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Oliver Laughland, US southern bureau chief: It was somewhere along the 700-mile night-time drive from Tampa, Florida, to my home in New Orleans that I realized filming the Anywhere But Washington series was becoming one of the hardest assignments in my career.
Hours earlier, my colleague Tom Silverstone and I had interviewed a conservative radio host spreading baseless conspiracy theories about Covid-19 to a crowd of at-risk, Donald Trump-supporting senior citizens. We had been forced to make a sharp exit, and got caught in the middle of a powerful thunderstorm that drenched us through. Thankfully, we’d managed to keep the camera dry and preserve the footage, but the whole day became a precursor to the rest of our two and half month long trip through America.
Jan 11, 2021
Hours after the U.S. Capitol was cleared of the Donald Trump-supporting insurrectionists last Wednesday, Congress took up the job the mob had tried to thwart, the verification of the electoral college vote and the declaration of Joe Biden as the president-elect.
Sadly, even after the destruction, the gunfire and the violence, some Republicans clung to their allegiance to Donald Trump and voted to object to the verified election results from Arizona and Pennsylvania. Rep. Jim Hagedorn of Minnesota’s First District was among them.
Hagedorn has long been a Trump true believer. In fact, his political beliefs predate Trump’s administration, but it wasn’t until after Trump was elected in 2016 that Hagedorn managed to win the First District seat by clinging to his coattails. He won re-election this past year by doing the same.
DAY OF REBELLION
Trump fans urged to ‘come armed’ to Washington, DC, protest three days before Biden’s inauguration by extremists
Joseph Gamp
Updated: 11 Jan 2021, 1:32
A PRO-Trump group is urging protesters to attend another march on the Capitol this week – and to come armed at personal discretion.
In the aftermath of the protests on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, experts are warning that a small minority of Donald Trump-supporting activists are calling for more demonstrations ahead of Joe Biden s inauguration.
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The poster calling for protesters to come armed to a Capitol Hill march on January 17Credit: Parler
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Five people died following chaos in and around the US Capitol building as Congress officially certified Joe Biden as the incoming presidentCredit: AP:Associated Press
Amazon informed Parler that the pro-Trump social network which was one staging ground for the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, will be suspended from AWS.