House committee votes to make public Donald Trump’s tax returns
Trump’s campaign blasted the committee’s vote as a politically motivated attack.
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Jan. 6 committee’s criminal referrals: What they mean for Justice Department
A criminal referral is merely that: a referral. The Justice Department does not have to act on it.
Jan. 6 committee refers Trump to Justice Department for prosecution
The panel has recommended that the former president be charged with four crimes: inciting or assisting an insurrection, obstruction of an official proceeding of Congress, conspiracy to defraud the United States and conspiracy to make a false statement.
Supreme Court OKs handover of Trump tax returns to Congress
The court, with no noted dissents, rejected Trump’s plea for an order that would have prevented the Treasury Department from giving six years of tax returns for Trump and some of his businesses to the Democratic-controlled House Ways and Means Committee.
Elon Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account
The move could help the platform’s once loudest, bluntest force regain online attention just as a new presidential election begins.
Trump seeks White House again amid GOP setbacks, legal probes
The announcement comes just a week after a disappointing midterm showing for Republicans and will force the party to decide whether to embrace a candidate whose refusal to accept defeat in 2020 sparked an insurrection.
Justice Dept. probe widens focus on invalid Trump electors
Federal agents investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday dropped subpoenas on people in at least two states, in what appeared to be a widening probe of how political activists supporting President Donald Trump tried to use invalid electors.
Pence: Trump is ‘wrong’ to say election could be overturned
The audience applauded Pence’s line about beating the Democrats in the upcoming presidential election but remained silent when Pence said earlier that “Trump is wrong.”
Trump suggests Pence should have ‘overturned’ the election on Jan. 6
Trump has expressed frustration before that Pence did not use his role to try to reject the electoral votes of several states that Joe Biden won. But the language in Sunday’s statement was among Trump’s most explicit in publicly stating his desire.
Senate votes to acquit Trump in historic impeachment trial
The vote was 57-43, short of the two-thirds needed for conviction. Seven Republicans broke for their party to find Trump guilty.
Supreme Court ends suits alleging Trump illegally profited from biz interests
It means that there is no definitive answer after years of legal wrangling over the Constitution’s emoluments clauses, which prohibit presidents and others from accepting gifts or payments from foreign governments without congressional approval.
Twitter bans Trump, citing ‘risk of further incitement of violence’
Twitter had been President Trump’s primary megaphone, the tool he tapped to push his policies, disperse falsehoods, savage his critics and speak to more than 88 million users almost every day.
Hurt feelings, anger linger after Pence, Trump finally clash
Mike Pence’s decision to publicly defy Trump was a first for the notoriously deferential vice president and former Indiana governor, who has been unflinchingly loyal to Trump since joining the GOP ticket in 2016.
Trump supporters storm U.S. Capitol; one woman fatally shot, three others dead
Throngs of protesters pushed past police who were trying to block them from entering the U.S. Capitol as Congress inside debated the certification of the presidential election.
Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate vote in his favor
President Donald Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state, to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call Saturday that legal scholars described as a flagrant abuse of power and a potential criminal act.
Trump signs $900B stimulus measure, extending unemployment and averting shutdown
The massive bill includes $1.4 trillion to fund government agencies through September and contains other end-of-session priorities such as money for cash-starved transit systems and an increase in food stamp benefits.
Benefits lapse for millions as Trump fails to approve stimulus bill
The federal government could shut down on Tuesday absent Trump’s signature on the attached, $1.4 trillion spending bill to fund operations through Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
Trump vetoes defense bill that Congress passed by wide margins
The bill would have affirmed 3% pay raises for U.S. troops and authorized more than $740 billion in military programs and construction.
Trump calls for $2,000 stimulus checks, hints he might not sign $900B relief bill
In a video posted to Twitter, the president called the $600 checks authorized by the bill “ridiculously low” and complained about a list of provisions that he described as “wasteful spending and much more.”
President Trump directs his team to cooperate on Biden transition
Still, the Republican president vowed to keep up the fight, saying his case “strongly” continues.