Donald Trump

The House Jan. 6 committee will hold its final televised hearing of the summer, a prime-time session that will dive into the 187 minutes that president ...

No credible claims of widespread 2020 election fraud were brought forth in dozens of cases that went before the courts and were subsequently rejected. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 have received prison terms. More than 330 of them have pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanours. Biden had won the battleground state of Georgia. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security," panel vice-chair Liz Cheney, Republican from Wyoming, said at an earlier hearing. "He did not call the military.

Donald Trump's TV fixation led him to the White House. The House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol will show that ...

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The House committee investigating the insurrection plans to show footage at Thursday's hearing of then-President Donald Trump having difficulty working ...

from the depositions that will be aired as part of the hearing. The California Democrat said the outtakes will show "all of those who are urging him to say something to do something to stop the violence. by The Washington Post, were part of production of a speech Trump gave the night after the riot.

The House Jan. 6 committee plans to show late Thursday outtakes of former President Donald Trump struggling to complete a recorded speech to the nation on ...

Mr. Trump says the committee is a witch hunt designed to blunt his political fortunes. Advisers urged Mr. Trump to make the speech, but it did not go well. Reps. Elaine Luria, Virginia Democrat, and Adam Kinzinger, Illinois Republican, are expected to outline, minute by minute, Mr. Trump’s actions on the day of the Capitol riot. The Jan. 6 committee is holding a prime-time session Thursday to conclude its summer series of blockbuster hearings. The House Jan. 6 committee plans to show late Thursday outtakes of former President Donald Trump struggling to complete a recorded speech to the nation on the day after the U.S. Capitol riot. He wanted to call the Capitol rioters patriots, did not want to hold them to account and refused to say the election was over, according to The Washington Post, citing people familiar with the footage.

Hours after rioters overran the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, then-President Donald Trump released a video message to them.

But we now know that wasn't the speech he initially wanted to give. Trump refused to say the election results had been settled and attempted to call the rioters patriots. Turns out, Trump wasn't sorry about the tone of his remarks that day.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Jan. 6 committee aims to show in what could be its final hearing Thursday night that Donald Trump's lies about a stolen election ...

The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack. The hearing will show never-before-seen outtakes of a Jan. 7 video that White House aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country. The panel has said its investigation is ongoing and other hearings are possible. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake. “We have to get this right,” Garland said. Rep. Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for COVID-19 and will attend by video. So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment. Trump reluctantly condemned the riot in a three-minute speech that night. The prime-time hearing will dive into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on Jan. 6, 2021, despite pleas from aides, allies and even his family. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security,” Cheney said. “He did not call the military.

Then-President Donald Trump speaks during a rally protesting the electoral college certification of Joe. Evan Vucci/AP. Then-President Donald Trump speaks ...

The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack. The hearing will show never-before-seen outtakes of a January 7 video that White House aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake. Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19 and will attend by video. Trump reluctantly condemned the riot in a three-minute speech that night. The prime-time hearing will dive into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on January 6, 2021, despite pleas from aides, allies and even his family.

The congressional hearings on the riots of January 2021 paint Trump as a leader who was out to seize power at all costs.

After reluctantly agreeing to transfer power, the former president told aides he wanted to give a new White House address doubling down on the lie that the ...

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Pomerantz and another prosecutor resigned over the decision by Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. not to seek a grand jury indictment of Trump for the ...

"And there wasn't a reasonable expectation that the facts were going to change in any big way in the foreseeable future. Of course, we could have lost the case. "Now, inevitably, that leads to the question, well, what's going to change? You know, could we have lost the case? "That's ridiculous. "We were told the investigation would continue. That criminal case is pending and the defendants have pleaded not guilty. "We weren't told the case would be closed," Pomerantz said on the podcast. Was there a reasonable likelihood that things would change?" So I agreed to get involved and then went to work," he said. Vance in January 2021 enlisted Pomerantz, who at the time was retired from private legal practice, to work on the probe. Trump's attorney, Ronald Fischetti, did not immediately respond Thursday to a request for comment.

The US congressional probe of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol by Donald Trump supporters wraps up its summer hearings on Thursday with a prime-time ...

The evidence will make it clear that the attack was “exactly” what Trump “wanted to have happen,” one committee member says.

Representative Adam Schiff, another member of the panel, told CNN on Wednesday that the outtakes “will be significant in terms of what the president was willing to say and what he wasn’t willing to say.” The clips, he said, will show “all of those who are urging him to say something to do something to stop the violence. “And after all of this, I’m convinced that this is exactly what he wanted to have happen.” In other evidence of presidential inaction, the committee is expected to hone in on Trump waiting until 4:17 p.m. to tell his supporters to leave—in a video address in which he told them, “We love you. Or was it exactly what he wanted to have happened?’” Representative Elaine Luria told the Post this week. Instead, it reportedly took an hour for his team to come up with something usable, as Trump “resisted holding the rioters to account, trying to call them patriots, and refused to say the election was over,” according to people familiar with the matter. Thus far, those hearings have included new granular details of things we already knew—like that Trump and his cronies pressured state officials to throw out the election results—and stunning revelations about things we didn‘t—like that the president of the United States allegedly knowingly sent armed supporters to the Capitol and attempted to physically assault a Secret Service agent when he was told he couldn’t join the mob.

The Jan. 6 select committee will take on a tall order Thursday night: Trying to prove not just that Donald Trump delayed calling off the violent Capitol mob ...

The panel is also likely to turn the lens on the post-Jan. 6 period in the White House, when a still defiant Trump continued to consider ways to overturn the election. Aides have testified about his communications with Trump during the riot. But rather than contact security agencies or military leaders, Trump called allies in his quest to overturn the election. Several aides, including Cipollone, press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, Trump’s executive assistant Molly Michael and national security adviser Keith Kellogg confirmed to the panel that Trump was watching news coverage of the riot as it unfolded. Rioters had already breached police lines when Trump pressed a crowd — which he knew included armed supporters, according to at least one witness — to descend on Congress as former then-Vice President Mike Pence oversaw the certification of Biden’s election. Thursday night’s hearing was supposed to be an explosive finale for the select panel.

Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg Jr. decided it was too risky to indict former President Donald Trump and was hung up on the idea he might lose the ...

“And I was utterly convinced that if the defendant had not been Donald Trump or the putative defendant, if it had been Joe Blow from Kokomo, we would have indicted without a big debate.” “I think it was a case that should have been brought. And a main witness, former Trump consigliere Michael Cohen, has stated emphatically that he is no longer willing to testify in the case due to Bragg’s timidity. It was very easy to do that under federal law, but, of course, we weren’t sitting as federal prosecutors,” Pomerantz told the Columbia law professor. “The devil was really in the details, and the details couldn’t be explained in kind of short form… The evidence, Pomerantz admits, was complicated and far-reaching.

President Joe Biden on Thursday tested positive for Covid-19, but his infection, while potentially serious, does not put him at the same risk as former ...

Biden could still be susceptible to long Covid. The post-viral condition, which sometimes includes severe fatigue, ongoing respiratory issues or cognitive impairments, is not yet well understood, even as health officials have a better grasp of its occurrence since Trump was infected at the end of 2020. Now, experts note, the wide-ranging list of symptoms has disabled some, even those who have been vaccinated. “And I think that message still does not seem to get through to people — that the vaccines are truly highly effective in preventing against hospitalization and death.” “Fortunately, that risk is small, but it has increased as the virus evolved to these much more difficult variants.” “Obviously, that isn’t a problem with Biden. I’m not aware of other comorbidities that Biden has outside of his age.” While comprehensive medical records are not available, both administrations have released some details of Trump and Biden’s health.

News of President Joe Biden's Covid diagnosis comes nearly two years after his predecessor Donald Trump contracted the virus. Mr Trump announced that he and ...

The first lady declined to use the drug, which takes around an hour to infuse intravenously, The Times noted. Mr Trump was provided with an aggressive group of treatments at the hospital. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Doctors said at the time that he appeared to be using the muscles in his neck to aid his breathing, a sign that his lungs weren’t getting sufficient oxygen. Mr Trump had a fever and found it difficult to breathe on 2 October, the day he was taken to Walter Reed. The president was sicker than what was revealed at the time, with his blood oxygen levels so depressed and his lung issues so severe that officials believed that he might have to be put on a ventilator.

Vaccines weren't available and treatment options were limited when Donald Trump contracted COVID in 2020. Things are far different for Joe Biden.

He tested positive Thursday morning, shortly before his diagnosis was announced, press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said in a statement. The White House never disclosed Trump’s initial positive test. Trump subsequently took another test and got a negative result, Meadows wrote. More than 1 million Americans have died from the virus, which is still killing an average of 353 people in the U.S. every day, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "We believe getting direct information, pretty much detailed information, from this letter that we – in a transparent way – shared with all of you on how he was doing, and we have committed to do that every day." And Trump denied that he was sick before the presidential debate, calling the report "fake news." He tested again on Oct. 1 and tweeted about the positive test result early the next day. The Biden White House appears to have been far more transparent about Biden’s positive diagnosis than Trump and his aides were after he tested positive. His chief of staff, Mark Meadows, later revealed in a book that Trump had actually tested positive days earlier – on Sept. 26, three days before a presidential debate with Biden. Trump tested positive on the same day he held a Rose Garden ceremony in which he announced he would nominate Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court, Meadows wrote. After months of downplaying the severity of the virus, Trump announced his positive test result on Twitter just before 1 a.m. on Oct. 2, 2020. The unvaccinated are at far greater risk, over two times more likely to test positive and nine times more likely to die from the virus than those who have received at least a primary dose of vaccine, according to the public health agency. - The Biden White House was quicker to acknowledge the president's positive COVID test.

After U.S. President Joe Biden was diagnosed with COVID-19 in July 2022, former President Donald Trump released a statement wishing Biden a speedy recovery ...

Trump typically releases statements to members of the media via email. Fake Trump statements remain quite popular on social media, as of this writing. (So far, the White House said Biden was experiencing “ mild symptoms” from the coronavirus.)

House committee will hold its final scheduled hearing, making the case Donald Trump may have violated the law by not stopping Capitol attack.

The proportion of Republicans who think Trump shouldn’t stand for office again also increased, to 32 percent from 26 percent in early June. Forty percent of Republicans say Trump was at least partly to blame for the attack, an increase of about seven percentage points from before the hearings. Or he could have sent a tweet trying to stop the violence far earlier than he actually did, during the 187-minute duration of the Capitol attack. Today’s rulings indicates the special grand jury will continue to remain one potential avenue for allies of the former president, or perhaps Trump himself, to face criminal charges over his meddling in the 2020 election. “Donald Trump ignored and disregarded the desperate pleas of his own family, including Ivanka and Don Jr,” Thompson said. Photographers gathered beneath the dais to take close-up shots of the witnesses. During a previously aired clip of tesimony he gave, he said he decided to quit after seeing a Trump tweet saying that Mike Pence should have had more courage. Within 15 minutes of leaving the stage, President Trump knew that the Capitol was besieged and under attack.” Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. “In the course of these hearings, we have received new evidence and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Pottinger resigned as deputy national security adviser in response the January 6, the highest-ranking White House official (other than cabinet secretaries) to do so. She resigned, saying she was “was deeply disturbed by what I saw” on January 6.

He lied, he bullied, he betrayed his oath,” the chairman of the committee investigating the US attack on the Capitol said of former president Donald Trump.

The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack. The hearing will show never-before-seen outtakes of a January 7 video that White House aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country. “We have to get this right,” Garland said. Trump has dismissed the hearings on social media and regarded much of the testimony as fake. So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. Representative Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, is isolating after testing positive for Covid-19 and will attend by video. Of the more than 200 defendants to be sentenced, approximately 100 received terms of imprisonment. Trump reluctantly condemned the riot in a three-minute speech that night. The panel is arguing that the defeated president's lies about a stolen election and attempts to overturn Joe Biden's election victory fuelled the attack and have left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security," Cheney said. The panel heard Trump was “irate.” “He did not call the military.

“President Trump did not fail to act,” Republican Representative Adam Kinzinger, a member of the Jan. 6 committee, said. “He chose not to act.” The ...

What looks like a speech given by Donald Trump in Arizona on July 18 has been viewed more than 16000 times on Facebook.

His July 16 event there was rescheduled for July 22. No, Trump didn’t speak in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on July 18, 2022 No, Trump didn’t speak in Prescott Valley, Arizona, on July 18, 2022

At the Capitol, the mob was chanting “Hang Mike Pence,” testified Matt Pottinger, a deputy national security adviser for Trump, as Trump tweeted his ...

The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack. The hearing will show never-before-seen outtakes of a January 7 video that White House aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country. Trump reluctantly condemned the riot in a three-minute speech that night. “We have to get this right,” Garland said. The panel is arguing that the defeated president's lies about a stolen election and attempts to overturn Joe Biden's election victory fuelled the attack and have left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy. So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security," Cheney said. The panel heard Trump was “irate.” “He did not call the military. Pottinger said that when he saw Trump's tweet he immediately decided to resign, as did former White House aide Sarah Matthews, who described herself as a lifelong Republican but could not go along with what was going on. The panel is diving into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on January 6, 2021, despite pleas from aides, allies and even his family. In the out-takes, Trump is visibly angry.

A hearing is under way in the US, looking at evidence and witness statements from the day of the January 6 Capitol Riots, and the role the former president ...

The panel is expected to provide a tally of the Trump administration aides and even Cabinet members who resigned after Trump failed to call off the attack. The hearing will show never-before-seen outtakes of a January 7 video that White House aides pleaded for Trump to make as a message of national healing for the country. Trump reluctantly condemned the riot in a three-minute speech that night. “We have to get this right,” Garland said. The panel is arguing that the defeated president's lies about a stolen election and attempts to overturn Joe Biden's election victory fuelled the attack and have left the United States facing enduring questions about the resiliency of its democracy. So far, more than 840 people have been charged with federal crimes related to the Capitol riot. He did not call his Attorney General. He did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security," Cheney said. The panel heard Trump was “irate.” “He did not call the military. Pottinger said that when he saw Trump's tweet he immediately decided to resign, as did former White House aide Sarah Matthews, who described herself as a lifelong Republican but could not go along with what was going on. The panel is diving into the 187 minutes that Trump failed to act on January 6, 2021, despite pleas from aides, allies and even his family. In the out-takes, Trump is visibly angry.

With the exception of a few states, dereliction of a duty is mostly used in military law and does not apply to citizens, including US presidents.

A more precise way to consider the legality of President Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 is to determine whether he wanted the rioters to commit a criminal act and engaged in some speech or behavior that urged them to do so or assisted them in some way. Given that most people believe dereliction of duty is a failure to take action that is legally required, the phrase can be used in this context to summarize a broader behavior and offer a way to cast blame. The House committee investigating President Trump’s actions on Jan. 6 may find that he did not fulfill his duty to “take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,” a requirement of each president, detailed in Article 2, Section 3 of the Constitution. Committee Chairman U.S. Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat from Mississippi, didn’t use “dereliction of duty,” but he detailed Trump’s inaction for 187 minutes between the time the president ended his speech at the rally near the White House at 1:10 p.m. and when he asked the rioters to leave in a video taped message from the Rose Garden at 4:17 p.m. The justification for using that term is that Trump encouraged attendees at a rally to march on the Capitol and then failed to do anything to stop the violence once they had invaded the U.S. Capitol building, despite the pleas of his staff, political leaders and his family to do so. “But he refused to do anything…It was a dereliction of duty.”

Whereas the first seven hearings set out unforgivingly what Trump had done, this one told a gripping story about what he did not do.

The answer was Republican Senator Josh Hawley. The big screen showed a photo of him with fist raised in support of the insurrectionists earlier on January 6 – haughty, preening, self-satisfied – and cut to a video of Hawley running for his life from the rioters as if auditioning for Chariots of Fire. Priceless. He is responsible for the attack on the Capitol on Jan 6.” Thompson and Cheney announced that more evidence is being gathered and hearings will resume in September. Will this be a sequel that lives up to expectations, like The Godfather Part II, Toy Story 2 or Top Gun: Maverick? Or will it be Jaws 2? It is a dishonour to all those who have sacrificed and died in the service of our democracy.” A photo of Trump in the Oval Office had the caption: “Minute 11.” At 2.24pm, Trump tweeted that Pence “didn’t have the courage” to overturn the election in his favour. But it was another brilliant piece of choreography, guaranteed to provide fodder to late-night TV hosts and go viral on social media. And from outtakes on 7 January there was the defining image of Trump struggling to read a teleprompter, stumbling over simple words such as “yesterday”, and especially those that acknowledged he was a loser, and banging the presidential lectern like a frustrated child. If the president wanted to address people, he could have done so.” For whatever reason on the ground the VP detail thought this was about to get very ugly.” And the presidential photographer was told “no photographs”. Whereas the first seven hearings set out unforgivingly what Trump had done, this one told a gripping story about what he did not do, for 187 minutes on 6 January 2021.

GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois also described Trump's inaction as a "dereliction of duty." "President Trump did not fail to act," Kinzinger said. "He chose ...

(CNN) Stay tuned. Season two is coming. The prime-time finale of the compelling and highly produced television saga otherwise known as the House January 6 ...

You have to get people ready for something as unusual as the prosecution of a former President." What message will it send to future generations if Trump escapes political and criminal accountability for trying to incite a coup against the US government that he was sworn to protect? Some seasoned lawyers believe that the committee has indeed established evidence of intent by Trump to precipitate the horrendous events leading up to and on January 6 -- an important component to any court case. Then there is the question of whether a potential prosecution of Trump, as a former President, would be in the national interest -- since it could potentially rip even deeper partisan divides in an already internally estranged nation. The panel is able to select snippets of information most advantageous to its case. On Thursday, the committee played footage from Fox showing the carnage that Trump watched in real time. But that may only have opened a spigot to more testimony and evidence. The committee enlisted experienced TV producers to shape its hearings -- two of which unfolded on prime time. And he further incited the crowd with a tweet. It has also embroidered a broader narrative of an out-of-control President who put his own fantastical belief he won an election above more than two centuries of democratic tradition and the national interest. - According to witness testimony, Trump thought Pence, rushed to safety by the Secret Service as the rioters invaded, deserved the calls for him to be hanged. A committee witness, whose identity was obscured, testified in a recording on Thursday that members of Pence's detail genuinely feared that they would be killed.

We'll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US Capitol attack news every morning. Donald Trump ignored repeated pleas from his family and ...

Former President Donald Trump could not be compelled to call off the mob that nearly destroyed democracy.

Again and again, the panel has asserted that Trump was an instigator and a would-be participant in the charge, an unhinged leader who literally lunged for the wheel of the car that would take him to the Capitol. “The mob was accomplishing President Trump’s purpose,” Representative Adam Kinzinger said tonight. Sarah Matthews, a former deputy press secretary who testified at the hearing, told the panel that Trump could have delivered live remarks to the nation “within a matter of minutes” simply by walking down a hallway to the White House press-briefing room. Trump continued to resist urgent pleas to issue a forceful denunciation of the violence from members of Congress, including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy; prominent Fox News commentators such as Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity; and two of his children, Ivanka and Don Jr. Even when he agreed to send tweets and film a video, aides testified that he haggled over the wording. Viewers tonight saw a mash-up of senior administration officials testifying that they were aware of no Trump calls to the secretary of defense, the attorney general, or the secretary of homeland security. After the Secret Service rebuffed his demands to join the crowd himself, the president settled into his seat at the head of the dining-room table. The mob came so close to Pence that, the committee revealed tonight, the Secret Service agents protecting him feared for their lives and wanted “to say goodbye” to their families.

UPDATE: The committee played never-seen video outtakes of Donald Trump's speech the day after the Capitol siege, as Trump, after much delay, admitted that ...

They will try to f— his entire legacy on this if it gets worse.” Trump’s son told the committee that “go to the mattresses’ was a Godfather reference. “He refused to do what every president must.” She was working with a team of photographers who were taking shots of White House renovations. “If we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to leave,” one officer was heard saying. They were among the administration officials who resigned in protest on January 6th. An unnamed witness, described as a White House employee with national security responsibilities, told the committee that there was a “heated discussion” between the president and his security detail. We have to establish the narrative that the president is still in charge.” But then they showed another clip of Hawley running out of the Senate chamber as the mob approached. He chose not to act,” said Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) at the start of the hearing. I just want to say Congress has certified he’d results without saying the election is over, okay,” Trump said. VP may be stuck at the Capitol.” Congress has certified the results — I don't want to say the election's over."

Vice-chair of January 6 committee has played crucial role in denting support for the former US president.

Donald Trump projected on a large screen. The real villain of the hearing on Thursday night, as in all the others, was the former President.Photograph by Al ...

I’ll leave the final word, though, to Cheney, who as a direct consequence of her insistence on not shutting up about Trump and the tragedy of January 6th will likely lose her House seat in Wyoming’s Republican primary next month, before the House committee convenes again, in September. “We must remember that we cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation,” Cheney said. Of course, the hearing started out with a built-in problem: we already knew that Trump did not do a damn thing to stop the attack on January 6th, and that he had, in fact, incited and encouraged it. “The case against Donald Trump in these hearings is not made by witnesses who were his political enemies,” Cheney pointed out, but it came instead in the form of “confessions” by his own team. The committee brought two members of that team into the hearing room in person—Matthew Pottinger, Trump’s former deputy national-security adviser, and Sarah Matthews, his former White House deputy press secretary—to testify how they were so disgusted by the President’s refusal to take action on January 6th that they quit in protest that same afternoon. On Thursday night, the House select committee charged with investigating January 6th concluded a two-month run of blockbuster hearings with a searing, minute-by-minute account of what Trump did—and didn’t do—in the dining room that awful afternoon. It was also where Trump, on January 6, 2021, remained holed up for a hundred and eighty-seven minutes, as his followers stormed the U.S. Capitol until he finally, reluctantly, released a video urging them to go home and telling them he loved them.

Why it matters: Cheney's closing remarks come after a primetime hearing during which committee members tied Trump's actions to the violence that day — and his ...

Donald Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office," Cheney said. We have much work yet to do, and will see you all again in September," Cheney said. - "The case made against him is not made by his political enemies. Driving the news: "In our hearing tonight, you saw an American president faced with a stark and unmistakable choice between right and wrong. Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said her work on the Jan. 6 committee is "the most important thing" she's done in her career, according to a new interview with the New York Times. Cheney: "Trump made a purposeful choice to violate his oath of office"

The 45th president was seen on video trying to record a speech after the attack on the Capitol the day before.

“I don’t want to say the election’s over. He continues: “And to those who broke the law, you will pay. And if you broke the law …” I’m gonna do this. I’ll do this. He could yet face criminal charges.