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Fox News suppressing the truth while prompting alternate facts, racism, hate and lies.

By Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story

"The View" on Tuesday welcomed guest co-host Lindsey Granger to join in the discussion about the upcoming Jan. 6 hearings and whether the American people actually care about the issue.

Joy Behar, for one, pointed the finger at Fox News for refusing to cover hearings where their own hosts will feature prominently as part of the evidence. "Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity and Brian Kilmeade were begging the president, Trump, to stop the attack, so now they're saying the opposite?" asked Behar. "They're implicated in the day, of course, they don't want to report that, you know. And as far as the criticism that's it's a theatrical event, they did hire a former ABC news president to go there, he used to work here, we know him, James Goldstein, with the hearings on Thursday." Conservative Granger said that Fox is airing the hearing, but it was going to be on Fox Business, a channel that Behar noted no one watches. "Tucker Carlson is the most-watched program across cable news and on Fox News in particular," Sunny Hostin cut in. "I think it's a disservice to their viewers they peddled all of this misinformation and they're not allowing viewers to see the Jan. 6th committee, don't you think that's -- you think the average Fox News viewer will go somewhere else?" Granger said she didn't think that, but she said that people watched the Jan. 6 attack on every channel and saw it.
insider@insider.com (Cheryl Teh)

A bombshell email obtained by The Washington Post and CNN has unveiled new information on a scheme concocted by former President Donald Trump's campaign in Georgia that involved getting fake electors to cast electoral votes for him. The email, dated December 13, 2020, contained instructions on how the electors could position themselves to cast electoral college votes in favor of Trump, despite President Joe Biden's victory in the state. Despite the plan, all 16 electoral votes for the state were cast in favor of the Biden-Harris ticket the following day. In the email sent by a Trump campaign staffer, fake electors were instructed on how to infiltrate the Georgia State Capitol, sign certificates declaring they were there to cast the votes for the state, and ultimately defy the will of the state's voters by voting for Trump instead. "I must ask for your complete discretion in this process," wrote Robert Sinners, the Trump campaign's elections operations director in Georgia, per the outlets. "Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result — a win in Georgia for President Trump — but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion." According to The Post, the electors were told to inform the building's security guards that they had an appointment with one of the state senators to gain entry.  "Please, at no point should you mention anything to do with Presidential Electors or speak to the media," Sinners wrote in bold text, per the outlet.
JONATHAN J. COOPER

An Arizona judge Monday declined a request by the state Republican Party to block most mail-in ballots for the 2022 election, preserving the voting method used by an overwhelming majority of the state's voters. Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen ruled that nothing in the Arizona Constitution prohibits the Legislature from allowing citizens to vote by mail. The case is the latest piece of a multi-pronged effort by the Arizona Republican Party and its firebrand chair, Kelli Ward, to roll back a system of no-excuse-needed absentee voting that the GOP-controlled Legislature has built since 1991. They’ve pushed to require nearly everyone to cast a ballot in person on election day as former President Trump repeats the lie that he lost the 2020 election because of fraud linked to mail ballots in Arizona and other battleground states. Arizona is among the states with the highest levels of mail voting, a system that has become extremely popular with voters from both parties as well as independents. Striking down those laws would have had major implications for the 2022 election in Arizona, which includes one of the handful of races that will determine which party controls the U.S. Senate.
Fox News suppressing the truth while prompting alternate facts, racism, hate and lies.

Adam Staten

Aformer high-ranking official at the FBI has criticized Fox News for its decision not to provide live coverage on Fox News Channel of the first hearing of the House select committee investigating the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. On Tuesday morning, Frank Figliuzzi, a former assistant director for counterintelligence at the FBI, called out Fox News, saying the news outlet was attempting to suppress the truth surrounding the January 6 riot. Figliuzzi posted an article on Twitter about Fox News' plans not to provide continuous prime-time coverage of the hearing. He commented, "Radicalization includes suppression of truth: Fox News to Skip Coverage of Jan. 6 Committee Hearings." His comments came after Fox News posted on its website on Monday night that instead of carrying coverage of the first January 6 committee hearing live on Fox News Channel, it will be shown on Fox Business Network, which will be anchored by Martha MacCallum and Bret Baier beginning at 8 p.m. on Thursday. Figliuzzi was not the only notable person to comment on Fox News' planned coverage of Thursday's hearing. Illinois Representative and January 6 committee member Adam Kinzinger, a vocal anti-Trump Republican, also criticized the network's decision. On Twitter, Kinzinger urged those who "work for @FoxNews and want to maintain your credibility as a journalist" to "speak out" or "quit" over the decision, writing that "enough is enough."
Cami Mondeaux

The top Republican lawmaker on the House Armed Services Committee introduced a bill that would withdraw the United States from the United Nations and the World Health Organization, citing human rights abuses in China. It’s “unconscionable” for the U.S. to continue participating in the U.N. while China is also a member, said Rep. Mike Rogers (R-AL), who introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2022. If passed, the bill would seek to block funds from being disbursed to the U.N. or any agency associated with it, arguing coalition leaders have aided China in carrying out genocide. “The Charter of the United Nations states the U.N.’s mission to ‘reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights, in the dignity and worth of the human person, in the equal rights of men and women and of nations large and small,’” Rogers told Fox News. “It’s clear the U.N. has abandoned the ideals set in its founding charter, and that’s why, among many other reasons, I’ve reintroduced legislation to withdraw the United States from the U.N.” Rogers initially introduced legislation in 2015 that would withdraw the country from both the U.N. and WHO, but the bill never made it to the House floor for a vote, according to an aide in his office. However, the Alabama Republican is hoping to use recent reports of human rights abuses against the Uyghur people in China as momentum to get the bill passed in Congress.
By Tom Boggioni | Raw Story

Reacting to a report from the Washington Post that a slate of fake electors in Georgia who were attempting to award the state's 16 Electoral College votes to Donald Trump were instructed to keep quiet about their work, CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin said it reeked of illegality. According to the Post, an email went out to the conservatives hoping to assist Trump in his quest to win re-election that stated, "Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result — a win in Georgia for President Trump — but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion. Please, at no point should you mention anything to do with Presidential Electors or speak to the media," with the secrecy portion bolded. Speaking with "New Day" hosts Brianna Keilar and John Berman, political analyst Laura Jarrett prompted, "Georgia is the sleeper in this whole thing. It is because it's the -- it's where I think the most exposure is." "It speaks to this whole issue of intent," she continued. "If this whole thing was on the up and up and you actually believed that Donald Trump was the rightful winner, why is all of this shrouded in secrecy? I think it speaks to the criminality of it, and it speaks to the potential criminal intent of the actors involved. Now what Trump knew, of course, all of that is going to remain to be seen. The fact that a member of the Trump campaign is on the record in an e-mail saying we have to do all this shrouded in secrecy is noteworthy."
by Eric Garcia

On Friday, the Special Olympics announced that it had lifted its vaccine mandate after Florida’s Department of Health threatened to impose a $27.5 million fine for having it in place. By doing so, the Special Olympics shamefully capitulated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, the most effective extortionist in the Republican Party, and in doing so put the very people whose well-being the Special Olympics are supposed to promote at risk of getting Covid-19. The games began Sunday and are scheduled to run through June 12. The Special Olympics shamefully capitulated to Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and put the people whose well-being the Special Olympics are supposed to promote at risk. DeSantis has positioned himself as the leading opponent of any kind of collective action to mitigate Covid-19: He’s frequently boasted that he kept Florida open while other states imposed stay-at-home orders at the start of the coronavirus pandemic (even though he briefly closed the state), opposed mask mandates and signed legislation that allows workers to opt out of private employers’ vaccine requirements. He’s tried to make his state a magnet for anti-vaxxers by offering a $5,000 bonus for police who refuse vaccines, argued that “clearly the vax has not stopped people from being infected with omicron” and refused to say whether he is boosted, making him further to the right than Donald Trump on vaccines. To borrow from his 2018 challenger Andrew Gillum, who was speaking of his opponent’s attraction to racists, I’m not saying DeSantis is an anti-vaxxer; I’m simply saying that the anti-vaxxers believe he’s an anti-vaxxer.
Caroline Vakil

Ateacher at the Uvalde, Texas elementary school that last month became the scene of a horrific mass shooting called local police “cowards” as law enforcement comes under increasing scrutiny over the amount of time that lapsed before officers confronted the shooter. “They’re cowards,” Arnulfo Reyes, a teacher at Robb Elementary School, told ABC News anchor Amy Robach in an interview that aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America.” “They sit there and did nothing for our community,” Reyes said. “They took a long time to go in… I will never forgive them.” More than an hour passed between the time the shooter entered the elementary school on May 24 and when he was confronted by authorities. Officials said the gunman, identified as 18-year-old Salvador Ramos, killed 19 children and two adults in that timespan before he was killed by law enforcement officers. All 11 children who were in Reyes’s classroom at the time of the shooting were killed.
by Monique Beals

A Trump campaign staffer instructed a group of Republicans in Georgia who were planning to cast Electoral College votes for former President Trump to conduct the plan in “complete secrecy,” according to an email obtained by media outlets. The Washington Post and CNN reported Monday evening that the email, written by Trump campaign Georgia operations director Robert Sinners, instructed the fake electors to tell security at the state capitol that they had appointments with two state senators. “I must ask for your complete discretion in this process,” Sinners wrote. “Your duties are imperative to ensure the end result — a win in Georgia for President Trump — but will be hampered unless we have complete secrecy and discretion,” Sinners wrote.
by Dominick Mastrangelo

Fox News Channel has announced that it will not provide continuous live coverage on Thursday evening of the first hearing of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. In an announcement on Monday, Fox News Media said hosts on the air as the proceedings are taking place will “cover the hearings as news warrants,” before anchor and chief legal correspondent Shannon Bream will anchor a two-hour live special focusing on the hearings starting at 11 p.m. The conservative media giant will instead show live continuous coverage of the hearings on Fox Business, with anchors Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum hosting. It will also provide coverage via Fox News Digital, Fox News Audio and Fox Nation. The announcement signals Fox will not preempt its regularly scheduled opinion shows, featuring controversial hosts Tucker Carlson, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham, All three of whom draw in millions of viewers a night.
Zach Everson, Forbes Staff

The presidential seal has turned up as a marker at a fourth Trump golf course, a possible violation of federal law. On April 21, an Instagram user posted a photo of the seal at the Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida. The picture shows a circular, blue-and-silver marker set in closely cropped grass, and an accompanying caption reads: “45th President 45 yards from hole on 18.” It is against the law to use the presidential seal in a way that could convey the impression of government approval or sponsorship of private-sector businesses. The West Palm Beach golf club is the fourth Trump property to feature the seal in possible violation of the statute, following a trend set at courses in the Bronx, New Jersey and Jupiter, Florida. Violations of the law can result in prison sentences of up to six months, although prosecutors have never prioritized charging people who misuse the seal. Trump’s West Palm Beach club is the former president’s go-to course when residing at nearby Mar-a-Lago.
By Travis Gettys | Raw Story

The Republican strategy for defending Donald Trump against the House Select Committee hearings could lead the GOP even further into extremism. Pro-Trump lawmakers are planning a media blitz to distract from the public hearings on the conspiracy to overturn the 2020 election to keep the former president in power, and CNN political analyst Stephen Collinson warned that could set the GOP onto a dark path. "There are potential pitfalls for Republicans who stand with Trump as the lurid tale of violence, lies and autocratic power grabs is told again for the American people and for the benefit of history," Collinson wrote. "The evidence could be so damning that those who seek to discredit the hearings will find themselves defending the indefensible -- a dark moment of the American story that is so heinous it will live in infamy." It's not clear what political impact the evidence will have, and most voters have already made up their minds about Trump after his four years in the White House, but the GOP's willingness to defend the former president to the bitter end shows that he maintains his grip on the party and its core voters.
Mychael Schnell

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) on Monday said the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol has found evidence on former President Trump that supports "a lot more than incitement." The comment from Raskin, a member of the Jan. 6 panel, referenced Trump's second impeachment in January 2021, when the House voted to impeach the then-president for incitement to insurrection. The Jan. 6 panel is set to hold its first public hearing on Thursday, where Raskin said the committee will lay out information regarding individuals who played a role in the attack - including Trump. "The select committee has found evidence about a lot more than incitement here, and we're gonna be laying out the evidence about all of the actors who were pivotal to what took place on Jan. 6," Raskin said during an interview with Washington Post Live. Trump was impeached in the House by a 197-22 vote, with 10 Republicans joining all Democrats in sanctioning the president. The following month, however, the Senate acquitted him in a 57-43 vote. Seven Senate Republicans joined the entire Democratic caucus in voting to convict.
By Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story

Speaking to MSNBC on Monday, Washington Post reporter Carol Leonnig explained the main ways the House Select Committee will do to show the alleged conspiracy and corruption of Donald Trump and his allies. Officials intend to show side-by-side examples of the violence at the U.S. Capitol and what was happening at the White House at the same time. "I think, Nicolle, you are going to see some bombshells that day," Leonnig said. "I applaud my colleagues who have been reporting on this curtain-raiser for the hearings to come. The one that will be led and focused on Donald Trump, I understand, will have a lot of Donald Trump's own words as relayed by witnesses, as relayed by Donald Trump himself, people who were at his shoulder. And, so, you will see a kind of a split-screen. What was happening on the capitol at the same moment as what was happening inside the White House with Donald Trump." She cited one of the scenes in her book co-written with Phil Rucker, when Trump felt "giddy" when he saw his supporters committing multiple felonies and trumping up the side of the hill with weaponry, flag poles, fire extinguishers, bear spray, and two-way radios as if they were in a paramilitary event.
Graham Kates

Rhona Graff, who worked for years as executive assistant to Donald Trump, "cast doubt on the completeness of" a sworn affidavit submitted by Trump in May in an effort to clear a judge's finding of contempt, according to a Monday filing by the New York Attorney General's Office. Trump was held in contempt April 25 after claiming he had no documents demanded in a subpoena by investigators for New York Attorney General Letitia James. Her office sought records related to Trump's personal finances, as well as information related to the financing of several properties. As part of the former president's effort to clear the contempt ruling, Trump said in an affidavit that "it has been my customary practice to delegate document handling and retention responsibilities to my executive assistants." But in her May 31 deposition, Graff, who worked for Trump for more than two decades, said that statement was "very general. It doesn't mean (executive assistants) handled every document and maintained everything that came out of his office." Trump "had an inbox and an outbox," Graff said. If material was sent to him in a folder, Graff "didn't think it was my position to look inside," she said, adding that Trump "maybe on the outside would have said to return to so and so, whoever gave it to him."
The New York Times

Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, and four other members of the far-right group were indicted on Monday for seditious conspiracy for their roles in the storming of the Capitol on Jan. 6 of last year, some of the most serious criminal charges to be brought in the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation of the assault. The sedition charges came in an amended indictment that was unsealed in Federal District Court in Washington. The men had already been charged in an earlier indictment filed in March with conspiring to obstruct the certification of the 2020 presidential election, which took place during a joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021. The new indictment marked the second time a far-right group has been charged with seditious conspiracy in connection with the Jan. 6 attack. In January, Stewart Rhodes, the leader and founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested and charged along with 10 others with the same crime. The charge of seditious conspiracy — which can be difficult to prove and carries particular legal weight as well as political overtones — requires prosecutors to show that at least two people agreed to use force to overthrow government authority or delay the execution of a U.S. law. It carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.
insider@insider.com (Cheryl Teh)

Kyle Rittenhouse on Monday posted a video of himself firing off what appeared to be an automatic firearm while declaring to President Joe Biden that he couldn't take away Americans' guns. Rittenhouse posted the video to Twitter along with the caption, "Come and take 'em, Joe." The video appeared to show Rittenhouse firing off a slew of bullets from an automatic weapon while at a shooting range. After stepping back from the gun and being patted on the back, Rittenhouse gives a thumbs up and declares: "Joe Biden, you're not coming for our guns." Rittenhouse fatally shot two men and injured a third amid protests in Kenosha, Wisconsin, in August 2020. He was acquitted in November of five charges, including first-degree homicide. Last week, after a gunman opened fire at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, killing 21 people, including 19 children, Biden urged federal action on gun control. The president has also appealed to Senate Minority leader Mitch McConnell, who he called a "rational Republican," to entertain a potential policy change on firearms.
Jaclyn Diaz

Confusion, chaos and wrong information appear to have contributed to law enforcement's delay in stopping the gunman at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. The gunman spent more than an hour inside the school while police waited outside, authorities say. This was because the incident commander, school district police chief Pete Arredondo, treated the scene as a barricaded-person situation rather than as an active shooter situation. Details of exactly what went wrong are still hazy as the investigation is ongoing. Law enforcement experts say what happened in Uvalde is reminiscent of what occurred in prior mass shootings, including the attack at Columbine High School in 1999 and at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. As shown by the Uvalde shooting and others before it, police are still making tragic missteps in the most critical moments of active shooter situations — regardless of training.
Attacks in Philadelphia and Chattanooga, Tennessee, may have involved multiple shooters, authorities said.
By Dennis Romero

The first weekend of June marked a greater number of mass shooting deaths in the United States than the previous three-day weekend, which ended with Memorial Day. The tally for weekend violence through Sunday night was at least 12 killed, and at least 38 injured in mass shootings, defined by the Gun Violence Archive as an incident in which “four or more people are shot or killed, not including the shooter.” During the holiday weekend nine were killed and more than 60 were injured in attacks fitting that definition. As Americans debate the possibility of new gun regulations in the wake of the horrific Uvalde school attack, gun violence seemed to continue unabated with the official start of summer, June 21, and its hottest nights still ahead. The most notable violence this weekend took place in Philadelphia, where three were killed and 12 were injured; and in Chattanooga, Tennessee, which saw its second weekend in a row of mass-shooter violence, this time with two dead and 12 others injured from gunfire. A third person died after being struck by a car.
Ed Mazza

Blake Masters, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Arizona who is backed by former President Donald Trump, claims gun violence is largely a racial issue. “We do have a gun violence problem in this country, and it’s gang violence.” Masters told “The Jeff Oravits Show” podcast in April in comments that were spotted this week by The Daily Beast. “It’s people in Chicago, St. Louis shooting each other. Very often, you know, Black people, frankly,” Masters said. “And the Democrats don’t want to do anything about that.” Just weeks after his comments, 10 Black shoppers were murdered in a mass shooting in Buffalo, New York. The suspect, who is white, allegedly targeted Black people during his killing spree. He was also reportedly a believer in “replacement theory,” a conspiracy theory that has spread in conservative media circles such as Fox News. As The Daily Beast noted, Masters has pushed that same theory, which claims Democrats are trying to replace white voters with people of color via immigration.
By Sarah K. Burris | Raw Story

Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to hold a campaign rally in Memphis, but the city police don't want anything to do with it. According to Action News 5, Trump's past events that required local security resulted in hefty bills for the Trump campaign. Trump still owes El Paso $570,000 for a 2019 rally. The Republican Party wanted to move the 2020 convention to Jacksonville, Florida, during the pandemic, but that got canceled when security couldn't work with half of the budget cops were promised. As of July 2020, Trump had over $2 million in unpaid security bills that stacked up from Pennsylvania to New Mexico. The Albuquerque Journal revealed in Oct. 2020, that their city sent Trump an invoice for $211,175.94 for barricades and overtime for officers to be on hand for the event. Trump also refused to pay the city of Minneapolis after stacking up over $530,000 in security costs for a 2019 rally. The mayor there was furious and fought back at the time by blocking any further use of city-owned properties until the bill was paid. Trump threatened to sue the mayor. After a back and forth, the Target Center gave an in-kind donation of $100,000 for the costs of the 2019 rally. That, however, presents a problem because $100,000 in corporate funds is a violation of campaign finance law. It's unclear if anyone has ever filed that complaint because it likely isn't included on Trump's campaign finance documents as an in-kind contribution.
Julian Mark

Sean Bickings pleaded for help as he struggled to stay afloat in a reservoir in Tempe, Ariz., late last month. But Tempe police officers watched without intervening as Bickings went underwater and did not come back up, according to city officials and a transcript of body-camera footage. “I’m going to drown. I’m going to drown,” said Bickings, 34, according to a transcript of video from the May 28 incident released by city officials. “Okay, I’m not jumping in after you,” an officer, identified as Officer 1 in the transcript, said moments later, after directing Bickings to grab onto a bridge. “Please help me,” Bickings said. “Please, please, please.” Soon after, Bickings drowned, according to a Friday news release by city officials.
Igor Derysh

Organizers of a Republican-backed Michigan petition to enact voter restrictions to combat would-be voter fraud missed the state's filing deadline on Wednesday after discovering tens of thousands of fraudulent signatures. Michigan Republicans are backing the citizen initiative petition known as Secure MI Vote​​​​, which would impose strict voter ID requirements, restrict absentee voting and ban private donations that help keep polling places open. The petition drive was launched after Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, a Democrat, vetoed a slew of voting restrictions passed by the Republican-led legislature. Though the petition is ostensibly a citizen initiative, voters are not expected to see the measure appear on the ballot. Republicans have openly plotted all along to exploit a bizarre provision in the state constitution that allows the legislature to adopt a citizen initiative and pass it with a simple majority that the governor cannot veto.
By: Riley Brown

The US is home to many well-established companies that are considered giants in their respective industries. However, some of these companies aren’t as American as you might think. Over the last several years, Chinese conglomerates looking to expand their footprint in the highly lucrative US market have been buying stakes in American companies left and right, spending unbelievable sums of money in the process. Whether you’re watching a movie, shopping online, or buying a new car, there’s a good chance that at least some of the money you spend will make its way to China eventually. Here, we take a look at 40 American companies that are backed by Chinese investors.
John Bacon, James McGinnis and Brandon Holveck, USA TODAY

PHILADELPHIA – Police hunted for multiple gunmen Sunday after a shooting rampage on a crowded downtown street killed three people, wounded 11 and ignited chaos as revelers fled the carnage. Hours later, a shooting at a Tennessee nightclub left three dead and 14 wounded in Chattanooga as gun violence continued its unrelenting sweep across the nation. Three people were hit by vehicles in a mad scramble when the shooting started shortly before 3 a.m., Chattanooga Police Chief Celeste Murphy said. In Philadelphia, police issued an alert on Twitter shortly before 1 a.m. Sunday that emergency personnel were responding and "several people have been injured. Please avoid the area." Officers patrolling the popular South Street entertainment district heard the shots and saw what appeared to be multiple gunmen, Philadelphia Police Inspector D. F. Pace said at a briefing. One officer shot at a suspect; it was not immediately clear whether the shooter was wounded, Pace said. "The officer engaged the shooter," Pace said, "and as a result of that brave officer – and again we are uncertain whether he was struck or not – but the officer was able to get that individual to drop his gun and flee."
Jason Lemon

Some legal experts believe the evidence to support a potential criminal case against Donald Trump is mounting as new revelations about January 6, 2021, and the former president's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results continue to drop. Hundreds of Trump's supporters attacked the U.S. Capitol early last year after the then-president urged them to walk to the federal legislative building and "fight like hell." The riot took place after Trump spent months claiming that the 2020 election was fraudulent, as he and some of his top administration officials attempted to overturn President Joe Biden's win. New York Times' journalist Maggie Haberman reported Friday that Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, warned the Secret Service that he feared that Trump would turn against his No. 2 administration official and there could be a security risk on January 6. Many of Trump's supporters later chanted "Hang Mike Pence" and threatened his life as they attacked the Capitol. Trump continued to tweet criticism of Pence even as the rioters breached the federal legislative building.
By David Edwards | Raw Story

Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) has called the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol a "well-organized" conspiracy. During an interview with Robert Costa on CBS Sunday Morning, Cheney was asked if she believed that the events of Jan. 6 amounted to a conspiracy. "I do," Cheney revealed. "It is extremely broad. It's extremely well-organized. It's really chilling." She added that she was troubled by "how broad this multi-pronged effort was."
Daniel Chaitin

Former President Donald Trump has surpassed his predecessor Richard Nixon in being the poster child of corruption, according to Watergate sleuths Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. The pair, famous for how they helped expose the Watergate scandal in the Nixon administration that began nearly 50 years ago, came together to write a column for the Washington Post on Sunday, days ahead of when the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is scheduled to hold the first in a series of summer hearings, calling Trump the first "seditious" president. Whereas "instruments of American democracy finally stopped Nixon dead in his tracks, forcing the only resignation of a president in American history," Woodward and Bernstein write Trump "not only sought to destroy the electoral system through false claims of voter fraud and unprecedented public intimidation of state election officials, but he also then attempted to prevent the peaceful transfer of power to his duly elected successor, for the first time in American history."
Thomas Kika

GOP Texas Representative Louie Gohmert faces widespread criticism for his lament Friday about Republicans not being able "to lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent," including from Democratic lawmaker Ted Lieu. Gohmert, a Republican representing Texas' 1st Congressional District, made much-derided comments during a Friday appearance on the right-wing news channel Newsmax. The lawmaker discussed the recent federal grand jury indictment of former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro, who refused to meet with the House select committee investigating last year's Capitol riot. "If you're a Republican, you can't even lie to Congress or lie to an FBI agent or they're coming after you," Gohmert complained. Lieu, a Democrat representing California's 33rd Congressional District, noted that it's against the law for any person, regardless of party affiliation, to lie to entities like Congress or the FBI. "I simply note it is a federal crime for anyone to lie to Congress or the FBI during an investigation," he tweeted Friday.
Caroline Vakil

Former President Trump and three of his children will participate in up to seven hours of questioning in a lawsuit started in 2018 over multilevel marketing company ACN Opportunity, lawyers for the defendants and plaintiffs said in a signed letter to a judge dated Friday, a court filing shows. The former president and his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump will be deposed for a maximum of seven hours amid a lawsuit looking into the promotion of ACN Opportunity, through which some investors claim to have lost thousands of dollars, Courthouse News Service noted. The investors argued that it was not clear that the Trumps, who promoted the company, had profited significantly off of it. The former president and his children had already agreed in March to sit for depositions after previously seeking to have the case dropped in 2018, according to Bloomberg, but the length of the deposition was not previously known.
By Tom Boggioni | Raw Story

According to a report from the Daily Beast's Jose Pagliery, texts obtained by the website between a former Georgia Republican county chair and an election board member revealed they were plotting to allow pro-Donald Trump outsiders access to the county's election computers. As the report reveals, those text messages were flying back and forth on Jan 6th as the Capitol in Washington D.C. was under siege to stop the certification of the 2020 presidential election that saw Trump lose re-election. As Pagliery notes, the Washington Post has reported that "the Secretary of State’s office was investigating the matter. But the previously unreported text messages shed new light on who arranged the possibly illegal access to the computer and who was on the team that traveled south to do it." According to the new Beast report, "The text messages acquired by The Daily Beast show two separate conversations in which former Coffee County GOP chair Cathy Latham and elections board member Eric Chaney lay out a plan to bring in a team of computer experts to access the computer voting system. The Daily Beast has verified that the conversations were real and remain stored on an iPhone."
By Tom Boggioni | Raw Story

According to a report from the New York Times, two Donald Trump insiders who have been consumed with proving the former president was robbed of re-election, are forging ahead by backing and supporting a slate of over one dozen Republican candidates who could oversee election results in their respective states in 2024. With interest in Donald Trump's complaints about the results of 2020 waning -- and Republicans admitting they want to move on the Times' Alexandra Berzon reports that MyPillow founder Mike Lindell and former Overstock.com executive Patrick Byrne are doing all they can to push the candidacies of conservatives running under the America First banner who hope to win election as secretary of state in 2022 which would allow them to influence election results in 2024.
By Bob Brigham | Raw Story

Strategy memos obtained by Rolling Stone from a "variety of conservative candidates and organizations" urge changing the topic and letting the news cycle change following the latest string of mass shootings in America. "Stay cool. Run out the clock. Scare some gun nuts while you can. But don’t worry: this moment will be over soon," is how the magazine summarized the guidance. A memo for a top GOP Senate candidate urged them to "ignore guns, talk inflation." "Other documents predictably decried liberal desires for 'gun-grabbing' and 'gun confiscation,' and made whataboutism-type references to gun violence in Chicago," the magazine reported. The memos come as the National Rifle Association has not been leading the charge as it did following the Newtown school shooting massacre.
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