Jan. 6 hearings — most recently: Trump says he made a decision in 2024 as rumors of September’s announcement circulate

donald trump edited his January 6 rally comments and improvised violent lines to put pressure on the then-vice president Mike Pence in his efforts to get Mr Pence to try to overturn the election, said the House Select Committee investigating the riot.

Gustaf Kilander has the story.

The U.S. Secret Service deleted text messages dated Jan. 5 and Jan. 6, 2021 shortly after an agency watchdog requested them, according to a letter from the Department of Homeland Security.

The letter from the inspector general of DHS was first reported by The Intercept and delivered to the Jan. 6 Committee and the House and Senate Homeland Security Committees.

“It’s obviously worrying. And if there’s a way to reconstruct the lyrics or whatever, we’ll do that,” the Jan. 6 committee chair Bennie Thompson told Axios. “I think it’s important that we get as much information as possible about how this discrepancy occurred and move on from there.”

The intelligence agency told the IG bureau that the treasury was deleted as part of a “device swap program,” the letter says, although that appears not to be the only irregularity.

An intelligence spokesman said the watchdog’s claims were “categorically false,” adding that the agency would later release a more detailed response.

Ivanka Trump has said she will always miss her mother and she is heartbroken after announcing that Ivana Trump has passed away.

Ivana Trump, 73, was the first wife of the former US President to die at her home in New York City.

“Heartbroken by the death of my mother,” Ivanka wrote on Twitter, sharing her picture with Ivana Trump.

“Mom was brilliant, charming, passionate and hilariously funny. She lived life to the fullest – and never missed an opportunity to laugh and dance.

“I will miss her forever and will always keep her memory alive in our hearts.”

Former Oath Keepers spokesman Jason Van Tatenhove shared his fears before another donald trump tenure in the White House, like him Testified before the January 6 committee.

“We were very lucky that no more blood was spilled because the potential was there from the start,” he said on Tuesday.

Mr Tatenhove then expressed his fears for the future.

The January 6 committee investigated this donald trumpencouraging extremist groups to join his cause to prevent a peaceful transfer of power in his recent public hearing on Tuesday.

Drawing a direct line between the President’s rhetoric and the violence of the day, the committee accused Mr Trump of channeling angry militias and extremists to the Capitol to stop certification of the election he was losing.

The most egregious example of this, the committee said, was a tweet by the then-president about a Jan. 6 rally, in which he urged his supporters to “be there, be wild.”

“This tweet was a call to action, and in some cases a call to arms, for many of President Trump’s most staunch supporters,” said committee member Stephanie Murphy.

The hearing focused on the role of extremist groups Proud Boys and Oath Keepers in the attack on the US Capitol. Members of both groups are known to have been at the center of the attack on the Capitol on January 6, and leaders of both groups have been charged with seditious conspiracy over their involvement in that day’s events.

Richard Hall summarizes the key findings from Tuesday’s hearing.

The House Special Committee investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots played video footage showing many far-right commentators promoting plans for a protest on the day of the riot after the former president donald trump said it was “wild”.

The select committee played video evidence showing that after Mr Trump urged his supporters to come to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021, the day Congress would confirm Electoral College results, many far-right commentators showed the words of the then Presidents saw as a call to arms.

The select committee played a montage of numerous far-right commentators, including InfoWars owner Alex Jones, YouTube commentator Tim Pool and others, urging people to come to the nation’s capital.

A Maryland man who drove from his home to join rioters at the US Capitol trying to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced to five months in prison.

According to federal prosecutors, 27-year-old David Alan Blair left his home in Clarksburg, Maryland and drove to Washington, DC after the attack on the Capitol began. He brought with him a Confederate flag attached to a lacrosse stick, and after refusing to leave an area on the Capitol’s west lawn, he used it to shove a police officer.

former White House advice Pat Cipollone told the 6 January House Select Committee that he thought donald trump should have admitted after that electoral college Certification on December 14, 2020.

Mr Cipollone first appeared before committee investigators last week and clips from his testimony were shared by the committee during its hearing on Tuesday afternoon.

In shocking new audio obtained by a Liberal news outlet, former White House chief strategist Steven Bannon can be heard outlining a plan donald trump to declare victory on election night, before voting was complete and the results were in.

Mother Jones released audio of Mr Bannon discussing the plan in a conversation that took place before election night; According to the former administration official, Mr. Trump would have declared victory in the Oval Office even before the results in the various states determining the winner were final.

John Bowden has the story.