US Senate Republicans on Friday blocked creation of an independent commission to investigate the deadly riot by Donald Trump supporters at the Capitol in Washington, a move aimed at preventing a bipartisan probe ahead of 2022 midterm elections.
Trump Wanted Troops To Protect His Supporters at January 6 Rally
Trump s former Pentagon Chief said that the US military was restrained on purpose on the day of the Capitol attacks,
Rep. Byron Donalds, (R-FL) listens as former acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller testifies during a House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing regarding the on January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., May 12, 2021. Photo: Bill Clark/Pool via REUTERS
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President Donald Trump wanted National Guard troops in Washington to protect his supporters at a January 6 rally that ended with them attacking the US Capitol, leaving five dead, Trump‘s former Pentagon chief testified on Wednesday.
Queens Man Who Threatened Lawmakers Wanted Trump To Be Like Hitler: Prosecutors
Nazi sympathies arise in the trial of Brendan Hunt, who sometimes wrote extremist messages in code. I don t want to kill the juice just yet, he said in a video.
A 37-year-old New Yorker who’s on trial for threats to lawmakers before and after the U.S. Capitol riot told his father that he wanted President Donald Trump to declare martial law, like Adolf Hitler did in Germany, according to prosecutors.
Fervent Trump supporter Brendan Hunt was an apparent disciple of Nazi ideals and right-wing conspiracy theories, prosecutors said Thursday at his federal trial, which is the first one to deal with the fallout from the Capitol attack.
Sen. Ron Johnson is being called racist for an interview in which he said he wasn't worried about the supporters of President Donald Trump during the insurrection at the Capitol, but that he might have been if they had been Black Lives Matter protesters.