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WASHINGTON — The House 1/6 committee heard chilling, tearful testimony Tuesday that Donald Trump’s relentless pressure to overturn the 2020 presidential election provoked widespread threats to the “backbone of our democracy”— election workers and local officials who fended off the defeated president’s demands despite personal risks. The panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack…

State election officials testified before the January 6 committee on Tuesday, recounting how Donald Trump and his allies pressured them to overturn the results of the 2020 US presidential election in the weeks leading up to the deadly Capitol attack. Trump continued his efforts even after members of his own…

Former President Donald Trump is taking shots at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over the lack of GOP representation on the House Jan. 6 Committee. Mr. Trump said it was a “bad decision” for Mr. McCarthy to withdraw his Republican nominees from the committee when the panel was being formed…

Donald Trump | People wave large flags from the top of a tow truck at the kickoff rally for the northeast convoy to DC at an I95 service area in Kennebunkport, Maine, March 2, 2022. - Rally attendees and speakers protest against vaccine mandates, covid treatments and government emergency orders.…

Donald Trump could take another shot at being US president and is unrepentant about the Capitol Riots he is accused of instigating. At the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference yesterday in Nashville, he described the congressional investigation into what happened as ‘crazy’. The former president, who is accused of whipping…

The lawyer who advised former President Donald Trump on how to overturn the 2020 election requested a pardon from him in the days after Jan. 6, the committee investigating the Capitol attack revealed on Thursday. At the committee’s third public hearing on June 16, law professor John Eastman emailed Trump’s…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mike Pence won’t be testifying at Thursday’s Jan. 6 committee hearing. But he will be in the spotlight as the focus turns to former President Donald Trump’s desperate and futile attempts to persuade his vice president to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election and deliver them a second…

Donald Trump is backing a candidate for Kentucky governor whose earlier handling of a high-profile police shooting as attorney general sparked outrage and protests across the country. The former president on Thursday endorsed Kentucky Attorney General Daniel Cameron for governor in a statement posted to his Truth Social platform. Cameron…

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The story that the January 6 committee is telling the country is not a surprising one. The essential facts are hardly a mystery. The broad contours of the events being probed played out in real time across our screens: It began slowly, over a period of weeks and months during…