Capitol riots

U.S. 09/20/21, 15:47

Donald Trump is reportedly searching for a new Senate minority leader on Sept. 19. The former president hopes to find a new replacement for Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to take over as the Republican Party's most influential person. Sources familiar with the situation revealed Trump recently spoke with senators and allies about potentially removing ...

U.S. 09/15/21, 17:11

Joe Biden should dismiss the Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman for allegedly betraying America, a Republican from Florida said on Sept. 14. Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is urging President Joe Biden to fire Gen. Mark Milley immediately after reports revealed that the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff “contemplated” to ...

D.C. 09/14/21, 17:39

A temporary fence will once again be erected around the Capitol building for a pro-Trump demonstration on Sept. 18. Donald Trump supporters have organized a "Justice for J6" rally to seek justice for hundreds of protesters who they claim to have been unfairly injured, imprisoned or convicted due to the Capitol ...

D.C. 09/01/21, 16:48

An American author and legal scholar is alarmed at the number of subpoenas Democrats drafted, particularly for Republicans, concerning the Capitol riots in Washington on Jan. 6. "The Democrats's move to investigate members of the opposing party is a dangerous precedent in an institution that has always protected the privacy and ...

D.C. 08/31/21, 15:37

On Monday, August 30, the committee investigating the January 6 incidents on Capitol Hill sent 35 letters to telecommunications companies requesting that all call and message records of individuals, which include Republican representatives, who participated in the January 6 demonstration on Capitol Hill, be withheld. The request seeks the withholding of ...

D.C. 08/21/21, 18:32

Four officials and former officials briefed on FBI investigations conclude that the assault on the Capitol held on Jan. 6, was not coordinated by right-wing groups or supporters of then-President Donald Trump. "Ninety to ninety-five percent of these are one-offs," said an unidentified senior former official, according to Reuters on Aug. ...

D.C. 08/03/21, 16:12

The FBI arrested peaceful protester Glenn Allen Brooks, who entered the Capitol on Jan. 6; they deployed numerous agents heavily protected in full body armor and carrying assault weapons and battering rams.  "There were assault weapons, full-body armor, like top and bottom, battering rams, like it seemed like it was going ...

U.S. 07/27/21, 20:30

The Global Internet Forum for Fighting Terrorism (GIFCT), created in 2017 to go after Islamic State, Al Qaeda, and Taliban terrorists, will now include right-wing groups such as Proud Boys in its internet sleuthing. The GIFCT, founded by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter, and YouTube, initially focused on censoring videos and images of ...

D.C. 07/26/21, 18:15

Kevin McCarthy criticized the House speaker for appointing two of the previous president's most prominent critics to help probe the Capitol riots. The highest-ranking House Republican slammed Nancy Pelosi for choosing GOP Reps. Adam Kinzinger (Ill.) and Liz Cheney (Wyo.) to join the select committee to investigate the Jan. 6 incidents ...

D.C. 07/26/21, 00:46

National Guardsmen postponed training exercises after U.S. Congress failed to reimburse the National Guard Bureau's months-long deployment to Washington during the January 6 riots. Maj. Scott Ingalsbe confirmed six Nebraska National Guard events have been canceled to save money. The Nebraska National Guard spokesman revealed there is no money to conduct ...

D.C. 07/19/21, 23:40

Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) has named five GOP appointees to serve on a select committee to investigate the Capitol riots on Jan. 6. The House minority leader announced Rep. Jim Banks (Ind.), who chairs the GOP Study Committee, will lead the group as the Republican ranking member on the Democrat-led committee. Other ...

D.C. 07/19/21, 22:27

Joseph Hackett could receive a 20-year prison sentence for spending just 10 minutes at the U.S. Capitol grounds. The Florida man allegedly joined the January 6 riots and was indicted on May 28. Paul Allard Hodgkins is the first person formally sentenced to spend eight months behind bars for allegedly entering ...

D.C. 07/18/21, 20:47

Law enforcement officers murdered at least one Make America Great Again supporter for coming too close to the U.S. Capitol, a Trump supporter and activist alleged. Capitol Police has been accused of killing Rosanne Boyland during the Washington riots on Jan.6. Philip Anderson claims he was next to Boyland, witnessed her ...

D.C. 07/07/21, 22:32

Investigators seized a "completely completed U.S. Capitol Lego set" and a notebook containing instructions on how to form a "hometown militia" from Robert Morss, 27, court records published by The Smoking Gun revealed. Robert Morss is accused of leading rioters in one of the most intense and prolonged fights with police ...

D.C. 06/28/21, 16:17

More and more elements appear to undermine the controversial qualification of armed insurrection given by the Democrats to the peaceful demonstration carried out by citizens demanding electoral integrity in front of the Capitol on Jan. 6.   One of them is a video taken by former U.S. Army marine and blogger Bobby ...

U.S. 06/26/21, 01:35

The National Guard will have to cancel their exercises and training in the next couple of months if they are not reimbursed a half billion dollars for their finished mission of protecting the U.S. Capitol. The National Guard Bureau Chief Gen. Daniel Hokanson said this week that their members were deployed ...

D.C. 06/22/21, 16:43

Through a public petition launched from the Change.org page, more than 1,600 Americans are calling for the release of Ethan Nordean, a leader of the U.S. patriotic organization Proud Boys, detained for the riots in the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. The request to Judge Timothy J. Kelly argues that Nordean ...

U.S. 06/22/21, 15:51

January 6, political detainees in the D.C. Detention Center are being forced to receive the COVID-19 vaccine to avoid further terrible conditions and torture. As several publications have reported, American citizens are being held in deplorable conditions in the D.C. Detention Center for minor offenses linked to the events at the ...

D.C. 06/18/21, 02:41

Could the FBI have orchestrated the assault on the Capitol on January 6 of this year? That's the question analysts and politicians are asking these days in the wake of information coming to light about the role intelligence agents infiltrated among Trump supporters. On June 14, the website Revolver News published a ...

U.S. 06/14/21, 17:23

Last Thursday, the FBI raided the home of black actor Siaka Massaquoi after participating in the January 6 demonstration on Capitol Hill calling for election integrity, the Los Angeles Daily News reported. According to reports, the raid took place on Thursday, June 10, at the actor's North Hollywood home and ...