The real action of the prime-time hearing Thursday on the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol was the inaction: the 187 minutes that President Donald Trump spent doing next to nothing while an…
WASHINGTON — Former President Donald Trump’s actions — and inaction — during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol will take center stage at Thursday’s prime-time hearing, as the committee investigating the assault wraps…
Jan. 6 rioter Stephen Ayres isn’t nearly as deserving of our sympathy as the U.S. Capitol police officers to whom he apologized this week. Still, I did feel for him as he testified about being…
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” President Donald Trump tweeted in December of 2020. “Be there, will be wild!” His supporters listened. This week’s hearing by the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6,…
WASHINGTON (AP) — In a heated, “unhinged” dispute, Donald Trump fought objections from his White House lawyers to a plan, eventually discarded, to seize states’ voting machines and then, in a last ditch effort to…
The significance of last week’s congressional Jan. 6 committee hearings cannot be overstated. For the first time, evidence was presented that former President Donald Trump knew some of the protesters were armed before encouraging them…
It is easier to curse the darkness than to provide glimmers of light. The former fuels inaction in the face of threats and provides glide paths toward disaster. America, writes Sen. Mitt Romney, R, Utah,…
Across the country, politicians with more ambition than integrity are trying to explode Americans’ trust in our elections. Taken individually, many of these attacks seem harmless, even amusing. Collectively, however, they constitute a concerted effort…
In the end, the person who told us, under oath, what the president was doing as a violent mob descended on the U.S. Capitol wasn’t Mark Meadows or anyone else in Donald Trump’s inner circle.…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Cassidy Hutchinson, a key aide in Donald Trump’s White House, told the House committee investigating the violent Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection on Tuesday that Trump was informed that people rallying on the…