Less than a week after Jared Kouchner’s husband voluntarily testified before a House committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol uprising, Ivanka Trump appeared before the same panel on Tuesday, according to NBC News. theme. Elsewhere, Tesla founder and billionaire Elon Musk, who recently bought a 9.2 percent stake in Twitter, is receiving petitions from Trump supporters to somehow restore the former president’s account. Among those asking him to intervene was Georgia MP Marjorie Taylor Green, who asked if, as a “majority shareholder” (which he is not), Musk “would return to free speech on Twitter.” Meanwhile, six weeks after its release, Donald Trump’s Truth Social app lost two executives. The app has been hit by technology issues and about 1.5 million people remain on the waiting list to sign up without being able to use it. Trump has also filed a new lawsuit seeking the dismissal of a judge in a lawsuit filed against his former rival Hillary Clinton, in which he claims he conspired with about 50 other people to make false allegations about his dealings with Russian contacts. during the 2016 elections.
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Ivanka refuses to support the fifth before the January 6 committee
Ivanka Trump appeared before the committee from a distance on Tuesday, January 6, committee sources revealed, as the committee’s investigation into her father’s role in a violent attack in Congress continues. The chairman of the House Select Committee that investigated Jan. 6 confirmed Ms. Trump’s appearance to reporters and told Politico that Ms. Trump’s testimony was still in progress by mid-Monday afternoon, five hours after it had already passed. the meeting. Mrs. Trump was not invited and, like her husband, gives information to the committee as a personal choice. John Bowden reports for the Independent from Washington, DC. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 04:30 1649213145
Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin responds to Matt Gaetz
US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin appeared so outraged by the strange question lines from Republican MP Matt Gaets that he ended up in a vocal fight with the Florida representative until the end of Mr. Gaets’ five-minute round. Mr. Austin was in the Capitol on Tuesday to testify at the House Armed Services Committee on the Department of Defense’s request for fiscal year 2023, but Mr. Gaetz had apparently decided to use his time to criticize the a former U.S. Secretary of State for what he described as U.S. Defense failures caused by the Pentagon’s embrace of “vigilance.” Andrew Feinberg reports from Capitol Hill. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 03:45 1649210445
Trump finally admits that he lost the election
Donald Trump has apparently been arrested for admitting that he lost the 2020 US presidential election to Joe Biden at a meeting at Zoom last summer, according to a video that has been re-released in recent days. The former US president was speaking to a group of Princeton University historians in July 2021, when he appeared to admit that he lost the 2020 election to Biden, whom he accuses of “stealing” the vote. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 03:00 1649207745
Trump’s aide to the NH House has voted in two states
Matt Mowers, the former Trump administration official who is now running for Congress in New Hampshire, voted twice during the 2016 primary, possibly violating federal election law and opposing it. Republican Party in “electoral integrity”. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 02:15 1649205945
The mood at the Capitol
Spokesman Dan Kildee summed up the mood at Capitol Hill in Politico’s Sarah Ferris: There are three types of days here. There are days in the West Wing when we do some really nice things. There are House of Cards days where the place seems to be falling apart. Then there are Veep days. Today looks like a Veep day. The fox bites Amy, Fred[Άπστον}φεύγειΑπλάείναιχάλια[Upston}’sleavingItjustsucks Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 01:45 1649205045
Police arrested the fox that bit an MP in the Capitol
U.S. Capitol police have arrested a fox suspected of biting a member of Congress in the leg. The police department collared the animal after warning the politicians and the staff in the Capitol to be on alert for “aggressive fox encounters”. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 01:30 1649202345
Kinzinger condemns the “children” of Republicans in Congress
Republican Rep. Adam Kinzinger from Illinois called his colleagues in Congress “kids” because they focused more on Disney and the Cultural War than on the “genocide” in Russia at the hands of Russia. Kinzinger said the “world order” was being challenged for the first time since World War II, but that his fellow Republicans were behaving like “a bunch of kids”. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 00:45 1649199645
Supreme Court Confirmation Hearing: The Most Ridiculous Questions Asked at Ketanji Brown Jackson
Republican senators have nominated Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a Harvard Law School graduate who has been confirmed three times by the upper echelons (twice in court and once in the U.S. Conviction Committee), to some of the most bizarre investigations ever conducted on a candidate for the country’s highest court. Andrew Feinberg brings together some of the highlights. Oliver O’Connell6 April 2022 00:00 1649196945
Obama tells Democrats how to win midterm elections
Former President Barack Obama had a simple message for Democrats who are worried they will lose their majority in the 2022 midterm elections: “We have a story to tell, we just have to tell it,” he told NBC News’ Peter Alexander. The former president received standing ovations as he returned to the White House for the first time since leaving the Oval Office in 2017 to mark the 12th anniversary of the signing of the Affordable Care Act, which took the adjective Obamacare to T . Eric Garcia reports from Washington, DC. Oliver O’Connell5 April 2022 23:15 1649194245
Expert says Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas and his wife are part of the “Trump cult”
“I think someone is unjustifiably influencing Ginny Thomas to believe these things,” the expert told Conservative activist Bevan Hurley of The Independent. Oliver O’Connell5 April 2022 22:30
