Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certification

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'I had no qualms': The people turning in loved ones for the Capitol attack: The majority of more than 140,000 tips sent to the FBI about the attack have come from friends and family of those involved
by Kari Paul
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Sun 17 Jan 2021 06.00 EST

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A mob of Trump supporters breach the US Capitol on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Carol Guzy/Zuma Wire/Rex/Shutterstock

When Alison Lopez discovered her uncle’s sister had been part of the mob that breached the Capitol doors on 6 January, she immediately reported her to the FBI. “I had no second thoughts,” she said.

Lopez found out about her in-law’s participation when the woman in question called her aunt from inside the Capitol to brag about “taking back the election”. Lopez, who is 42, said she had known the relative her whole life but had “no qualms” about reporting her.

“If I saw my grandmother making bombs in her basement, or my aunt breaking into a home, I would have to intervene as well – it’s just about doing what’s right,” she said.

In the week after the attacks on the Capitol, there has been a concerted effort to “unmask” rioters online, with self-styled detectives investigating who’s who in videos and photos posted from the attack. Outing family members – either online or to authorities – has marked a new frontier of the rift Trumpism has created in the US.

Lopez said she was horrified but not surprised to see a loved one participate in the riot. Over the last four years she has watched helplessly as members of her family became increasingly entrenched in the world of hateful rightwing conspiracy theories.

“These are people who never really identified with politics before, and now they have just let this consume their lives,” Lopez said, adding she does not consider herself a Democrat and has voted for Republican candidates in the past.

If I saw my grandmother making bombs in her basement … I would have to intervene as well – it’s about doing what’s right
-- Alison Lopez


More than 140,000 people have sent tips to the FBI reporting participants in the attack on the Capitol, resulting in at least 200 arrests. The vast majority of those, according to the Department of Justice, come from friends, family and other acquaintances of those involved in the attacks.

The Massachusetts teen Helena Duke received a flood of support this week when she posted a video outing her own mother, aunt and uncle as having attended the Capitol protests.

The 18-year-old said her mother, who appears to be harassing a Black woman in the video shared, previously condemned her for attending Black Lives Matter protests. “If I did nothing, I felt I was as bad as them,” Duke told Good Morning America.

The decision to report a family member or publicly out them as espousing dangerous views can make a huge impact in stopping the spread of hate speech, said Talia Lavin, an expert in extremism and white supremacist groups and the author of Culture Warlords.

“I applaud the bravery of people who have called out people in their own families for this kind of radicalization,” she said. “When people experience ostracization or disavowal from one’s own family, it can lead to a kind of cooling of extremist sentiment, because individuals are for the very first time experiencing a consequence for what they have so proudly engaged in for so long.”

Online sleuthing is not new, especially among hate speech and extremism investigators, who have for years hunted down and outed racists and fascist agitators to employers in hopes to foster accountability. But in the aftermath of the insurrection, the practice has gone more mainstream, with journalists, activists and the FBI tweeting out photos and videos of the riot and encouraging followers to investigate them.

Online sleuthing has its drawbacks: a Chicago firefighter faced harassment after being falsely identified as the killer of a Capitol police officer through a blurry video image. Another photo was falsely traced to a man pictured on an antifa website, a tie that has been definitively disproven.

But the chance of mistaken identity is much lower when the accusation comes from a family member or loved one. Leslie, a woman in the midwest who asked that her last name not be used in this story, said she and her sister had both submitted screenshots of images their mother posted on social media from the steps of the Capitol during the riots to the FBI.

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More than 140,000 people have sent tips to the FBI reporting participants in the riots on the Capitol on 6 January. Photograph: Michael Nigro/Pacific Press/REX/Shutterstock

Leslie, who considers herself far left politically, said she had watched in horror as vigilantes stormed the Capitol, only to learn days later that her estranged mother was one of them.

“I almost passed out,” she said of the moment she saw the images. “I was really shocked. She was in front of the scaffolding we saw people climbing on TV. It was such a helpless, horrifying feeling.”

Leslie said she and her siblings stopped speaking to their parents after they got sucked into QAnon, a movement surrounding a false conspiracy theory that Donald Trump is saving the world from a secret cabal of child abusers. She said she watched her evangelical mother go from being a devout Christian to posting hate speech on Facebook and aligning herself with the far right.

“I am really, really angry that I have essentially lost my family to a cult,” she said. “I am angry that people were not taking the rise of QAnon more seriously. People kept saying, ‘nobody is actually going to do anything, it is just a bunch of idiots online’.

“Well, the people at the Capitol are the people who were looking at this online,” she said. “This is what happens when you don’t do anything.”

Leslie is not alone: support groups have emerged in recent years for the countless Americans who have lost loved ones to the conspiracy theory.

Leslie said she is hoping a call from the FBI could serve as “kind of wake-up call for them”, she said.

“Maybe if she gets a call from the authorities she will realize this is not just a game, this is not just something playing out on Facebook. This is real and people got killed,” she said.
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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

Postby admin » Tue Jan 19, 2021 3:40 am

100 Trump Pardons: What Does the Supreme Court Say About the Implications of Accepting a Pardon?
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Jan 18, 2021



It's being reported that Trump is preparing to issue as many as 100 pardons. This surprises exactly no one, as it's a fitting last act of a president who has been largely lawless during his four years in office.

But what are the consequences for the people who decide to accept a pardon from Trump? The Supreme Court answered that question in 1915 in the case of George Burdick v. The United States. Mr. Burdick was the editor of the New York Tribune who refused to accept a pardon from President Woodrow Wilson. The Supreme Court ruled that Mr. Burdick was well within his right to refuse the pardon because accepting a pardon carries with it "an imputation of guilt and a confession" that you committed the crime for which you are pardoned. This is an important doctrine because those "confessions" by individuals who accept Trump's pardons can actually come back to haunt them in a number of ways. Here's how . . .
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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

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Trump Is Leaving Behind a Legacy of Insurrection, Corruption and Chaos
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A Closer Look
Jan 18, 2021

Seth takes a closer look at the damage President Trump will leave behind as we learn more about the insurrection he incited, his premeditated plan to steal the election and the Republican Party’s complicity.

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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

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Trump's influential supporters spoke of what was coming before riot
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Jan 18, 2021



Some of President Donald Trump's most influential supporters -- among them members of his inner circle who were in direct contact with the President -- spoke in ominous and violent terms about what was coming on January 6. CNN's Drew Griffin takes a look. #CNN #News
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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

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Roger Stone Addresses Pro-Trump Rally in Washington, D.C.
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Jan 5, 2021

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Democratic lawmaker accuses Boebert of giving tours prior to insurrection
by Jim Sciutto, Ryan Nobles and Annie Grayer
CNN
Updated 7:21 PM ET, Mon January 18, 2021

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(CNN) Democratic Rep. Steve Cohen of Tennessee said that he and a fellow lawmaker personally saw Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado guiding a group of people through the Cannon House Office Building tunnel in the days leading up the Capitol insurrection on January 6.

Cohen's accusation is significant because it is the first time a member of Congress has specifically accused another member of giving a tour of the Capitol complex prior to the riot. It comes after several Democratic members have suggested that their Republican colleagues may have been providing the tours as an opportunity for the would-be rioters to get the lay of the land ahead of a planned insurrection.

"Only thing that I've seen, Congressman Yarmuth refreshed my recollection yesterday. We saw (Rep.) Boebert taking a group of people for a tour sometime after the 3rd and before the 6th. I don't remember the day we were walking in a tunnel and we saw her and commented who she was and she had a large group with her. Now whether these people were people that were involved in the insurrection or not, I do not know," Cohen told CNN's Jim Sciutto on "CNN Newsroom."

Cohen continued, "She was a freshman, she might have had a large number of people coming to be with her on this historic occasion and just wanting to give them the opportunity to have a tour. But it is pretty clear that her team is the team -- she's not on the home team. She was with the visitors."

Boebert sent a letter to Cohen responding to the allegations he made on CNN, disputing the congressman's characterization and saying his comments "repeat irresponsible lies in order to elevate his own political relevance and to further fuel the division of our country."

"Let me be clear—all of your claims and implications are categorically false," Boebert wrote. "I have never given a tour of the U.S. Capitol to any outside group. As I previously stated, I brought my family to the Capitol on January 2nd for a tour and on the 3rd for pictures to commemorate the day I was sworn in as a Member of the U.S. Congress. Again, the only people I have ever had in the Capitol with me during the 117th Congress are my young children, husband, mom, aunt and uncle."

Cohen has not reported his observation to the FBI or Capitol Police, a spokesperson for the congressman told CNN.

"He was only reminded of it when he talked to Mr. Yarmuth yesterday," the spokesperson added.

A spokesperson for Yarmuth confirmed that the congressman recalled seeing a group of people with Boebert earlier this month but would not comment on who those people were.

"On either January 3 or 4, Congressman Yarmuth was in the Cannon Tunnel going back to his office and saw Congresswoman Boebert walking in the direction of the Capitol," Yarmuth spokesman Christopher Schuler said in a statement. "While Congressman Yarmuth remembers there was a group of people around Congresswoman Boebert, he has no knowledge of who they were or if they were with her."

While Cohen is the first to specifically name Boebert as someone who may have given the tours, the rumors surrounding her role in the days leading up to January 6 were so heated that the congresswoman preemptively denied any wrongdoing. Boebert sent Democratic Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney of New York a letter denying that she gave tours to insurrectionists after an interview on MSNBC in which Maloney accused Republican members of doing so. Maloney never mentioned Boebert by name.

"The only people I have ever had in the Capitol with me are my young children, husband, mom, aunt and uncle," Boebert wrote in the letter to Maloney. "My mother was the only one of those family members in Washington D.C. on the 6th. During the riots, my mother was locked in a secure location, not in the U.S. Capitol, with my staff and never left their sight."

Prior to the pandemic, the public had wide-ranging access to the Capitol complex, including the tunnels connecting the member office buildings to the Capitol itself. The Sergeant at Arms banned all tours of the Capitol Grounds at the start of the pandemic, but members of Congress were able to ignore the guidance. Lawmakers or staff led tours have never had to register visitors with Capitol Police, a law enforcement official with direct knowledge of overall protocols told CNN.

Capitol Police and the FBI would not say on the record if they are investigating any members of Congress for their role in the planning leading up to the insurrection. USCP has not responded to CNN's request for comment about whether a tour led by Boebert is something they are looking into.

Still the activity of GOP members during that week, was enough for Democratic members to raise concerns to Capitol Police and the Sergeant at Arms. Their concerns were loud enough that the Capitol Police sent out a memo on January 4 reiterating the Capitol Hill policy that banned tours from the spring and completely shut down the Capitol Building on January 6 to only members and those who had offices there.

This story has been updated with additional developments Monday including a new statement from Boebert's office. CNN's Dana Bash and Sarah Westwood contributed to this report.
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34 House Democrats call for investigation into Jan. 5 tours by fellow members ahead of attack
Capitol is supposed to be closed to tours
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Rep. Mikie Sherrill, D-N.J., walks up the House steps for a vote in the Capitol on Sept. 17, 2020. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Rep. Mikie Sherrill and 33 other House members want an investigation into access given by fellow House lawmakers to visitors to the Capitol on Jan. 5 before the violent attacks on Congress the next day.

The New Jersey Democrat alleged Tuesday night that members of Congress led guests on what she described as “reconnaissance” ahead of the insurrection on Jan. 6.

A letter issued Wednesday asks the acting House sergeant-at-arms, acting Senate sergeant-at-arms, and United States Capitol Police to investigate “suspicious behavior” on Jan. 5 and changes to visitor access.

“The visitors encountered by some of the Members of Congress on this letter appeared to be associated with the rally at the White House the following day,” Sherrill wrote.

The New Jersey Democrat and former Navy pilot first made public her concerns about House members preparing rioters for their siege of the Capitol in a video on Facebook on Tuesday night.

The letter notes that she and other signatories, including former CIA officer Abigail Spanberger, have served in military and intelligence roles and are trained to recognize suspicious activity.

“Members of the group that attacked the Capitol seemed to have an unusually detailed knowledge of the layout of the Capitol Complex. The presence of these groups within the Capitol Complex was indeed suspicious. Given the events of January 6, the ties between these groups inside the Capitol Complex and the attacks on the Capitol need to be investigated,” wrote the lawmakers.

Visitors, official tour groups and almost anyone without a congressional ID have been barred from the Capitol since mid-March, when the threat of the COVID-19 pandemic led congressional leaders to partially close the usually public building.

But members of Congress have been disregarding those strictures to bring in families and friends for small private tours for months, and Capitol Police stationed at entrances typically don’t challenge lawmakers to enforce rules.

The letter asks if there is a database of guests to the Capitol and if SAA staff and Capitol Police require lawmakers to sign in guests upon entry. They also want to know if facial recognition software is in use for visitors entering the Capitol complex.

“The tours being conducted on Tuesday, January 5, were a noticeable and concerning departure from the procedures in place as of March 2020 that limited the number of visitors to the Capitol. These tours were so concerning that they were reported to the Sergeant at Arms on January 5,” Sherrill and others wrote.

Majority Whip James E. Clyburn is not a signatory on the letter, but he has raised questions about how rioters knew some of the most hidden, obscure destinations in the Capitol to target and loot.

Clyburn’s second-floor office, with his name above the door, remained untouched during the destruction and violence last week. But a more private office, which is unmarked on the third floor, was targeted.

“There are many members of the United States Congress right now who could not tell you where that office is and could not find that office if they needed to,” the South Carolina Democrat told MSNBC.

“Yeah, but they found it. Nobody touched the door where my name is,” he said.

He said a thorough investigation is needed, and he questioned how the insurrectionists knew how to find an unmarked office of one of the top members of the House.

The Capitol Police Inspector General has already opened an investigation into the Jan. 6 attack, including officer conduct and potential failures of planning and leadership.

Many questions have been raised about how rioters got so deep into the Capitol without being stopped or apprehended, including looting the Senate chamber and breaking into and posing for pictures in Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office.

There is also a sprawling federal investigation into the mob that stormed the Capitol. Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, stressed Tuesday that the scope and scale of the probe means it would take months to uncover what happened when thousands of supporters of President Donald Trump surrounded the building and flooded the halls of Congress.

Chris Marquette and Todd Ruger contributed to this report.
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Republican leader Mitch McConnell: Attack at the Capitol was ‘provoked by the president’
by Christal Hayes
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Published 1:03 p.m. ET Jan. 19 2021 Updated 3:34 p.m. ET Jan. 19, 2021

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“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people and they tried to use fear and violence to stop a specific proceeding of the first branch of the federal government which they did not like,” Mr. McConnell said on the Senate floor Tuesday.


WASHINGTON – Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., issued his most striking condemnation of President Donald Trump after the attack at the U.S. Capitol, saying the mob of protesters were “provoked by the president.”

“The mob was fed lies. They were provoked by the president and other powerful people, and they tried to use fear and violence,” McConnell said on the Senate floor, casting a clear shot not only at Trump but fellow Republicans who backed the president’s efforts to overturn election results in several swing states.

McConnell publicly split with Trump after the attack, which happened as the House and Senate counted Electoral College votes this month. The Kentucky Republican left open the possibility of convicting Trump at his second impeachment trial, a departure from McConnell's role during Trump's first impeachment in which he worked in concert with the White House to ensure the president was acquitted.

The Senate continues to prepare for Trump's second impeachment trial even though his term will officially end Wednesday when Joe Biden is sworn into office. Constitutional scholars debate whether a former president can be convicted once he has left office.

The House passed one article of impeachment Jan. 13, charging Trump with inciting an insurrection at the Capitol. It passed with the support of 10 Republicans.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who will lead the chamber after Democrats take control Wednesday, said the Senate must move forward on a trial to ensure that the "severest offense ever committed by a president would be met by the severest remedy provided by the Constitution."

"The Senate has the solemn responsibility to try and hold Donald Trump accountable for the most serious charge ever levied against a president: the incitement of an insurrection against the United States of America," Schumer said.

Schumer vowed that the chamber would vote to bar Trump from holding office again, something allowed during an impeachment trial.

Both Senate leaders said Wednesday would usher in a new start in Washington. Schumer noted the chamber would take on COVID-19 relief and address immigration changes in the coming days.

McConnell highlighted the close margins in the House and Senate as a sign that the American people want their leaders to work together.

“There are serious challenges that our nation needs to continue confronting,” McConnell said. “Our marching orders from the American people are clear – we’re to have a robust discussion and seek common ground.”

He said, “We must always keep in mind that we’re all Americans. We all love this country. And we’re all in this together.”

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U.S. Senate Press Gallery
Room S-316 of the U.S. Capitol
(202)224-0241
Tuesday, January 19, 2021

1:07 p.m. Senator Booker paid tribute to USCP Officer Sicknick.

12:51 p.m. Senator Durbin spoke on the attack on the Capitol and paid tribute to his departing chief of staff.

12:39 p.m. Senator Loeffler gave her farewell speech.

12:21 p.m. Senator Schumer spoke on the Inauguration and upcoming Biden Administration nominations.

12:03 p.m. ML McConnell spoke on the attack on the Capitol.

12:02 p.m. Senator Grassley spoke on constituent meetings.

The Senate will convene at 12:00 noon and be in a period of morning business. Votes are not expected today but are still possible.
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Need A Domestic Terrorist? Dial 9-1-1
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Re: Trump lashes out at Gov. Doug Ducey following certificat

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Unpacking The Capitol Riot & Four Years of Trump’s Bulls**t
by Trevor Noah
The Daily Social Distancing Show
Jan 19, 2021



A look at new info coming out of the Capitol riot, at the major figures who waited for a catastrophe to take a stand against Trump, and at the hypocrisy of Republican calls for “unity” in the aftermath. #DailyShow #TrevorNoah #DonaldTrump
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