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On the first day of the House select committee investigation into the January 6th insurrection, officers from the U.S. Capitol Police and D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department who responded that day gave harrowing testimony about the abuse they endured at the hands of an angry mob of Trump supporters. “That day …

Donald Trump‘s summertime push for “law and order” could come back to haunt him this winter after the storming of the U.S. Capitol. In his authoritarian response to protests against white supremacy that swept the nation after the homicide of George Floyd by Minneapolis police, Trump signed an executive order …