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posted by Hannity Staff - 1.08.21 Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez slammed Republican Senators Ted Cruz and Josh Hawley Thursday; saying the two “must resign” after thousands of protesters stormed the US Capitol during a Joint Session of Congress. “Sen. Cruz, you must accept responsibility for how your craven, self-serving actions contributed to the deaths of four people yesterday. And how you fundraised off this riot. Both you and Senator Hawley must resign. If you do not, the Sen...

Murder the Media, it turns out, is the name of the far-right online news outfit that had dispatched DeCarlo and Ochs to Washington that day. When the men spoke to the Los Angeles Times — DeCarlo gave the name “Dick NeCarlo” — they insisted that they were merely on the scene to do their journalistic duties. But they blew their own cover in a livestreamed video. “Congress stopped the vote when we stormed the Capitol. As we’ve been saying all day: We came here to stop the steal,” Oc...

Trump and January 6: The evidence of a planned political coup The impeachment brief filed Tuesday by the nine impeachment managers from the House of Representatives makes an irrefutable case that former President Trump is guilty of advocating, preparing, fomenting and inciting the armed attack on Congress on January 6, 2021, with the goal of overturning the results of the 2020 election and maintaining himself in power. The brief lays out coherently and in considerable detail the efforts by Trum...

Opinion: For a real trial of Trump, call the witnesses! CNN 2/4/2021 Opinion by Michael DAntonio © MANDEL NGAN/AFP/Getty Images Then President Donald Trump listens to a speaker during the daily briefing on COVID-19, in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House on April 23, 2020, in Washington, DC. Should the House managers prosecuting Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial call witnesses to appear before the Senate? The answer is yes. The reason: the outcome of the f...

Trump wont testify at impeachment trial, rejecting calls from Democrats By Melissa Quinn Trump wont testify at impeachment trial Washington — The attorneys representing President Donald Trump in his Senate impeachment trial said Thursday he will not testify at the proceedings next week, dismissing demands by House Democrats for his testimony as a "public relations stunt." Congressman Jamie Raskin, a Democrat from Maryland and the lead House impeachment manager, sent a le...

Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers maintain that he was exercising his First Amendment rights, rather than inciting a riot, when he spoke to a crowd before the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Text of Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey's 2021 State of the State address. Remarks as prepared.

The former president* stands accused of waging a guerrilla war against the government he was elected to lead.

TV Network Ratings Drop During Biden’s First Full Week in Office Major news networks’ ratings plummeted during the first full week of President Joe Biden’s administration. “Variety Intelligence Platform’s analysis of the viewership data across two key metrics—the target news demographic for people ages 25-54, and the total audience watching—shows that CNN ended the final week of January with ratings dropping roughly 44 percent for total audience versus the prior week across all th...

Congressional Democrats and lawyers for former President Trump The 80-page brief from House Democrats lays blame for the deadly siege directly at Trump’s feet, saying he intentionally “whipped [the crowd] into a frenzy.” The former president’s new legal team, which was formed on Sunday night, filed a 14-page response arguing the trial is unconstitutional and that Trump’s rhetoric did not inspire the riot. Here are five takeaways from the rival briefs. ADVERTISEMENT Briefs underscore d...