The false claim that Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick was killed by being struck by rioters with a fire extinguisher was debunked Monday by the District of Columbia medical examiner — but not before Democrats cited it in the impeachment trial. As Breitbart News’ John Nolte noted , Sicknick was found to have died from natural causes, after he suffered two strokes on the day after the Capitol riot. He was not killed by a fire extinguisher, nor by chemicals in pepper spray or any other weapon. However, Democrats’ House impeachment managers cited the fire extinguisher claim in their trial brief when they urged the Senate to convict former President Donald Trump — even though he had already left office. The impeachment brief claimed (footnotes omitted): After the insurrection, one participant who broke into the Capitol wearing combat gear and carrying zip ties [sic] stated that he acted because “[t]he President asked for his supporters to be there to attend, and I felt like it was important, because of how much I love this country, to actually be there.” Another asserted, “I thought I was following my President. … He asked us to fly there, he asked us to be there, so I was doing what he asked us to do.” She explained that she believed that she had “answered the call of [her] president,” echoing the views of other participants. Subsequent reporting revealed that far-right groups had rallied members to attend the event based upon “the green light from the President.” The insurrectionists killed a Capitol Police officer by striking him in the head with a fire extinguisher. The brief cited the New York Times as the source for the “fire extinguisher” claim. That article , titled “Capitol Police Officer Dies from Injuries in Pro-Trump Rampage,” has not yet been corrected. The headline remains the same, as of this writing; an update from Feb. 12 states (emphasis removed): “New information has emerged regarding the death of the Capitol Police officer ...
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CNN’s Gloria Borger: DOJ Investigation Could Show ‘Motive’ Trump Was Planning Insurrection
CNN’s chief political analyst Gloria Borger suggested Monday that the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General’s (IG) investigation into 2020 election interference could be used to convict former President Donald Trump in his upcoming Senate impeachment trial. Borger appeared on “CNN Newsroom” and was asked by host Brianna Keilar how the investigation into whether any DOJ official engaged in an improper attempt to interfere with the election results might impact the impeachment trial . “If people believe there was a crime committed that is an impeachable offense and they want people to vote to convict, they could say this is motive,” Borger responded. “They could say the president was plotting — it’s all too remarkable to even say because it sounds like a story — that the president was plotting with somebody inside the Justice Department to dethrone the acting attorney general so he could get the Justice Department to overturn the election in Georgia. It’s remarkable, but it does go to the motive of the president, saying, look, he was planning this insurrection in many different ways.” Borger was referring to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 as the “insurrection,” which followed a rally held by Trump where he called on his supporters to march to the Capitol and demand that a joint session of Congress overturn the Electoral College results. Trump was impeached Jan. 13 after being accused of inciting the mob. It was announced on Monday that IG Michael Horowitz was opening the investigation after it was reported that a DOJ official strategized with Trump on ways to challenge the results of the 2020 election in Georgia. CNN’s David Chalian appeared alongside Borger and pointed to what he saw as Republicans changing their minds on impeachment and becoming less likely to support it as time brought them away from “the heat of the moment.” He went on to say that he was “not terribly surprised” that he hasn’t yet seen “17 ...
Poll: 75% Of Republicans Want Trump To Play Prominent Role In GOP
A new Quinnipiac University poll found 75% of Republicans want former President Trump to play a prominent role in the Republican Party. The poll released Monday, just two days after the Senate voted to acquit the former president , surveyed 1,056 adults, with only 21% of Republican respondents noting their desire for Trump to not play such an outsized role in the party moving forward. The poll was conducted between February 11 and 14, as Trump’s impeachment trial was taking place. The survey shows Americans overall do not wish for Trump to play a prominent role in the GOP by a margin of 60-34%, with Democrats overwhelmingly at 96-3% and Independents responding at 61-32%. Eighty-seven percent of Republicans say the former president should be allowed to hold future office, with only 11% dissenting, while a majority of Americans, 55-43%, say he should be barred from holding elected office again. “He may be down, but he is certainly not out of favor with the GOP. Twice impeached, vilified by Democrats in the trial, and virtually silenced by social media … despite it all, Donald Trump keeps a solid foothold in the Republican Party,” Quinnipiac University polling analyst Tim Malloy said. (RELATED: Trump Remains The Overwhelming GOP Favorite For 2024, Poll Shows) 3 out of 4 Republicans want to see former #PresidentTrump play a big role in #GOP ; 68% of Americans say Trump didn’t do enough to stop insurrection https://t.co/pwg7mdnSmB — Quinnipiac University Poll (@QuinnipiacPoll) February 15, 2021 A slight majority of respondents, 51-44%, believe that the president should be convicted, with 54% of Americans holding that Trump was responsible for inciting violence on Jan. 6. However, Republicans say Trump did everything he could to stop the storming of the Capitol by a margin of 56-34%, while Democrats at 94-6% and Independents at 70-23% say he did not. The poll also queried whether all respondents think the ...
FLASHBACK: Maxine Waters Said Trump Could Start A ‘Civil War,’ Should Be Charged With ‘Murder’ After Capitol Riot
Democratic California Rep. Maxine Waters has taken criticism in recent days because she joined protests over the police shooting of Daunte Wright in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, and called for protesters to “stay in the streets” and “get more confrontational” if they felt that justice was not being served. Following her comments , House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy accused Waters directly of “inciting violence,” promising to take action if House Speaker Nancy Pelosi failed to do so. Maxine Waters is inciting violence in Minneapolis — just as she has incited it in the past. If Speaker Pelosi doesn’t act against this dangerous rhetoric, I will bring action this week. — Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) April 19, 2021 It was only a few months ago, however, that Waters said former President Donald Trump should be charged with premeditated murder in the aftermath of the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol. She added that the former president was “capable” of starting a “civil war.” Furthermore, a few days after the Capital riot, Waters blamed former President Trump for causing the violence that took place and suggested that pitting Americans against each other was part of his strategy. She claimed that he planned to “exercise power long after he is out of office, she argued that he must be impeached a second time because “he is capable of starting a civil war.” A couple of weeks later, she spoke with MSNBC’s Joy Reid and claimed that Trump had known in advance that people were planning to breach the Capitol — and that he had “absolutely initiated it.” Waters said that Trump should be charged with “murder.” “As a matter of fact, he absolutely should be charged with premeditated murder because of the lives that were lost with this invasion, with this insurrection,” she said. (RELATED: ‘Get More Active’: Maxine Waters Calls On Daunte Wright Protesters To Show The World That They ‘Mean Business’) WATCH: Waters accused Trump of ...
Eric Bolling rules out congressional bid
Conservative television host Eric Bolling said in a new interview that he has ruled out a congressional bid in South Carolina. Bolling had reportedly been considering the idea of challenging first-term Rep. Nancy Mace Nancy Mace Eric Bolling rules out congressional bid Omar: Capitol security incident would be more deadly if AR-15 involved Former Fox News host considering running against GOP incumbent MORE (R-S.C.) for her seat representing Charleston. Bolling told Politico this week he had been "absolutely inundated by people here in this district to run for” the seat, but ultimately decided against it. ADVERTISEMENT “While it’s too soon after the passing of my son to get into politics, the overwhelming support I’ve received indicates this is not the end of my opportunities politically, in South Carolina,” Bolling said. “While I am not planning to run for Congress in this cycle, it is clear to me that President Trump Donald Trump House votes to condemn Chinese government over Hong Kong Former Vice President Walter Mondale dies at age 93 White House readies for Chauvin verdict MORE remains very strong in this district.” Mace is part of a group of moderate Republicans in the House who have been critical of former President Trump and who loyalists to the former president say are ripe for primary challenges. Trump has threatened the GOP with promises to back primary challengers to those who are not supportive of him or his policies. Mace was sharply critical of Trump's influence on the GOP following the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, but did not vote to impeach him. "We feared for our lives, many of us that day, and our staff," Mace said after the incident . "My children were supposed to be up there. If they had been there like they were supposed to be, I would have been devastated, so we do need to find a way to hold the president accountable." Bolling left Fox News in 2017 amid ...
