Trump news today: Iran supreme leader shares violent video of Donald as Jan 6 committee

Tim Boughner, 41, from Michigan who is accused of assaulting a Capitol officer and spraying pepper spray, lashed out at the judge and walked out of his detention proceedings.

His meltdown happened as the judge ruled that he would stay behind bars during his virtual hearing.

US Magistrate judge Zia Faruqui said that Boughner was a flight risk and a danger to the community, adding that he might attempt to flee to Canada or somewhere else.

“You got these dumb*ss comments that you’re saying I said but I did not say these things,” frustrated Boughner shouted. “Do we really have to go through all this?”

“You guys don’t know what happened,” Boughner continued. “You really don’t know what happened. You guys [are] gonna believe what you guys wanna believe. So hey, it is what it is.”

He went on to interrupt the judge and said: “You know what, I don’t care anymore, I’m done with this. So I’d like to go eat my food and play cards.”

As many as 16 Michigan Republicans who submitted fake certificates to the National Archives falsely declaring that Donald Trump won seven states are now facing potential federal investigations.

On Thursday night, Michigan attorney general Dana Nessel said that her office has referred the case to the US Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Michigan after a year-long investigation into the matter.

“I will say that under state law, I think clearly you have forgery of a public record, which is a 14-year offence, and election law forgery, which is a five-year offence,” Nessel told MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow.

“But what we have decided to do with the investigation, in light of the fact that of course we have seen … various different false slates of electors from several different states, in what seems to be a coordinated effort between the Republican parties in various different states, we think this is a matter that is best investigated and potentially prosecuted by the feds.”

Trump allies created fake certificates in Georgia, Arizona, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, Nevada and New Mexico, seeking to replace valid presidential electors, according to documents.

Texas attorney general Ken Paxton has been given four days deadline to turn over the documents of his communication from 6 January when he took part in the pro-Trump rally before the riots.

The Travis County district attorney determined that Paxton violated the Texas open records law by withholding or failing to retain his communications that should be subject to public release, reported Austin American Statesman.

Paxton, who is running for re-election this year, is facing scrutiny over allegations of an extramarital affair as well as a pending FBI bribery investigation.

The Republican has denied any wrongdoing in the cases.

The House committee investigating the January 6 insurrection on the Capitol issued subpoenas on Thursday to four major tech giants – Alphabet, Meta, Reddit and Twitter after the companies failed to provide documents requested by the panel.

The committee chairman, Bennie Thompson, in the letter criticised the platforms for“contributed to the violent attack on our democracy, and what steps — if any — social media companies took to prevent their platforms from being breeding grounds for radicalizing people to violence.”

“It’s disappointing that after months of engagement, we still do not have the documents and information necessary to answer those basic questions,” said Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi.

Read Andrew Feinberg’s full report here

Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, was arrested and charged with seditious conspiracy for his role in the 6 January attack on the US Capitol, according to the Department of Justice.

He was indicted with 10 other members of the group with forming a conspiracy “to oppose the lawful transfer of power by force, by preventing, hinder, or delaying by force the execution of the laws governing the transfer of power” that was set to take place at the expiration of former president Donald Trump’s term in office on 20 January.

David McCormick, a Republican hedge fund executive, appeared to dodge questions when he was asked about Donald Trump’s baseless claims that the 2020 presidential election was stolen from him.

McCormick, who announced he is running for the US Senate in Pennsylvania on Thursday morning, was asked the question by an NBC10 reporter when he did not give a definitive answer to whether Trump lost last year.

“Listen, here’s what I’d say which I think is obvious,” said McCormick, who describes himself as a pro-”America First” candidate.

“The rules changed across the country and in Pennsylvania, there were a number of election irregularities in Pennsylvania, you had that with the unsecure ballot boxes, you had that with the three-day extension…”

But he was interrupted by the reporter, who asked “So do you not think that the election results were clear?”

“Let me just finish!” he replied. “And as a consequence of that, most Republicans, a majority, don’t believe in the integrity of the election.”

Fox News host Laura Ingraham worried about further violence after the Capitol riot on 6 January last year, a newly released text message has revealed.

Six days after the insurrection, on 12 January, Ingraham wrote to the then-Chief of Staff in the Trump White House, Mark Meadows, to ask him to urge then-President Donald Trump to speak to his supporters and dissuade them from mounting armed protests against the election results at state capitols across the country.

“Remarks on camera discouraging protest at state capit[o]ls esp[ecially] with weapons will be well advised given how hot the situation is,” she wrote. “[E]veryone needs to calm down and pray for our country and for those who lost their lives last week.”

Gustaf Kilander and Tom Fenton have the story.

Donald Trump has called politicians who refuse to say whether they’ve had a Covid-19 booster shot “gutless” – and he appeared to be referring to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, who has dodged questions on if he has taken up the latest coronavirus shot.

Speaking on conservative One America News Network, the former president said “You gotta say it. Whether you had it or not, say it.”

Conservative commentator Ann Coulter lashed out at Mr Trump in defence of Mr DeSantis on Twitter.

“Trump is demanding to know Ron DeSantis’s booster status, and I can now reveal it. He was a loyal booster when Trump ran in 2016, but then he learned our president was a liar and con man whose grift was permanent. I hope that clears things up,” she wrote on Twitter.

Jade Bremner has the story.

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