The former president is now addressing the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, where he is the keynote speaker headlining a three-day event featuring right-wing figures and Republican officials and candidates.

His public remarks come in the middle of bombshell testimony and congressional hearings about his involvement to undermine the outcome of 2020 presidental election and his baseless assertions that the results were “stolen” from him, fuelling violence at the US Capitol from a pro-Trump mob.

Andrew Buncombe has this profile of John Eastman, the law professor whose legal advice to Donald Trump in advance of 6 January was at the core of the effort to overthrow the election result – a plan one judge has described as “a coup in search of a legal theory”.

Read his piece below.

Among the Trump flags, American flags, Confederate emblems and neo-Nazi and militia insignias at the Capitol on 6 January, 2021 were numerous thin blue line flags. How did the image end up on Oakley sunglasses?

The Independent’s Josh Marcus has this report on the history of the brand, the Blue Lives Matter movement and law enforcement aesthetics.

Former Trump administration trade adviser Peter Navarro has pleaded not guilty to the two counts of criminal contempt of Congress on which he was indicted earlier this month.

The former head of the National Trade Council faces up to two years behind bars should a jury convict him on charges that he refused to honour subpoenas for documents and to appear before the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack.

Writing for The Independent, Ahmed Baba tries to convey just how serious the evidence laid out by the 6 January committee is.

Read his full op-ed below.

Trump is due to address the Faith & Freedom Coalition’s Road to Majority Policy Conference in Nashville, Tennessee, a three-day event featuring right-wing figures and Republican officials and candidates.

The ex-president is the keynote speaker – earning even praise from Senator Lindsey Graham – while the House committee investigating the Capitol attack fuelled by Trump’s baseless stolen election rhetoric reveals damning testimony from members of his inner circle.

Also speaking today are several members of Congrees, RNC chair Ronna McDaniel and former Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.

A new poll finds that a majority of Americans support a congressional ethics investigation into Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas over the jurist’s decision not to recuse himself from cases related to the 2020 election.

The poll, conducted by Hart Research Associates on behalf of Defmand Justice, found that 61 per cent supported the move. The poll comes as the House January 6 committee seeks information from Mr Thomas’s wife, Ginni Thomas, who reportedly made efforts to influence officials to go along with the Trump White House plot to overturn the results of the election.

Speaking to CNN’s Jake Tapper, Sandra Garza explained on Thursday night after the third public hearing of the House select committee investigating the Capitol riot that she was “more moved” by the testimonies she heard from the first prime-time screening, which featured appearances by both Ms Trump and Mr Kushner.

“There were so many people who could’ve intervened and said, you know what, I’m gonna go to the media … I’m gonna scream from the rooftops and try and stop this,” Ms Garza said during her interview on CNN’s The Lead. “They knew Trump intimately. They knew how dangerous he was. And nobody did anything to stop him.”

Johanna Chisholm has the story.

Taking stock of the revelations from yesterday’s 6 January committee hearing, Eric Garcia writes that the panel has some tricky territory to navigate – and it doesn’t have much time to chart a course:

Read his full analysis below.

As the 6 January committee yesterday unpacked the chain of events that almost led to his murder at the hands of a radicalised mob, Mike Pence was out on the road campaigning for Ohio governor Mike DeWine, who is seeking re-election this year.

The Wall Street Journal has taken a (paywalled) look at whether the ex-vice president’s political activities really are the groundwork for a 2024 presidential run, as many suspect. Here’s a key quote, in which Mr Pence gives the same kind of vague answer he’s trotted out when asked the question before...