1/6 Insurrection Investigation

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Pro-Trump rioters beat and stomped DC police officer with American flag pole

More exclusive video from the January 6th insurrection where Pro Trump supporters stormed the Capitol and beat police officers in an attempt to overthrow the government to keep Trump in power.   

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DC fed judge slamming the door on Jan 6 defendant "change of venue" request:

"Of course there will be jurors in DC who are familiar with the events of Jan. 6 and some of the more high-profile prosecutions that have followed. But prominence does not necessarily produce prejudice".

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In court filing ahead of trial of Jan 6 defendant Russell Alford, prosecutors file motion saying "On Jan 20, 2021, when FBI agents approached the defendant in Alabama, the defendant said “I wondered when ya’ll were going to show up. Guess you seen the videos on my Facebook page”.

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Judge has rejected yet another request by a Capitol riot defendant to delay trial due to "ongoing publicity" of House Jan 6 Select Committee hearings.

Judge says Doug Jensen's defense argument about potential prejudice is a "dubious proposition".

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Jan. 6 hearing examines Trump's 187 minutes at White House as riot unfolded | July 21

The House Jan. 6 committee conducted a public hearing Thursday to examine what former President Donald Trump was doing for 187 minutes — from when rioters descended on the Capitol to his videotaped statement urging them to go home. "The mob was accomplishing President Trump's purpose, and he did not intervene," said Rep. Adam Kinzinger, one of the committee members leading the hearing. The committee has continued to lay out evidence this summer, showing Trump encouraged his supporters to descend on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, after peddling false claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen.

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First on CNN: Alex Jones' texts have been turned over to the January 6 committee, source says
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/08/politics/alex-jones-january-6/index.html

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New Jan. 6 panel evidence shows Trump altered his post-Capitol riot speech

Several former Trump aides said in interviews that they pushed the president to put out a stronger statement on Jan. 7 condemning the riot.

Former President Donald Trump removed key lines from a draft document of his Jan. 7, 2021, speech that would have condemned rioters at the Capitol insurrection the day prior as not representing “our movement.”

A screengrab of Trump’s draft speech, which he made handwritten edits to, is shown in a video of Jan. 6 committee evidence and testimony shared by panel member Rep. Elaine Luria (D-Va.) on Twitter. The video shows edits and various lines crossed out of the prepared remarks in black Sharpie, which Trump’s daughter Ivanka identified as her father’s handwriting in an interview with the committee.

POLITICO originally obtained and reported on Trump’s draft speech, titled “Remarks on National Healing,” in January.

The former president specifically crossed out a line directed at Jan. 6 rioters that said: “I want to be very clear. You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement.” He also changed a line that originally said those who broke the law “belong in jail” to instead say that they “will pay.”

Another portion crossed out by Trump reads: “I am directing the Department of Justice to ensure all lawbreakers are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm.”

In an interview with the Jan. 6 panel, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner said he didn’t know why Trump crossed those lines out.

Several former Trump aides also said in interviews with the panel that they pushed the president to put out a stronger statement on Jan. 7 condemning the riot, especially following an influx of criticism and talk of invoking the 25th Amendment to remove him from office. Trump’s former director of the presidential personnel office, John McEntee, said in an interview with the committee that he believed the former president was reluctant to give the speech and that Kushner urged him to “nudge this along” with Trump.

Both former White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Kushner said in interviews that they felt it was important for Trump to give the speech to de-escalate the criticism and detach himself from the rioters who stormed the Capitol.

“In my view, he needed to express very clearly that the people who committed violent acts, went into the Capitol, did what they did, should be prosecuted and should be arrested,” Cipollone said.

Former Trump White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson said in an interview with the committee that she believed there was concern among people around Trump that the 25th Amendment would be invoked if he didn’t make a statement condemning the violence. She also said there were concerns about Trump’s legacy.

“The secondary reason for that was think about what might happen in the final 15 days of your presidency if we don’t do this. There’s already talks about invoking the 25th Amendment. You need this as cover,” she said.

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/25/jan-6-trump-insurrection-speech-00047785

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Jan. 6 committee to depose Pennsylvania GOP gubernatorial nominee Doug Mastriano

- Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for Pennsylvania governor, plans to appear Tuesday for a deposition by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

- But he doesn’t expect to talk for long, because it appears the panel won’t agree not to edit video clips of his testimony, his lawyer Timothy Parlatore said.

- Mastriano’s concern is that such a video could affect his chances in the upcoming election, where he faces Democratic nominee Josh Shapiro, Parlatore said.

- The committee wants to question Mastriano about his efforts to help former President Donald Trump reverse his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.



Doug Mastriano, the Republican nominee for governor of Pennsylvania, plans to appear Tuesday for a deposition by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riot — but he doesn’t expect to talk for long, his lawyer told CNBC.

Timothy Parlatore, who’s representing Mastriano, said the first-term state senator anticipates leaving “in less than 10 minutes” due to an unresolved issue over the terms of his deposition.

Mastriano is not willing to testify unless the panel agrees not to edit video clips of his appearance and release a potentially misleading video afterward, Parlatore said.

Mastriano’s concern is that such a video could affect his chances in the upcoming gubernatorial election, where he faces state Attorney General Josh Shapiro, the Democratic nominee, the lawyer said.

“He’s got nothing to hide,” Parlatore said of his client.

A spokesman for the committee declined CNBC’s request for comment.

The panel wants to question Mastriano about his efforts to help former President Donald Trump reverse his 2020 election loss to President Joe Biden.

In a letter in February to Mastriano, the committee’s chairman, Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., wrote, “We understand that you have knowledge of and participated in a plan to arrange for an alternate slate of electors to be presented to the President of the Senate on January 6, 2021, and we understand that you spoke with former President Trump about your post-election activities.”

Parlatore said that his issues with the deposition are “individualized” to Mastriano because of his status as a political candidate in a pending election.

Parlatore believes that neither Mastriano nor any other witness can be compelled to testify in a private session because, he said, the committee lacks a ranking member appointed by the Republican minority in the House.

And while Mastriano is willing to testify behind closed doors, he will not do so unless his conditions are met, Parlatore said. The lawyer said if Mastriano was issued a subpoena to testify at a public hearing, he would be unable to force the panel to comply with conditions before appearing.

House GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy pulled all of his picks from the committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rejected two of them. Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., the committee’s top-ranking Republican member, serves as its vice chair, not the ranking member.

Parlatore said that if his expectations for the deposition come to pass on Tuesday, “we’ll be out shortly and then I am going to start drafting a lawsuit.”

Multiple federal judges have reportedly determined that Cheney is effectively the select committee’s ranking member, despite being appointed to the rank of vice chair by the Democrat-led panel.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/08/jan-6-riot-probe-pennsylvania-gop-nominee-doug-mastriano-to-be-deposed.html