President Donald Trump abandoned his teleprompter in favor of impromptu musings in a speech at a retreat for House Republicans on Tuesday. And those ad-libbed Trump comments were filled with false claims.

As the Trump White House tried to rewrite history on Jan. 6, Democrats accused the president of trying to "whitewash" the day's violence.

"Our view of the evidence was that he caused it and that he exploited it," Smith said of Trump's alleged culpability for the Capitol riot.

In the lead-up to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, the then-Vice President documented a tense phone call with then-and-still President Donald Trump, revealing the pressure he faced to overturn the 2020 election results. Pence’s notes, which have recently surfaced in Jonathan Karl’s book Retribution, provide a firsthand account of the exchange.

A top Justice Department attorney argued in court on Friday that President Donald Trump’s inflammatory rally speech before the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol was at least partially aimed at furthering the broader interests of the United States.

President Donald Trump sued the BBC for up to $10 billion in damages over edited clips of a speech that made it appear he directed supporters to storm the U.S. Capitol, opening an international front in his fight against media coverage he deems untrue or ...

Trump accused Britain’s publicly owned broadcaster of defaming him by splicing together parts of a Jan. 6, 2021 speech, including one section where he told supporters to march on the Capitol and another where he said “fight like hell”. It omitted a section in which he called for peaceful protest.

President Trump lodged an eye-watering $10 billion lawsuit against the BBC on Monday, accusing the British broadcaster of defaming him through a deceptive edit of his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the White House Ellipse. The lawsuit took aim at a 2024 ...

President Donald Trump sued the BBC for $10 billion over its editing of his speech at the Ellipse on Jan. 6, 2021. The BBC has been wracked by controversy since it admitted and apologized for selectively editing Trump’s Jan. 6 speech, with the president ...

President Donald Trump speaks during a Mexican Border Defense Medal presentation in the Oval Office of the White House, Monday, Dec. 15, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon) WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump filed a lawsuit Monday seeking ...

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer spoke at a press conference on the Capitol steps on the fifth anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.