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Closing summary
Another very eventful day in US political news. We are
closing this blog now but Guardian US will have a special live blog firing up
in just a short while, ready for Joe Biden’s prime-time speech on, so it’s
flagged: “The battle for the soul of the nation.”
The fresh live blog will begin at 7pm ET for the
run-up to the US president’s speech, which is due at 8pm ET, in Philadelphia,
and we’ll have a live stream.
The regular US politics blog will be back tomorrow
morning.
Here’s where things stand:
- Donald Trump said on a radio show today, it’s reported, that he’ll pardon some of the rioters who took part in the attack on the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, after being urged by the-then president to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s victory over him in the 2020 election. Trump is dangling this prospect if he stands and is elected president again. He has also admitted to financially helping some of them.
- The Florida hearing in which Donald Trump’s legal team asked for a “special master” to look at the classified evidence the FBI seized from the former president’s home is over and the judge has not issued a decision on the spot.
- South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham will have to testify before the special grand jury sitting in Georgia in the criminal case hearing evidence related to allegations that Donald Trump illegally attempted to overturn the state’s 2020 presidential election result, where Trump lost to Biden.
- US federal agents have reportedly raided two New York properties belonging to a Russian oligarch and close ally of the country’s president, Vladimir Putin.
- Kellye SoRelle, general counsel for the extremist right-wing Oath Keepers group, has been indicted and arrested for alleged involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack.
- New York Democrat Carolyn Maloney, chair of the House committee on oversight and reform stated that at least some of Donald Trump’s key financial papers will be available to a House panel investigating the former president’s “unprecedented conflicts of interest, self-dealing, and foreign financial ties”.
- A lawyer for Donald Trump is arguing that there is “no cause for alarm” over the fact that the former president stashed top secret government documents at his club resort and resident Mar-a-Lago after leaving office.
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