Stories tagged: "US Capitol"
As scrutiny increases on Doug Mastriano’s participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, new evidence suggests he was at the Capitol when things turned violent.
The first of six hearings revealed that former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka accepted that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that multiple Republican members of Congress asked Trump for pardons after Jan. 6, and that Trump approved of his supporters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!”
The findings come as the US House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold the first of six public hearings Thursday night in primetime. Sixty-five percent of voters support the House investigation, while only 28% oppose it, according to a new Courier Newsroom/Data for Progress poll.
Conspiracy theorist, election denier, and Trump-endorsed GOP candidate for governor Doug Mastriano has agreed to speak to the US House Committee investigating the deadly US Capitol insurrection.
Howard C. Richardson faces 8 years in prison for repeatedly striking a police officer with a flagpole during the US Capitol insurrection.
Mastriano, who is running for governor, was outside the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and organized several bus trips that day from Pennsylvania to Washington, DC.
A June 6 trial is scheduled for Julian Khater of State College and George Tanios of Morgantown, West Virginia, in the assault of Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick, who died after the attack on the US Capitol.
