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"Very Incriminating": Hacker Archives Every Deleted Parler Post

Trump Blames Antifa for Capitol Riot

In a tense, 30-minute-plus phone call…with House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, Trump trotted out the Antifa line. McCarthy would have none of it, telling the president: “It’s not Antifa, it’s MAGA. I know. I was there.”

Fury Grows on Capitol Hill

Don’t underestimate just how shaken members of Congress have been by last week’s attack. Lawmakers had to flee the House and Senate chambers just minutes before the mob broke in, and now they’re learning more about just how close we came to a much greater tragedy. They’re furious, and they want answers and accountability. And it’s not just Democrats who feel this way.

The FBI has "received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to Washington, DC on 16 January. They have warned that if Congress attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment a huge uprising will occur," according to a bulletin obtained by @ABC

— Aaron Katersky (@AaronKatersky) January 11, 2021

Reap the Whirlwind

…a crowd of 330 million just watched… thousands of pastors, pipefitters, engineers, Q activists and business owners together wrap themselves in Trump flags and parade through the halls of the US Capitol. They watched them charge into the chambers with plastic cuffs and Tazers. They heard the “hang Mike Pence” chants. They saw a mob with thin blue line flags literally try to beat Capitol Police officers with them. And then those 330 million saw lockstep claims by some half of sitting GOP representatives and most of their favored news anchors that these were the actions of Antifa. Without evidence. And without apology.

Yes, It Was a Coup. Here’s Why.

Trump disguised what he was doing by operating in plain sight, talking openly about his intent. He normalized his actions so people would accept them. I’ve been studying authoritarian regimes for three decades, and I know the signs of a coup when I see them. Technically, what Trump attempted is what’s known as a “self-coup” and Trump isn’t the first leader to try it. Charles Louis Napoleon Bonaparte (nephew of the first Napoleon) pulled one off in France in December 1851 to stay in power beyond his term. Then he declared himself Emperor, Napoleon III. More recently, Nicolas Maduro perpetrated a self-coup in Venezuela after losing the 2017 elections.

Why Everyone Should Be Concerned About Parler Being Booted From the Internet

Don’t Engage

…exercise great discipline not to operate within or engage with the bad faith arguments of Republicans who remain unwilling to come to grips with or take accountability for what they’ve done to the country. Today we see, predictability, the same pattern: it has taken Republicans only three or four days to resolve that they are the primary victims of the events of the last week.

Trump would almost certainly have Secret Service protection even if he ends up in prison, former agents say

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Republicans are gaslighting America about Trump's coup: Only impeachment can set the record straight

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