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The DOJ has released its clearest evidence yet tying Jan. 6 militants to Trump
Feb 19, 2021 19:56Federal prosecutors filed papers asking a judge to keep a militia leader in jail who has been charged with planning an attack on the Capitol on January 6. The papers contain some of the most direct language yet from the Department of Justice (DOJ) tying former President Donald Trump to the members of the mob that violently breached the Capitol building.
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Trump and Giuliani sued by Democratic congressman over Capitol riot
Feb 18, 2021 21:34Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani, the former president’s personal lawyer, have been accused of conspiring to incite the violent riot at the US Capitol, in a legal action filed under a historic law known as the Ku Klux Klan Act.
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“It does not end here”: Calls mount for Trump to be tried in criminal court
Feb 18, 2021 21:20American legal experts, political observers, and government watchdogs are calling for criminal prosecution as the only remaining path for accountability and to prevent the disgraced former US president Donald Trump from ever seeking elected office again.
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Analysis reveals Trump operation paid $3.5 million to organizers of rally that led to deadly Capitol attack
Feb 17, 2021 15:19A new political spending analysis shows that former US President Donald Trump's 2020 campaign and its joint fundraising committees paid more than $3.5 million to the individuals and firms involved in organizing the January 6 "Stop the Steal" rally that presaged the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol.
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Can the GOP find a replacement for Trump if he is out of picture?
Feb 17, 2021 08:36Former US President Donald Trump has practically broken the GOP in half by refusing to accept defeat in the 2020 presidential election and inciting his supporters to storm the Capitol, putting the Republican Party between a rock and a hard place.
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US Republicans seem ready to turn page on Trump after voting to acquit him
Feb 16, 2021 17:49Nikki R. Haley, a former United Nations ambassador under President Donald J. Trump who left the administration without the drama or ill will that marred most of its high-level departures, sharply criticized her former boss in an interview published recently, saying that she was “disgusted” by his conduct on Jan. 6, the day of the Capitol riot.
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Seven Republican rebels who voted to convict feel Trumpists' fury
Feb 16, 2021 17:46The seven Republican senators who broke ranks by voting to convict former president Donald Trump at his impeachment trial faced immediate hostility and criticism from fellow conservatives revealing the potentially high cost of opposing Trumpism within the Republican party.
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US Senate fails to hold Trump accountable again
Feb 14, 2021 08:38The second impeachment trial of Donald Trump has come to an end with US senators voting to acquit the former president.
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White supremacy and American policing
Feb 13, 2021 05:57The assault on the U.S. Capitol has drawn attention to the presence of far-right extremists in the U.S. military and law enforcement. While the Pentagon has taken steps to address the problem, the police chiefs will have a much harder time rooting out extremism in their departments.
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Discontent as US stimulus stalls amid impeachment trial
Feb 11, 2021 09:07As the nation’s media and political elite are consumed by the impeachment trial of ex-president Donald Trump, talks on a desperately-needed and long-delayed major economic stimulus package have been forced on hold.