Former President Donald Trump reposted a meme on Truth Social that suggested the government led the Capitol riot on January 6, despite the fact that he was president at the time.
The meme, which Mr Trump “re-truthed,” said: “January 6 will go down in history as the day the government staged a riot to cover up the fact that they certified a fraudulent election.”
The meme has been liked nearly 9,000 times and shared 2,400 times as of Monday. In reaction to Mr Trump’s repost, journalist Aaron Rupar sarcastically wrote on Twitter: “rubbing my last 2 brain cells together as I try to remember who ran the government on January 6.”
The former president shared the meme despite a House committee that investigated January 6 declaring Mr Trump the “central cause” of the day’s events. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him,” the House panel wrote in its final report.
Mr Trump’s move comes as it appears that Special Counsel Jack Smith’s January 6 criminal probe is nearing the indictment phase. The former president announced on the platform last week that the special counsel informed him that he was a “target” in the investigation.
Mr Trump is currently the GOP frontrunner in the 2024 presidential race. A number of his colleagues have hesitated in calling out his actions – or inaction – leading up to the Capitol attack.
Mr Trump ‘re-truthed’ the meme that blamed the government for the Capitol riot
(Truth Social)
Fellow GOP presidential candidate and Mr Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, told CNN on Sunday that although his words were “reckless” on January 6, “I am not yet convinced that they were criminal.” He continued, “I don’t honestly know what his intention was that day.”
Similarly last week, another GOP candidate, Florida Gov Ron DeSantis, accused Mr Trump of not doing enough during the Capitol riot, saying he “should have come out more forcefully.” Mr DeSantis’ decision to call out his former ally arrives one month after he avoided answering a question about how the former president behaved on January 6.

Republican presidential candidate Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis said in a recent interview that some states allow abortion after an infant has already been born.

As a nation, the time is long overdue for fundamental changes to our national priorities

Again the conservative small-government governor is penalizing a business for choosing inclusivity over bigotry.

Freedom from Religion Foundation says the Bible should be banned based on the same reasoning Moms for Liberty presented in their request to pull five books; \

The judge said Donald Trump “improperly invoked” a U.S. code in an attempt to have his case moved.

A new ad goes after the Texas senator for caring more about the Barbie movie than his own constituents.

The "Invisible Library" dataset is free to download. It contains detailed information on book bans by school district across the United States up to June 2022.

Republicans accused Democrats of trying to undermine the court with the measure and vowed to block it from advancing in the Senate, making it highly unlikely to become law.

The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday approved legislation that would impose strict new ethics rules on justices, moving over fierce objections from Republicans to address a string of revelations about Supreme Court justices taking free luxury trips and receiving other financial benefits from wealthy benefactors.
The legislation, which stands little chance of advancing given the strong G.O.P. opposition, would require the Supreme Court to, at a minimum, adopt and adhere to ethics and disclosure rules equivalent to those applied to members of Congress. It would also impose new transparency requirements and create a panel of appellate judges to review misconduct complaints made against the justices. Democratic members of the committee said the action was necessary because the court has refused to police itself.
“This legislation will be a crucial first step in restoring confidence in the court after a steady stream of reports of justice’s ethical failures,” Senator Richard J. Durbin, Democrat of Illinois and chairman of the committee, said of the bill, which passed on a party-line vote.
Republicans accused Democrats of trying to “destroy” the conservative-dominated court and undermine its credibility in a fit of pique over decisions on abortion rights, the environment, civil rights and federal power that Democrats opposed. They said it had no chance of becoming law.
“This bill is going nowhere,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, the senior Republican on the committee, who said the legislation would “fundamentally change the way the court operates.”
He and other Republicans on the panel said the legislation represented a blatant violation of the constitutional separation of powers because it would allow lower court judges to cast judgment on justices who review and sometimes reverse lower court decisions. They said lawyers would try to use the new rules to force justices to recuse themselves and bog down the court.
“I think our founders are rolling over in their graves,” said Senator John Cornyn, Republican of Texas.
Democrats conceded the legislation could not pass the current Senate, where it would need 60 votes, and has no prospects in the Republican-controlled House. But they said the debate would focus attention on ethics issues on the Supreme Court and could build momentum for future action by Congress.
Image
The ethics rule fight was the latest clash over the court in a committee that has seen increasingly partisan fights over judicial nominations and the confirmations of the justices themselves.Credit...Kenny Holston/The New York Times
“We are here because the highest court in the land has the lowest standards of ethics anywhere in the federal government and justices have exhibited much improper behavior, not least in hapless efforts to excuse the misdeeds,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island and the chief author of the bill. “This cannot go on. Defending this behavior defends the indefensible.”
The fight was the latest clash over the court in a committee that has seen increasingly partisan fights over judicial nominations and the confirmations of the justices themselves. Mr. Graham suggested earlier this week that the Democratic decision to pursue the ethics legislation despite the fact that it could not clear Congress was likely to lead to less Republican cooperation on the panel.
The Democratic push followed a series of news reports showing that Justice Clarence Thomas and Justice Samuel A. Alito took lavish vacations and private jet trips on the courtesy of billionaires and failed to disclose them. In Justice Thomas’s case, a Republican megadonor, Harlan Crow, also paid for the education of a relative and purchased real estate from the justice.
Senator Peter Welch, Democrat of Vermont, said his constituents have expressed surprise that justices could receive such benefits, much less fail to disclose them.
“Disclosure is the bare minimum, and that has to apply to anybody who is a judge,” he said.
In defending the trips, the two justices said that they believed that they did not have to report them because of their social relationships with those picking up the tab. And Republicans pointed to a clarification earlier this year to the code of ethics that governs judges on federal courts other than the Supreme Court that they must disclose free stays at commercial properties.
The Supreme Court is not bound by that judicial code of ethics because of its special constitutional status. But in a letter to the committee earlier this year, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. said that the court “takes guidance” from the ethics code followed by the lower courts.
Republicans said the ethics legislation was the latest installment in a Democratic push to stoke public anger toward the court. They repeatedly noted that Senator Chuck Schumer, Democrat of New York and the majority leader, appeared at a 2020 abortion rights rally outside the Supreme Court, singled out Justices Neil M. Gorsuch and Brett M. Kavanaugh and said they had “released the whirlwind” and “will pay the price” if they stripped away abortion rights.
Image
This legislation will be a crucial first step in restoring confidence in the court after a steady stream of reports of justice’s ethical failures,” Senator Richard J. Durbin said.Credit...Valerie Plesch for The New York Times
The comments drew a stinging rebuke from Chief Justice Roberts, and Mr. Schumer walked them back the next day, saying he meant there would be political consequences.
“This bill is not about oversight or accountability,” said Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa and a former chairman of the Judiciary Committee. “It is about harassing and intimidating the Supreme Court.”
But Democrats said that they were simply trying to eliminate an ethics cloud hanging over the court and noted that ethics questions had been raised against justices appointed by both Republicans and Democrats.
“The highest court in the land should be setting an example,” said Senator Mazie K. Hirono, Democrat of Hawaii.
Before approving the legislation, Democrats on the committee beat back a series of Republican amendments meant to kill it.
Despite the committee approval, Mr. Schumer has not committed to bringing the ethics legislation to the floor for a showdown, which could hamper or slow other must-pass items. It is unlikely that there would be action anytime soon, since the Senate is trying to advance bipartisan legislation on Pentagon policy and spending, among other issues.
But Mr. Schumer on Thursday reiterated his backing for the bill.
“The American people agree that justices who sit on the highest court in the land should be held to equally high ethical standards,” he said.

An indictment, Mr Trump’s third in four months, could be handed down any day after he was sent a ‘target’ letter by Jack Smith

"What they do is lie to try to steal elections, that has not stopped," says Colorado Sec. of State Jena Griswold

The California Democrat said that Trump is acting "guilty" by asking for his classified documents trial to be postponed until after the 2024 election.