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brooklynite's JournalAccounts of Trump angrily demanding to go to Capitol on January 6 circulated in Secret Service
Source: CNN
Then-President Donald Trump angrily demanded to go to the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, and berated his protective detail when he didnt get his way, according to two Secret Service sources who say they heard about the incident from multiple agents, including the driver of the presidential SUV where it occurred.
The sources tell CNN that stories circulated about the incident including details that are similar to how former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson described it to the House select committee investigating January 6 in the months immediately afterward the US Capitol attack and before she testified this week.
While the details from those who heard the accounts differ, the Secret Service sources say they were told an angry confrontation did occur. And their accounts align with significant parts of Hutchinsons testimony, which has been attacked as hearsay by Trump and his allies who also have tried to discredit her overall testimony.
Like Hutchinson, one source, a longtime Secret Service employee, told CNN that the agents relaying the story described Trump as demanding and that the former President said something similar to: Im the f**king President of the United States, you cant tell me what to do. The source said he originally heard that kind of language was used shortly after the incident.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/01/politics/secret-service-lunging-incident/index.html
Hutchinson Testimony Exposes Tensions Between Parallel Jan. 6 Inquiries
New York TimesThe federal prosecutors working on the case watched the aides appearance before the House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, riot and were just as astonished by her account of former President Donald J. Trumps increasingly desperate bid to hold on to power as other viewers. The panel did not provide them with videos or transcripts of her taped interviews with committee members beforehand, according to several officials, leaving them feeling blindsided.
The testimony from the aide, Cassidy Hutchinson, who worked for Mr. Trumps final chief of staff, Mark Meadows, came at a critical moment in parallel investigations that will soon converge, and possibly collide, as the committee wraps up a public inquiry geared for maximum political effect and the department intensifies a high-stakes investigation aimed at securing airtight convictions.
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Committee members have repeatedly suggested that Attorney General Merrick B. Garland has not moved fast enough to follow up their investigative leads. But for reasons that are not entirely clear classic Washington bureaucratic territorialism, the departments unwillingness to share information or the desire to stage-manage a successful public forum members have resisted turning over hundreds of transcripts until they are done with their work.
Senior Justice Department officials say that has slowed their investigation. Ms. Hutchinsons name has not yet appeared on subpoenas and other court documents related to their investigation into the effort to overturn the 2020 election, and she did not seem to be a primary witness before the hearings.
Cheney defends Trump criticism and January 6 committee work in Wyoming debate
Source: CNN
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Cheney went on the attack early in the debate, pointing out that Hageman's campaign had hired the consulting firm of Bill Stepien, Trump's former campaign manager. Stepien, Cheney noted, had told the committee he was happy to be part of "team normal" in the wake of Trump's loss in the 2020 election, as Trump and some of his allies began spreading lies and conspiracy theories about voter fraud.
"I'd be interested to know whether or not my opponent, Ms. Hageman, is willing to say here tonight that the election was not stolen. She knows it's not stolen," Cheney said.
However, Cheney said that doing so would cost Hageman Trump's endorsement. "If she says it wasn't stolen, he will not support her," the congresswoman said.
Hageman made several false claims about the 2020 election, citing the "2000 Mules" film that peddles conspiracy theories about ballot drop boxes and "Zuckerberg money" -- a reference to donations from the charity of Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, to help local elections officials navigate the coronavirus pandemic.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/30/politics/wyoming-primary-debate-cheney-trump-january-6/index.html
Pessimism about the economy is growing, a U.S. poll shows.
Source: New York Times
Fifty-two percent of American adults say they are worse off financially than they were a year ago, according to a survey conducted for The New York Times this month by the online research platform Momentive. That was up from 41 percent in April, and was by far the highest share in the surveys five years. Only 14 percent of Americans said they were better off than a year ago, the worst in the surveys history.
The dour mood is also reflected in other surveys. The University of Michigans index of consumer sentiment this month hit its lowest level in its 70-year history. Another measure of consumer confidence, from the Conference Board, has also fallen, though less drastically.
There is no mystery as to what is causing consumers bleak outlook: prices that are rising at the fastest rate in a generation. More than nine in 10 Americans say they are concerned about inflation, according to the Momentive poll, including 70 percent who say they are very concerned, up from 63 percent in April.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/30/business/economy/economy-inflation-survey.html
The (new) GOP plan to defeat Raphael Warnock and Mark Kelly
AxiosRepublican strategists have discovered a problem: Personal attacks on two of the most vulnerable Democratic senators are falling flat because of their likability.
Why it matters: In a broadly unfavorable national environment for Democrats, control of the Senate may rest on a pair of incumbents with two of the most compelling backstories in politics Sens. Raphael Warnock of Georgia and Mark Kelly of Arizona.
* Warnock is the pastor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Ebenezer Baptist Church.
* Kelly is a former astronaut and the husband of former Rep. Gabby Giffords, a gun control activist who survived an assassination attempt in 2011.
After failing to defeat Kelly and Warnock in crucial special elections that decided the fate of the Senate in 2020, the GOP is changing tack.
* The National Republican Senatorial Committee is now spending most of its money trying to tie Warnock and Kelly to President Biden and his dismal approval rating.
* "Whatever you think of them as people you may like Mark Kelly, you may like Raphael Warnock they have interesting stories, personal biographies," Chris Hartline, the NRSC's director of communications, told Axios. "But the reality is they both went to Washington and became part of the problem."
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