen a tidal wave of calls …
Can Trump Be Stopped? — The hours since Wednesday afternoon have seen a tidal wave of calls …
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Louisiana Illuminator, HuffPost, The Daily Beast, Outside the Beltway, Constitution Daily, Metro.co.uk and HotAir
Bloomberg:
Calls for Impeachment, Trump's Ouster Spread: Congress Update
Calls for Impeachment, Trump's Ouster Spread: Congress Update
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The Hill, HotAir, NBC10 Philadelphia, PT News Network, WHTM-TV, Common Dreams, Mother Jones, Raw Story, IJR, WREG-TV and KRON4
Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Graham: Trump's legacy ‘tarnished,’ but not supportive yet of 25th Amendment
Graham: Trump's legacy ‘tarnished,’ but not supportive yet of 25th Amendment
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Business Insider, Fox News and Washington Times
Politico:
Pelosi calls for Trump's immediate ouster after deadly riots
Pelosi calls for Trump's immediate ouster after deadly riots
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CNN, The Hill and Washington Examiner
Politico:
Top Dems sack Capitol security officials after deadly riot — Two top security officials in Congress were poised to lose their jobs over the embarrassing and deadly security breach of the Capitol by President Donald Trump's supporters. — Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer …
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United States Capitol Police:
Statement of Steven Sund, Chief of Police, Regarding the Events of January 6, 2021 — United States Capitol Police (USCP) officers and our law enforcement partners responded valiantly when faced with thousands of individuals involved in violent riotous actions as they stormed the United States Capitol Building.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats are drafting new impeachment articles. Inaction is increasingly untenable. — Some Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee are circulating drafts of new articles of impeachment directed at President Trump for his role in inciting the violent mob assault on the Capitol, a Democratic aide tells me.
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Vox, Washington Examiner, Foreign Policy, POLITICUSUSA, The Constitutionalist and Washington Monthly
Washington Post:
Live updates: Pelosi, Schumer call for Trump's removal; Transportation Secretary Chao to resign
Live updates: Pelosi, Schumer call for Trump's removal; Transportation Secretary Chao to resign
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Pelosi Says House May Seek Impeachment if Cabinet Doesn't Act
Pelosi Says House May Seek Impeachment if Cabinet Doesn't Act
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Reid Wilson / The Hill:
Transportation Secretary Chao resigns in protest
Transportation Secretary Chao resigns in protest
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National Review and Politico
Evie Fordham / Fox News:
Capitol rioters could face up to 10 years in prison under Trump monument executive order — Federal law enforcement officials are investigating and will bring charges against rioters — Capitol protests are ‘un-American’: Rep. Troy Nehls — Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen vowed …
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Washington Post:
Woman fatally shot as pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol identified as Air Force veteran
Woman fatally shot as pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol identified as Air Force veteran
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Washington Examiner:
What we saw and heard on the ground during Capitol siege
What we saw and heard on the ground during Capitol siege
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Fox News and Talking Points Memo
Tony Messenger / St. Louis Post-Dispatch:
Danforth calls his support of Hawley the ‘worst mistake’ of his life … Former U.S. Sen. John C. Danforth saw a mob of rioters take over the Senate chamber where he had spent much of his professional life. The dean of the Missouri Republican Party was a member of the Senate between 1976 and 1995.
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New York Times:
Simon & Schuster Cancels Plans for Senator Hawley's Book — The publisher faced calls to drop the Missouri Republican's upcoming book, “The Tyranny of Big Tech,” following criticism of his efforts to overturn the presidential election. — Simon & Schuster said on Thursday that it would cancel …
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CNN, Vanity Fair and IJR
Jake Offenhartz / Gothamist:
Trump Fur-Ever: Costumed Capitol Rioter Is Son Of Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge — The politically-connected son of a Brooklyn Supreme Court Judge was among the band of Trump-supporting marauders who ransacked the U.S. Capitol building on Wednesday. — Dressed in fur pelts and a bullet proof vest …
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Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
Trump's remarks before Capitol riot may be investigated, acting D.C. U.S. attorney says — The top federal prosecutor in Washington D.C. said Thursday that President Trump was not off limits in his investigation of the events surrounding Wednesday's riot at the U.S. Capitol, saying “all actors” …
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Craig Silverman / BuzzFeed News:
A Facial Recognition Company Says That Viral Washington Times “Antifa” Story Is False — Matt Gaetz had cited the story in Congress as supposed evidence that antifa was involved in the Capitol assault. But the company says it's “outright false.” — Copy
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New York Times:
Which Members of Congress Objected to Certifying Biden's Victory? — When a mob of President Trump's supporters stormed the Capitol building on Wednesday, they forced an emergency recess in the Congressional proceedings to officially certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.
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Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
A demagogue, a mob and the Sedition Caucus
A demagogue, a mob and the Sedition Caucus
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Washington Examiner, CBS News and Vanity Fair
Janny Scott / New York Times:
Neil Sheehan Dies at 84; Times Reporter Obtained the Pentagon Papers — His exhaustive coverage of the Vietnam War also led to the book “A Bright Shining Lie,” which earned him a National Book Award and a Pulitzer Prize. — Neil Sheehan, the Vietnam War correspondent and Pulitzer Prize-winning author …
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Andrew McCormick / The Nation:
Madness on Capitol Hill — Part insurrection, part happy hour, Trump supporters lost their minds, and I watched a man urinate on the Capitol steps. The nation, ashamed, was left to mourn. — It was 5pm when the explosions started, one after another, washing the crowd of Donald Trump supporters in plumes of tear gas.
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Jon Swaine / Washington Post:
Man who posed at Pelosi desk said in Facebook post that he is prepared for violent death — Last Saturday, Richard Barnett of Gravette, Ark., criticized Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in a Facebook post for using the description “white nationalist” as a “derogatory term.” — “I am white.
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Matthew Rosenberg / New York Times:
He looted Speaker Pelosi's office, and then bragged about it.
He looted Speaker Pelosi's office, and then bragged about it.
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Politico:
Biden chooses Boston Mayor Walsh as Labor secretary — President-elect Joe Biden has picked Boston Mayor Marty Walsh, a former top union leader, to serve as his Labor secretary, according to four sources, ending a selection process that split the labor movement and stoked diversity concerns among Democrats.
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Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Republican Kelly Loeffler concedes defeat to Raphael Warnock — U.S. Sen. Kelly Loeffler conceded defeat on Thursday to Raphael Warnock and formally ended her campaign against the Democrat, who will become the first Black senator in Georgia history when he takes office this month …
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Twitter set to restore Trump's account after blocking him for fomenting Capitol riot — Twitter is set to restore access to President Trump's account on Thursday morning, twelve hours after the tech giant blocked him for blasting out a series of falsehoods as rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol.
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Marisa Schultz / Fox News:
Georgia wins put Schumer in control of Senate, Democrats in charge of committee agenda — The Senate will be split 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans once results are certified and Biden is inaugurated — Democrat Jon Ossoff projected to win Georgia Senate runoff election
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Washington Examiner, Mother Jones and MIT Technology Review
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