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The second impeachment trial of former president Donald Trump will begin in a couple of weeks. Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced the news on the Senate floor Friday, just days after Trump officially left office. “… Both the House Managers and the defense will have a period of time to draft their legal briefs, just […]
Twitter will not allow Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene to access her account for the next 12 hours due to multiple company policy violations, NPR reports. Greene has been known to share tweets endorsing QAnon conspiracy theories, and on Sunday, she engaged in a lengthy discourse claiming election fraud in her state. A number of those tweets were flagged with […]
Sen. Lindsey Graham has implored Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer not to hold an impeachment trial for Donald Trump once he’s exited office because it would “incite further division” and prolong the U.S.’s “healing.” The New York Post reports that Graham wrote in a letter to Schumer that he should hold a vote to reject the […]
A new video has emerged that shows even more of what transpired during the U.S. Capitol insurrection on Jan. 6. New Yorker correspondent Luke Mogelson, who was covering the Stop the Steal rally, took the footage. In the beginning, as the rioters storm the building, a person told police, “There’s a fucking million of us out […]
Donald Trump has become the first United States president to be impeached twice. On Wednesday, the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives passed the impeachment resolution that charges Trump with “incitement of insurrection.” A total of 232 lawmakers, including 10 Republicans, voted in favor of impeachment; 197 voted against it. The charge stems from the president’s role in the Jan. 6 […]
In an Instagram Live stream on Tuesday, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez revealed that there was a moment she feared she “was going to die” during the Capitol riot. As NBC News pointed out, Ocasio-Cortez said that at one point she had a “very close encounter,” citing security concerns at the Capitol. “I did not know if I was […]
Two-time Olympic gold medalist and professional swimmer Klete Keller has been identified in the crowd of people who stormed the U.S. Capitol building last week. According to the New York Times, the 38-year-old former teammate of Michael Phelps was spotted in footage captured from Wednesday’s insurrection. Keller joined the U.S. Swim Team to compete in […]
One lead organizer of last week’s “Stop the Steal” rally that morphed into an attack against the U.S. Capitol claims that GOP congressmen Paul Gosar and Andy Biggs of Arizona, and congressman Mo Brooks of Alabama all participated in planning of the Jan. 6 catastrophe. As CNN points out, Arizona resident and pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander implicated the three members of the House of Representatives […]
Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal has tested positive for COVID-19. The progressive representative from Seattle blames her Republican colleagues, claiming they refused to wear masks and take precautions while the members of Congress were in hiding during the Capitol riots. “Too many Republicans have refused to take this pandemic and virus seriously, and in doing so, they […]
House Majority Whip James Clyburn has said that the ease in which Wednesday’s rioters were able to access the U.S. Capitol makes it seem as if “something untoward may have been going on.” “I have an unmarked office—you got to know exactly where it is,” the South Carolina Democrat told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “It’s where […]
