The Patriot Post® · Tuesday Executive News Summary
Top of the Fold
House to vote (probably today) on futile 25th Amendment resolution against Trump (NPR)
Impeachment resolution cites Trump’s “incitement” of Capitol riot (NPR)
President Trump acknowledged to Kevin McCarthy that he bears some blame (Fox News)
Big Tech
Twitter suspends more than 70,000 QAnon-linked accounts (Fox News)
Facebook banning all mentions of “stop the steal” ahead of Joe Biden’s inauguration (Examiner)
Facebook suspends Ron Paul following column criticizing censorship (FEE)
Parler sues Amazon for suspending app from cloud service (Fox Business)
YouTube rival Rumble sues Google for “unfairly rigging” search algorithms (Fox Business)
Stripe stops processing payments for Trump campaign website (Fox Business)
Cancel Culture
Wave of companies cut off donations — much of it to GOP (The Hill)
Trump dropped by biggest lender Deutsche Bank for future business (Reuters)
Cumulus Media threatens to fire conservative radio hosts who suggest election was stolen (Examiner)
Biggest gun forum kicked off the Internet without explanation (The Federalist)
For the Record
Several Capitol Police officers suspended for misconduct (Examiner)
Outgoing Capitol Police chief says request for National Guard backup was denied six times (Examiner)
Fallen officer Brian Sicknick was a Trump supporter (NY Post)
Could Trump face impeachment trial after leaving office? Seven things to know (Daily Signal)
The riot is not a political blank check for Democrats (Examiner)
Double Standards
Six videos of Democrats calling for violence or physical confrontations that are still active on Twitter (Examiner)
Twitter hasn’t suspended these accounts or tweets that incite violence (The Federalist)
Bill Gates bids for largest private jet firm weeks before publishing his climate change book (Disrn)
Elsewhere in Politics
Trump, Pence meet for first time since Capitol riot to discuss final days of administration (Fox News)
DHS Secretary Chad Wolf resigns due to “recent events” (National Review)
New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick says he won’t accept Presidential Medal of Freedom (NBC News)
National Security
Justice Department pursues at least 150 suspects in Capitol riot (NY Times)
State Department designates Cuba a state sponsor of terrorism (National Review)
Trump approves emergency declaration for DC ahead of Biden inauguration (Fox News)
The Latest on COVID-19
- Trump administration makes sweeping changes to speed up pace of vaccinations (The Hill)
Faith in Humanity
- Bible podcast tops Apple charts as most downloaded in 2021 so far (Disrn)
Closing Arguments
Policy: Free speech is a value, not just a right (National Review)
Policy: Three conservative principles for education (Newsweek)
Humor: Trump hides nuclear codes in Bible where Pelosi will never find them (Babylon Bee)
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