Capitol panel to investigate Trump call to Willard hotel in hours before attack excerpt: "Congressman Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack, has said the panel will open an inquiry into Donald Trump’s phone call seeking to stop Joe Biden’s certification from taking place on 6 January hours before the insurrection. The chairman said the select committee intended to scrutinize the phone call – revealed last month by the Guardian – should they prevail in their legal effort to obtain Trump White House records over the former president’s objections of executive privilege. “That’s right,” Thompson said when asked by the Guardian whether the select committee would look into Trump’s phone call, and suggested House investigators had already started to consider ways to investigate Trump’s demand that Biden not be certified as president on 6 January."
If the U.S. Supreme Court hadn't rejected a request by Texas Democrats to allow the state’s 16 million registered voters to vote by mail during the coronavirus pandemic Trump would have lost the State of Texas If you think Trump bitches a lot about Georgia, imagine if he lost Texas.
Even though Trump won Texas, he's still demanding audits to try to show that he won by a larger margin.
Ex-Houston Police Officer Charged In Attack Over Bogus Election Fraud Plot excerpt: "Liberty Center for God and Country's Facebook page says the organization's goal "is to provide the bold and courageous leadership necessary to restore our nation to its Godly heritage by following the strategy that our pilgrim forefathers gave us." In a meandering Nov. 18 Facebook post on the organization's page, Hotze said Texas Gov. Greg Abbott should be "tarred and feathered" for coronavirus lockdown measures in the state. He went on to say that he had raised more than $600,000 over a three-week period leading up to Nov. 1 "to hire private investigators and attorneys to discover, expose and disrupt the Democrats' massive election fraud scheme in Harris County." That fundraising push, Hotze said, "prevented the Democrats from carrying out their massive election fraud scheme in Harris County, and prevented them from carrying Texas for Biden. Our efforts saved Texas." The Texas Tribune says Hotze was also among a group of Republicans who unsuccessfully sued to have nearly 127,000 Harris County ballots tossed out this year and to stop the governor from extending early voting during the pandemic."
Trump won Texas by 5.6% and 631,000 votes. That means Trump's groups in Texas, in their minds, think they prevented at least 631,000 votes from being cast for Biden.
Federal Appeals Court in D.C. Fast-Tracks Trump Tax Return Dispute excerpt: "A federal appeals court has set the briefing schedule for Donald Trump’s ongoing efforts to block a House committee from seeing his tax returns, and it looks like arguments won’t be heard before February. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia posted the briefing schedule Monday, which comes after a joint motion to expedite the case filed Thursday. Trump has until Jan. 10 to file his brief; the government has until Jan. 31 to respond. Trump’s reply brief is due Feb. 7. An oral argument date was not set, but the order instructed the clerk to calendar the case for oral argument “on the first appropriate date following the completion of briefing.”"
Trump Defends Remarks in Suit Blaming Him for Capitol Riot excerpt: "Former President Donald Trump is seeking dismissal of a suit accusing him of sparking the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, arguing that speakers at political rallies don’t have a “legally enforceable duty of care” to adversaries or others “who might find themselves in the path of impassioned supporters.” Trump, sued in August by eight Capitol Police officers who claim they were assaulted that day, argued in a court filing that the lawsuit should be tossed out because Trump isn’t “vicariously liable” for the actions of people who heard him speak at a “Stop the Steal” rally before the siege."
Yet Trump's buddy, U.S. Representative Mo Brooks, thought he had the right to be protected by the U.S. DOJ for lawsuits brought against him for speaking at Trump's Stop The Steal rally on the Ellipse outside the realm of the White House and acting within his personal capacity that helped incite the Capitol riot. The DOJ dismissed Brooks' request.
'impassioned supporters' = Trump's rioters who attacked and injured over a hundred police officers at the Capitol and contributed to the death of five of them.