WASHINGTON — Jury selection began Monday in the trial of Steve Bannon, the onetime senior adviser to former President Donald Trump who now faces two counts of contempt of Congress for his failure to comply with a subpoena from the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021, assault on the Capitol. Bannon was subpoenaed by the […]
“Key evidence on the insurrection from the Secret Service’s records may never be made public,” said one advocacy group. “You bet we have questions.” Thursday reporting by The Intercept that the Secret Service deleted text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 “shortly after oversight officials requested the agency’s electronic communications” has elicited many questions and concerns about what evidence […]
“We cannot continue to wait around for a bunch of corporate shills in Congress to do nothing while people are dying,” said one climate campaigner. President Joe Biden on Friday faced calls to respond forcefully to Sen. Joe Manchin’s latest climate obstruction by canceling a fracked gas pipeline in the right-wing Democrat’s home state of West […]
“That’s our strategy,” Steve Bannon told a group of associates on October 31, 2020. “He’s gonna declare himself a winner.” Leaked audio of Steve Bannon published earlier this week by Mother Jones confirms that days before the 2020 presidential election, Republican incumbent Donald Trump planned to prematurely declare victory on the night of November 3 regardless of whether it was […]