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Maggie Haberman / New York Times:
Trump Hits Back at Daughter's Account That She Accepted His Election Loss — The former president, responding to videotaped testimony played at the Jan. 6 hearing, said Ivanka Trump had been “checked out” and was not involved in studying the election results. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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New York Times:
Jan. 6 Panel Puts Focus on Cabinet Discussions About Removing Trump — Other reports verify Representative Liz Cheney's assertion that cabinet members considered using the 25th Amendment to oust Donald Trump after the assault on the Capitol. — Give this article- - - Read in app
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CNN, Raw Story, PBS NewsHour, Roll Call and New York Times
E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Cheney leaves Trump and his GOP apologists reeling — Constitutional democracies are rarely destroyed by a single blow. Their citizens often sleepwalk into catastrophe, discovering too late that a degree of timely vigilance could have preserved their system of self-rule.
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politicususa.com, Common Dreams, Raw Story, OLD GOATS with Jonathan Alter, CBS News and The Hill
New York Post:
Donald Trump, Democrats are obsessed with 2020 — GOP should look to the future — The Jan. 6 Commission is a Democratic campaign ad, a thinly veiled partisan exercise — aired in primetime, with the cooperation of a liberal press — to bolster a failed Joe Biden presidency.
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Raw Story and National Review
Just Security:
The January 6th Hearings: A Criminal Evidence Tracker
The January 6th Hearings: A Criminal Evidence Tracker
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New York Times, Slate, NPR, Common Dreams, NBC Chicago, Pro Deo et Libertate, Bernard Goldberg's Commentary, Press Watch, Los Angeles Times, Bloomberg and CNBC
Peter Wehner / The Atlantic:
The Moral Desolation of the GOP
The Moral Desolation of the GOP
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Wall Street Journal, Idaho Capital Sun, Agence France-Presse, MSNBC, Bloomberg, Raw Story, USA Today, Wired and Washington Post
Jamelle Bouie / New York Times:
Why It Matters That the Jan. 6 Hearings Put ‘a War Scene’ on Display
Why It Matters That the Jan. 6 Hearings Put ‘a War Scene’ on Display
David Rothkopf / The Daily Beast:
Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
Here's What the World's Media Thinks of the Jan. 6 Hearings
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New York Times, The Nation, The National, USA Today, Xinhua, Common Dreams, Fox News, New York Post, Washington Examiner, The Hill and VICE
Todd Spangler / Variety:
Trump's Truth Social Is Banning Users Who Post About Jan. 6 Hearings, According to Reports … The irony is rich: Truth Social, Donald Trump's Twitter copycat claiming it is “free from political discrimination,” has reportedly banned users who posted information from Thursday's congressional hearing …
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Mock Paper Scissors, Techdirt and Crooks and Liars
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Washington Post:
How the Jan. 6 hearing played out on the pro-Trump web — Ironically, online accounts that helped organize the insurrection tried to debunk the evidence the Jan. 6 committee presented Thursday — Former president Donald Trump's supporters scrambled to defend him online in the hours …
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Military Times, Axios, Raw Story and NBC News
Washington Post:
Ivanka Trump's Jan. 6 testimony exposes family strain — The former president called his daughter ‘checked out’ after investigators showed her accepting that his election fraud claims were false — Former president Donald Trump has demanded that many of his aides and advisers claim privilege …
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The Guardian, Metro.co.uk, Media Matters for America, Wall Street Journal, BizPac Review and The Moderate Voice
Jason Easley / politicususa.com:
Trump Is Banning People On Truth Social For Posting About 1/6 Committee Hearing
Trump Is Banning People On Truth Social For Posting About 1/6 Committee Hearing
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John Koblin / New York Times:
More Than 19 Million Watched Jan. 6 Hearing, Early Tally Shows — The number, which will grow as the count adds more networks, is in the ballpark of big television events like a “Sunday Night Football” game. — Give this article- - - Read in app — More than 19 million people watched …
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Collin Anderson / Washington Free Beacon:
Resistance Porn Ratings Fail: Jan. 6 Committee Hearing Crushed by ‘Young Sheldon’ Rerun — CBS opted to bump a Young Sheldon rerun from its 8 p.m. primetime slot in favor of the Jan 6th committee hearing on Thursday evening. The decision backfired. — Just 3.24 million people watched the network's …
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The TV Ratings Guide, RedState and The Daily Wire
Dominick Mastrangelo / The Hill:
Nearly 20M watched Jan. 6 hearing: Nielsen — Nearly 20 million people watched Thursday night's first hearing of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol across broadcast and cable news, according to preliminary ratings figures from Nielsen.
Bill D'Agostino / Newsbusters:
Broadcast Networks' Jan 6 Hearings Drew Smaller Audiences than Nightly Newscasts Last Week
Broadcast Networks' Jan 6 Hearings Drew Smaller Audiences than Nightly Newscasts Last Week
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Emma Brown / Washington Post:
Ginni Thomas pressed 29 Ariz. lawmakers to help overturn Trump's defeat, emails show — Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, pressed 29 Republican state lawmakers in Arizona — 27 more than previously known — to set aside Joe Biden's popular vote victory and …
Misty Severi / Washington Examiner:
Trump endorses Britt in Alabama Senate runoff months after dumping Brooks — Former President Donald Trump endorsed Katie Britt in Alabama's Senate runoff, months after he dropped the endorsement of Rep. Mo Brooks (R). — Britt, who served as the chief of staff for retiring Sen. Richard Shelby …
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Sarah N. Lynch / Reuters:
Giuliani hit with ethics charges by Washington D.C. authorities over false election claims — The District of Columbia office that polices attorneys for ethical misconduct filed charges on Friday against President Donald Trump's former attorney, Rudy Giuliani, over baseless claims …
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
DC bar brings ethics charges against Rudy Giuliani over election fraud claims
DC bar brings ethics charges against Rudy Giuliani over election fraud claims
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Politico, The Daily Beast and The Hill
Ruth Marcus / Washington Post:
How low will the Supreme Court go on guns? — The Constitution is not a suicide pact, Justice Robert H. Jackson wisely observed in a 1949 free-speech case. As the Supreme Court prepares to decide its first gun rights case in a dozen years, an updated version of Jackson's motto should be: The Constitution is not a mass suicide pact.
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Timothy Nerozzi / Fox News:
‘Ruth Sent Us’ group hinted at targeting Supreme Court Justice Barrett's children, church
‘Ruth Sent Us’ group hinted at targeting Supreme Court Justice Barrett's children, church
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National Review, American Lookout, Townhall and Washington Examiner
The Daily Beast:
Hannity Proposed Hunter Biden Pardon to ‘Smooth Over’ Jan. 6 — The Jan. 6 Committee revealed a weird text message during its first hearing Thursday night. A person familiar with negotiations confirmed that it's as weird as you think. … As some of then-President Donald Trump's closest allies hit …
Washington Post:
Ukraine is running out of ammunition as prospects dim on the battlefield — Hopes that Ukraine will be able to reverse Russian gains are fading in the face of superior firepower — SLOVYANSK, Ukraine — The euphoria that accompanied Ukraine's unforeseen early victories against bumbling Russian troops …
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New York Times
Erik Wemple / Washington Post:
Taylor Lorenz said an editor was to blame. Is that okay? — UPDATE: The fallout from the Lorenz story continues: On Thursday, members of The Post's features staff held a meeting with Post Executive Editor Sally Buzbee, Senior Managing Editor Cameron Barr, Managing Editor of Diversity …
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Mediaite, Puck, Fox News, HotAir, The Weekly Dish and Washington Free Beacon, more at Mediagazer »
Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review:
The Democratic Party Is an Inflation Machine — Joe Manchin should keep doing what he can to jam the gears. — Senator Joe Manchin of West Virginia has said that each morning he receives a text message bearing the latest inflation numbers. One can only assume that today's update provoked him into a loud and unyielding shriek.
Kipp Jones / Mediaite:
Newsmax Moves Eric Bolling to Prime Time: 'Tucker, I'm Coming After You, Pal' — Newsmax TV's Eric Bolling is moving to 8 p.m. in prime time next week, the host announced Friday afternoon on his daily show. — “This show is moving to a brand new time slot, starting Tuesday,” Bolling told his audience.
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Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
Pence team couldn't verify Trump campaign's election fraud claims, new memo shows — In the days before the electoral college certification, then-Vice President Mike Pence's legal team laid out that they found most of the Trump campaign's assertions of election fraud minor or unverifiable …
Taiyler Simone Mitchell / Insider:
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweets at Matt Gaetz, Lauren Boebert, and Marjorie Taylor Greene wanting to know if they asked for pardons after January 6 — AOC called out several congress members on Twitter asking if they'd asked for pardons after January 6. — Her tweets came …
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Raw Story, HuffPost and Political Wire
The White House:
Los Angeles Declaration on Migration and Protection — We, the Heads of State and Government of the Argentine Republic, Barbados, Belize, the Federative Republic of Brazil, Canada, the Republic of Chile, the Republic of Colombia, the Republic of Costa Rica, the Republic of Ecuador …
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New York Times, Reuters, ImmigrationProf Blog, The Hill and ABC7
New York Times:
How Carl Paladino Is Dividing New York Republicans — The incendiary congressional candidacy of Carl Paladino has divided New York Republicans and now threatens to shake up party leadership. — For New York's beleaguered Republican Party, all signs had been pointing for months toward 2022 being an exceptional year.
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