US DEVELOPMENTS Extremist groups have been “very aggressively” recruiting military service members to leave the ranks, Defense Department spokesperson John Kirby yesterday told reporters at the Pentagon. Ellen Mitchell reports for The Hill. The Biden administration is expected to request all 56 Trump-appointed, Senate-confirmed federal prosecutors to step down from their positions, except two: special counsel John Durham, US attorney for Connecticut, who is investigating the origins of the 2016 FBI probe into former President Trump and Russia, as well as David Weiss, US attorney for Delaware, who is leading a probe into the finances of Biden’s son, Hunter Biden. Acting Attorney General Monty Wilkinson is said to be holding a conference call today with the US attorneys who will be asked to resign. Josh Gerstein reports for POLITICO. Durham will remain despite his expected resignation from his role as US attorney for Connecticut, according to a senior Justice Department official. Katie Benner reports for the New York Times.

The New York Court of Appeals last week dismissed a criminal case brought by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. against Paul Manafort, Trump’s former campaign chairman, who was pardoned by Trump in December. Manafort had his federal charges threw out by lower courts in 2019 and 2020 on double jeopardy grounds but Vance’s office hoped their argument that their case was substantially different would succeed, but it didn’t. The ruling is not expected to affect the separate case being brought against Steve Bannon, Trump’s former head strategist, who was pardoned by Trump last month. Kara Scannell reports for CNN

Some of those accused of rioting at the Capitol have blamed Trump for “inspiring” the violence, court filings reveal. A lawyer for Emanuel Jackson, a man allegedly caught on camera striking officers with a metal baseball bat as rioters breached the Capitol, said in a filing for pretrial release that Trump “roused the crowd by telling them ‘we will stop the steal’ and ‘you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength, and you have to be strong … if you don’t fight like hell you are not going to have a country any more’”. As such, “the nature and circumstances of this offense must be viewed through the lens of an event inspired by the President of the United States,” Jackson’s lawyer, Brandi Harden, wrote. Al Jazeera reporting.

The Georgia secretary of state’s office has launched an investigation into the infamous Jan. 2 phone call between Trump and state election officials where the former is alleged to have pressured officials to “find” enough votes for him to win the election vote in the state. “All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state,” Trump said during the call, The Washington Post first revealed. Matthew Choi reports for POLITICO.

US CAPITOL ATTACK A national security warning system retooled after 9/11 and tasked to identify and prevent attacks failed ahead of the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. “While the information was shared, this multipoint warning system broke down, failing to generate sufficient follow-up, as officials spotted and dismissed these signals while missing others entirely, according to interviews with current and former officials and a review of internal government documents,” report Rachael Levy, Dan Frosch and Sadie Gurman for the Wall Street Journal. Six Senate committees yesterday jointly requested 22 different law enforcement, security and intelligence agencies to provide information on what intel they each had on the attack as well as a timeline of their response, and if and how they responded to calls for assistance. Rebecca Beitsch reports for The Hill. Ethan Nordean, organizer of the far-right extremist group Proud and self-dubbed “Sergeant of Arms”, was ordered to be released by a federal magistrate judge in Seattle after prosecutors called for his detention pending trial – but prosecutors then appealed, with Judge Beryl Howell ordering Nordean to remain in custody pending the government’s appeal, with a hearing set for Feb. 15. Vanessa Romo reports for NPR. “Michigan’s Republican Party last year welcomed the support of newly emboldened paramilitary groups and other vigilantes. Prominent party members formed bonds with militias or gave tacit approval to armed activists using intimidation in a series of rallies and confrontations around the state,” writes David D. Kirkpatrick and Mike McIntire for the New York Times, after armed militia last April entered Michigan Statehouse to protest a coronavirus-related stay-at-home order by the Democratic governor, which Trump addressed on Twitter by stating: “LIBERATE MICHIGAN!”

ട്രംപിനെ ഇംപീച്ച് ചെയ്യാനുള്ള ശ്രമത്തിൽ, മുൻനിര പോരാളിയാകേണ്ട ബൈഡൻ എന്തുകൊണ്ട് ഒന്നിലും ഭാഗഭാക്കാകുന്നില്ല? ഒന്ന് ഇല്ലാത്ത കാര്യത്തിൽ ഒരാളെ അപരാധിയാക്കാൻ മനസ്സ് സമ്മതിക്കുന്നില്ല; രണ്ട് സെനറ്റിൽ ട്രംപിനെതിരെയുള്ള എല്ലാ നീക്കങ്ങളും പരാജയപ്പെടും എന്ന് ഉറപ്പാണ്; മൂന്ന് "ഈ നീതിമാന്റെ രക്തത്തിൽ എനിക്കു പങ്കില്ല" എന്ന കൈകഴുകൽ.

MAGA Rioters Turn On Trump, Call For His ‘Execution’ For ‘Selling Out Patriots Who Got Rounded Up For Him’. Supporters of trump, who were bamboozled by their leader into storming the U.S. Capitol in a failed coup attempt last week, are reportedly furious with the president for trying to distance himself from the violence he incited ahead of the Biden inauguration. Now, some far-right extremists now calling for his “execution” for abandoning them. As noted by The Huffington Post, “the fallout of their failed insurrection, which resulted in five deaths, was swift: Trump was de-platformed from nearly every major social network and, on Wednesday, impeached for a historic second time. But his base felt betrayed after Trump emerged in a video a short while later, tail tucked between his legs, to condemn the rioters whom he himself had incited, and call for a peaceful transfer of power to president-elect Joe Biden, That video, and a subsequent one, enraged some of his most rabid followers who turned to chatrooms to accuse trumpet of being a coward and a traitor to the cause he initiated. According to the HuffPost’s Jesselyn Cook, one commenter wrote on Telegram, “So he basically just sold out the patriots who got rounded up for him. Just wow.” Cook wrote that “comments like that flooded sites like “Gab, CloutHub, MeWe, and far-right message boards such as 8kun,” showing a dramatic seismic change in attitude towards the outgoing president. “Some have called for his arrest or execution, labeling him a ‘traitor’ and a ‘coward.’ Alarmingly, many of those who are irate about Biden’s supposed electoral theft are still plotting to forcibly prevent him from taking office – with or without Trump’s help,” she wrote. “‘We don’t follow you,’ another Telegram user wrote, addressing Trump, after the president put out his video urging calm and order. ‘Be quiet and get out of our way.'” One member of an encrypted Boogaloo chat, wrote, “Theres [sic] a war coming, and cowering in your home [while] real patriots march with rifles … will make you a traitor.” According to HuffPost, “CloutHub, MeWe and Telegram shot to the top of the charts of popular free apps on the App Store and Google PlayStorein the wake of the siege,” where the HuffPost documented commenters writing, “‘burn down’ the Capitol, launch ‘an armed revolt,’ ‘pop some libtards’ and ‘TAKE THIS COUNTRY BACK WHATEVER IT TAKES!!’ Some posts are more specific: ‘Civil War is here. Group up locally. Take out the News stations,’ one person declared. ‘LET’S HANG THEM ALL,’ another implored. ‘LET’S FINISH THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.'”

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