As committee hearings on Jan. 6 detail his behavior in the months leading up to the attack on the US Capitol, Donald Trump is apparently losing support among Republican voters. The former president now draws the support of only about half of the party’s base, according to a new poll, opening up space for primary challengers in 2024 if he decides to run. Meanwhile, the committee is set to hold a hearing today focusing on how the crowd that attacked the Capitol, and in particular extremist groups like the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, was convened. The focus of the hearing will be Mr Trump’s infamous tweet from December 19, 2020: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, it’s going to be wild!” In an interview, panelist Stephanie Murphy described the tweet as a “siren call” to extremist groups. A hearing scheduled for Thursday has been postponed to an unspecified later date as the commission continues to receive a deluge of new information.

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The former Oath Keepers member will testify at the Jan. 6 hearing

Stuart Rhodes, founder and leader of the extremist group Oath Keepers, has offered to testify at the committee on January 6 – if he is allowed to do so live on television in person. With the panel remaining tight-lipped about who will appear at today’s hearing or any future ones (apparently aimed at minimizing witness intimidation), it’s unclear if he will ever appear, but it looks like one of his former partners will. The man in question is Jason Van Tatenhove, who served as the group’s national representative from 2014 until his departure in about 2017. He has already testified to the panel in camera. Today’s hearing where he looks set to appear is set to focus on how Donald Trump’s tweets before the riot were interpreted as calls to action by Oath Keepers and other groups. Andrew NaughtieJuly 12, 2022 1:20 p.m 1657626037

Donald Trump canceled a paid rally in Greensboro, North Carolina this week as the former president, his son Donald Trump Jr. and his daughter Ivanka Trump were subpoenaed to take part in an investigation into his finances and testify under oath on the same day. according to a media report. The rally, which was first publicized in May on the website of the American Freedom Tour — a platform dedicated to promoting rallies across the U.S. in a series of events — has been pulled from the portal, according to the Raleigh News and Observer. It now points to the series’ next event more than a month later, on August 20 in Milwaukee.

Trump cancels rally after he, Ivanka and Don Jr. are forced to testify under oath

The appearance scheduled for Friday was quietly removed from the website and no explanation was given Andrew NaughtieJuly 12, 2022 12:40 p.m 1657623609

The next hearing on Jan. 6 will focus on Trump’s “tweet heard around the world.”

The latest round of hearings on Jan. 6 will focus on Donald Trump’s behavior immediately before and during the Capitol riot, according to lawmakers, including a late December tweet to supporters promising a “wild” protest on Jan. 6. On December 19, 2020, Mr. Trump, who at the time was deeply disputing the election results, told his millions of followers: “Big protest in DC on January 6th. Be there, it’s going to be wild!” “Donald Trump sent the tweet that would be heard around the world, the first time in American history that a president of the United States has called for a protest against his administration, in effect, to try to stop the counting of electoral votes college. presidential election that he had lost,” committee member Jamie Raskin told CBS News on Sunday. “The world will hear the story of this tweet and the explosive effect it had on Trump’s world and specifically among domestic violent extremist groups, the most dangerous political extremists in the country.” See more from James Crump on what the former president said on January 6.

All evidence used against Trump in impeachment trial

The former president’s second impeachment trial begins on February 9, 2021 Andrew NaughtieJuly 12, 2022 12:00 p.m 1657621237

Kinzinger explains hearing delay

A Jan. 6 committee hearing scheduled for Thursday this week has been postponed, with details of who and what will be presented at the meeting still unclear. Speaking on CNN last night, committee member Adam Kinzinger confirmed that the reason for the delay is the sheer volume of information coming in and reiterated that the committee will use the rest of its hearings to explain what Donald Trump did during the rebellion. “Spoiler alert,” the MP said: “Not much.” Andrew NaughtieJuly 12, 2022 11:20 am 1657618740

ICYMI: Former Trump AG Bill Barr Subpoenaed in Fox News Defamation Case

Former Attorney General Bill Barr was subpoenaed over the weekend by a jury hearing Dominion Voting Systems’ defamation suit against Fox News over allegations the network aired defamatory claims about the company after the 2020 election. Mr. Barr was served the subpoena following a court order signed on Friday and served on Saturday. His call follows that of former NewsCorp board member James Murdoch, son of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. It is unknown exactly what Dominion’s lawyers will ask Mr Barr for, but it will likely focus on his declaration in the fall of 2020 that the 2020 election was free of the kind of widespread fraud or abuse that could have affected the results in a meaningful way. . John Bowden with the full report.

Former Trump AG Bill Barr subpoenaed in Fox News defamation case

The former AG became Trump’s top official to certify that the election was not rigged Josh Marcus July 12, 2022 10:39 am 1657615140

Lindsey Graham says Trump’s tweets were ‘good for business’ and ‘crack cocaine’

Lindsey Graham has become a staunch ally of Donald Trump during his time in office. In a book to be published by Washington journalist Mark Leibovitz, the US senator from South Carolina compared the former president’s tweets to “crack cocaine” and said they were “good for business”. “And he knows he’s good for business. What is going to happen next? Stay tuned. Any tweet he sends is like crack cocaine to this guy,” Mr. Graham is quoted as saying in the book, “Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump’s Washington and the Price of Submission,” to be released on Tuesday. Mr Graham also said the president’s social media presence was “fun as hell”. Perhaps the fun is over now, however, as a Georgia judge has ordered Mr. Graham to testify before a grand jury as part of an investigation into Donald Trump’s efforts to undermine the outcome of the 2020 presidential election by pressuring state officials to manipulate the results.

Lindsey Graham ordered to testify in Trump Grand Jury probe

The Republican senator reportedly asked Georgia’s chief election officials to review the ballots Josh Marcus July 12, 2022 09:39 1657611540

Right-wing militia wanted to talk to White House weeks before Jan. 6: report

In the weeks leading up to the Jan. 6 uprising, the leader of the right-wing military group Oath Keepers tried to contact the White House, NBC News reports. Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes asked the group’s general counsel Kellye SoRelle, a volunteer with Lawyers for Trump during the 2020 election, to make the connection. “He was hitting me for a contact,” he told NBC. “It had no access points.” He also said Mr. Rhodes was preparing an open letter urging Trump to invoke the Sedition Act, which he hoped would pass the White House. Ms. SoRelle has already spoken to the January 6 committee and her testimony may be presented at tomorrow’s hearings. Josh Marcus 12 July 2022 08:39 1657607949

The central argument of the January 6 investigation is that Donald Trump is ultimately responsible for the violence on Capitol Hill. As hearings continue Tuesday, the select committee plans to make its case in several ways. Investigators plan to show that at least one Trump supporter changed his plans after Trump tweeted that he wanted a “big protest” that would be “wild” on Jan. 6. In addition, the committee has evidence that Mr. Trump had exchanges through intermediaries with violent vigilante groups such as the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers, Axios reports. Josh Marcus July 12, 2022 07:39 1657604560

Elon Musk hits back at Trump after calling Tesla boss a ‘bull*** artist’

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has lashed out at Donald Trump after the former president called him “another bull*** artist” for canceling his deal to buy Twitter and for not voting for him. The former chairman’s comments came after Musk announced on Friday that he would not buy the social networking platform and accused the company of misleading him about its nature. “Elon, Elon is not going to buy Twitter,” Trump told supporters in Anchorage on Sunday, saying he’s said as much before. “Well maybe later, who the hell knows what’s going to happen? He’s got a pretty rotten contract, posh, his contract, not a good contract.’ He also blasted Musk for saying he would vote Republican for the first time. reports Sravasti Dasgupta.

Elon Musk hits back at Trump after calling Tesla boss a ‘bull*** artist’

“I don’t hate the man, but it’s time for Trump to hang up his hat and sail off into the sunset” Alisha Rahaman SarkarJuly 12, 2022 06:42 1657600749

Mueller probe official says DOJ needs to ‘reexamine’ approach to Jan. 6 probe

Andrew Weissman, a senior prosecutor who worked on Mueller’s investigation into the Trump campaign’s contacts with Russia, says the Justice Department is taking the wrong approach in its January 6 cases. As it stands, Mr. Weissman wrote in an opinion piece in…