January 6th, and the capital plaza, where rioters stormed the barricade to stop the peaceful transition of power. The court room that trump was in todays the very same room where numerous january 6th cases have been heard. The judge overseeing trumps arraignment has also overseen the cases of people including dominick box, a Qanon Activist Who Livestreamed the storming of the capital and jarred wise, a former fbi agent whos charged with assaulting a Police Officer on january 6th. So this was all very much a Trip Down Memory Lane for mr. Trump. Now that were no Courtroom Cameras today. But thanks to Courtroom Sketch bill hennessy, we know what it looked like when a former president of the United States appear in court to be formally and federally charged for trying to subvert american democracy. It was more than 110 people in the courtroom to hear this arraignment, including several of the federal judges who have been presiding over other january 6th cases. Judges who showed up today in
Development in the special counsels investigation of former President Donald Trump. A Federal Grand Jury has now criminally indicted the former president out of the special counsels investigation into his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. The 45page indictment begins by saying the former president lost the 2020 election, knew he lost, and then for months spread lies that there had been outcome determinative fraud in the election. And that he had actually won it. The indictment charges trump with four counts. Conspiracy to defraud the u. S. , conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction in an attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. The indictment laying out a detailed timeline, and statebystate efforts to appoint illegal electors and influence local officials to change the outcome in their states. And it also lists six unnamed coconspirators. The indictment alleges trump attempted to enlist Vice President mike pence to obstruct the c
Documents case against donald trump. It comes as the former president is being condemned for praising a dictator. Well dig in to both of those stories. And a look at the republican hopefuls campaigning in iowa, as two more names are likely to join the field this week. Good morning and welcome to way too early on this monday, june 5th. Im jonathan lemire. Thanks for starting your day and week with us. And well begin this morning with a deadly plane crash near the nations capitol. Yesterday afternoon the military scrambled two f16 fighter jets to respond to a private business jet that was flying over restricted airspace in dc. The response caused a loud sonic boom that was heard across the region around unsettled many of the residents there. Heres some of the sound Surveillance Cameras captured. The sound was heard across many miles. The cessna was not responding to radio transmissions. It then crashed in the Shenandoah Wall i have in virginia. Officials say there were no survivors. Acco
new york times. special counsel jack smith has been defeat donald trump s son-in-law and former top white house aide jared kushner. the times reports that in an interview last month, the special counsel focused on whether trump had privately acknowledged that he had lost the 2020 election. in other words, when trump claimed the election was rigged, did he know he was lying? did trump have corrupt intent when he allegedly tried to subvert the election? also today, checks myths senior assistant special counsel, a lawyer named tom wyndham, was let ventral courthouse for the second time this week. mr. wyndham is one of the top prosecutors working on the general sixth probe. that was a role he played before jack smith was appointed special counsel. this afternoon, mister wyndham was back in court, indicating that the current jury is amazing. with all of these new details, it really does seem like jack smith might be getting that much closer to potentially and i think trump over hi
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