In the news today: There's been significant public movement of late in multiple investigations of the Jan. 6 coup attempt, and all of it points to an organized, pre-planned effort to erase the 2020 U.S. presidential election by proclaiming that Trump's loss was invalid—based entirely on a Republican hoax campaign pretending so. Donald Trump’s former chief of staff Mark Meadows was personally involved in at least two separate acts to illegally erase the election, and today he was held in contempt of Congress for his refusal to testify on his knowledge of the plans. Those charges have already been delivered to the Department of Justice.
On Fox News, the pro-Trump hosts who helped spread hoaxes about the election and the resulting insurrection finally mustered a response to the revelation that several had texted Meadows to plead for Trump to end the violence. But it wasn't a response that addressed why each of those pro-Trump hosts immediately began spreading conspiracy theories blaming Trump's enemies for that violence, even as in private they fully recognized that Trump was the one who both incited it and could end it.
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Damning evidence mounts as contours of plot to subvert democracy are exposed
• Mark Meadows held in contempt of Congress
• Fox hosts laugh off texts asking Trump to stop Jan. 6 violence
• Kentucky candle factory reportedly threatened workers for wanting to go home before tornado hit
• There's one last fervently anti-choice Democrat in the House. It's time to give him the heave-ho
Community Spotlight:
• An American Prayer: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue, or, It Really Could Be a Wonderful Life
Also trending from the community:
• How do you feel about Liz Cheney?
• Finally, a voting fraud "investigator" is indicted
• NY AG Tish James is 'tired of prayers,' wants to follow California's lead on assault weapons ban
On Fox News, the pro-Trump hosts who helped spread hoaxes about the election and the resulting insurrection finally mustered a response to the revelation that several had texted Meadows to plead for Trump to end the violence. But it wasn't a response that addressed why each of those pro-Trump hosts immediately began spreading conspiracy theories blaming Trump's enemies for that violence, even as in private they fully recognized that Trump was the one who both incited it and could end it.
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Damning evidence mounts as contours of plot to subvert democracy are exposed
• Mark Meadows held in contempt of Congress
• Fox hosts laugh off texts asking Trump to stop Jan. 6 violence
• Kentucky candle factory reportedly threatened workers for wanting to go home before tornado hit
• There's one last fervently anti-choice Democrat in the House. It's time to give him the heave-ho
Community Spotlight:
• An American Prayer: Miracle on Pennsylvania Avenue, or, It Really Could Be a Wonderful Life
Also trending from the community:
• How do you feel about Liz Cheney?
• Finally, a voting fraud "investigator" is indicted
• NY AG Tish James is 'tired of prayers,' wants to follow California's lead on assault weapons ban