In a blow to the overall Republican Party but a potential victory for former President Donald Trump, the governor of Maryland announced on Tuesday that he would not run for the state’s Senate seat open in 2022. Maryland’s Larry Hogan won’t run for Senate "I plan to fully investigate this incident to ensure the law is followed and records from the Trump Administration are with the National Archives where they belong, rather than stashed away in Trump's golf resorts," she told the newspaper. Rep Carolyn Maloney reacted on Tuesday to news that President Donald Trump’s team was continuing to procure boxes of records from Mar-a-Lago that should have been turned over to the National Archives after Mr Trump left the White House last year.Ĭalling the news “troubling, but not surprising” in an interview with The Washington Post, Ms Maloney, who chairs the House Oversight Committee, said that the panel would likely investigate why the Trump team had failed to hand over the documents last year. Read more from The Independent’s Andrew Feinberg: Oversight Democrat says panel to look in to stashes of documents at Mar-a-Lago Students and faculty at the school were evacuated as well. A statement from DC Public Schools indicated that the incident stemmed from a bomb threat.
White House pool reports indicated that Mr Emhoff was at Dunbar High School when “a security issue” required his immediate removal to a secure location. Doug Emhoff rushed out of DC school after bomb threatĭoug Emhoff, husband of Vice President Kamala Harris, was promptly removed from the premises of a Washington DC-area school on Tuesday after a security situation developed following his arrival. He went on to say it was “not the job” of the RNC to make such statements about sitting Republican officials. It was a violent insurrection for the purpose of trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power after a legitimately certified election, from one administration to the next. The Senate Republican leader made what amounted to a defense of Reps Cheney and Kinzinger from the highest-profile Republican elected official thus far, telling reporters: "We all were here. The shocking statement which referred to the bloody assault on Congress as “legitimate political discourse” was an expression of the party’s continued total loyalty to President Donald Trump and his false claims about the 2020 election, which the party apparatus as a whole embraced wholeheartedly.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not mince words on Tuesday when asked about the resolution passed by the Republican National Committee condemning Reps Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger for their participation in the effort to investigate the attack on the Capitol. Mitch McConnell torches RNC resolution calling Jan 6 ‘legitimate political discourse' Jan 6 committee member previews public hearing schedule Trump watched riot footage as it occurred, rewound footage to watch people ‘fighting’ for him Trump team still recovering documents owed to National ArchivesĭeSantis dodges on key question regarding Pence’s constitutional authority on Jan 6 The consequences of the former president’s words and actions both in and out of office are the subject of particularly heated discourse at the moment, with Republican Congressman Adam Kinzinger warning that the strength of feeling whipped up among Mr Trump’s supporters poses a risk of full-on civil conflict. Meanwhile, Mr Trump remains under suspicion of violating federal law by mishandling documents that the White House was required to preserve, from schedules to sensitive memos were regularly ripped into quarters and tossed into trash bins or “burn bags” for incineration at the Pentagon, forcing aides to sift through the contents to determine which needed to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.Īdvisers to the former president insisted that 15 boxes of administration records found at Mar-a-Lago didn’t contain any sensitive materials, but rather mementos and correspondence from other world leaders – including letters from North Korea’s Kim Jong Un. Donald Trump has weighed in on the row engulfing wildly popular podcaster Joe Rogan, telling the host to “stop apologising to the Fake News and Radical Left” for his recent platforming of medical disinformation and his long history of racist, misogynistic and transphobic remarks.
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