Tag: Jan
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SEC Chair Gary Gensler will step down Jan. 20, making way for Trump replacement
Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Gary Gensler will resign on Jan. 20, the agency announced Thursday, paving the way for President-elect Donald Trump to select a replacement immediately. Gensler took over the SEC in 2021, and under his leadership the commission has taken an ambitious but controversial approach to several regulatory issues, including cryptocurrencies. Trump…
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Harris will ask voters to ‘turn the page’ on Trump era at the site of his Jan. 6 speech
WASHINGTON — Kamala Harris will hold a rally Tuesday near the White House at the site where Donald Trump addressed a crowd he encouraged to march to the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, shortly before it was violently attacked in a bid to overturn the election he lost. Harris is scheduled to speak seven days…
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Comedian from ‘Anchorman’ and ‘Mr. Show’ sentenced in Jan. 6 Capitol attack
WASHINGTON — A Hollywood actor who had supporting roles in “Anchorman,” “Mr. Show,” “Arrested Development” and “Bob’s Burgers” was sentenced to 12 months and a day in federal prison on Monday for his role in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, his lawyer said. Jay Johnston was arrested in June 2023 and pleaded…
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Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly built a giant ‘Trump’ billboard that was used to assault cops arrested
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who federal authorities say built a giant pro-Trump billboard that the mob of Trump supporters used as a battering ram against police officers during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol was arrested on Tuesday. Jeffrey Newcomb, a 41-year-old from Polk, Ohio, faces several charges, including felony counts…
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Groups slam Trump’s comparison of Jan. 6 rioters to Japanese Americans incarcerated in WWII
Japanese American leaders slammed former President Donald Trump after he compared Jan. 6 rioters to those of Japanese descent who were incarcerated during World War II just because of their race. In a newly released podcast, the Republican nominee defended those who were charged and convicted after storming the Capitol and assaulting police officers in…
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Jan. 6 rioter who assaulted police says she was ‘duped’ by Trump’s election lies
WASHINGTON — A Donald Trump supporter who stormed the Capitol and assaulted law enforcement officers now says she was “duped” by the former president’s lies about the 2020 election. Dana Jean Bell was sentenced to 17 months in federal prison by U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly on Thursday. Federal prosecutors had sought 27 months…
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Trump calls judge overseeing his Jan. 6 case ‘the most evil person’
WASHINGTON — Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump on Friday called the judge overseeing the Jan. 6-related federal criminal case against him “the most evil person,” despite threats U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan has already faced from his supporters. Trump also called special counsel Jack Smith, who has faced threats from Trump supporters as well, “a…
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Trump once called Jan. 6 a ‘henious attack.’ Now he calls it a ‘day of love.’
WASHINGTON — The day after thousands of Donald Trump’s supporters who believed his lies about the 2020 election laid siege to the U.S. Capitol, with many assaulting police officers, the then-president tried to distance himself from the mob, saying “intruders” had “infiltrated the Capitol” during the “heinous attack” and “defiled the seat of American democracy.”…
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Trump says ‘nothing’ was done wrong on Jan. 6 after Republican voter confronts him
Donald Trump on Wednesday shrugged off the idea that his conduct on Jan. 6, 2021, should cost him the backing of Republican voters after a former supporter confronted him at a televised town hall and said he would not cast a ballot for the former president because of his actions that day. In his response…
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Judge in Trump’s Jan. 6 case rejects ‘strained’ argument about his false 2020 election claims
WASHINGTON — A federal judge overseeing the federal election interference case against Donald Trump rejected the former president’s claim that he was actually concerned about foreign influence and interference in the 2020 election — rather than the false claims about domestic voter fraud he continuously repeated in the weeks before the Jan. 6 attack. There…