Pam Hemphill, a 70-year-old Idahoan who served two months in prison after being found guilty of participating in the Jan 6 riots, appeared on CNN on Friday. She condemned former President Trump for convincing her and others to go to the Capitol on Jan 6. The entrapment “I can’t say enough that I really believe…
Harry Dunn was one of the hundreds of Capitol police officers who defended the complex from right-wing rioters on Jan 6, 2021. On the day before the third anniversary of the insurrection, Dunn announced he would be running for Congress to block the MAGA movement. Dunn’s Announcement “On January 6th, I defended our democracy from…
Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, both former Republican representatives and outspoken critics of former President Donald Trump, marked the third anniversary of the Jan 6 insurrection by issuing stark warnings about the danger Trump continues to pose to the US. Dark future “He won’t leave office,” Cheney said on Friday in an address to Dartmouth…
Florida State Rep. Anna Eskamani (D) expressed disbelief at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s participation in a Republican fundraiser in Florida commemorating the third anniversary of the insurrection. Hoping for a joke “Just another day in Florida where the local Republican Party in Osceola County is hosting an ‘anniversary’ event to mark January 6th,” Eskamani wrote…
Judge Scott McAfee, the judge overseeing the Georgia election case against former President Donald Trump, his ex-attorney Rudy Giuliani, and 17 others, issued a new ruling dismissing Giuliani’s motion for an extension. In the ruling, McAfee didn’t hold back his criticism of Giuliani’s legal team’s argument. Attempted extension Giuliani and his legal team were seeking…
Former President Donald Trump has published an opinion piece in the Iowas Des Moines Register in which he promises to enact a range of ultra-strict border policies should he be re-elected as president. Call to arms “The most urgent task facing the next president is to end Joe Biden’s nation-wrecking nightmare on our southern border,”…
Brian J. Karem, White House correspondent and political analyst, was at the Capitol on Jan 6. On Thursday, he railed against the idea of there being multiple narratives, arguing that what happened “was an insurrection.” Had enough “Tired of this sh…t,” Karem wrote. “‘January 6 competing narratives?’ F- That. I was there.” Both sides Karem…
George Conway, a former Trump ally who since 2018 has been an outspoken critic of the former president, recently spoke about a private conversation he and Trump had in 2017. What the former president said, Conway argued, implies that Trump has long sought the office of the presidency to avoid facing punishment for the various…
On Wednesday, Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced Jake Tapper of CNN in a heated discussion about Republican refusal to work with Democrats on immigration policy. Johnson’s dismissal of the billions Biden has attempted to provide to border patrol forces drew fierce criticism from both Tapper and users online. The request President Biden requested a…
On Jan 3, the federal appeals court in New York denied former President Donald Trump’s request that his civil immunity claim be re-heard. Trump had earlier failed to convince a three-judge panel that he should be immune from the charge of defaming former journalist E. Jean Carroll. Seeking immunity In May, nine jurors took just…