The US Capitol Police arrested a man Wednesday after he allegedly attempted to set his car on fire near the Capitol as President-elect Donald Trump was visiting Republican lawmakers and paying his respects to late former President Jimmy Carter.
Police arrested a man armed with a machete and multiple knives attempting to enter the U.S. Capitol complex as visitors streamed in to pay their respects to the late President Jimmy Carter and just hours before President-elect Donald Trump met with GOP senators.
His post included a video of Karen Pence not getting up from her seat to shake Trump’s hand at former President Jimmy Carter’s funeral.
In what is believed to be the first face-to-face meeting between Trump and Pence, the two shook hands before the state funeral for former President Carter.
Capitol police have identified the 35-year-old man accused of trying to light his spray-painted car on fire near where former President Carter was lying in state.
So, in July 1979, the nation was in a deep, Carter-induced funk. And Carter's reaction was to ... blame the nation. That was the theme of the "malaise" speech.
As often is the case with the funerals of former politicians, the reverence and respect on display among attendees supersedes their partisan differences.
Former President Jimmy Carter arrived at the U.S. Capitol to lie in state after a memorial service attended by his family, Vice President Kamala Harris, members of Congress and other officials.
There were many reasons that Ronald Reagan defeated Jimmy Carter in 1980. The Panama Canal Treaty wasn’t among them.
When Jimmy Carter carried Wisconsin in 1976, the 15 most Democratic counties did not include Milwaukee or Dane.
The former and future first couple arrived in the nation’s capital on Wednesday ahead of Jimmy Carter’s funeral