Trump news today: Donald to share stage with election deniers at Arizona rally
Fox News host says Trump must ‘learn to lose’
Donald Trump will share a stage in Arizona for his first rally of 2022 with a host of allies who have amplified baseless conspiracy theories about the 2020 presidential election, including Mike Lindell, as well as members of Congress who objected to the certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
The former president also celebrated an announcement that US Rep John Katko, among Republican lawmakers who voted for his impeachment for inciting a riot fuelled by the same false election narratives, will not seek re-election.
Meanwhile, the federal government has brought a charge of “seditious conspiracy” against the leader of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia that prosecutors argue played a role in organising an attack on the US Capitol on 6 January last year.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has refused to provide the committee investigating the attack with information about his conversations with Mr Trump. US Rep Liz Cheney, one of the committee’s only two Republicans, said Mr McCarthy is attempting to “cover-up” what happened, and that the committee would evaluate other options for obtaining his testimony.
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Bannon: Trump’s rally signals call to decertify Biden electors nationwide
Steve Bannon says Trump’s rally signals the beginning of the “decertification process” of Biden electors in several battleground states that elected Biden in the 2020 presidential election. A number of GOP officials in several states have demanded audits into the results, with baseless claims of fraud and manipulation, in an attempt to re-litigate the election that the former president definitively lost.
“You cannot interpret this as anything but a declaration of war on democracy,” said US Rep Eric Swalwell. “We are in the endgame. We can resurrect democracy or lose it forever.”
Alex Woodward15 January 2022 22:48
Virginia’s new Republican governor signed 11 executive orders on his first day in office
Virginia’s incoming Republican Governor Glenn Youngkin signed 11 executive orders after he was sworn into office on Saturday, including a repeal of a mask mandate and revoking a Covid-19 vaccine requirement for state workers.
He also banned “critical race theory” in schools and pledge to investigate “wrongdoing” in Loudon County, which has been ground zero for right-wing culture wars over the teaching of racism in public schools.
He also is withdrawing the state from an 11-state agreement to curb emissions.
Alex Woodward15 January 2022 22:30
Hillary Clinton invokes MLK’s criticism of ‘white moderates’ after Manchin and Sinema reject filibuster reform
Hillary Clinton has invoked Martin Luther King Jr’s criticisms of “the white moderate “ in what appeared to be a thinly veiled rebuke of Democrats Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema after they rejected President Joe Biden’s urgent demands to change Senate filibuster rules that block passage of federal voting rights legislation.
She added: “This is a subtweet.”
Her tweet comes as voting rights advocates rally over the weekend in advance of the federal…
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