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Wall Street Journal:
White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to Resign — Pressure for resignation was part of broader push by President Trump to overturn state's election results — White House officials pushed Atlanta's top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia's U.S. Senate runoffs because President Trump …
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Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
‘Find the fraud’: Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal experts say could amount to obstruction — President Trump urged Georgia's lead elections investigator to “find the fraud” in a lengthy December phone call, saying the official would be a “national hero …
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Washington Post:
A mob insurrection stoked by false claims of election fraud and promises of violent restoration — The problem with devotion to a prophet of falsehoods is that reality eventually intrudes. — By mid-December, President Trump's fraudulent claims of a rigged election were failing in humiliating fashion.
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The Hill and The Gateway Pundit
John Paczkowski / BuzzFeed News:
Amazon Is Booting Parler Off Of Its Web Hosting Service — Amazon on Saturday kicked Parler off its Web hosting services. Parler, a social network favored by conservative politicians and extremists, was used to help plan and coordinate the January 6 attempted coup on Washington D.C …
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New York Times:
Apple and Google Cut Off Parler, an App That Drew Trump Supporters — The companies removed the “free speech” social network from their app stores, limiting its reach just as many conservatives are seeking alternatives to Facebook and Twitter. — Parler, a social network that pitches itself as a …
Washington Post:
Trump scrambles to find new social network after Twitter ban, as White House prepares to blast big tech — Twitter's decision to ban President Trump mere days before the end of his term sparked a fierce political backlash among his most fervent allies on Saturday, sending some of his supporters …
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Washington Times, Business Insider, HotAir, Slate and Protocol, more at Techmeme »
Timothy Snyder / New York Times:
The American Abyss — A historian of fascism and political atrocity on Trump, the mob and what comes next — When Donald Trump stood before his followers on Jan. 6 and urged them to march on the United States Capitol, he was doing what he had always done.
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Orange County Register, New York Post, HotAir and USA Today
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Washington Post:
Republicans largely silent about consequences of deadly attack and Trump's role in inciting it
Republicans largely silent about consequences of deadly attack and Trump's role in inciting it
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CNN:
Trump considering Giuliani and Dershowitz for impeachment defense team
Trump considering Giuliani and Dershowitz for impeachment defense team
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Jim Acosta / CNN:
Pence has not ruled out 25th Amendment, source says — DC attorney general: Pence should invoke 25th Amendment — (CNN)Vice President Mike Pence has not ruled out an effort to invoke the 25th Amendment and wants to preserve the option in case President Donald Trump becomes more unstable, a source close to the vice president says.
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Election Law Blog and Political Wire
Emmanuel Felton / BuzzFeed News:
These Black Capitol Police Officers Describe Fighting Off “Racist Ass Terrorists” — The first glimpse of the deadly tragedy that was about to unfold came at 9 a.m. on the morning of the insurrection for one Black veteran of the US Capitol Police. But it didn't come from his superiors …
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Linda So / Reuters:
U.S. Capitol police officer who died after violent assault ‘loved his job’
U.S. Capitol police officer who died after violent assault ‘loved his job’
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Raw Story
Brad McElhinny / WV MetroNews:
Derrick Evans resigns W.Va. House after entering U.S. Capitol with mob — Derrick Evans, facing federal charges for entering the U.S. Capitol with a mob, has resigned from West Virginia's House of Delegates. — “I hereby resign as a member of the House of Delegates, effective immediately …
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Three Men Charged in Connection with Events at U.S. Capitol
Three Men Charged in Connection with Events at U.S. Capitol
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Ryan W. Miller / USA Today:
Capitol riot live updates: Air Force veteran fired after reported participation; FBI looking for man in Senate with zip ties, tactical gear
Capitol riot live updates: Air Force veteran fired after reported participation; FBI looking for man in Senate with zip ties, tactical gear
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HuffPost, Los Angeles Times, DNyuz, The Dispatch, TheGrio and The Guardian
Brian Stelter / CNN:
Now it's sinking in: Wednesday's Capitol Hill riot was even more violent than it first appeared — (CNN)News outlets are publishing more and more videos, photos and testimonials from Wednesday's pro-Trump riot on Capitol Hill. And it's becoming clear that as heinous as the attack looked in real time …
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Brian Schwartz / CNBC:
Pro-Trump dark money groups organized the rally that led to deadly Capitol Hill riot
Pro-Trump dark money groups organized the rally that led to deadly Capitol Hill riot
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NBC News, Washington Times, Missouri Independent, TheGrio and Business Insider
Jack Shafer / Politico:
Trump Media Empire? Don't Bet on It. — Eighty-sixed permanently from his personal account by Twitter for propelling his mob to attack and occupy the Capitol, President Donald Trump transferred his carping to the official @POTUS account early Friday evening.
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Jeremy Diamond / CNN:
Trump expected to fight with big tech during final days in office
Trump expected to fight with big tech during final days in office
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emptywheel, Conservative News Today, KDFX-TV and Compatible Creatures, more at Mediagazer »
Isaac Chotiner / New Yorker:
Chris Christie Has No Regrets — Throughout Donald Trump's Presidency, the former New Jersey governor Chris Christie has been an informal adviser to the White House. His embrace of the Trump Administration has been complicated. Christie led Trump's White House transition team but was removed shortly after Trump won the election.
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ProPublica:
Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot … ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they're published. — This story is part of an ongoing collaboration between ProPublica and FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming documentary.
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Washington Post:
‘The storm is here’: Ashli Babbitt's journey from capital ‘guardian’ to invader — The politician she revered above all others had lost an election. She'd struggled with crippling amounts of debt. Her home state of California was locking down again because of a virus she believed was fiction.
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DNyuz, Juanita Jean's and The Sun
Asawin Suebsaeng / The Daily Beast:
Stewing in the White House, Trump Plots a Boastful Media Tour and Screams 'I'm Not Going To Resign' — Sources say Trump has made comments that gave no indication he was worried about leaving early or being removed. — Sequestered in the White House following a series of high-profile resignations …
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Fox News, The Hill, Associated Press and Political Wire
Foreign Policy:
Group of State Department Officials Call for Consultations on Trump's Removal — Second dissent cable directed at Pompeo also rebukes the secretary of state for not forcefully condemning the president. — Career officials at the State Department filed a second unprecedented dissent cable …
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Political Wire, ABC News and The Hill
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Trump's Capitol Offense — The presidency melts down, as Trump becomes too vile even for Twitter. — WASHINGTON — Even as a small child, I knew I was seeing something tremendous. — I didn't know that the light in the dome meant that Congress was in session.
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Quartz, Raw Story and The Atlantic
Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
The Silence of the Damned — The first time I walked through the West Wing after Donald Trump's inauguration, I was confronted with a large photo of the new president mounted on the wall in a stairwell. The image captures him peering out the window of a plane. His lips are pursed and parted, revealing his teeth.
New York Times:
Democrats Are Determined to Pressure Biden to Investigate Trump — Wide segments of the party are eager to see investigations and prosecutions of President Trump and his allies, while President-elect Joseph Biden is taking a more measured approach. — WASHINGTON — Twelve years ago …
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CNBC and Crooks and Liars
Chris Joyner / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
AJC EXCLUSIVE: Georgia attorney among those who broke into U.S. Capitol — When hundreds of pro-Trump protesters stunned and horrified the nation by forcing their way into the United States Capitol Wednesday, self-described “Anti-Communist Counter-Revolutionary” McCall Calhoun was among the first through the doors.
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