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If you missed Andrew Cuomo’s State of the State address on Monday, don’t fret: it’s not even halfway done.
Monday’s speech one of four set for this week was streamed from the Capitol’s War Room, where the governor spoke to a live audience of his aides, daughters and Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul. The event offered his much larger virtual audience
Justice Dept. Open to Pursuing Charges Against Trump in Inciting Riot
The top federal prosecutor in Washington said investigators were examining anyone involved, “not only the people who went into” the Capitol.
President Trump told protesters they could never “take back our country with weakness” shortly before they marched to the Capitol on Wednesday.Credit.Pete Marovich for The New York Times
Jan. 7, 2021
WASHINGTON The Justice Department said on Thursday that it would not rule out pursuing charges against President Trump for his possible role in inciting the mob that marched to the Capitol, overwhelmed officers and stormed the building a day earlier.
Dominion files massive $1.3 billion lawsuit against Sidney Powell
Dominion is seeking $1.3 billion in damages in its massive lawsuit against attorney Sidney Powell who has accused them of ties to Chinese Communist money in Venezuela aimed at facilitating election fraud.
Dominion Voting Systems filed the lawsuit on Friday, according to The Washington Post, demanding $1.3 billion in damages. They plan to prove that she caused havoc by spreading “wild” and “demonstrably false” allegations, including that Dominion played a central role in a scheme to steal the 2020 election from President Trump.
In a 124-page complaint filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Dominion said its reputation and resale value have been deeply damaged by a “viral disinformation campaign.” The suit claims Powell did it “to financially enrich herself, to raise her public profile, and to ingratiate herself to Donald Trump.”
âBe There. Will Be Wild!â: Trump All but Circled the Date
Inside Trump supportersâ online echo chambers, the chaos of Jan. 6 could be seen coming. People posted their plans to come to Washington â and showed the weapons they would carry.
âWe will never concede,â President Trump said at a rally on Wednesday.Credit.Pete Marovich for The New York Times
Published Jan. 6, 2021Updated Jan. 8, 2021
For weeks, President Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to âsave Americaâ and âstop the stealâ of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained â often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories â that he had won by a landslide.