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Here we go…(Jan 6th Hearing #8)
#January6thCommiteeHearings
#January6thCommiteeHearings
Chairman Bennie Thompson appears via video because he recently tested positive for COVID. He says he will appear via video in today’s hearing in accordance with CDC guidelines and has authorized the Vice Chair Liz Cheney to gavel the committee in and out and swear in witnesses.
Thompson recaps what the committee has shown in the first 7 hearings: Trump lost the 2020 election. He knew he had lost the election. Yet he not only refused to concede, he pushed his Big Lie about a stolen election and commanded a mob he knew was heavily armed to the Capitol.
Fixing to fix a glass of iced tea, maybe a shot of something stronger in our “I’m Fucked!” shot glass, pack a bowl and continue our coverage of Hearing No. 8 of the #January6thCommiteeHearings
Ooooh they’re filing in!
Waiting with bated breath for this one.
Former Twitter employee: “I was concerned the former president, for the first time, was speaking directly to extremist organizations and giving them directives.” #January6thCommitteeHearings
"If President Trump were any other user on Twitter, he would have been permanently suspended a very long time ago." #January6thCommitteeHearings
Former Twitter employee, knowing that extremists were ready to take up arms: "Trump posting this tweet on Dec 19th was essentially staking a flag in D.C. on Jan 6 for his supporters to come and rally." #January6thCommitteeHearing
Next week!
Live Q&A to answer all your lingering questions about the #January6thCommiteeHearings
Panel includes: @benjaminwittes @qjurecic @DavidPriess @S_R_Anders @rparloff @mollyereynolds and host of #TheAftermath, @nkorpett
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Live Q&A to answer all your lingering questions about the #January6thCommiteeHearings
Panel includes: @benjaminwittes @qjurecic @DavidPriess @S_R_Anders @rparloff @mollyereynolds and host of #TheAftermath, @nkorpett
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The line up includes nearly everyone who has appeared in our debriefs for the #January6thCommiteeHearings, so if there was a question you wanted to ask but didn't get a chance---now is your moment!
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And if you'd like to catch up on our #January6thCommiteeHearings debriefs, you can check out the Lawfare Podcast, our YouTube page, or see below 🧵
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Ich würde mal wetten: Nach dieser Anhörung führt kein Weg mehr an einem strafrechtlichen Ermittlungsverfahren gegen Donald #Trump (und anderen) vorbei. Und zwar eher morgen als in ein paar Monaten. #January6thCommiteeHearings
*andere. Dang.
Wichtigste Indizien (tbc):
- Die bewusste Ignoranz der Bewaffnung und Gewaltbereitschaft
- Die Tatsache, dass man sich in einem "War Room" versammelte, aber nach außen alles herunterspielte
- Das Zitat über die Morddrohung gegen Pence
#January6thCommitteeHearings
- Die bewusste Ignoranz der Bewaffnung und Gewaltbereitschaft
- Die Tatsache, dass man sich in einem "War Room" versammelte, aber nach außen alles herunterspielte
- Das Zitat über die Morddrohung gegen Pence
#January6thCommitteeHearings
“I’m the fucking president, take me up to the Capitol now”
Secret Service agent: ‘Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel…’
The former President of the United States then grabs the throat of his secret service agent.
Secret Service agent: ‘Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel…’
The former President of the United States then grabs the throat of his secret service agent.
In case anyone thinks that was an exaggeration- it wasn’t.
3) “There was ketchup dripping off the wall" -- Trump threw his lunch against the wall after Bill Barr told the AP there was no evidence of election fraud sufficient to overturn the election
Jetzt beginnt die gestern überraschend einberufene Sitzung des #January6thCommittee. Aussagen wird Cassidy Hutchinson, ehemalige Mitarbeiterin von Trumps Stabschef Mark Meadows. #Kapitol
Hutchinson werde unter anderem etwas zu Trumps Verhalten am #January6th sagen, kündigt Vize-Vorsitzende Liz Cheney an. Wird spannend, dafür spricht auch die Dringlichkeit der Sitzung.# #January6thCommitteeHearings
Die Dinge könnten am 6. Januar "wirklich, wirklich schlimm" werden, soll ##Meadows ihr vorab gesagt haben. Rudy #Giuliani sei dagegen aufgeregt gewesen: Der Präsident werde "powerful" aussehen. #January6thCommitteeHearings
Matt Gaetz, Andy Biggs, Scott Perry, Louie Gohmert, Marjorie Taylor Greene and Mo Brooks are in trouble
Why did you all try and get pardons?
Gaetz had been trying to get a pardon since early December… Why boo boo? #January6thCommiteeHearings
Why did you all try and get pardons?
Gaetz had been trying to get a pardon since early December… Why boo boo? #January6thCommiteeHearings
Told you these people were going down
The way the J6 committee revealed the congresspeople who asked for pardons was even better than I expected 🙌🏿 #January6thCommiteeHearings
The House Jan. 6 Committee’s holding its fifth hearing today at 3:00 p.m. ET. It’s the DOJ-centric hearing that got postponed last week.
Follow our live blog here: bit.ly/3zZkemm or this thread for updates 🧵
Follow our live blog here: bit.ly/3zZkemm or this thread for updates 🧵
Who we're hearing from today:
➢ Ex-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen
➢ Ex-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue
➢ Steven Engel, the former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel
➢ Ex-Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen
➢ Ex-Acting Deputy Attorney General Richard Donoghue
➢ Steven Engel, the former assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Counsel
Today’s session will be led by Rep. Adam Kinzinger and will scrutinize Trump’s attempt to use the federal gov’s top law enforcement agency as a personal weapon in his desperate bid to cling to power after the 2020 election, w/ a special focus on the infamous Jeffrey Clark scheme.
Let’s play connect the dots. I’ll say it again #FreeDumbConvoy is about establishing a RW insurgency. It’s not a coincidence that many #January6 insurrectionists have both participated in & promoted #CoupTruxKlan & the disinformation assault on #PMJT. #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli
Enter players like Tom Marazzo. His connections to radicalized current & former law enforcement & military can be seen most readily through “vets 4 freedom” & its allied group “camp eagle”. #FreeDumbConvoy #CdnNatSec #cdnpoli #OttawaOccupation
Marazzo also ran as a candidate for Derek Sloan’s neo-fascist “Ontario Party”, which enlisted the services of malignant insurrectionist, Roger Stone. #FreeDumbConvoy #CdnNatSec #January6thCommiteeHearings #cdnpoli #OttawaOccupation #CoupTruxKlan
Here we go…(Jan 6th hearing #4)
#January6thCommiteeHearings
#January6thCommiteeHearings
Chairman Thompson outlines the evidence presented in the first three hearings. He draws a direct parallel between Trump’s amplification of the Big Lie and the recent election in New Mexico in which officials refused to certify the results based on vague unconfirmed fraud claims.
He says that todays hearing will focus on Trump’s pressure campaign on local election officials to overturn the will of the voters based on false allegations of fraud, and that he threatened the livelihoods and lives of these individuals if they refused to comply with his demands
Mark Meadows offered to send Autographed MAGA hats to Georgia election workers before Election Day. Offering gifts in exchange for votes/favors is called bribery. It’s also a violation of Georgia state laws to offer food/water to voters in line — I’d say this is much, much worse.
New text messages released by the January 6 Committee show Mark Meadows offered to send SIGNED Trump hats to Georgia poll workers before Election Day. Care to comment, @GOP?! #January6thCommiteeHearings
Mark Meadows is a major co-conspirator in the January 6th Insurrection and played a major role in facilitating the seditious plot to overturn the election: youtube.com/shorts/3WnOJNJ…
I have a problem with #BenGinsberg, who said the election wasn't stolen. He stole it. I'm talking about the election of 2000, when he was the lawyer for the Republican National Committee for George Bush. #January6thCommiteeHearings soundcloud.com/gregpalast/ele…
#BenGinsberg successfully argued that it doesn't matter how the people of Florida voted, the Florida legislature has decided that the real electors are the Bush Republican elector slate.
You can't say just because someone challenges Trump, that they are moral and correct. #BenGinsberg is really dangerous. He's actually said that legislatures not voters determine the slate of electors. That's an opening for Trump 2024.
It sure appears that Trump was coordinating w/ Roger Stone’s posse on messaging/strategy and/or sending them “Antifa” dog whistles. Jacob Engels, Proud Boy Enrique Tarrio, Jack Posobiec, & Proud Boy Joe Biggs are all close w/ Roger Stone. #January6thCommiteeHearings 1/
2/ Check out May 31, 2020.
Judge Luttig in closing: "Almost 2 years after that fateful day in January 2021, still Donald Trump and his allies and supporters are a clear and present danger to American democracy... 1/5 #January6thCommiteeHearings
... To this very day, the former president, his allies, and supporters pledge that in the presidential election of 2024, if the former president or his anointed successor as the Republican party presidential candidate were to lose that election, they would attempt... 2/5
... to overturn that 2024 election in the same way that they attempted to overturn the 2020 election, but succeed in 2024 where they failed in 2020.... 3/5
Lauren Boebert said AOC exaggerated her fear of being raped on January 6th and claimed AOC has an “obsession” with “people want[ing] to have some kind of sexual encounter with her.”
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6 days ago, AOC tweeted about Lauren Boebert mocking AOC’s fear of being raped. Add this video clip to the list.
BREAKING: Trump lawyer John Eastman told Trump on January 4th that their attack on America was illegal. #January6thHearings
Trump's coup attempt would have thrown America into "a revolution within a Constitutional crisis." Judge J. Michael Luttig #January6thHearings #TrumpCoupAttempt
BREAKING: John Eastman told Pence lawyer Greg Jacob that he knew the Vice President has no authority to overturn the Electoral College vote. #TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings #LockThemUp
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
The #January6thCommitteeHearings started on 6/9/22 evening with witness testimony & video footage surrounding the riot on the Capitol on #J6. The televised hearing is the 1st in a series that is expected to last through July.
I will ask the questions not being asked & quote many.
I will ask the questions not being asked & quote many.
In all of the video shown on Prime TV by the #January6thCommitteeHearings, I didn't see a single frame w/ Ray Epps as he is seen in multiple videos on Jan 5 & #J6.
Why was Ray Epps encouraging people to go "into" the Capitol building?
Did the FBI hire Ray Epps?
Who is #RayEpps?
Why was Ray Epps encouraging people to go "into" the Capitol building?
Did the FBI hire Ray Epps?
Who is #RayEpps?
@BennieGThompson @RepLizCheney & @RepKinzinger
Does the FBI now, or has it ever, maintained a formal or informal relationship or point of contact w/ Ray Epps, whether directly or indirectly, including through intermediaries?
#J6Hearing
Who is #RayEpps
#January6thCommitteeHearings
Does the FBI now, or has it ever, maintained a formal or informal relationship or point of contact w/ Ray Epps, whether directly or indirectly, including through intermediaries?
#J6Hearing
Who is #RayEpps
#January6thCommitteeHearings
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
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“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
