Clay Higgins

The FBI should have done more to gather intelligence before the Capitol riot, according to a watchdog report Thursday that also said no undercover FBI employees were on the scene on Jan. 6, 2021.

Tribalism is fundamentally anti-American. Too many people have responded to tribalism with tribalism and that leads only to more factionalism.

Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz has resigned from Congress, ending an ethics probe into allegations of sex trafficking, sexual misconduct and drug use after President-elect Donald Trump nominated him for attorney general. Gaetz’s nomination is one of several picks unveiled by...

More than half of the 28,561 Lafayette Parish residents who voted early as of Wednesday for the Nov. 5 election for U.S. President were registered as Republicans.

The House task force on the attempted assassination of former President Trump detailed flaws in the planning and security surrounding Trump’s July 13 rally in Butler, Pa., in an interim staff report released Monday. Lack of adequate planning, a narrow field of vision for local snipers, the absence of a unified command post and fragmented [...]

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Democrats on the House task force formed to investigate the assassination attempt against former President Trump boycotted the final portion of the panel’s first hearing on Thursday, which featured testimony from two rabble-rousing Republicans who are leading their own “independent” investigation into the shooting. It is one of the first partisan cracks in what has [...]

Republican Rep. Clay Higgins of Louisiana offered up a mealy-mouthed nonapology on Thursday for posting a deeply racist diatribe against Haitian people on his social media account. Reporters followed him to an elevator at the Capitol, where one of them asked Higgins whether or not he “believed those things” he wrote about Haitians in a Wednesday post on X. “Those things” included claiming that Haitian people participate in “eating pets,” practice “vudu,” and come from the “nastiest country in the western hemisphere” before demanding that “All these thugs better get their mind right and their ass out of our country before January 20th.” Higgins claimed he was talking about “Haitian gangs” before saying he listened to the concerns of one congressional “colleague from Florida” and having “prayed about it, but just a few seconds,” he then took the post down.“And I hadn’t even seen it,” Higgins added. “At that point I hadn’t even seen the post. I have still not seen it. Never saw it when it was up, never saw it since it’s been down. I don’t even have Twitter on my phone, ya understand.”

Lafayette Mayor-President Monique Boulet, top right, and family members of Lafayete Police Sr. Cpl. Segus Jolivette watch a video message from Congressman Clay Higgins Thursday, September 26, 2024, at City Hall in Lafayette, La. Jolivette was killed in the line...

'People like me are the ones that are being persecuted'

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. By Daniela Altimari, Mary Ellen McIntire and Niels Lesniewski A decision by national Democrats to fund a late, multimillion-dollar ad blitz in Texas and [...]The post At the Races: Expanding states of play appeared first on Roll Call.

It was a shot from above that killed would-be assassin Thomas Crooks at a July campaign rally where he almost murdered former President Donald Trump. But it was a shot [...]The post Preliminary Report Finds Thomas Matthew Crooks Was 'Fragged,' Rifle Likely Disabled After SWAT Operator's Incredible Shot appeared first on The Western Journal.

The House Homeland Security Committee is investigating the pause of the Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua and Venezuela parole program, saying they are "deeply concerned" by revelations.

At the conclusion of a press conference detailing the swap with Russia to return American prisoners to the U.S., including Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich and ex-U.S. Marine Paul Whelan, President Joe Biden nailed Donald Trump for leaving one of them in jail when he was in office.With Whelan finally returning home after being arrested in 2018 — midway during the Trump presidency — Biden was asked on the way out what he had to say to the former president who has been promising to get the hostages released if he is re-elected again."'The president [Trump] said repeatedly that he could have gotten the hostages out without giving anything," Biden was pressed. "What do you say to that? What do you say to President Trump — now former president?"RELATED: 'This is a big deal': Biden 'will leave office with a big win' after Russia prisoner swap"Why didn't he do it when he was president?' Biden shot back with a smile as one reporter could be heard laughing.Returning to the CNN studio, host Dana Bash added, "I think that was what they call a mic drop moment at the end there."You can watch below or at this link:CNN 08 01 2024 12 24 54youtu.be

Congressional leaders on Monday named Colorado's U.S. Rep. Jason Crow to a bipartisan House task force charged with investigating the attempted assassination of former President Donald Trump.

Rep. Cory Mills (R-Fla.) on Monday pledged to fund a "parallel independent investigation" into the attempted assassination of former President Trump, expressing disappointment at not being selected to sit on the task force to investigate the rally shooting. Speaker Johnson (R-La.) and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) earlier on Monday announced the 13 members [...]

There was bipartisan agreement in getting to the bottom of the failures and negligence that led to the attempted assassination of former President Trump upon the naming of a new task force.

The task force will be probing the attempt to kill former President Donald Trump.

The 13 lawmakers appointed to the task force by House leaders have backgrounds in law enforcement, legal affairs and the military.