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Former President Donald Trump told Breitbart News exclusively he is very pleased that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy made the decision to release surveillance footage from the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D) stated in a Thursday interview that the Capitol Hill riot was akin to someone in the White House dropping an explosive device on Congress.

Many media and political figures expressed outrage online after former President George W. Bush appeared to use his speech commemorating the 20th anniversary of 9/11 to compare January 6 Capitol protesters to Islamic terrorists.

Republican staffers defied Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Thursday evening by playing beer pong (with water) in a Capitol office hallway, smoking cigars, and socializing — without masks, courting arrest by Capitol Police.

Members of the Marine Corps silent drill platoon are still required to wear cloth masks when they rehearse and perform outdoors.

House Democrats approved a $1.9B bill to further fortify the once open Capitol following a January 6 riot where protesters breached security.

Adam Schiff pressed Wray on if there were “legal constraints” on gleaning intelligence from social media for future threats to the Capitol.

Guam Rep. San Nicolas led a group of Guam National Guard members to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s office on Monday in a political stunt.

An interview with NAACP chief Derrick Johnson published in the far-left Salon on Tuesday focuses on the recent NAACP lawsuit against former President Trump for his “attempted coup.”

An essay published in the Nation on Friday warns of the convergence of New Age trends with right-wing extremist political conspiracies and how the “real threat” emanates not from those who breached the Capitol in January but from “self-serious Republicans” like House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and those “who aren’t easily denounced as extremists.”

Wray refused to disclose to senators the cause of death for Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick during a Senate hearing on Tuesday.

The Pentagon revealed the cost of having thousands of National Guard members in the nation’s capital is an estimated $483 million.

The U.S. Capitol complex went into a temporary lockdown Monday morning because of what was initially described as an external threat and later identified as a fire at what appeared to be a homeless camp.

FBI officials said on Tuesday that they are pursuing almost 200 people who are alleged to have been part of the attack on the Capitol.

Rep. Peter Meijer (R-Mich.) indicates last week’s Capitol riots left him lamenting he left his gun at home.

Eleven-time Jeopardy! champion Arthur Chu tweeted to his followers and said that the death of a woman who was shot and killed while attempting to climb into the Capitol building in Washington D.C., was one of the “good things” about Wednesday’s riots. 

Hollywood leftist Rob Reiner is ordering members of Congress to impeach President Donald Trump, telling them that if they don’t oust the president during his remaining days in office, they will be supporting sedition, which is a federal crime.

Pop superstar and Joe Biden backer Lady Gaga joined her leftist celebrity counterparts and weighed in on the Capitol riots that dominated the city on Wednesday during a joint session of Congress to certify the electoral votes, expressing hope that lawmakers “focus to impeach Trump” to “disqualify him from future election.”

Despite Chapeck’s appeal to America’s principles of “decency, kindness, and respect for others,” Disney faced a backlash after it became known that its hoped-for hit, Mulan was filmed in cooperation with agencies responsible for Chinese forced labor camps.

“Impressionable children are watching all this, and they are learning from us,” DeVos wrote in her resignation letter sent to the president on Thursday night.

The day after riots brought the U.S. Capitol to a standstill, Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) noted that “several” representatives were happy to be armed while barricaded in their offices.

A U.S. Capitol Police officer died Thursday night after allegedly being struck in the head by a fire extinguisher during Wednesday’s riots at the Capitol.

The left-wing late-night network TV show hosts, who’ve for years mocked a ridiculed millions of conservative Americans, put their political puns aside on Wednesday night and lashed out in anger and frustration over the violence at the U.S. Capitol, offering lengthy lectures about the need for civility and calm.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the “disgraceful rampage” on the Capitol Building on Thursday morning, saying it was the “opposite” of American and Israeli values before going on to praise President Donald Trump. 

A woman who was shot during protests at the Capitol on Wednesday has died, according to the D.C. Fire Department and EMS. 

As protesters stormed the Capitol on Wednesday, Rep. Troy Nehls (R-TX) pulled a wooden leg off a stand inside the House Chamber in case he needed to defend himself.

“I call on President Trump to go on national television now to fulfill his oath and defend the Constitution and demand an end to this siege,” Biden said during a speech in Wilmington, Deleware.  

A Democrat Alaska state senator has contracted with a man convicted of felony stalking the daughter of former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

The president and the first lady traveled via motorcade to the Capitol, arriving at 8:22 p.m. after the former president was recognized in a ceremony with speeches from Congressional leaders and Vice President Mike Pence.

White House counselor to the president, Kellyanne Conway, denied Friday she was the author of the anonymous “deep state” op-ed published by the New York Times.

WASHINGTON, DC — More than 645,000 poppies displayed at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial for Memorial Day weekend represented the military men and women who have given their lives since World War I to defend the freedom of Americans.

Global advocacy group Avaaz has set up 100 cardboard cutouts of Mark Zuckerberg on the Capitol lawn, calling for Facebook to further censor itself.

President Trump, Vice President Pence, Speaker Ryan, and Majority Leader McConnell gathered in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday where Rev. Billy Graham lay in honor, one of only four private citizens in American history ever to receive such a tribute.

President Donald Trump and Congress are taking official action to honor the passing of Rev. Billy Graham

Vice President Mike Pence will visit Egypt, Jordan, and Israel on a Middle East trip scheduled for January 19-23.

Assemblywoman Melissa Melendez (R-Temecula) confirmed to Breitbart News Wednesday evening that she has been notified by legislative staff that she has been removed from her position as Vice Chair of the Assembly Insurance Committee.