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Tuesday, 4 January 2022

New York attorney general subpoenas Trump and family

From left to right, Donald Trump Jr., Donald Trump and Ivanka Trump face the camera on Jan. 4, 2021.

By Liza Hearon

Tuesday, Jan. 4

N.Y. AG SUBPOENAS TRUMP FAMILY New York Attorney General Letitia James has subpoenaed former President Donald Trump and his children Ivanka and Donald Trump, Jr., demanding their testimony in her civil investigation into the family's business practices. The Trumps have indicated they will fight the subpoenas. Trump has decried James' investigation as part of a "witch hunt" along with a parallel criminal probe being run by the Manhattan district attorney's office. [AP ]

ELIZABETH HOLMES FACES UP TO 20 YEARS IN PRISON Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes has been found guilty of four of the 11 charges she faced in her fraud trial. The former Silicon Valley darling was convicted of three counts of wire transfer fraud and one count of conspiring to commit wire fraud over misleading investors about the functionality of her blood-testing machines. She's likely to appeal. [HuffPost]

STRONGMAN ENDORSES STRONGMAN Just days before the anniversary of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, Trump endorsed a man whom much of Europe considers a threat to democracy: Hungary's Victor Orbán. The former president's Orbán endorsement comes as pro-Trump groups and media outlets have become increasingly fond of the Hungarian leader. "It's more evidence that the GOP has embraced Hungarian-style electoral autocracy as its model," said professor and author Ruth Ben-Ghiat. "Which is bad news for American democracy." [HuffPost]

FDA APPROVES COVID BOOSTER FOR YOUNGER GROUP The Food and Drug Administration has authorized children ages 12 to 15 to receive a third dose of Pfizer-BioNTech's coronavirus vaccine, with the booster shot approval coming as COVID-19 cases among children continue to skyrocket. The agency also shortened the amount of time that people 12 and older need to wait before receiving a booster shot, from six months to five. [HuffPost]

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SCHUMER THREATENS FILIBUSTER CHANGES OVER VOTING RIGHTS BILL Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) said the Senate will hold another vote on voting rights legislation this month. If Republicans filibuster debate on it for a fifth time, Schumer promised to allow a vote on changing Senate rules to enable it to come to the floor for debate. Schumer framed the push for voting rights laws as a response to the election fraud lies peddled by Trump, which inspired the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. [HuffPost]

MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE LOSES ACCESS TO ANOTHER SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORM Just one day after her personal Twitter account was permanently suspended for posting COVID-19 misinformation, Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene said she has temporarily lost access to posting and commenting on Facebook due to a similar policy violation. The conspiracy theorist Republican called the 24-hour ban "beyond censorship of free speech." [HuffPost]

CAPITOL RIOT 'SEEMS LIKE IT'S AS IF IT NEVER HAPPENED' IN SENATE While the tone of the House of Representatives is uglier and more rancorous nearly a year after the Capitol riot, in the Senate day-to-day life feels pretty much the same as before, not counting the trauma experienced by those who were in the building as the screaming mob advanced. Igor Bobic takes a closer look at how the chambers have changed since that day. [HuffPost]

SETTLEMENT BETWEEN EPSTEIN AND PRINCE ANDREW ACCUSER MADE PUBLIC A 2009 deal between Jeffrey Epstein and Virginia Roberts, now known as Virginia Giuffre, contained a paragraph that said it protects anyone "who could have been included as a potential defendant" from lawsuits filed by Giuffre. Prince Andrew claims the $500,000 lawsuit settlement protects him from an ongoing lawsuit by Giuffre, who alleges the prince sexually assaulted her multiple times when she was 17. [AP]

TRUMP WAS '5 RUDYS SHORT' OF A COUP, WARNS CONSERVATIVE WEBSITE Trump came so dangerously close to successfully orchestrating the overthrow of the U.S. government last year that he only needed a few extra radical loyalists to pull it off, according to an essay on the conservative website The Bulwark. Americans can shrug off the insurrection as violence by a bunch of disorganized "crazies," but the "second way of looking at 2020 is that the attempted coup came much closer to succeeding than many would admit and was just a dress rehearsal for 2024," Philip Rotner wrote. [HuffPost]

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