I said, Run on your record, because your record’s pretty darn good.’” “I’m trying to tell President Trump, run on your record,” O’Reilly told NewsNation. On Monday night the disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly, with whom the former president has staged an arena tour, said Trump was “gonna run again”. His continued presence in national politics and apparent intention to run for president again has stoked jagged divides which some observers fear point the US towards serious discord or even civil war. Trump was impeached for inciting an insurrection but acquitted at his Senate trial when enough Republicans stayed loyal. On Monday, one rioter who attacked police was sentenced to more than five years in jail. Guns and explosives were found and bombs planted. Most rioters were not armed with guns but attacked police with other weapons. More than 700 people have been charged with offenses connected to the riot. “Until then, remember, the insurrection took place on 3 November, it was the completely unarmed protest of the rigged election that took place on 6 January.”įive people, including a Trump supporter shot by law enforcement and a Capitol police officer, died around the events of 6 January 2021, when a pro-Trump mob stormed Congress after he told supporters to “fight like hell” to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden. “I will be having a news conference on 6 January at Mar-a-Lago to discuss all of these points, and more,” he said. Trump announced his press conference in a statement replete with familiar invective and lies about supposed electoral fraud and the House committee. Only two Republicans, Trump critics Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, are now part of its work. The House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, rejected an attempt by the minority leader, Kevin McCarthy, to put Republicans including Jim Jordan of Ohio – a close Trump ally and a subject of investigation regarding the Capitol attack – on to the 6 January committee. Successive court rulings have said that the committee was properly formed and does have the investigative powers it is using. Perry claimed the 6 January committee was “illegitimate, and not duly constituted under the rules of the US House of Representatives”. The committee has already recommended other no-shows, such as Trump aide Steve Bannon, be prosecuted for their non-compliance. Perry’s refusal to appear sets up a potentially fraught battle if the panel decides to subpoena him and he – like other Trump allies – decides to ignore that too. The news came shortly after Donald Trump provocatively announced that he will hold a press conference at his Mar-a-Lago resort on 6 January, the first anniversary of the deadly attack on Congress.
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