Steve Bannon, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, faces up to 2 years in a federal lockup when he’s sentenced, and his attorney pledges to appeal.
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Jan. 6 hearing dominates top TV networks — except one
America’s top television networks turned prime time over to a gripping account of former President Donald Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol — with one prominent exception.
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Jan. 6 takeaways: White House in chaos, unmovable Trump
Former President Donald Trump was ‘the only person in the world who could call off the mob,’ but he refused to do so for several hours, said the committee’s chairman, Mississippi Rep. Bennie Thompson.
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Watchdog launches criminal probe over missing Secret Service messages
The erased texts of Secret Service agents – some of whom planned Trump’s logistics on Jan. 6 and followed him as he sought to overturn the election results – could offer investigators insight into the former president’s actions.
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Cape Elizabeth native plays key role in Congress’ Jan. 6 investigation
Kristin Amerling, who graduated from Cape Elizabeth high in 1983, is the chief counsel for the Select Committee to Investigate the Jan. 6 Attack on the United States Capitol.
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Steve Bannon’s defense asks for direct acquittal by judge, then rests case
Steve Bannon, a former Trump political strategist, was indicted in November on 2 counts of criminal contempt of Congress.
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Trump spurned aides’ pleas to call off Capitol mob, Jan. 6 committee says
The defeated president turned his supporters’ ‘love of country into a weapon,’ said the panel’s Republican vice chair Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming.
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Even a day after Jan. 6, Trump balked at condemning the violence
The Jan. 6 committee will conclude Thursday night that not only did Trump do nothing despite repeated entreaties by senior aides to help end the violence, but he sat back and enjoyed watching it.
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Steve Bannon’s team raises question about House subpoena deadline
Bannon, who was an unofficial adviser to then President Donald Trump at the time of the insurrection on Jan. 6, 2021, is charged with defying a congressional subpoena that sought his records and testimony.
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Trump’s choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds
The committee, which interviewed more than 1,000 people in all, has not limited its inquiry to the president, unveiling new information about the cast of characters who enabled some of Trump’s darkest impulses following the election.