January 9, 2021

 


Stay-at-home dad, 36, with history of drugs is arrested for stealing Nancy Pelosi's





















Adam Johnson, 36, was arrested by federal marshals in Florida on Friday and is currently being held at the Pinellas County Jail, according to arrest records. The Parrish, Florida, resident's charges are pending. Johnson, a psychology graduate turned furniture maker from Bradenton, Florida, was seen parading through the Capitol on Wednesday with Pelosi's lectern. Jacob Anthony Chansley, the heavily-tattooed Trump supporter who sported horns, a fur hat and face paint as he occupied the Senate dais, was also arrested on Saturday.



Trump's cabinet is operating under a de facto 25th Amendment, report says




























Several top cabinet members are vowing to remain in the administration through January 20, when Trump's term ends, but are 'operating as if he is not the president,' administration officials told Axios reporter Jonathan Swan. 'The reality is, based on my reporting over the last 48 hours, is the idea of a 25th Amendment, while it was raised in the heat of Wednesday, it was never seen as a serious possibility by members of the cabinet,' Swan told MSNBC. 'But what has happened instead is kind of a de facto 25th Amendment,' Swan added of Trump's cabinet. 'They are operating as if he is not the president, many of these senior officials, ignoring him and staying away from the West Wing, staying away from him hoping that he doesn't call.'



Parler's Chief Policy Officer Amy Peikoff claimed it is being targeted as a conservative platform after it was suspended from Google's Play Store and Apple warned it would do the same.


Reuters' photographer Jim Bourg claimed in a tweet on Friday that he heard at least three Trump supporters speak about hanging VP Pence from a tree as a 'traitor' during Wednesday's Capitol riots.


























Mitch McConnell says Trump's second Senate impeachment trial would begin on Biden's

House Democrats on Monday will circulate an article of impeachment charging President Trump with 'incitement of insurrection' after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told his Republican colleagues in the upper chamber that the earliest a second trial would begin is Inauguration Day. House Rep. Ted Lieu of California announced on his Twitter feed on Saturday that 180 members of Congress have signed as co-sponsors of the article of impeachment that he helped draft alongside fellow House Reps. Jamie Raskin and David Cicilline. Lieu, a Democrat, wrote that his party will introduce the article of impeachment during the House's pro forma session on Monday. Lieu said that while all 180 co-sponsors are Democrats, he is confident that Republican members of the House will support to impeach. 'We strongly believe some GOP legislators will vote for the Article of Impeachment based on what they informed us confidentially,' Lieu told Forbes. The move to impeach a sitting president a second time - an unprecedented event in American history - is being made as anger swells over the ransacking of the United States Capitol by a Trump-inspired mob on Wednesday. Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska has demanded that the president resign while her fellow Republican, Senator Ben Sasse of Nebraska, has said that he will 'definitely consider' any articles of impeachment brought by the House.




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