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Steve Neavling / News & Views, Detroit Metro Times:
Sen. Shirkey baselessly claims U.S. Capitol riot was ‘staged’ by Trump haters, recording shows — Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey. — Michigan state Senate Majority Leader Mike Shirkey suggested the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol was a “hoax” perpetuated by opponents of former President Donald Trump.
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Politico:
Trump was quite displeased with his impeachment defense team — For former President Donald Trump, the opening day of his second impeachment trial did not go as planned or to his liking. — Cocooned at his Mar-a-Lago estate, Trump watched as his defense attorneys responded …
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Washington Post:
Trump's lawyers say he was immediately ‘horrified’ by the Capitol attack. Here's what his allies and aides said really happened that day. — President Donald Trump was “horrified” when violence broke out at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, as a joint session of Congress convened to confirm …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
Bruce Castor: The Disaster Artist — Explaining what just happened. And why. — Bruce Castor's opening statement in defense of former President Donald Trump was one of the worst presentations I have ever seen by a public speaker, in any context. — On style, he was akin to a checked-out …
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Politico:
Senate votes Trump trial is constitutional after emotional first day — The Senate voted on Tuesday to uphold the Senate's authority to put Donald Trump on trial for the House's charge that he incited the Jan. 6 insurrection, sidelining the former president's primary defense against the House's impeachment article.
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David Siders / Politico:
Impeachment minefield awaits 2024 GOP field — Donald Trump's acquittal in his impeachment trial is all but a sure thing. — What's still unsettled is how the Republican senators seeking to take his place in the 2024 presidential primary will navigate the minefield before the verdict is official.
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Rebecca Ballhaus / Wall Street Journal:
Trump Lawyer Bruce Castor Defends Trial Performance After GOP Criticism
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Associated Press:
The Latest: Aides say Trump impeachment case ‘devastating’
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The Hill:
GOP senators ‘perplexed’ by ‘unfocused’ and ‘weaker’ Trump legal defense
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Thomas Kaplan / New York Times:
Trial of Former President Is Found Constitutional, With 6 G.O.P. Votes
Politico:
Trump plans a reemergence and some retribution after impeachment
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Jim Jordan / Fox News:
Rep. Jim Jordan: Trump impeachment trial - here's what the Senate must do
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
Trump aide who penned White House tell-all considering Alabama Senate run
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David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Trump impeachment vote could be litmus test for GOP senators eyeing 2024 runs
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Li Zhou / Vox:
Watch: Democrats open the impeachment trial with a disturbing video capturing the chaos of January 6
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Kadia Goba / Axios:
Trump's 2nd impeachment trial recap, day 1: Senate votes trial is constitutional
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Brian Naylor / NPR:
House Managers To Present New Evidence At Trump Impeachment Trial
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Daniel Victor / New York Times:
'I'm Not a Cat,' Says Lawyer Having Zoom Difficulties — The video was immediately shared widely and brought joy to many. The lawyer, Rod Ponton, said he was happy people got a much-needed laugh. — It was a civil forfeiture case hearing like any other hearing, except for the lawyer cat.
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Matthew Gault / VICE:
‘I Am Not a Cat,’ Lawyer Using Zoom Cat Filter Tells Judge — “All it was was a mistake. It was taken off and we had the hearing as normal,” the lawyer told Motherboard. — A court case in Texas was delayed by an adorable kitten filter. Lawyer Rod Ponton showed up to virtual court …
Simon Shuster / TIME:
Exclusive: Ukraine Releases ‘Shock’ Call With Giuliani As Trump's Second Impeachment Trial Begins — “Let these investigations go forward,” Rudy Giuliani told the presidential headquarters in Kyiv, Ukraine, his voice turning impatient. “Get someone to investigate this.”
Norimitsu Onishi / New York Times:
‘Woke’ American Ideas Are a Threat, French Leaders Say — Politicians and prominent intellectuals say social theories from the United States on race, gender and post-colonialism are a threat to French identity and the French republic. — PARIS — The threat is said to be existential.
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User Clip: House impeachment managers' opening video — Video presented by Rep. Jamie Raskin (D) of the events of Jan. 6, 2021.
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WCCO | CBS Minnesota:
Suspect In Custody After Multiple People Shot At Allina Health Clinic In Buffalo — MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO/AP) — A suspect is in custody and multiple people are injured following a shooting at an Allina Health Clinic in Buffalo Tuesday morning. — According to the Wright County Sheriff's Office …
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Alex Nester / Washington Free Beacon:
White House Walks Back Promise to Open Schools in 100 Days — The White House on Tuesday qualified its promise to reopen schools in President Joe Biden's first 100 days in office, saying the administration wants “some” in-person learning “at least one day a week.”
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Brett Samuels / The Hill:
Biden opposes effort to recall California's Newsom: White House
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Niels Lesniewski / Roll Call:
White House confirms Biden will keep embassy in Jerusalem
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Dexter Thomas / VICE:
Is This Beverly Hills Cop Playing Sublime's ‘Santeria’ to Avoid Being Live-streamed? — Police officers in Beverly Hills have been playing music while being filmed, seemingly in an effort to trigger Instagram's copyright filters. — DT — Last Friday, a man entered the Beverly Hills police department …
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
What happened with New York Times reporter Donald McNeil? — The Constitution protects people from being prosecuted twice for the same offense. But those “double jeopardy” protections hold no sway in private workplaces like the New York Times, as now-former reporter Donald G. McNeil Jr. discovered …
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New York Times:
Fox Files Motion to Dismiss Smartmatic's $2.7 Billion Defamation Suit — In a court filing, Rupert Murdoch's media company says it had the right to broadcast the debunked claims of election fraud promoted by President Donald Trump's legal team on Fox News and Fox Business.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
Fox's effort to clean up its post-election misinformation is not terribly convincing
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ABC News:
‘Because President Trump said to’: Over a dozen Capitol rioters say they were following Trump's guidance — Some of them are accused of perpetrating the attack's most violent crimes. — US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection — On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke …
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Sarah Longwell / The Bulwark:
Hold Them All Accountable — The people who stormed the Capitol are facing the music.
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CBS News:
Majority favor conviction as impeachment trial begins, but many Republicans urge loyalty to Trump — CBS News poll — As former President Trump's second impeachment trial begins, a 56%-majority of Americans would like the Senate to vote to convict him, and the same percentage say he encouraged violence …
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Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
Republicans came within 90,000 votes of controlling all of Washington — The 2020 election was bad for Republicans, full stop. For the first time since 1932, a president came into office with both chambers of Congress under his party's control, and lost both of them and reelection.
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Seth Simons / New Republic:
The Comedy Industry Has a Big Alt-Right Problem … In the dark recesses of the internet lurks a man who goes by ToxicCisWhiteMaleFat. He makes his home on onaforums.net, a community named after the shock jock duo Opie & Anthony—a safe space to say what cannot be said offline.
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
One of Trump's impeachment lawyers sued him last year — and accused him of making claims about fraud with ‘no evidence’ — Last year, Philadelphia lawyer Michael T. van der Veen filed a lawsuit against then-President Donald Trump accusing him of making “repeated claims” that mail voting is ripe with fraud …
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Ethan Wolff-Mann / Yahoo Finance:
28% of Americans bought GameStop or other viral stocks in January: Yahoo Finance-Harris Poll — Over a quarter of American adults say they bought GameStop ( — The Harris Poll. — The GameStop frenzy, kicked off by the subreddit — r/wallstreetbets, struck a chord with many retail investors …
Nina Totenberg / NPR:
‘I Said The Opposite’: Criticism Of Trump's Impeachment Defense Intensifies — Toggle more options — A constitutional law professor whose work is cited extensively by former President Donald Trump's lawyers in their impeachment defense brief says his work has been seriously misrepresented.
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