Guns were commonplace in the post-Civil War Old West, but actual gunfights were rare. Contrary to the mythology, many frontier towns had strict gun laws, especially against carrying concealed weapons.
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According to former assistant to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, Cassidy Hutchinson, Trump was incensed that security was not allowing armed people in to watch him deliver a lie-filled speech just before the violent insurrection.
A cadre of ocean freight carriers are charging exorbitant, potentially illegal, fees on shipping containers stuck because of congestion at ports. Sellers of furniture, coconut water, even kids’ potties say the fees are inflating costs.
Trump and his MAGA allies planned, promoted, and paid for a seditious conspiracy to overturn an election they lost, and Ron Johnson attempted to deliver it to D.C. on a silver platter.
As the January 6th mob approached the Senate chamber and Secret Service agents hustled Mike Pence out, rioters who wanted to kill Pence came within 40 feet of succeeding.
A "perfect" compromise for Second Amendment jihadis, a pistol that has the same firepower as an AR-15. In other words, overkill in a more compact package.
Stolen-election activists and Trump supporters have embraced a new tactic in their campaign to unearth supposed proof of fraud in the 2020 presidential race: using social media to chase down a fictional breed of fraudster known as a “ballot mule.”
Now a federal holiday, the roots of Juneteenth are based in local, grass-roots celebrations dating back to the Civil War. Once nearly forgotten, the rebirth of Juneteenth speaks to America’s ongoing struggle for racial equality.
Had Pence obeyed Trump, said retired federal judge J. Michael Luttig, "America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis."
Video evidence shows a sitting member of congress (Rep. Loudermilk) giving a tour to soon-to-be insurrectionists taking pictures of insignificant hallways and passages. The same insurrectionists later say they’re going to “drag Pelosi out by her hair.”
The January 6th committee played testimony from Trump campaign officials including Gary Coby, former digital campaign director, admitting that there was no fund devoted to defending Trump's claim that he had won the election.
The House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on Capitol held two prime-time televised hearings so far. Dismissed by some as show trials, these hearings may test the medium’s ability to capture the nation’s attention.
President Biden’s claim that the rate of mass shootings during the period of the assault weapons ban “went down” only for it to rise again after the law was allowed to expire in 2004 holds true.
The big question is why would anyone listen to Ginni Thomas or give her the time of day. Oh, yeah. She's married to Supreme Court Associate Justice Clarence Thomas.
"Donald Trump was at the center of this conspiracy," said Rep. Bennie Thompson, the chair of the House panel investigating the Capitol attack. "January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup."
The first public hearings of the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol begin tomorrow. In prime time.