January 6 Insurrection

Trevor Noah Throws Shade At Secret Service For Deleted Jan. 6 Texts

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NICHOLAS KAMM / Getty The recent controversy over the United States Secret Service stating that it had no text messages from January 6th as insurrectionists stormed the Capitol has raised many eyebrows – including that of Trevor Noah. The host of The Daily Show touched upon the incident in his opening monologue during the episode that aired Tuesday night (July 19th). “Wow, this is so sad. The Secret Service lost all the texts from January 6th because they were doing a ‘device replacement program.’ What a perfect ― I mean terrible ― thing,” he quipped. “Why do I feel like this is the same kind of device replacement program you do when your partner asks you to explain where you were the other night?” Related Stories He continued, “It’s interesting how they ...

Ed Reed Has MAGA Stans Big Mad After Checking Coach Jack Del Rio Over Jan. 6 Capitol Attack Comments

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Kevin C. Cox / Getty Ed Reed is no longer swiping footballs out of the air as an All-Pro safety, but he’s still making an impact on the game in other ways. The Hall of Famer called out Washington Commanders Jack Del Rio over comments the defensive coach made about the January 6 U.S. Capitol insurrection, stating that Del Rio’s $100,000 fine was “not enough.” Ed Reed Calls Out Jack Del Rio Reed to took to Twitter to air his frustrations over Del Rio getting an essential slap on the wrist for calling the Capitol attacks a “dust up” and equating the event to protests that cropped up nationwide after George Floyd was murdered by Minneapolis police officers.“Today, im sick and tired! A dust up! 100,000 is not enough, money ain’t nothing to a person who i...

Rep. Bennie Thompson Delivers Blistering Opening Statement At Jan. 6 Hearing

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI / Getty Rep. Bennie Thompson, a Democrat representing Mississippi, delivered the opening statement at the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Insurrection hearing in the House chambers. Thompson’s blistering words decried the attempted coup allegedly linked to former President Donald Trump and related agents of chaos. Bennie Thompson, chair of the House Select Committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection, delivered his remarks from a prepared statement which we’ll share a portion of below. We can’t sweep what happened under the rug. The American people deserve answers. So I come before you this evening not as a Democrat but as an American who swore an oath to defend the Constitution. The Constitution doesn’t protect just Democrats or just Republican...

Proud Boys Charged With Sedition For Attack on U.S. Capitol

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: EVA MARIE UZCATEGUI / Getty The former leader and other members of the Proud Boys white nationalist group have been hit with charges of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the attack on the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2021. According to reports, the charges of seditious conspiracy were brought against former chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola in an amended federal indictment unsealed in a federal district court in Washington, D.C. All the men had been previously charged in an earlier indictment filed in March for conspiring to obstruct the certification of the 2020 Presidential Election which was being conducted during the joint session of Congress on January 6th. The trial for tha...

Eleven Hour Gap In Trump White House Call Logs On January 6th, Allegedly

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: The Washington Post / Getty The latest revelation from the investigation into former President Donald Trump’s actions during the January 6th insurrection has many declaring him worse than notorious former President Richard Nixon. Robert Costa, who has been working with veteran reporter Bob Woodward of the Washington Post, revealed on Tuesday (March 29th) morning that they had access to the daily diary of the former president and the call logs on the day of January 6th, 2021 when the infamous insurrection at the U.S. Capitol took place. The CBS News reporter shared the links to the files via his Twitter account, simply stating “Woodward and I have the docs,” inviting the public to read them. The most alarming piece of information from the official document...

Ginni Thomas Texts To Mark Meadows On Stealing 2020 Election Revealed

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Consolidated News Pictures / Getty The intricate web of corruption behind events to overturn the 2020 presidential election became clearer as text messages from the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas demanding a congressman throw out the results were made public. A joint effort between Bob Woodward of the Washington Post and CBS’ Robert Costa helped break the bombshell story on Thursday (March 24th) that Virginia “Ginni” Thomas sent numerous and frantic text messages to Mark Meadows, who was serving as the Chief of Staff in the White House under President Donald J. Trump. “Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!…You are the leader, with him, who is standing for America’s constitutional governance at the precipice. The majority knows Biden...

GOP Goblin Madison Cawthorn Hit With Legal Challenge To Bar Him From Running Again

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Tom Williams / Getty Voters in North Carolina formally filed a legal challenge to have Rep. Madison Cawthorn disqualified from running for a second term, citing his involvement in the event leading up to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to reports, a group consisting of 11 voters from Cawthorn’s home state of North Carolina filed a legal challenge on Monday (Jan. 10) with the State Board of Elections. The filing says that the remarks that the congressman made at a rally held before the insurrection that took place at the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election disqualify him from running for office according to the Constitution. “As set forth in our complaint, the publicly available ev...

President Joe Biden Addresses U.S. Capitol Insurrection, Slams Donald Trump #January6th

HipHopWired Featured Video CLOSE Source: Pool / Getty President Joe Biden addressed the nation on the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Capitol Insurrection in a scathing Thursday morning (Jan. 6) speech and didn’t withhold any punches towards former President Donald Trump. President Biden framed insurrection as an attack on democracy, echoing the messaging of his 2020 presidential campaign of bringing America back together. It was known as recently as last week that President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were both prepared to deliver remarks all connected to a day of remembrance for those who lost their lives defending the U.S. Capitol and to drum down on the need to preserve democracy in the nation. Naturally, Biden’s salvo was the first and perhaps loudest moment thus far of th...

Conservatives Want Rioter Ashli Babbitt To Be A Martyr So Bad, But…The Facts

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Stephanie Keith / Getty The same people who have made a hero out of Kenosha shooter Kyle Rittenouse have been trying to make a martyr out of Capitol rioter Ashli Babbitt, but a closer look at Babbitt’s life—before she was shot and killed while joining fellow insurrectionists in forcing her way into a barricaded room in the Capitol building on Jan. 6—indicates that her loyal advocates are terrible judges of character. Recently, the Associated Press sat down with Celeste Norris, a woman who was in a live-in relationship with the man who eventually became Babbitt’s second husband, Aaron Babbitt, after the two had an affair while she was married to her first husband. Babbitt and Norris’ boyfriend apparently met at work and that’s where their affair began. “He...

QAnon Shaman’s Lawyer Is Big Mad Trump Pardoned Lil Wayne But Not His Client

HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Robert Nickelsberg / Getty Lil Wayne can sometimes be divisive, even in MAGA-Land. The QAnon Shaman who stormed that Capitol on January 6 has pleaded guilty to a felony, but his lawyer is clearly big mad that Lil Wayne managed to finesse a pardon from the then President Trump while his client clearly took an L in that regard. Jacob Chansley is the real name of the QAnon Shaman who is now naturally citing mental issues for his obsession with Cheeto Trump and to excuse his behavior in the Capitol and in general. This shouldn’t be surprising since previously Mr. Shaman said Trump pardoning Tunechi made him question his loyalty. Oh, that did it? Reports Raw Story: The attorney representing Jacob Chansley, a.k.a., the “QAnon Shaman,” made a rather unorthodox p...

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