Mitch Simon likely to face up to 14 months in federal prison for wielding a bicycle rack against a police officer outside the Capitol.
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Evidence mounts of Republican involvement in Trump election schemes
Text messages and testimony released by the House Jan. 6 panel shows the deep involvement of some House Republicans in President Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to stay in power.
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House Republican leader downplays secretly recorded remarks about Trump
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy initially called the report – before the recording surfaced – ‘totally false and wrong.’
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Warren calls McCarthy a ‘liar’ and ‘traitor’ over Jan. 6 tape
Democrats point to Rep. Kevin McCarthy’s recorded comments as proof that lawmakers at the highest levels privately acknowledge Trump’s role in the Capitol insurrection yet continue to defend him in public.
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Trump aide Stephen Miller speaks to Jan. 6 panel
Miller is the latest in a series of sit-downs the committee has scored with those in Trump’s inner circle as lawmakers move closer to the former president.
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Man blaming Trump’s ‘orders’ for U.S. Capitol riot actions found guilty
Jurors rejected Dustin Byron Thompson’s novel defense, in which he blamed Trump and members of the president’s inner circle for the insurrection and for his own actions.
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Capitol riot defendant: I was following Trump’s instructions
An Ohio man who acknowledges he joined the mob at the U.S. Capitol last year and ignored a variety of warning signs says he was only following orders from the president, Donald Trump.
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Blame Trump? Jury hears that defense at Capitol riot trial
The attorney for Dustin Byron Thompson – an Ohio man charged with stealing a coat rack from the building – argues the former president encouraged his supporters to ‘do his dirty work.’
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Ex-officer convicted of storming Capitol to disrupt Congress
Jurors convicted former Rocky Mount police officer Thomas Robertson of all six counts he faced stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, riot.
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Second Proud Boys member pleads guilty to conspiracy in Jan. 6 riot
The indictments of the North Carolina man and other members of extremist groups have been a focus of the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation of the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection.