Trump rails against Jan. 6 committee following final report release
Former President Trump railed against the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Friday following the release of the committee’s final report on the attack. Trump said in a video posted to Truth Social that the American people have been “deceived with lies” about the attack from the committee. The committee released its report on Thursday with its conclusions on the Capitol riot, including a series of 11 recommendations for actions that Congress should take to prevent efforts similar to those to overturn the results of the 2020
Read MoreFive signs Biden is definitely running for another term
President Biden is expected to announce another bid for the presidency sometime in the early months of the new year. Officially, Biden is still considering whether to run for a second term, and the president’s age and approval ratings — he is 80 and more people in polls generally hold a negative than positive view of his presidency — have led some to privately doubt whether he’ll go forward. “I love the guy,” one Democratic strategist said. “But even I have my doubts.” Despite such misgivings, most of the signals coming from
Read MoreJudge dismisses remainder of Kari Lake’s election lawsuit following two-day trial
An Arizona judge on Saturday ruled against Kari Lake in her challenge of Gov.-elect Katie Hobbs’s (D) victory, dismissing the highest-profile case challenging the midterm election results. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Peter Thompson following a two-day trial found that Lake had not proven that election officials committed intentional misconduct sufficient to change the race’s outcome. Lake, who lost to Hobbs by about 17,000 votes, had alleged election officials in Maricopa County intentionally sabotaged her victory by causing Election Day printer malfunctions and
Read MoreRepublicans navigate tricky relations with a damaged Trump
Republicans are struggling to navigate an increasingly complicated relationship with former President Trump, who has emerged from the midterms in arguably the weakest position he has been in but who remains deeply influential among the GOP’s conservative base. After a midterm election that many Republicans saw as a rejection of Trump and his slate of chosen candidates, some party officials and operatives have begun to wonder how the GOP can move past the former president, whose dominance in Republican politics has yielded lackluster results for the party over three consecutive ele
Read MoreWith eyes on DOJ, a complex path for Trump Jan. 6 prosecution
The criminal referrals and report released by the Jan. 6 committee may not provide a clear-cut path to charges for Donald Trump. But they lay a roadmap for an investigative agency with the tools to compel cooperation and gather more evidence from many of those closest to the former president. The panel’s final two acts effectively accuse Trump of betraying the country, recommending the Justice Department pursue four different criminal charges against him, while encouraging Congress to use the 14th Amendment to bar him from ever serving in office again. And while it held
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