Morning Briefing: All the President's Phone Calls
Morning Briefing: All the President's Phone Calls
While there is 7-hour gap in the White House phone logs, the former President reportedly spoke to at least two dozen people on January 6, 2021 in the hours before the Capitol Riot.
Morning Briefing: The Select Committee is reportedly “very busy in its pursuit of accountability for the US Capitol Riot, even as it may be running short on time.” The U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. House Select Committee both reportedly “gathered growing evidence” of how a Tweet posted by former President Donald Trump in the days before the Capitol Riot “served as a crucial call to action for extremist groups that played a central role in storming the Capitol.”
Who former President Donald Trump spoke with on the phone during January 6, 2021: Stephen Bannon, William Bennett, Pat Cipollone, Rudy Giuliani, Bill Hagerty, Sean Hannity, Josh Hawley, Eric Herschmann, Jim Jordan, Nick Luna, Mark Martin, Kevin McCarthy, Mitch McConnell, Kayleigh McEnany, John McEntee, Mark Meadows, Jason Miller, Stephen Miller, Cleta Mitchell, Kurt Olsen, Mike Pence, David Perdue, Dan Scavino, and Tommy Tuberville.
Angela Rigas, candidate in the Republican primary for District 79 in the Michigan House of Representatives, reportedly said during a "MAGA mixer" that being on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol during the January 6th Capitol Riot was the "highlight of my life."
Law enforcement in are investigating incidents in which “flyers with anti-Semitic and racist language” were found in multiple communities in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Similar incidents have happened in recent months in communities across the country including Houston, Texas; Chicago, Illinois; Buffalo, New York; Williamstown, Massachusetts; and Palo Alto, California. The distribution of White Supremacist propaganda is reportedly “increasingly coordinated.”
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Jamelle Bouie writes that “Ginni Thomas, a very high-profile Republican activist who holds, and acts on, fringe, conspiratorial beliefs,” and she is not an outlier among Republicans in holding extreme views. [The New York Times]
Ali Breland interviews Paul Renfro about how “moral panics concerning children have a long history in the United States,” and how U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO) and “others to gesture toward the QAnon conspiracy theory without explicitly mentioning it.” [Mother Jones]
Jeff Stein and Howard Altman report that House and Senate committees are “looking into hate speech that has flourished in spy agency chat rooms over the past five years,” and there are claims that employees at the “CIA, DIA, NSA, and other IC agencies that openly stated that the January 6th terrorist attack on our Capitol was justified.” [The Daily Beast]
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