A majority of Americans favor convicting former President Trump in his second impeachment trial this week, according to a CBS-YouGov poll released Tuesday. The survey found 56 percent favor the former president’s conviction, the same percentage who said they supported it in an ABC News-Ipsos poll released Sunday. The same percentage of respondents in the […]
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Murdered Officer Brian Sicknick To Lie In State
Lawmakers and others held another memorial service Wednesday for Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick in the Capitol Rotunda, where he has been lying in honor since Tuesday evening after dying last month from injuries suffered during the Jan. 6 riot at the building that he helped defend. There will be a send-off ceremony outside the […]
Poll: Half Of America Thinks Trump Should be Convicted
Half of Americans believe the Senate should convict former President Trump of inciting an insurrection, according to a Marist poll released Monday. With Trump’s impeachment trial in the Senate drawing closer, 50 percent of Americans believe that the Senate should find the now-former president guilty for his role in stoking the Jan. 6 riot at […]
Riot Suspect Trying To Sell Pelosi’s Laptop To Russia
A Pennsylvania woman accused of being one of the Capitol rioters told a former “romantic partner” that she planned to steal a laptop computer from House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office and sell it to Russian intelligence, court documents revealed Monday. The woman, Riley June Williams, 22, was on the run, charged with disorderly conduct on […]
Lindsey Graham Issues Trump A Stern Warning
Senator Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) on Sunday advised the president not to grant presidential pardons to the rioters who stormed the Capitol this month, warning that doing so would “destroy” Trump. “Mr. President, your policies will stand the test of time. You’re the most important figure in the Republican party. You can shape the direction […]
James Comey Gives Opinion On Prosecuting Trump
President Donald Trump should be convicted by the Senate but not criminally prosecuted for inciting Capitol rioters, former FBI Director James Comey said Sunday, adding that it would give America space to “heal.” “The country would be better off if we did not give him the platform that a prosecution would for the next three […]
Trump Approval Rating Hit All-Time Low As He Leaves Office
President Trump’s approval rating has cratered after he incited a deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, led by a dramatic drop in support among voters of his own party. A new Pew Research Center poll released Friday found just 29 percent of Americans approve of the job Trump is doing in office, by far the […]
Pence Was 100 Ft From Being Assassinated By Capitol Mob
A frenzied mob of pro-Trump insurrections that breached the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 came perilously close to confronting Mike Pence and his family, according to a report by the Washington Post, as the vice president was rushed into a room off the Senate floor approximately 60 seconds before the rioters charged onto a […]
Feds Warn That Domestic Extremists Pose Major Threat To America In 2021
Violent extremist activity will likely surge in the United States and pose “the greatest domestic terrorism threat in 2021,” a trio of federal law enforcement agencies warned in a recently released bulletin. The FBI, the Department of Homeland Security and the National Counterterrorism Center announced in a Joint Intelligence Bulletin released Wednesday that this threat […]
Ex-Firefighter Charged With Assault On Capitol Cops During Insurrection
A retired firefighter from Pennsylvania was arrested Thursday morning for allegedly throwing a fire extinguisher that hit three police officers at the pro-Trump riot at the U.S. Capitol as captured on video, U.S. officials said. Robert Sanford of Chester, Pa., faces three federal felony charges including assaulting a police officer after he was allegedly identified […]
Hand Picked Trump Prosecutor Drops All Georgia Election Fraud Cases
Bobby Christine, who took over as acting U.S. Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia last Tuesday, told staff members he shuttered the office’s two highest-profile voter fraud cases on his first day on the job because he decided “there’s just nothing to them,” according to a recorded conference call obtained by the Journal-Constitution. Christine […]
10 Republicans Voted To Impeach President Trump
Ten House Republicans joined Democrats to impeach President Trump on charges of “incitement of an insurrection,” making him the first president in U.S. history to be impeached twice. The final vote was 232 to 197. With 10 Republican votes, Trump’s second impeachment was the most bipartisan one in history. By comparison, five Democrats voted to […]