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Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who served in political office in California for more than two decades, died suddenly at age 65, Trump said.
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- REPUBLICAN RETREAT: President Donald Trump delivered wide-ranging remarks to House Republicans at a meeting at the Kennedy Center to discuss the party's agenda for the coming year. In his speech, he predicted he'll be impeached again if Republicans lose the midterm elections.
- JAN. 6 ANNIVERSARY: Democratic lawmakers marked the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with a special congressional hearing and remarks to the media.
- CALIFORNIA CONGRESSMAN DIES: Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa died suddenly yesterday at 65, Trump said. His death narrows House Speaker Mike Johnson's already slim majority.
- INDIANA CONGRESSMAN INJURED: Rep. Jim Baird, R-Ind., was hospitalized following a car accident, Trump said. Baird's office confirmed the news and said Baird, 80, is expected to make a full recovery.
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Senate confirms former Fox News contributor as Trump's drug czar
The Senate today confirmed Sara Carter, a former Fox News contributor, as the White House’s drug czar.
The Senate voted 52-48 along party lines to confirm Carter as director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy. The longtime journalist has not previously held public office.
The White House said in a statement announcing her confirmation that she “brings extensive knowledge and field experience to ONDCP, having worked as an investigative journalist exposing the cartels and mapping the drug trafficking routes along the United States-Mexico border.”
Judge orders Lindsey Halligan to explain why she’s still serving as U.S. attorney after previous ruling against her
A federal judge today ordered Trump ally Lindsey Halligan to explain why she continues to call herself the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia even though another judge determined in November that she had been unlawfully appointed to the position.
U.S. District Judge David Novak of Richmond issued a three-page order demanding to know why Halligan is still serving in the post. Halligan, who unsuccessfully prosecuted former FBI Direct James Comey and New York Attorney General Letitia James, is also referred to as U.S. attorney by the Justice Department in official documents.
The judge’s order is unusual because he issued it on his own, not at the request of defense attorneys. It came in a case involving a carjacking and attempted bank robbery suspect who was indicted last month.
Novak gave Halligan seven days to respond in writing “explaining the basis for ... identification of herself as the United States Attorney, notwithstanding Judge Currie’s contrary ruling. She shall also set forth the reasons why this Court should not strike Ms. Halligan’s identification of herself as United States Attorney from the indictment in this matter.”
Pelosi says ‘Speaker Jeffries’ will hang plaque honoring Jan. 6 officers after midterm elections
The office of House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., said he won’t hang a legally mandated plaque honoring the officers who defended the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. In response, Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the former speaker, said Democrats will take matters into their own hands after the midterm elections in November.
“Just wait 10 more months, Hakeem [Jeffries] will be speaker and we will place it in the place of honor. Yes, we will,” Pelosi told NBC News in the Capitol on the fifth anniversary of the riot.
Asked where it will go, Pelosi said, “Speaker Jeffries will decide that.”
She also reacted to the White House’s Jan. 6 website depicting her as a villain and accusing police officers of “deliberately escalating tensions” on that day.
“It’s just a manifesto of lies,” Pelosi said. “They can’t help themselves. The truth is too painful for them. So they make up a falsehood.”
Trump endorses candidate running against a lawmaker he pardoned
Trump today endorsed a Republican candidate seeking to unseat Rep. Henry Cuellar, the Texas Democrat he pardoned last month.
In his endorsement of Webb County Judge Tano Tijerina, Trump slammed Cuellar for what he called “disloyalty” over his decision to seek re-election as a Democrat after having been pardoned.
Trump said he never thought Cuellar would seek public office again. Cuellar, who was indicted in 2024 on federal bribery, wire fraud and money laundering charges, has said he did not make a deal with Trump in exchange for the pardon.
Cuellar thanked Trump again for the pardon in a statement today but did not comment on his endorsement of Tijerina or his accusations of disloyalty.
White House says U.S. military is an option to acquire Greenland
The White House said today that acquiring Greenland is a “national security priority” and that using the U.S. military to achieve that goal is under consideration.
“President Trump has made it well known that acquiring Greenland is a national security priority of the United States, and it’s vital to deter our adversaries in the Arctic region,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a statement.
“The President and his team are discussing a range of options to pursue this important foreign policy goal, and of course, utilizing the U.S. Military is always an option at the Commander in Chief’s disposal,” it said.
The White House statement was issued shortly after major European allies, including Denmark, said in a joint statement that they would “not stop defending” the values of sovereignty and Greenland’s territorial integrity.
Vivek Ramaswamy taps Ohio state Senate president as his running mate in campaign for governor
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican front-runner in Ohio’s race for governor, has selected state Senate President Rob McColley as his running mate for lieutenant governor, his campaign confirmed first to NBC News.
Ramaswamy, who has been endorsed by Trump, is scheduled to officially introduce McColley as his No. 2 at an event tomorrow night in Cleveland.
The decision pairs Ramaswamy, the biotech entrepreneur best known for an unsuccessful presidential bid in 2024, with an experienced lawmaker who can act as his eyes and ears in the Legislature. It also creates a fully millennial GOP ticket: Ramaswamy is 40, McColley 41.
“I’m excited to announce Rob McColley as my running mate to be the next lieutenant governor of Ohio,” Ramaswamy said in a statement. “I’m an entrepreneur, not a politician, and selected Rob to be a governing partner who can help advance our ambitious legislative agenda. Rob is a proven conservative leader, and he is committed to my vision to make the American Dream a reality for every Ohioan.”
Venezuelan military says 24 died in Saturday raid
The Venezuelan military posted a tribute on Instagram for soldiers killed in the U.S. raid Saturday, saying that 24 people died.
"We remember them not because of the cause, but because of their sacrifice," the military wrote in the post.
The Cuban government said this week that 32 of its officers died in the raid, bringing the total number of people killed to at least 56.
Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio calls for 'retribution' against Jan. 6 prosecutors and media
Flanked by a small group of pardoned Jan. 6 defendants, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio said today that they're calling for "retribution" against members of the media, as well as prosecutors who worked on Jan. 6 cases who still work at the Justice Department.
"They made an example out of us, and we need to make an example out of them," he said. "I am very happy with what the man that sit behind that desk [has done]," he said, pointing at the White House from the Ellipse. "But it's not enough."
Tarrio said "retribution" should come for "you," pointing at the media covering their event marking the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
Enrique Tarrio speaks at a rally in Washington today. Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images
Speaking about judges, prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on Jan. 6-related cases, Tarrio said, "They need to be fired, and not only do they need to be fired, they need to be prosecuted." A number of them were already fired last year by the Trump administration.
"We're asking for accountability," he said. "They need to start firing people."
Tarrio was among the Jan. 6 defendants whom Trump granted clemency early last year. Tarrio had been serving a 22-year sentence in federal prison on charges including seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6 attack.
Abortion stays legal in Wyoming as its top court strikes down laws, including first U.S. pill ban
Abortion will remain legal in Wyoming after the state Supreme Court struck down laws that include the country’s first explicit ban on abortion pills, ruling today that they violate the state Constitution.
The justices sided with the state’s only abortion clinic and others who had sued over the bans passed since 2022, when the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the landmark Roe v. Wade decision.
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro begins re-election year with $30 million in the bank
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro announced today that his campaign for governor ended 2025 with more than $30 million on hand as Shapiro, a potential 2028 Democratic presidential contender, ramps up his re-election bid.
Shapiro’s campaign reported having raised more than $10 million in the fourth quarter of 2025 and north of $23 million throughout last year.
His campaign said he was beginning 2026 “in a position of unprecedented strength,” noting that he is reporting the most money raised and the most cash on hand heading into an election year of any campaign for governor in Pennsylvania history.
Special election for Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional seat set for March
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp has set the special election to replace former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who resigned yesterday, for March 10.
Nearly two dozen candidates are vying for the safe Republican seat, which increases the odds that a runoff will be needed. (The top two candidates move on to a runoff unless one wins the majority of the vote.)
The winner will finish Greene’s current term. There will also be a separate primary and general election later this year for the right to represent the seat in next year's Congress.
Trump predicts he will be impeached if Republicans lose the midterms
Trump had a warning for Republicans today: If they don’t keep control of Congress in this year’s midterm elections, Democrats will impeach him again.
“You got to win the midterms, because if we don’t win the midterms, it’s just going to be — I mean, they’ll find a reason to impeach me,” Trump said in a speech at a House Republican policy retreat. “I’ll get impeached.”
Polling indicates that most voters feel the country is on the wrong track, with the economy a top concern, less than a year before the midterm elections. All members of the House and a third of senators are up for re-election in November, which could determine whether Republicans are able to continue carrying out their agenda in the final two years of Trump’s second term.
Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice in the House; supporters of the move in the Senate did not have the necessary two-thirds supermajority of votes to convict him in either of the cases.
White House launches Jan. 6 anniversary page pushing Trump's narrative
On the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, the White House launched a page on its official website dedicated to Trump’s narrative around the attack. The website claimed peaceful protesters gathered and marched to the Capitol in 2021, where police escalated tensions. A timeline reads: “Stolen Election Certified,” and it restates claims that former Vice President Mike Pence was trying to sabotage Trump when he failed to stop the certification of electoral votes.
On X, Pence said that it was a “tragic day” but that it “became a triumph of freedom when, after Capitol Police quelled the violence, leaders in both chambers in both political parties reconvened the very same day and finished democracy’s work under the Constitution.”
White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said yesterday that it was the media that was still focused on the Capitol siege.
At least 140 law enforcement officers were injured and millions of dollars in damage was done to the Capitol in 2021 as thousands of pro-Trump rioters shattered windows and broke through the doors in a failed effort to stop the counting of electoral votes to certify Joe Biden’s win.
Ashli Babbitt's mother joins Jan. 6 memorial march
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Micki Witthoeft, the mother of Ashli Babbitt, whom police shot and killed as she stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and Nicole Reffitt, the wife of convicted rioter Guy Reffitt, attend a memorial march today marking five years since the attack.
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Witthoeft carried a "Free Tina Peters" sign at the march. Peters, a former county clerk in Colorado who has promoted false claims about the 2020 election, was convicted in 2024 in connection with a voting system’s security breach.
Johnson says no to plaque honoring police officers for Jan. 6
House Speaker Mike Johnson’s office says the legally required plaque to honor police officers who protected the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, is “not implementable” and won’t be hung as mandated by law.
A spokesperson for Johnson, R-La., said in a statement: “As written, the statute authorizing this plaque is not implementable, and proposed alternatives devised by Democrat House staff, not members, also do not comply with the statute. If Democrats are serious about commemorating the work of USCP officers, they are free to work with the appropriate committees of jurisdiction to develop a framework for proper vetting and consideration, just as the House does for Congressional Gold Medals, commemorative gold coins, and similar ceremonial responsibilities.”
The plaintiffs in the lawsuit over the plaque said the Trump Justice Department has “not even asserted in their affidavit that the number of names explains why they have passed their legal deadline by over two years” and note that they “do concede that a plaque has been made, undercutting their unsworn speculation that the plaque must take many years to make.”
Right-wing activists, including former Proud Boys leader, march on Jan. 6 anniversary
Edward Young holds a "MAGA FOREVER" sign. Win McNamee / Getty Images
Today is the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by Trump supporters who claimed the presidential election had been stolen.
Counterprotester Patricia Eguino clashes with demonstrators. Win McNamee / Getty Images
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Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio speaks outside the Willard Hotel during the memorial march. Win McNamee / Getty Images
Trump urges House Republicans to be 'a little flexible' on the Hyde Amendment
While addressing the ongoing debate about Obamacare subsidies in Congress, Trump urged House Republicans to be "a little flexible" when it comes to the Hyde Amendment, which bans federal funding for most abortions.
"You have to be a little flexible on Hyde, you know that. You got to be a little flexible," Trump said at the Kennedy Center. "You’ve got to use ingenuity. You’ve got to work. We’re all big fans of everything."
Senate Republicans had said last fall that they were open to extending Obamacare subsidies, but only if Democrats agreed to abortion restrictions on insurance plans.
Trump urges GOP to consider direct payments to people's health care accounts
During his remarks to House Republicans, Trump reiterated his argument of making direct payments to people's health care accounts to pay for rising medical costs, as opposed to having Affordable Care Act subsidies go to insurance companies.
"Let the money go in a health care account, however you do it. Let the money go directly to the people," he told House Republicans.
The House is expected to vote this week on a three-year extension of the Affordable Care Act subsidies, with a final passage vote planned for Thursday, a Democratic leadership aide said yesterday.
Trump has opposed extending the tax credits.
Trump says Republicans have to win the midterms, or 'I'll get impeached'
Trump urged House Republicans to win the midterm elections or he said he would be impeached by Democratic lawmakers.
"You got to win the midterms, because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be — I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me," Trump warned. "I'll get impeached."
Trump is the only president to have been impeached twice.
Trump wraps up remarks to House Republicans after speaking for more than an hour
The president spoke to House Republicans at their policy retreat for more than an hour and 20 minutes, touching on an array of subjects, including tax and health care policy, transgender athletes' participation in women's sports, the border and crime.
Trump falsely claims no murders in D.C. in the last 7 months
Trump touted his administration’s law enforcement takeover of Washington over the summer during his remarks to House Republicans, including a false claim that there have been no murders in D.C. in the last seven months.
"You know, we would have on average two murders a week in Washington," Trump said.
"I don’t even like talking about it. Two murders a week in Washington," he added. "We haven’t had one in seven months."
Crime data from the Metropolitan Police Department shows there have been about 59 homicides during that time period. In addition, a National Guard member from West Virginia was killed and another was wounded in the capital in a shooting in November.
The number of homicides is significantly down, however, from the same period during the previous year, as are cases of assaults with dangerous weapons and robberies, according to the police department data.
Reached for comment, White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson didn't address the discrepancy, but said, "After years of DC’s crime problem being ignored by local Democrats, President Trump finally stepped in to do what everyone else refused to: Make DC Safe Again. Despite unrelenting opposition and criticism from local and national Democrats, President Trump’s efforts have objectively made DC safer for residents and visitors.”
Kansas House speaker: 'We don’t have the votes' for redistricting
Kansas House Speaker Dan Hawkins again dismissed Republican hopes for a redrawn congressional map in the state yesterday after lawmakers declined to call a special session to address redistricting last fall.
“We don’t have the votes,” Hawkins said in an interview with the Sunflower State Journal on Monday. “We’re a long ways away from the votes.”
Republicans control both chambers of the Kansas Legislature, but they would likely need two-thirds support for a new map to override a potential veto from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly.
“I have always said that if we can’t pass something big like that, why have the vote. And that’s my position” Hawkins said. “I’m a long ways off from being able to pass it.”
Republicans control three of Kansas' four congressional districts.
Trump and national Republicans have pressured state lawmakers around the country to pursue mid-decade redistricting efforts to help the party shore up its narrow House majority in this year's midterms. They were dealt a setback last month with Indiana Republicans voted down a redrawn map.
On Jan. 6 anniversary, Trump says 2020 election was 'rigged'
On the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, Trump made the false claim during his remarks at the Kennedy Center that the 2020 presidential election was "rigged."
"The election was rigged. You ought to have voter ID. You ought to insist on it," Trump told the House Republican Conference at their annual retreat.
"We got to straighten this out before it gets too crazy," he said, adding that the country needs voter ID laws.
"When somebody says, 'No, we don’t want voter ID,' that means they’re crooked. And the public understands it," he claimed.
The Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol building occurred amid Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results.
Trump says Rep. Jim Baird is recovering after a car accident
Trump said in remarks at the House Republican retreat that Rep. Jim Baird, R-Ind., and his wife are recovering after a car accident.
"They're going to be OK, but they had a pretty bad accident, and we're praying that they get out of that hospital very quickly," Trump said. "He's going to be fine, she's going to be fine, but it was bad accident."
Baird's office confirmed the incident, which was first reported by Fox News, saying in a press release that Baird's "vehicle was struck in an accident."
"Congressman Baird is in the hospital and is expected to make a full recovery, and he is extraordinarily grateful for everyone’s prayers during this time," the release said. "Congressman Baird looks forward to continuing his work on behalf of Hoosiers."
Trump begins speaking before House Republicans
Trump has begun his remarks to House Republicans at the newly renamed Trump-Kennedy Center, opening his comments by touting the party's policies and lamenting the death of Rep. Doug LaMalfa, R-Calif., who died suddenly, according to House leaders.
“I want to express our tremendous sorrow at the loss of a great member, a great, great, great member, congressman Doug LaMalfa, who passed away yesterday, as you probably have heard,” Trump said.
Trump noted LaMalfa was the leader of the Western Caucus and was "a fierce champion on California water issues." Trump added "our hearts go out to his wife Jill and his entire family” and said he was delivering his remarks in LaMalfa's honor.
The lawmakers are gathered for a retreat as the House reconvenes.
Corporation for Public Broadcasting is officially shutting down months after GOP funding cuts
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting — which helped fund NPR, PBS and many local radio and TV stations — is officially shutting down, months after Congress passed spending cuts that stripped it of more than $1 billion in funding.
CPB’s board of directors voted to dissolve the private, nonprofit corporation after 58 years of service, the organization announced in a news release yesterday.
“For more than half a century, CPB existed to ensure that all Americans—regardless of geography, income, or background—had access to trusted news, educational programming, and local storytelling,” CPB President and CEO Patricia Harrison said.
Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa dies at 65
Republican Rep. Doug LaMalfa, a rice farmer who served in political office in California for more than two decades, died suddenly, House GOP leaders said today. He was 65.
“Jacquie and I are devastated about the sudden loss of our friend, Congressman Doug LaMalfa. Doug was a loving father and husband, and staunch advocate for his constituents and rural America,” Majority Whip Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the No. 3 House Republican, said in a post on X. “Our prayers are with Doug’s wife, Jill, and their children.”
The cause of death was not immediately clear.
LaMalfa’s death was a shock to friends and colleagues on Capitol Hill.
More than 2 million Epstein files still to be released, DOJ says in court filing
More than 2 million files related to convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein are still to be released, according to a court filling last night from the Justice Department, which said a team of 400 lawyers was reviewing the documents to ensure “victim privacy.”
The filing also said the department would review its procedures for evaluating the files after victims complained that some information posted should have been redacted.
The DOJ filing confirms reporting from NBC News last week that millions of files were being reviewed before their planned release. So far, only 12,000 documents containing 125,000 pages have been released in three tranches.
Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman launches re-election bid amid primary challenge
New York Democratic Rep. Dan Goldman, who served as a top lawyer in the House Democratic effort to impeach Trump in 2019 before winning a congressional bid three years later, announced he's running for re-election.
Goldman's announcement video leans heavily on his experience both in the Trump impeachment and in Congress, specifically noting legislative attempts to ban immigration arrests in courts, bar ICE agents from wearing masks during immigration arrests and prohibit congressional stock trades. He announced his decision on the fifth anniversary of the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, which he invoked while criticizing Trump's "attacks on our democracy."
Goldman closed the video with an indirect swipe ahead of a primary challenge from former state Comptroller Brad Lander, an ally of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani who is running against Goldman from his left.
"With the stakes so high, we can't mess around with empty promises from career politicians, we need experienced, decisive leadership," Goldman said.
GOP Sen. Bill Cassidy slams CDC's overhaul of childhood vaccine schedule
Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., slammed the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's announced overhaul yesterday of the childhood vaccine schedule that recommends fewer shots.
Cassidy, who chairs the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said in a statement on X that as a doctor who treated patients for decades, his top priority is protecting children and families. He noted that multiple children have died or have been hospitalized after contracting measles and two kids died in his state from whooping cough.
"All of this was preventable with safe and effective vaccines," Cassidy said. "The vaccine schedule IS NOT A MANDATE. It’s a recommendation giving parents the power. Changing the pediatric vaccine schedule based on no scientific input on safety risks and little transparency will cause unnecessary fear for patients and doctors, and will make America sicker."
The CDC is recommending that all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, down from the 18 that were previously on the childhood schedule.
Trump to speak at House Republicans' policy retreat at the Kennedy Center
Trump will speak to House Republicans this morning at a meeting at the Kennedy Center that a source familiar with the matter said was aimed at rallying the party as it heads into a critical midterm election year.
The House returns from recess today. The meeting comes after the president's handpicked board at the arts center voted to rename it the Trump-Kennedy Center.
"A year ago it was in a state of financial and physical collapse," Trump said of the center in a social media post this morning. "Wait until you see it a year from now!!!"
U.S. allies warn Trump over threats to seize Greenland
European NATO allies warned the United States today that they would “not stop defending” the values of sovereignty and territorial integrity following Trump’s threats against the Danish island of Greenland.
Trump and his team have ramped up hostile suggestions that they want to seize Greenland, a vast Artic island of just 50,000 people that has mineral and strategic significance. The U.S. attack against Venezuela and capture of President Nicolás Maduro — which the United Nations said undermined international law — has raised fears that this might not be an empty threat.
The European leaders were in Paris meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, as well as Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and special envoy Steve Witkoff and others, according to a White House official. It is the latest in frenzied rounds of shuttle diplomacy to end Russia’s war in Ukraine.
Republican-turned-Democrat George Conway is running for Congress in New York to ‘fight Trumpism'
George Conway, the longtime conservative lawyer who became a prominent critic of Trump, is officially launching a Democratic campaign for Congress in Manhattan today, the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In an interview, Conway framed his campaign for New York’s 12th District squarely around Trump, calling for his impeachment and for the U.S. to undertake a “modern legal reconstruction” to “make sure this never happens again.”
“We’re at a crossroads in our country, and Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the Constitution and the rule of law and democratic government that we have ever seen in our lifetime,” Conway, 62, said. “And I want to fight that. He’s a criminal. He defies the law. He thinks he’s the law, and that’s not just an abstraction about the rule of law. He’s hurting people in this country and in my district by using his power to enrich himself instead of using it for the good of the people. He’s running the country like a mob boss.”
Man faces federal charges after he’s accused of breaking windows at JD Vance’s Cincinnati home
A man accused of vandalizing Vice President JD Vance’s home in Cincinnati now faces federal charges on top of previously filed local charges.
The Justice Department announced last evening that federal prosecutors have charged William D. DeFoor, 26, with damaging government property and engaging in physical violence against any person or property in a restricted building or grounds — crimes that are each punishable by up to 10 years in prison. DeFoor was also charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding federal officers, which carries a maximum penalty of 20 years in prison.
NBC News previously reported that DeFoor had been charged in Hamilton County Municipal Court with four counts of vandalism, criminal trespass, criminal damaging and obstructing official business. He will be arraigned on those charges today, according to the court docket.
Five years after Jan. 6, Trump is rewriting the narrative around the Capitol siege
Five years after he and his allies tried and failed to overturn the results of the 2020 election, Trump is using his time back in the White House to take a series of actions aimed at erasing or rewriting the Jan. 6, 2021, siege on the U.S. Capitol, with more likely to come.
Trump mass pardoned Jan. 6 rioters on his first day back in office. Justice Department officials and FBI agents involved in the massive investigation and prosecution were fired. Dozens of other supporters involved in efforts to overturn the election results have been pre-emptively pardoned.
A former Jan. 6 prosecutor said Trump’s actions — and the growing embrace of them by a broader swath of Americans — were “maddening.”
