NEW: The story behind Trump’s Billboard-charting musical collaboration that mixes him saying the Pledge of Allegiance with the national anthem sung by the "J6 Prison Choir" 🧵washingtonpost.com/investigations… It all began last summer when defendants in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol started to flicker the lights most nights at 9 p.m. in their D.C. jail cells to signal to supporters at the vigil outside that it’s time to sing “The Star-Spangled Banner” together.

How close did rioters come to lawmakers? Close. Very close.

To understand what happened inside the Capitol, @emmersbrown @ElyseSamuels @SarahCahlan @joyceslee @jonswaine @DDaltonBennett & I talked to lawmakers, watched videos, reviewed photos & maps.

washingtonpost.com/investigations… Spatial analysis revealed that rioters were just 100 ft from the Vice President and a still-unlocked Senate chamber filled with lawmakers

As of the last day of the Republican National Convention, @realDonaldTrump had made a total of 22,247 false or misleading claims according to the tally @GlennKessler @tkrizzo and I maintain (mostly in our spare time). Here a few things I noticed 1/

washingtonpost.com/graphics/polit… He made more false claims during 27 days in August than any other month in his presidency. 2/

Thread: Swept up in the federal response
to Portland protests: ‘I didn’t know
if I was going to be seen again’

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@joyceslee, @shawnboburg and I reconstructed four of these incidents that resulted in no charges and few records. 1/ This is Evelyn Bassi, a 30-year-old chef from Portland. The video of her arrest went viral in mid-July, but this is the first time she’s telling her story.