5/26/2023 0 Comments Trump speech today liveNine people died the day of the attack and in its aftermath. Members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers groups are now facing rare sedition charges over the siege. Capitol Police who fought the mob that day sat stone-faced in the front row of the committee room. military to seize state voting machines in an unprecedented effort to pursue his false claims of voter fraud. 18 meeting at the White House with Trump’s private lawyers suggesting he order the U.S. Testimony brought out details of a late night Dec. Tuesday’s session focused in part on December 2020, a time when many Republicans were moving on from the November election Trump lost to Joe Biden. What it was going to be was an armed revolution,” said Jason Van Tatenhove. “I think we need to quit mincing words about just talk. The panel also heard form a former spokesman for the extremist Oath Keepers who warned of the far-right group’s ability for violence. The panel delved into a critical three weeks of secret planning in the run-up to the Capitol attack and heard remorseful testimony from an Ohio father who believed Trump’s election lies and answered the defeated president’s tweet to come to Washington. It all led to his “be there, will be wild” tweet summoning supporters to Washington. 6 committee, which is portraying the defeated Trump as “detached from reality,” clinging to false claims of voter fraud and working feverishly to reverse his election defeat. The hearing Tuesday was the seventh for the Jan. Justice Department spokesman Anthony Coley declined to comment when asked if the department was investigating the call. “We will take any effort to influence witness testimony very seriously,” said Cheney, a Wyoming Republican.Ī Trump spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment. ![]() Liz Cheney, the panel’s vice chair, said it had notified the Justice Department that Trump had contacted the witness who has yet to appear in public. And still more new information revealed that Trump was so intent on making a showing at the Capitol that his aides secretly planned for a second rally stage there on the day of the attack. In another disclosure, raising the question of witness tampering, the panel’s vice-chair said Trump himself had tried to contact a person who was talking to the committee about potential testimony. Capitol for what turned into the deadly riot, the House Jan. ![]() The company has long had an exception to its fact checking policy for politicians.WASHINGTON (AP) - In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to salvage his presidency, summoned supporters to march on the U.S. ![]() “Some of you have reached out seeking guidance regarding fact checking political speech in anticipation of a potential candidacy announcement from former President Trump,” the Meta staffer wrote. The carve-out is not exclusive to Trump and applies to all politicians, but given the rate fact checkers find themselves dealing with claims made by the former president, a manager on Meta’s “news integrity partnership” team emailed fact checkers on Tuesday. The former president is widely expected to announce his third presidential bid on Tuesday.įacebook’s parent company Meta pays third-party fact checking organizations to apply fact check labels to misinformation across Facebook and Instagram. Tuesday’s memo from Meta underscores the challenges social media platforms face in deciding how to handle another potential Trump presidential campaign. Meanwhile, it seems that Facebook will be standing by its policy not to fact check Trump once he becomes a candidate, CNN reports.Ĭiting a company memo, CNN writes that while Trump is banned from Facebook, his campaign and political pages will be able to skirt third-party factcheckers.
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