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2:25 PM ET, January 9, 2021

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Politico:
Trump went ‘ballistic’ after being tossed off Twitter  —  President Donald Trump has many prized possessions.  But few seemed to inspire as much personal joy as his Twitter feed.  Trump routinely boasted of the social media bullhorn he possessed.  He credited it with launching his political trajectory.
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Olivia Nuzzi / New York Magazine:
Senior Trump Official: We Were Wrong, He's a ‘Fascist’  —  On Friday afternoon, 48 hours after the U.S. Capitol was stormed by violent insurrectionists encouraged by Donald Trump in an attempt to overthrow the government in protest of his election loss, a senior member of his administration spoke to me while he was driving to work.
Twitter:
Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump  —  After close review of recent Tweets from the @realDonaldTrump account and the context around them — specifically how they are being received and interpreted on and off Twitter — we have permanently suspended the account due to the risk of further incitement of violence.
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Three Men Charged in Connection with Events at U.S. Capitol  —  WASHINGTON - Three men were charged today in federal court in the District of Columbia in connection with the riots at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021.  —  Jacob Anthony Chansley, a.k.a. Jake Angeli, of Arizona …
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Your Side / WFLA-TV:
Tampa Bay man seen carrying lectern at U.S. Capitol riot arrested in Pinellas County  —  PINELLAS COUNTY, Fla. (WFLA) — The Pinellas County Sheriff's Office inmate search shows that the man seen carrying a lectern through the U.S. Capitol during a riot Wednesday has been arrested.
Sophia Barnes / NBC4 Washington:
Capitol Rioter Seen in Horned Hat, Carrying Spear Arrested: US Attorney  —  A man photographed in the U.S. Capitol carrying a 6-foot spear and wearing a horned helmet as a pro-Trump mob breached the building Wednesday has been arrested and charged, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia said.
Discussion: ABC News, NBC News, DNyuz and HuffPost
Houston Chronicle:
Resign, Senator Cruz.  Your lies cost lives.  —  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is among a number of GOP lawmakers claiming without evidence that voter fraud was widespread during the November election.  (Eli Imadali/American-Statesman/TNS)  —  In Texas, we have our share of politicians …
Discussion: The Hill, HotAir, Townhall and Joe.My.God.
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Politico:
Election gambit blows up on Hawley and Cruz  —  Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz have positioned themselves as heirs to President Donald Trump's base.  But their decision to embrace Trump's election challenge is fueling major blowback — even as they remain largely unrepentant after this week's deadly riot.
ExpressNews.com:
Impeachment for Trump; expulsion for enabler Cruz
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA
Washington Examiner:   Tim Scott, not Ted Cruz, has the right election commission idea
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 …
Associated Press:
'He's on his own': Some Republicans begin to flee from Trump  —  NEW YORK — President Donald Trump's steadfast grip on Republicans in Washington is beginning to crumble, leaving him more politically isolated than at any other point in his turbulent administration.
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New York Times:
Democrats Ready Impeachment Charge Against Trump for Inciting Capitol Mob
Molly Jong-Fast / The Daily Beast:
The One Good Thing the MAGA Mobs Smashed? The Trump Kids' Futures.
Discussion: Raw Story and Daily Kos
Ronan Farrow / New Yorker:
An Air Force Combat Veteran Breached the Senate  —  As insurrectionists stormed the U.S. Capitol this week, a few figures stood out.  One man, clad in a combat helmet, body armor, and other tactical gear, was among the group that made it to the inner reaches of the building.
NBC News:
Republican AGs group sent robocalls urging march to the Capitol  —  An arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, a national group representing the top law enforcement officers in their states, sent out robocalls encouraging people to march to the U.S. Capitol the day before the building was stormed by a pro-Trump mob.
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Rebecca Traister / The Cut:
‘It Was No Accident’ Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal on surviving the siege.  —  On Wednesday, January 6, Pramila Jayapal, a Democratic congresswoman from Washington State, was sitting in the gallery above the House chamber, watching the proceedings to count the Electoral College vote and certify …
Caitlin Yilek / CBS News:
James Clyburn says “somebody on the inside” of Capitol was “complicit” in letting rioters inside the building  —  House Majority Whip James Clyburn said Friday that the ease in which rioters were able to get into the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday suggests that someone on the inside of the Capitol was “complicit” in the assault.
Discussion: The Root, Talking Points Memo and DNyuz
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Jane Mayer / New Yorker:
A Palm Beach Proud Boy at the Putsch  —  Bobby Pickles, a purveyor of far-right T-shirts, joined the horde of balding dudes in dad jeans at the Capitol, because Donald Trump, he says, is “like punk rock.”  —  As federal law-enforcement officials consider investigating the President's role …
Discussion: Althouse
Politico:
McCarthy and Scalise face internal dissension after Capitol riot  —  House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and House Minority Whip Steve Scalise are facing backlash from their Republican colleagues for standing by President Donald Trump after he incited a violent mob to storm the Capitol this week …
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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.
Discussion: New York Post, The Sun and DNyuz
CNN:
Decoding the extremist symbols and groups at the Capitol Hill insurrection  —  Photo Illustrations by Priya Krishnakumar, CNN  —  How the US Capitol riot unfolded, minute by minute  —  This story contains images and descriptions of extremist groups and their beliefs.
Washington Post:
Companies backed Trump for years.  Now they're facing a reckoning after the attack on the Capitol.  —  ‘It was a classic Faustian bargain,’ one critic says.  ‘They should have known from the beginning.’  —  The bargain with the business world worked like this: They mostly tolerated President …
Discussion: Raw Story and HotAir
Randall Lane / Forbes:
A Truth Reckoning: Why We're Holding Those Who Lied For Trump Accountable  —  Yesterday's insurrection was rooted in lies.  That a fair election was stolen.  That a significant defeat was actually a landslide victory.  That the world's oldest democracy, ingeniously insulated via autonomous state voting regimens, is a rigged system.
John F. Harris / Politico:
Hey, Twitter, Are You Sure About This?  —  For a half-century, the trend in political culture has been inexorably in one direction: toward the steady loosening and eventually the near-obliteration of media filters.  —  If someone has a voice that other people want to hear, that voice is going to be heard.
Discussion: HotAir and Althouse
Brian McEntee / Slate:
D.C. Residents Put Up With Overbearing Security for 20 Years.  It Did Nothing.  —  You develop a certain psychic geography as a bike commuter in D.C. You know places, but from the outside only.  Most people here aren't Hill staffers or journalists or tour guides—we don't actually go into the U.S. Capitol …
Discussion: Balloon Juice, Eschaton, Politico and DNyuz
Chief Adrian Diaz / SPD Blotter:
SPD Officers in D.C. Referred to OPA  —  Today the Seattle Police Department was made aware that at least two of its officers were reportedly in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.  The Department fully supports all lawful expressions of First Amendment freedom of speech, but the violent mob …
Seung Min Kim / Washington Post:
McConnell memo outlines how Senate would conduct second trial for Trump if House impeaches  —  On the cusp of the second impeachment battle in just over a year, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) is circulating a memo to Republican senators that outlines how a potential Senate trial …
Ronald Brownstein / The Atlantic:
Republicans Confront the Consequences of Their Doomsday Rhetoric  —  The Republican Party's “Flight 93” revolution tragically, but almost inevitably, came full circle this week in a storm of insurrectionary violence at the U.S. Capitol.  —  Late in the 2016 presidential campaign …
Discussion: Associated Press, NPR and DNyuz
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Swift new impeachment would damage the Constitution  —  Author Franz Kafka once wrote, “My guiding principle is this.  Guilt is never to be doubted.”  Democrats appear close to adopting that standard into the Constitution as they prepare for a second impeachment of President Trump.
Discussion: Townhall, JONATHAN TURLEY and WHTM-TV
 
 
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Wall Street Journal:
Trump and His Allies Set the Stage for Riot Well Before January 6
Annie Karni / New York Times:
As Circle of Trump Aides Dwindles, a Few Plan to Stay to the End
Discussion: The Daily Caller and Bloomberg
Oriana Gonzalez / Axios:
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Joe Sneve / Argus Leader:
Gov. Kristi Noem says Georgia elected ‘communists’ to serve in the U.S. Senate
Jonah Goldberg / The Dispatch:
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New York Times:
Trump Administration Politicized Some Intelligence on Foreign Election Influence, Report Finds
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Russ Choma / Mother Jones:
If Trump Is Impeached and Convicted, He'll Lose His Post-Presidency Perks
Discussion: Rolling Stone and Eschaton
Zach Helfand / New Yorker:
As Told To: The Pelosi Staffer Keith Stern on the Breach of the Capitol
 

 
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