Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kouchner has appeared before a House jury investigating the January 6 Capitol uprising. His testimony is said to have been “really valuable”. The meeting is taking place as the White House files handed over to the committee by the National Archives and Archives Administration do not include calls made or received by Mr. Trump as of 11:17 a.m. until 6.54 p.m. on the day of the invasion of Congress. The commission is now investigating whether Trump or his advisers used undetectable “burning phones” to evade the official filing systems that documented the incoming and outgoing phone calls of the president that day. Trump denied that he did so in a statement claiming that he “has no idea what a burning phone is” and never used the term. However, the lawsuits filed on his behalf and a statement by former National Security Adviser John Bolton suggest otherwise. Meanwhile, the current administration has thwarted Mr. Trump’s request to Russian President Vladimir Putin to release potentially damaging information about President Joe Biden’s son in the midst of the war in Ukraine. “What kind of American, let alone a former president, thinks it’s the right time to get into a plan with Vladimir Putin and brag about his connections to Vladimir Putin?” “There is only one, and that is Donald Trump,” White House communications director Kate Bedingfield told reporters Wednesday.
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Trump will not change, says the Republican senator
North Dakota Sen. Kevin Kramer again rejects Donald Trump, urging Vladimir Putin to rid his political enemies of dirt, as Trump is simply Trump. “Donald Trump is Donald Trump. It has not changed. “It’s not going to change,” he told MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 04:45 1648782055
ICYMI: Jared Kushner was to meet with the committee on January 6 today
Jared Kouchner is expected to meet today with the select committee of the Parliament that is investigating the uprising in the Capitol on January 6. Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson told ABC News that Kouchner was interested “because he was an integral part of the administration. “I think it’s important for us to find out if he knew anything about programming before January 6 and get it from him.” The commission has no evidence that he was involved in planning the events of January 6, 2021 and did not seek to obtain his email or telephone records, Thompson told reporters. (AFP via Getty Images) Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 04:00 1648779355
ICYMI: Trump beats Morning Joe hosts for condemning Putin’s favor
Donald Trump has once again launched an attack on a well-known target for the former president: Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, the twins who co-host MSNBC’s popular Morning Joe program with Willie Gist – this their report on his request to Vladimir Putin. Johanna Chisholm quotes the former president’s latest angry statement. Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 03:15 1648776655
What we do not yet know about Trump’s White House call logs since January 6
A bomb report by CBS News and the Washington Post this week revealed that there has been a mysterious gap in Trump’s White House call logs since the Capitol Uprising on January 6, 2021. As rioters tried to plunder the US Capitol, shouting “hang Mike Pence” and delaying the certification of Joe Biden’s victory, Donald Trump was hiding in the White House with his staff. We now know that several top officials, including Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, have been sending calls and messages from desperate lawmakers to the Capitol urging the president to withdraw his supporters before the violence escalates. However, this is not mentioned in the White House call logs, which contain a gap of more than seven hours during the uprising, where no calls were recorded. The logs are not a complete picture of communications made by White House officials, including the president, during the uprising, given the use of personal cell phones, but calendars remain a point of interest for the House committee that investigates the uprising in the Capitol. . Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 02:30 1648773955
Trump claims he does not know what burner phones are, but court documents show the opposite
Former President Donald Trump’s lawyers used the term “light telephones” – a slang term used to describe an undetectable cell phone he denied knowing – in a September 2021 civil lawsuit, according to court documents. Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 01:45 1648771255
Invoking the tribe, the judge overturns parts of the Florida electoral law
A federal judge overturned parts of Florida’s election law last year, saying in a ruling Thursday that the Republican-led government was using subtle tactics to crack down on black voters. The law has tightened rules on ballot papers, ballot boxes and other popular electoral methods – changes that have made it more difficult for black voters, who generally have more socioeconomic disadvantages than white voters, the US District Judge Marker wrote in his ruling. . Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 01:00 1648768555
Trump’s 8-hour gap: Minute by minute during the January 6 uprising
Much is known about the few hours that rocked American democracy to the core. The fiery speech of the defeated president, the march of an angry crowd to the US Capitol, the burglary, the beating of the police, the threats “hang Mike Pence”, the lawmakers are running to save their lives, the death of the troublemaker Ashli Babbitt from shots. All this chaos unfolded in about eight hours a day: January 6, 2021. However, for all that is known for the day, combining the words and actions of Donald Trump at that time did not prove to be an easy task, although the movements and communications of a president are closely monitored. There is a gap in the official White House telephone notes given to the House committee investigating January 6 – from about 11 a.m. by about 7 p.m., according to two people familiar with the congressional inquiry into the uprising. But over the past four months or so, much has been said about what Trump did and said on Jan. 6 – in texts, tweets, videos, calls and other conversations. Oliver O’Connell1 April 2022 00:15 1648765855
Former Congressman mocks fears of Republican counterparts at US border
Former Texas Republican Will Hurd wrote that some of his GOP colleagues were afraid to visit the U.S. border and some cities in Mexico as they waited for an environment resembling a war zone. In his new book, American Reboot: An Idealist’s Guide to Getting Things Done, Herd writes: Some were nervous when I took them to Mexico. “Many were waiting for the Battle of Mogadishu in 1993, with street shootings such as the Black Hawk Down.” Oliver O’Connell March 31, 2022 11:30 p.m. 1648763155
Kouchner’s testimony on January 6 “valuable”
Donald Trump’s son-in-law and former White House adviser Jared Kouchner testified before the House Electoral Commission that investigated the events of January 6, 2021 before and during the violent attack on the US Capitol. A spokeswoman for Elaine Luria said in an appearance on MSNBC this afternoon: “He was able to voluntarily provide us with information to verify, document, provide his own opinion on this different report, so it was really valuable.” Oliver O’Connell 31 March 2022 22:45 1648762855
Russian state television calls Gabard “our friend Tulsey”
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