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The Biden administration said Friday it has dismantled a Trump-era government office to help victims of crimes committed by immigrants, a move that symbolizes U.S. President <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Joe-Biden" target="_blank">Joe Biden&#8217;s</a> rejection of former President <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Donald-Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> repeated efforts to link immigrants to crime.
Trump created the Victim Of Immigration Crime Engagement Office, known by its acronym VOICE, by executive order during his first week in office in January 2017.
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said it was replacing VOICE with a &#8220;more comprehensive and inclusive victim support system.&#8221;
		
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VOICE will be replaced by The Victims Engagement and Services Line, which will combine longstanding existing services, such as methods for people to report abuse and mistreatment in immigration detention centers and a notification system for lawyers and others with a vested interest in immigration cases.
The new office will add a service for potential recipients of visas designated for victims of human trafficking or violent crimes in the United States.
&#8220;Providing assistance to society&#8217;s most vulnerable is a core American value. All people, regardless of their immigration status, should be able to access victim services without fear,&#8221; said Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas.
Stephen Miller, a key architect of Trump&#8217;s immigration policies, called the decision to close VOICE a &#8220;moral stain on the conscience of our nation.&#8221;
He likened the new office to the Drug Enforcement Administration opening &#8220;a call center to help drug dealers get lawyers and amnesty for their crimes.&#8221;
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The Department of Homeland Security &#8220;is a law enforcement agency, not a legal help center for criminals and lawbreakers,&#8221; Miller said.
Jon Feere, an ICE official during the Trump administration, said he referred a man to VOICE whose sister was killed by an intoxicated driver and that the office helped families understand the status of immigration cases.
The change of tone regarding immigration has been striking between the two administrations.
While studies suggest immigrants are less likely to commit crime than native-born, Trump relentlessly sought to establish a link. He launched his 2016 presidential campaign by portraying Mexicans in the country illegally as violent criminals and frequently highlighted the MS-13 gang, which was started by Salvadoran immigrants.
To advance his immigration agenda, Trump invited &#8220;angel families&#8221; &#8212; people whose loved ones had been victims of crimes by immigrants &#8212; to campaign rallies and high-profile speeches.
Trump&#8217;s office for victims of violent crimes appears to have had little impact.
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Its most recent quarterly report posted online for the last three months of 2018 said it fielded 781 calls during the three-month period &#8212; and that just 256 of the calls pertained to services it offered. About half were requests on the status of immigration cases, and many of the rest were referrals for assistance, such as social services to help cope with impacts of domestic violence or assault.
The office was used as a platform by the Trump administration to promote a link between immigrants and crime.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve had to hold the hand of too many mothers who lost a child to a DUI or somebody else who&#8217;s been raped by an illegal alien or someone with a nexus to immigration,&#8221; Barbara Gonzalez, the then-director of VOICE, told reporters in October 2019. &#8220;It is a problem we cannot ignore as a country.
In April, the Biden administration ordered U.S. officials to avoid using terms like &#8220;illegal alien&#8221; and instead use the phrase &#8220;undocumented noncitizen.&#8221;
Vice President Kamala Harris drew strong criticism from some of the administration&#8217;s pro-immigration allies for telling would-be migrants during a visit to Guatemala on Monday, &#8220;Do not come &#8230; Do not come,&#8221; and that they would be denied entry at the U.S. border with Mexico.
Associated Press writer Julie Watson contributed to this report.

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Republicans are fighting to seize control of Congress. Just don&#8217;t ask what they&#8217;d do if they win.
Look no further for evidence of the GOP&#8217;s muddled governing agenda than battleground North Carolina, where party leaders packed into a convention hall Saturday night to cheer former President Donald Trump. Even with a high-stakes U.S. Senate election looming, the Republicans there were united not by any consistent set of conservative policies or principles, but by Trump&#8217;s groundless grievances about the 2020 election and his attacks against critics in both parties.
The lack of a forward-looking agenda stands in stark contrast to successful midterm elections of past years, particularly 1994 and 2010, when Republicans swept into power after staking clear positions on health care, federal spending and crime, among other issues. Without such a strategy heading into 2022, Republicans on the ballot risk allowing themselves to be wholly defined by Trump, who lost his last election when he drew 7 million fewer votes nationally than Democrat Joe Biden and who has seen his popularity slide further, even among some Republicans, since leaving office in January.
		
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&#8220;I&#8217;m unaware of a GOP agenda. I would love to see one,&#8221; said Texas-based conservative activist and former tea party leader Mark Meckler.
&#8220;Nobody knows what they&#8217;re about,&#8221; he said of today&#8217;s Republicans. &#8220;They do this at their own peril.&#8221;
The GOP&#8217;s embrace of Trump&#8217;s self-serving priorities has almost completely consumed the party&#8217;s long-standing commitment to fiscal discipline, free markets and even the rule of law. That leaves Republican candidates from North Carolina to North Dakota unwilling or unable to tell voters how they would address the nation&#8217;s biggest challenges if given the chance.
Party leaders acknowledge it could be another year or more before Republicans develop a clear governing agenda. In the meantime, Trump, who is focused on the past far more than the future, plans to become a regular campaign fixture again. Building on Saturday&#8217;s North Carolina appearance, his advisers are eying potential rallies in states with top Senate races in 2022, including Ohio, Florida, Alabama and Georgia.
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In an interview, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, who leads the Senate Republican political arm, offered a lukewarm response when asked about Trump&#8217;s role in the upcoming campaign.
&#8220;We both want to take back the majority in 2022. I tell him what I&#8217;m doing, and I&#8217;d love to get his support,&#8221; Scott said of Trump.
He balked when asked whether Trump should serve as the face of the Republican Party for the midterms, when control of the House, Senate and dozens of governorships are at stake.
&#8220;The face of the party is each individual race,&#8221; Scott said, noting that there will be hundreds of Republican candidates on midterm ballots. &#8220;The party is those people, it&#8217;s not one person, it&#8217;s not one person&#8217;s agenda.&#8221;
		
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For now, when Republicans are not aligning themselves with Trump, they&#8217;re focusing much of their energy on culture wars and railing against Biden&#8217;s agenda. The president, backed by narrow Democratic majorities in the House and Senate, has already adopted a $1.9 trillion pandemic relief package that was widely popular among voters. Now, he&#8217;s pushing a massive infrastructure package that polls suggest could be equally popular.
Gov. Larry Hogan, R-Md., worries that Republicans could squander built-in advantages in their quest to win back control of Congress and expand their advantage with governorships. In recent history, the party out of the White House has almost always made significant gains in the first midterm election of a new presidency.
Democrats will lose control of Congress if Republicans flip just five seats in the House and only one in the Senate.
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&#8220;The only way we can screw it up is with Donald Trump,&#8221; Hogan told The Associated Press, lamenting that Republicans in Washington are consumed by infighting and &#8220;swearing fealty to one individual.&#8221;
The two-term governor and frequent Trump critic continued: &#8220;I&#8217;m really kind of frustrated with the fact that the Republican Party doesn&#8217;t seem to be focused on an agenda. It doesn&#8217;t seem to be focused on putting up coherent arguments for what people care about.&#8221;
Some Republican leaders close to Trump are encouraging him to look to the future.
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The former president is set to meet this week with the chairman of the Republican Study Committee, Rep. Jim Banks of Indiana, to begin discussing the party&#8217;s policy prescriptions should the GOP retake the House majority next year.
Trump has met privately with former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, R-Ga., and Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., in recent weeks to discuss the creation of policy document in line with Gingrich&#8217;s famous &#8220;Contract With America,&#8221; which outlined a clear and concise Republican agenda before the GOP&#8217;s 1994 midterm success.
Trump adviser Jason Miller said it&#8217;s &#8220;a bit of an overreach&#8221; to suggest Trump is actively working with Gingrich to create the document.
In the meantime, Republican candidates in key Senate contests, North Carolina among them, are struggling to offer voters a clear vision for what they would do if elected as they fight for Trump&#8217;s endorsement.
		
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At least three Republicans are competing to succeed retiring North Carolina Sen. Richard Burr, who was censured by state party leaders for supporting Trump&#8217;s impeachment in February. The Republican nomination fight features former Gov. Pat McCrory, current Rep. Ted Budd and former Rep. Mark Walker.
After Trump&#8217;s daughter-in-law Lara Trump bowed out of the race over the weekend, Trump formally endorsed Budd, the only candidate in the Republican primary who voted against certifying Trump&#8217;s 2020 election loss.
Walker had called himself the most &#8220;pro-Trump congressman from North Carolina&#8221; but that apparently was not enough to win Trump&#8217;s backing.
Beyond courting Trump, Budd has also played up the GOP&#8217;s culture wars. In his kickoff video, the gun store owner addressed growing immigration at the border with Mexico and the decision by Dr. Seuss&#8217; publisher to stop printing some of the popular children&#8217;s book author&#8217;s books because of racist imagery. Budd said he read the books to his children &#8220;and they turned out just fine.&#8221;
Trump slapped at McCrory in Saturday&#8217;s address by reminding voters, without using his name, that the former Republican governor had previously lost two elections.
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McCrory, who hails from the GOP&#8217;s business wing, has embraced elements of Trump&#8217;s agenda, but has been critical of Trump&#8217;s false claims about election fraud.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not going to be diverted by talking about the past because I care about the future,&#8221; he told the AP in April.
With 17 months before the 2022 general election and few voters paying close attention to the midterm jockeying, Republicans have time to develop an agenda that moves beyond Trump&#8217;s grievances and conservative culture wars.
But it&#8217;s unclear whether there is sufficient political will.
Scott, the Florida senator, said his party must ultimately communicate what it&#8217;s for _ instead of simply what it&#8217;s against. But he noted that the &#8220;Contract With America&#8221; was released only two months before the 1994 election.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t know if there will be a real contract for America, or everybody will just be more consistent with what they&#8217;re talking about,&#8221; Scott said of the Republican agenda in months ahead.
On Trump, Scott added, &#8220;I think he&#8217;s going to be helpful.&#8221;
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Peoples reported from New York.

The lack of a forward-looking agenda stands in stark contrast to successful midterm elections of past years.

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Former U.S. President Donald Trump on Saturday pushed Republicans to support those candidates who share his values in next year&#8217;s midterm elections as he launched a new more active phase of his post presidency.
The former Republican president teased the prospect of another presidential bid of his own in 2024, but vowed first to be an active presence on the campaign trail for his allies in next year&#8217;s fight for control of Congress.
&#8220;The survival of America depends on our ability to elect Republicans at every level starting with the midterms next year,&#8221; Trump charged.
		
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Trump delivered his latest comments in a speech to hundreds of Republican officials and activists gathered for the North Carolina GOP convention, the opening appearance in what is expected to be a new phase of rallies and public events. Out of office for more than four months and banned from his preferred social media accounts, the former president hopes to use such events to elevate his diminished voice ahead of another potential presidential run.
His advisers are already eyeing subsequent appearances in Ohio, Florida, Alabama and Georgia to help bolster midterm candidates and energize voters.
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In contrast to the mega rallies that filled sports arenas when Trump was president, he faced a crowd of several hundred North Carolina Republicans seated at dinner tables inside the Greenville convention center Saturday night. Tens of thousands more followed along on internet streams.
Invited to the stage briefly during his remarks, Trump daughter-in-law and North Carolina native Lara Trump announced she would not run for the Senate because of family obligations.
&#8220;I am saying no for now, not no forever,&#8221; Lara Trump said.
		
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Minutes later, Trump announced his endorsement of loyalist Rep. Ted Budd in the crowded Republican primary, adding a slap at former Gov. Pat McCrory, who has been critical of Trump&#8217;s falsehoods about the 2020 election.
&#8220;You can&#8217;t pick people who have already lost two races and do not stand for our values,&#8221; Trump said.
Trump devoted much of his remarks to railing against President Joe Biden, which he called &#8220;the most radical left-wing administration in history.&#8221;
&#8220;As we gather tonight our country is being destroyed before our very eyes,&#8221; he said.
		
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Democratic National Committee spokesman Ammar Moussa took a shot at Trump in a statement released ahead of his speech.
&#8220;More than 400,000 dead Americans, millions of jobs lost, and recklessly dangerous rhetoric is apparently not enough for Republicans to break with a loser president who cost them the White House, Senate, and House,&#8221; Moussa said.
While Trump has had to work harder to make his voice heard since leaving office, he remains a commanding force in the Republican Party. A recent Quinnipiac University national poll found that 66% of Republicans would like to see him run for reelection, though the same number of Americans overall said they would prefer he didn&#8217;t.

The former Republican president vowed first to be an active presence on the campaign trail for his allies in next year’s fight for control of Congress.

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Former U.S. president <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> has been banned from Facebook for two years after encouraging the violent mob that attacked the <a href="https://globalnews.ca/tag/us-capitol-riot" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">U.S. Capitol</a> on Jan. 6, the company said Friday.
&#8220;At the end of this period, we will look to experts to assess whether the risk to public safety has receded. We will evaluate external factors, including instances of violence, restrictions on peaceful assembly and other markers of civil unrest,” Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice president of global affairs wrote in a blog post Friday.
		
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Trump was booted off most major social media platforms on Jan. 6 after his supporters marched on the Capitol; he then told them that he &#8220;loved&#8221; them in the hours following the deadly riot. Trump had also spent months laying the groundwork for the uprising on social media, where he stoked baseless conspiracy theories that any election loss he suffered would be illegitimate.
Twitter <a href="https://blog.twitter.com/en_us/topics/company/2020/suspension.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">permanently banned Trump</a> after the riot, while Facebook initially suspended him for an indefinite length of time, citing the &#8220;risk of further incitement of violence.&#8221;
Facebook&#8217;s independent Oversight Board extended Trump&#8217;s suspension by six months in May. The board also declined to make a final ruling on whether to allow Trump back in the future, and left that decision to CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
		
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Zuckerberg has long argued that politicians&#8217; speech should not be policed, even when it is offensive, because of its newsworthiness.
The Oversight Board had recommended that Facebook revisit that policy, saying that newsworthiness should not take priority over preventing significant harm.
The social media giant said on Friday it will no longer give special treatment to politicians, although it will still apply this “newsworthiness” exemption to certain posts it deems to be in the public interest, even if they violate Facebook rules.
Facebook&#8217;s decision leaves Trump with few online outlets for his message, even as his supporters call for him to launch another presidential bid in 2024.
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Trump launched a Twitter-like blog on his personal website last month, but he shut that blog down on Wednesday and has not signalled where he might pop up next.
The former president gave up on his blog because he didn&#8217;t like being mocked for its poor traffic numbers, the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/06/02/trump-blog-dead/" target="_blank" rel="noopener" target="_blank">Washington Post</a> reported.
Trump claimed that he is being censored in a widely-circulated press release on Friday, after the Facebook decision was announced.
&#8220;Facebook’s ruling is an insult to the record-setting 75 M people, plus many others, who voted for us in the 2020 Rigged Presidential Election,&#8221; Trump wrote. &#8220;They shouldn’t be allowed to get away with this censoring and silencing, and ultimately, we will win. Our Country can’t take this abuse anymore!&#8221;
Trump set a record with 74.2 million votes, the most ever for a losing presidential candidate. Joe Biden won the popular tally with 81.2 million votes. He also won the presidency with 74 more electoral college votes than Trump.
Trump&#8217;s legal team lost more than 60 court battles while failing to prove any of his claims of systemic voter fraud in the election.
— With files from Reuters and the Associated Press

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<a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/donald-trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> was calling into yet another friendly radio show when he was asked, as he often is, whether he’s planning a comeback bid for the White House. “We need you,” conservative commentator Dan Bongino told the former president.
“Well, I’ll tell you what,” Trump responded. “We are going to make you very happy, and we’re going to do what’s right.”
It was a noncommittal answer typical of a former president who spent decades toying with presidential runs. But multiple people who have spoken with Trump and his team in recent weeks say such remarks shouldn’t be viewed as idle chatter. Instead, they sense a shift, with Trump increasingly acting and talking like he plans to mount a run as he embarks on a more public phase of his post-presidency, beginning with a speech on Saturday in North Carolina.
		
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The interest in another run, at least for now, comes as Trump has been consumed by efforts to undo last year’s election, advancing baseless falsehoods that it was stolen and obsessing over recounts and audits that he is convinced could overturn the results, even though numerous recounts have validated his loss. He’s also facing the most serious legal threat of his career.
New York prosecutors have convened a special grand jury to consider evidence in their criminal investigation into his business dealings — seen by many as a sign that Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. is moving toward seeking charges in the two-year, wide-ranging investigation that has included scrutiny of hush money payments, property valuations and employee compensation.
Trump has slammed the probe as “purely political,” and those around him insist he isn’t concerned about potential legal exposure even as they suggest his political posture is evolving.
“I have definitely picked up a shift that there’s more of an intentionality to be leaning on the side of it’s going to happen than it’s not,” said Matt Schlapp, chair of the American Conservative Union, who is close to the former president. “I think it’s a very real possibility.”
Trump would face daunting headwinds in addition to his legal vulnerabilities. He would run with the legacy of being the only American president to be impeached twice. A campaign would almost certainly revive memories of the deadly insurrection he helped spark at the U.S. Capitol earlier this year, potentially dragging down other Republicans who have sought to move past the violence.
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Beyond that, Trump would be 78 years old on Inauguration Day in 2025 — the same age as Democrat Joe Biden on his own Inauguration Day this year — and multiple Republicans are already making moves for runs of their own. Trump’s former vice president, Mike Pence, is slated to visit the early voting state of New Hampshire on Thursday.
Trump has long dangled the prospect of presidential campaigns to gin up media attention and stay part of the conversation. And many had initially brushed off Trump’s talk of another run as a tool to maintain relevance and his status as a GOP kingmaker. But there are tentative signs that he plans to follow through in more substantive ways to test his political strength, including by holding rallies this summer. His team is eyeing events in Ohio, Florida, Alabama and Georgia to bolster midterm candidates and energize voters.
Allies say Trump misses the office and is eager to return to the action — especially as he sees other potential candidates making moves. He has also felt emboldened by some recent developments, including the ouster of one of his chief critics, Republican Rep. Liz Cheney, from her House leadership position. And some see the presidency as offering potentially useful legal shelter as probes into him and his family business intensify.
“There’s a continued, enduring interest and folks encouraging him to run in 2024, but he’s in no rush to make a decision. And he’ll do that at the appropriate time,” said Trump spokesperson Jason Miller.
There is doubt, however, among some in Trump’s orbit that he will move forward unless he sees a clear path to victory, for fear of being stained by another loss.
For now, Trump remains obsessed with the 2020 election. One longtime ally said one reason Trump has not said he’s running outright is because he has refused to acknowledge the election is over. The person said he’s now going a step further by giving credence to a bizarre conspiracy theory that he could somehow be reinstated into the presidency in August.
		
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There’s no constitutional or legal mechanism for Trump to return to the presidency absent winning another election in 2024. Trump’s argument that the last election was tainted has been roundly rejected by federal and state officials, including his own attorney general and Republican election leaders. Judges, including those appointed by Trump, also dismissed his claims.
The person who described his thinking, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.
As Trump advances such baseless conspiracy theories, Republican state legislators are pushing what experts say is an unprecedented number of bills aimed at restricting access to the ballot box that could affect future elections. While Republicans say the goal is to prevent voter fraud, Democrats contend the measures are aimed at undermining minority voting rights.
Trump remains a commanding force in the Republican Party, despite his loss. A recent Quinnipiac University national poll found that 66% of Republicans would like to see him run for reelection, though the same number of Americans overall said they would prefer he didn’t — and there is no evidence that he has grown any more popular since losing by more than 7 million votes last November.
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Supporters in early-voting states are anticipating another Trump run, even as a long list of other would-be contenders, including former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton, have been making visits.
“He’s definitely laying the groundwork, keeping his powder dry for a run,” Josh Whitehouse, a former member of the New Hampshire House of Representatives who worked for Trump’s campaign and administration, said of the former president. “I’d expect nothing less, knowing who he is and having worked for him for so long.”
While voters will certainly hear out other candidates, he said that, at the end of the day, support will coalesce around Trump if he decides to run.
“The energy’s still there,” Whitehouse said. “You can’t replicate it.”

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Former President Donald Trump’s lies about a stolen 2020 election united right-wing supporters, conspiracy theorists and militants on Jan. 6, but the aftermath of the insurrection is roiling two of the most prominent far-right extremist groups at the U.S. Capitol that day.
More than three dozen members and associates across both the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers have been charged with crimes. Some local chapters cut ties with national leadership in the weeks after the deadly siege. The Proud Boys’ chairman called for a pause in the rallies that often have led to clashes with anti-fascist activists. And one Oath Keeper has agreed to cooperate against others charged in the riot.
		
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Some extremism experts see parallels between the fallout from the Capitol riot and the schisms that divided far-right figures and groups after their violent clashes with counter-protesters at the “Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017. The white supremacist “alt-right” movement fractured and ultimately faded from public view after the violence erupted that weekend.
“I think something kind of like that is happening right now in the broader far-right movement, where the cohesive tissue that brought them all together — being the 2020 election — it’s kind of dissolved,” said Jared Holt, a resident fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab.
“Like ‘Unite the Right,’ there is a huge disaster, a P.R. disaster, and now they’ve got the attention of the feds. And it’s even more intense now because they have the national security apparatus breathing down their necks,” he added.
But others believe President Joe Biden’s victory and the Jan. 6 investigation, the largest federal prosecution in history, might animate the militia movement — fueled by an anti-government anger.
“We’re already seeing a lot of this rhetoric being spewed in an effort to pull in people,” said Freddy Cruz, a Southern Poverty Law Center research analyst who studies anti-government groups. “It’s very possible that people will become energized and try to coordinate more activity given that we have a Democratic president in office.”
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The insurrectionists who descended on the nation’s capital briefly disrupted the certification of Biden’s presidential win and sent terrified lawmakers running for their lives.
The mob marched to the Capitol and broke through police barricades and overwhelmed officers, violently shoving their way into the building to chants of “Hang Mike Pence” and “Stop the Steal.” Some rioters came prepared with pepper spray, baseball bats and other weapons.
Members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers make up just a small fraction of the more than 400 people charged so far. Prosecutors have narrowed in on the two extremist groups as they try to determine how much planning went into the attack, but authorities have said they’re intent on arresting anyone involved in the riot.
More than two dozen Proud Boys leaders, members or associates are among those arrested. The group of self-described “Western chauvinists” emerged from far-right fringes during the Trump administration to mainstream GOP circles, with allies like longtime Trump backer Roger Stone. The group claims it has more than 30,000 members nationwide.
In the sustained protests last summer over police brutality, their counter demonstrations often devolved into violence. Law enforcement stepped in during a protest in Michigan. Members were accused of vandalizing property in Washington, D.C. Then, during a presidential debate with Biden, the group gained greater notoriety after Trump refused to condemn white supremacist groups and told the Proud Boys directly to “stand back and stand by.”
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Chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio hasn’t been charged in the riot. He wasn’t there on Jan. 6. He’d been arrested in an unrelated vandalism case as he arrived in Washington two days before the insurrection and was ordered out of the area by a judge. Law enforcement later said Tarrio was picked up in part to help quell potential violence.
Tarrio insists the criminal charges haven’t weakened or divided the group. He says he has met with leaders of chapters that declared their independence and patched up their differences.
“We’ve been through the wringer,” Tarrio said in an interview. “Any other group after January 6th would fall apart.”
But leaders of several local Proud Boys chapters, including in Seattle, Las Vegas, Indiana and Alabama, said after Jan. 6 that their members were cutting ties with the organization’s national leadership. Four leaders, including national Elders Council member Ethan Nordean, have been charged by federal officials with planning and leading an attack on the Capitol. One of Nordean’s attorneys said he wasn’t responsible for any crimes committed by other people.
The Las Vegas chapter’s statement on the instant messaging platform Telegram in February didn’t mention Jan. 6 directly, but it claimed the “overall direction of the organization” was endangering its members.
The Alabama group expressed concern about reports that Tarrio had previously been a federal informant. It was revealed in court records recently that Tarrio had worked undercover and cooperated with investigators after he was accused of fraud in 2012.
		
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“We reject and disavow the proven federal informant, Enrique Tarrio, and any and all chapters that choose to associate with him,” the Alabama group posted online in February.
Tarrio said he suspended national Proud Boy rallies shortly after Jan. 6 in part to focus on helping members facing criminal charges. Tarrio described Jan. 6 as “horrible” but said authorities overcharged his jailed lieutenants and are politically persecuting them.
Meanwhile, 16 members and associates of the Oath Keepers — a militia group founded in 2009 that recruits current and former military, police and first responders — have been charged with conspiring to block the certification of the vote. The group’s founder and leader, Stewart Rhodes, has said there were as many as 40,000 Oath Keepers at its peak, but one extremism expert estimates the group’s membership stands around 3,000 nationally.
Rhodes has not been charged, and it’s unclear if he will be. But he has repeatedly come up in court documents as “Person One,” suggesting he’s a central focus of investigators.
Days after the election, Rhodes instructed his followers during a GoToMeeting call to go to Washington to let Trump know “that the people are behind him,” and he expressed hope that Trump would call up the militia to help the president stay in power, authorities say. Rhodes warned they could be headed for a “bloody, bloody civil war, and a bloody — you can call it an insurrection or you can call it a war or fight,” according to court documents.
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On Jan. 6, several Oath Keepers, wearing helmets and reinforced vests, were seen on camera shouldering their way up the Capitol steps in a military-style stack formation. Rhodes was communicating that day with some Oath Keepers who entered the Capitol and was seen standing with several of the defendants outside the building after the riot, prosecutors say.
Rhodes has sought to distance himself from those who’ve been arrested, insisting the members went rogue and there was never a plan to enter the Capitol. But he has continued in interviews with right-wing hosts since Jan. 6 to push the lie that the election was stolen, while the Oath Keepers website remains active with posts painting the group as the victim of political persecution.
Messages left at numbers listed for Rhodes weren’t immediately returned.
Court documents show discord among the group as early the night of the attack. Someone identified in the records only as “Person Eleven” blasted the Oath Keepers in a Signal chat with Rhodes and others as “a huge f—n joke” and called Rhodes “the dumbass I heard you were,” court documents say.
Two months later, Rhodes lamented in a message to another Oath Keeper that the national team had gotten “too lax” and “too complacent.” He pledged to “tighten up the command and control” in the group — “even if it means losing some people,” according to court documents.
After the riot, the North Carolina Oath Keepers branch said it was splitting from Rhodes’ group. Its president, who didn’t return messages from the AP, told The News Reporter newspaper it wouldn’t be “a part of anything that terrorizes anybody or goes against law enforcement.”
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A leader of an Arizona chapter also slammed Rhodes and those facing charges, saying on CBS’ “60 Minutes” that the attack “goes against everything we’ve ever taught, everything we believe in.”
The Oath Keepers’ leader has also suggested the group may be facing financial pressures. In an interview posted on the Oath Keepers’ website, Rhodes said it has been difficult for the group to raise money as it’s been kicked off certain websites.
The group also lost the ability to process credit card payments online after the company demanded that Rhodes disavow the arrested members and he refused, Rhodes said in a March interview for far-right website Gateway Pundit. The Oath Keepers website now says it cannot accept new memberships online because of “malicious leftist attacks” and instructs people to mail in applications and dues.
A member of the Oath Keepers was the first defendant to plead guilty in the riot. Jon Ryan Schaffer has also agreed to cooperate with the government’s investigation. The Justice Department has promised to consider putting him in the witness security program, suggesting it sees him as a valuable cooperator in the Jan. 6 probe.

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Emerging from two years of relative silence, former House Speaker Paul Ryan joined the fight against <a href="https://www.flyingeze.com/category/donald-trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> on Thursday, urging fellow conservatives to reject the former president’s divisive politics and those Republican leaders who emulate him.
Ryan made his remarks during an evening address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. He was critical of both Republicans and Democrats, though he saved his sharpest barbs for Trump, who is by most measures the leader of the modern-day Republican Party.
		
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“It was horrifying to see a presidency come to such a dishonourable and disgraceful end,” Ryan said, referring to the deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol that Trump inspired on Jan. 6.
“Once again, we conservatives find ourselves at a crossroads,” Ryan continued. “And here’s the reality that we have to face: If the conservative cause depends on the populist appeal of one personality, or on second-rate imitations, then we’re not going anywhere. Voters looking for Republican leaders want to see independence and mettle. They will not be impressed by the sight of yes-men and flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago.”
It’s unclear how much impact Ryan’s words will have in the broader fight for the future of the GOP, if any. Ryan, the 2012 Republican vice presidential nominee, was among the most respected Republicans in the nation’s capital before Trump’s rise, but two years out of office, his open contempt for Trump is not in line with the vast majority of Republican voters and elected officials.
A tiny but growing group of anti-Trump Republicans has struggled to steer the party in a new direction, even as Trump continues to promote the same false claims — that he would have won the 2020 election if not for mass voter fraud — that inspired the Capitol insurrection. At the same time, Trump is openly contemplating another presidential run in 2024.
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One of Trump’s most vocal allies on Capitol Hill, Rep. Lauren Boebert, R-Colo., lashed out at Ryan on Twitter ahead of the speech.
“It really is amazing that Paul Ryan, who is the reason the GOP lost the House in 2018, is going to come out today and blame Trump for the problems in the GOP,” she said, adding a shot at another Trump critic, Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo. “Paul, the problem is you and your pal Liz.”
Ryan spoke Thursday as the opening speaker for the Reagan library’s “Time for Choosing” series, which will later feature 2024 Republican presidential prospects such as former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Those close to Ryan, 51, do not expect him to run for public office again, but they suggest he is paying close attention and remains concerned about the future of the party. The Wisconsin Republican also sits on the board of Fox Corp., which owns Fox News.
		
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In his remarks, Ryan described President Joe Biden’s agenda as “more leftist than any president in my lifetime” and warned of exploding federal spending under the Democrats who control Washington. He lamented the GOP’s interest in culture wars and “identity politics” at the expense of conservative principles.
“Culture matters, absolutely yes, but our party must be defined by more than a tussle over the latest grievance or perceived slight,” he said. “We must not let them take priority over solutions — grounded in principle — to improve people’s lives.”
The Republican Party has an opportunity to win elections and address critical policy challenges, as long as they don’t get in their own way, Ryan continued.
“If we fail this test, it will be because the progressive left will have won by default,” he said. “It will be because the conservative cause &#8230; lost its way and followed the left into the trap of identity politics, defining itself by resentments instead of by ideals. It will be because we mistake reactionary skirmishes in the culture wars with a coherent agenda. It will be because we gave too much allegiance to one passing political figure and weren’t loyal enough to our principles.”

Ryan made his remarks during an evening address at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California.

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The Biden administration said Monday that it would appeal a judge&#8217;s order directing it to release in its entirety a legal memo on whether former U.S. president <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Donald-Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a> had obstructed justice during the <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Russia" target="_blank">Russia</a> investigation. But it also agreed to make a brief portion of the document public.
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson earlier this month ordered the Justice Department to release the entire March 2019 memo as part of a public records lawsuit from a Washington-based advocacy organization. She said the department, under Attorney General William Barr, had misstated the purpose of the document in arguing that it was legally entitled to withhold it from the group, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.
In a motion filed late Monday, the deadline for deciding whether it would comply with the judge&#8217;s decision or appeal it, the Justice Department said that it continued to believe even that the full document should be exempt from disclosure.
Though the department agreed to release one section of the document, the lawyers asked Jackson to put her order on hold to give a federal appeals court a chance to review the ruling.
		
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At issue is a March 24, 2019 memo from the Justice Department&#8217;s Office of Legal Counsel that was prepared for Barr to evaluate whether evidence collected in special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation could support an obstruction of justice prosecution of the president. Barr has said he looked to that opinion in determining that Trump did not illegally obstruct the Russia probe.
The Justice Department turned over other documents to CREW as part of the group&#8217;s lawsuit, but declined to give it the OLC memo. Government lawyers said they were entitled under public records law to withhold the memo because it reflected internal deliberations among lawyers before any formal decision had been reached.
But Jackson said those arguments were disingenuous because the memo was prepared for Barr at the same time as a separate Justice Department letter informing Congress and the public that Barr and senior department leaders had concluded that Trump had not obstructed justice.
She said the OLC memo could therefore not have been &#8220;predecisional&#8221; in nature if the Justice Department had already decided that there would be no obstruction case.
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In its motion Monday, Justice Department lawyers said the government never meant to mislead the court but acknowledged that some of its language could have been clearer.
The department said the decision before the attorney general was not whether to prosecute Trump since the indictment of a sitting president is precluded by longstanding Justice Department policy. Rather, the question that the memo set out to address was whether the facts gathered by Mueller could warrant a criminal case. That question, the government says, was a genuine decision that had to be made.
&#8220;The Attorney General&#8217;s determination on that point &#8212; and on what, if anything, to say to the public about that question &#8212; undoubtedly qualifies as a decision, even if it could not have resulted in an actual prosecution of the sitting President,&#8221; Justice Department lawyers wrote.
&#8220;There was no legal bar to determining that the evidence did or did not establish commission of a crime, a determination the Attorney General made and announced,&#8221; they added.
The brief portion of the memo that the department agreed to disclose shows that two senior Justice Department leaders advised Barr that, in their view, Mueller&#8217;s evidence could not support an obstruction conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt.

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The U.S. House voted Wednesday to create an independent commission on the deadly <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/us-capitol-riot" target="_blank">Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol</a>, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate as Republican leaders work to stop a bipartisan investigation that is opposed by former President <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Donald-Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump</a>.
Democrats say an independent investigation is crucial to reckoning what happened that day, when a violent mob of Trump&#8217;s supporters smashed into the Capitol to try and overturn President Joe Biden&#8217;s victory. Modeled after the investigation into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the legislation would establish an independent, 10-member commission that would make recommendations by the end of the year for securing the Capitol and preventing another insurrection.
The bill passed the House 252-175, with 35 Republicans voting with Democrats in support of the commission, defying Trump and House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy. Trump issued a statement urging Republicans to vote against it, calling the legislation a &#8220;Democrat trap.&#8221;
		
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Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell is trying to prevent defections among his own ranks, echoing McCarthy&#8217;s opposition in a Senate floor speech Wednesday morning. Both men claimed the bill was partisan, even though membership of the proposed commission would be evenly split between the parties.
The January insurrection has become an increasingly fraught topic for Republicans, with a growing number in the party downplaying the severity of the worst attack on the Capitol in more than 200 years. While most Republicans voted against forming the commission, only a few spoke on the floor against it. And the handful of Republicans who backed the commission spoke forcefully.
&#8220;This is about facts &#8212; it&#8217;s not partisan politics,&#8221; said New York Rep. John Katko, the top Republican on the House Homeland Security Committee who negotiated the legislation with Democrats. He said &#8220;the American people and the Capitol Police deserve answers, and action as soon as possible to ensure that nothing like this ever happens again.&#8221;
Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich., said that Jan. 6 &#8220;is going to haunt this institution for a long, long time&#8221; and that a commission is necessary to find the truth about what happened. He recalled that he &#8220;heard the shouts, saw the flash-bangs, smelled the gas on that sorry day.&#8221;
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Democrats grew angry as some Republicans suggested the commission was only intended to smear Trump. Several shared their own memories of the insurrection, when rioters brutally beat police, broke in through windows and doors and sent lawmakers running. Four of the rioters died, including a woman who was shot and killed by police as she tried to break into the House chamber. A Capitol Police officer collapsed and died after engaging with the protesters, and two officers took their own lives in the days after.
&#8220;We have people scaling the Capitol, hitting the Capitol Police with lead pipes across the head, and we can&#8217;t get bipartisanship? What else has to happen in this country?&#8221; shouted Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, on the floor just before the vote. He said the GOP opposition is &#8220;a slap in the face to every rank and file cop in the United States.&#8221;
The vote was yet another test of Republican loyalty to Trump, whose grip on the party remains strong despite his election defeat. House Republicans booted Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney from their leadership last week for her criticism of Trump&#8217;s false claims, installing a Trump loyalist in her place. Cheney, in turn, suggested to ABC News that a commission could subpoena McCarthy because he spoke to Trump during the insurrection.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., called McCarthy&#8217;s opposition to the commission &#8220;cowardice.&#8221; She released a February letter from the GOP leader in which he asked for an even split of Democrats and Republican commissioners, equal subpoena power and no predetermined findings or conclusions. The bipartisan legislation accommodates all three of those requests, she said.
&#8220;Leader McCarthy won&#8217;t take yes for an answer,&#8221; she said.
		
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In the Senate, McConnell&#8217;s announcement dimmed the prospects for passage, as Democrats would need at least ten Republicans to vote with them. But Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., vowed to force a vote on the bill, charging that Republicans are &#8220;caving&#8221; to Trump.
Schumer said that Republicans are trying to &#8220;sabotage the commission&#8221; and are &#8220;drunk&#8221; off Trump&#8217;s baseless claim that the election was stolen from him. That false assertion, repeated by the mob as the rioters broke into the Capitol, has been rebuked by numerous courts, bipartisan election officials across the country and Trump&#8217;s own attorney general.
Like in the House, some Senate Republicans have suggested they will support the legislation.
Utah Sen. Mitt Romney said Tuesday that given the violent attack, &#8220;we should understand what mistakes were made and how we could prevent them from happening again.&#8221; Louisiana Sen. Bill Cassidy said he doesn&#8217;t agree with McConnell that the bill is slanted toward Democrats and &#8220;I&#8217;m inclined to support it.&#8221;
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Maine Sen. Susan Collins, a Republican, said that she supports the idea of a commission but that the House bill would need adjustments.
Others have pushed their colleagues to oppose the commission. Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt, the top Republican on the Senate Rules Committee, is working on a report with his Democratic colleagues that will include recommendations for security upgrades. He said an independent investigation would take too long and &#8220;frankly, I don&#8217;t think there are that many gaps to be filled in on what happened on Jan. 6, as it relates to building security.&#8221;
South Dakota Sen. John Thune, the No. 2 Republican in the Senate, cited concern in the caucus that the investigation could be &#8220;weaponized politically&#8221; in the 2022 election cycle.
&#8220;I want our midterm message to be about the kinds of issues that the American people are dealing with,&#8221; Thune said. &#8220;It&#8217;s jobs and wages and the economy, national security, safe streets, strong borders and those types of issues, and not relitigating the 2020 election.&#8221;
		
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Separately Wednesday, aides to Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., circulated a letter they said was from a group of around 40 to 50 anonymous U.S. Capitol Police officers who had been speaking with the congressman.
&#8220;It is inconceivable that some of the Members we protect would downplay the events of January 6th,&#8221; the letter reads. &#8220;It is a privileged assumption for Members to have the point of view that `it wasn&#8217;t that bad.&#8217; That privilege exists because the brave men and women of the USCP protected you, the Members.&#8221;
The letter was quickly repudiated by Capitol Police leaders, who said the agency doesn&#8217;t take any position on legislative matters.
Raskin said in an interview Wednesday evening that the officers approached his office with the letter, and that they and their families have been traumatized about what happened on the 6th. Raskin said &#8220;they can&#8217;t believe there is dissension in the Congress&#8221; about the simple facts of the insurrection.
Associated Press writers Michael Balsamo, Alan Fram, Lisa Mascaro and Nomaan Merchant contributed to this report.

Modeled after the investigation into the 9/11 attacks, the legislation would establish an independent, bipartisan commission to look at what happened before and during the riot.

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A New York state civil investigation into former U.S. President <a href="http://globalnews.ca/tag/Donald-Trump" target="_blank">Donald Trump&#8217;s</a> business dealings has now expanded into a criminal investigation, the state&#8217;s attorney general confirmed Tuesday.
&#8220;We have informed the Trump Organization that our investigation into the organization is no longer purely civil in nature,&#8221; a spokesperson for the New York Attorney General&#8217;s office said in a statement to Global News.
&#8220;We are now actively investigating the Trump Organization in a criminal capacity, along with the Manhattan DA.&#8221;
		
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The office would not provide further comment on what the criminal investigation is based on, or what prompted the probe to expand.
Global News has reached out to the Trump Organization and the Manhattan District Attorney&#8217;s office for additional comment, but has not immediately heard back.
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