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(š¢) LIVE THREAD: This thread is a live-tweet of todayās House January 6 Committee hearing. Iām an attorney, journalist, and historian who has been contacted by the Committee and whose January 6āfocused substack, PROOF, the Committee has cited. I hope you will RETWEET and follow. 
1/ At times I will reference, in this thread, evidence previously published in the 200+ fully sourced reports on January 6 that appear at PROOF. About half of these reports are free at PROOF, while the other half are for subscribers ($5/month or $50/year). sethabramson.substack.com
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āMy top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why aināt this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?ā
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
āJust the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit ā made the hair on the back of my neck stand upā¦ Literally human lives can be at stake.ā @FrankFigliuzzi1
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
āThere is a feeling here that [if] Merrick Garland decides not to prosecute Trump, how do you hold anyone else accountable for violating classification rules going forward in the U.S. government?ā@JaxAlemany
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
āThis was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct ā a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.ā #LockTrumpUp
āTrumpās attorney, Alina Habba, says that Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.ā@therecount
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: āWe are all domestic terrorists.ā
ā#EspionageAct [doesnāt] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defenseā¦ The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?ā
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
āTrump has still not said a word of explanation as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.ā @AWeissmann_
š¶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblackā¦
š¶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblackā¦
ā[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so againā¦ You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. Whatās right matters even less, and decency matters not at all.ā Adam Schiff
SCOTUS "agreement to hear Moore v. Harper... isnāt just bad news for efforts to control gerrymandering.
The Courtās right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn votersā choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
The Courtās right-wing supermajority is poised to let state lawmakers overturn votersā choice in presidential elections."
#SCOTUSIsCorrupt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
"Trump then tried and failed, lawlessly, to muscle the GOP state legislators into discarding Bidenās victory and appointing Trump electors instead.
The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
#ISLtheory
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
The Moore case... could give Republicans legal cover in 2024 to do as Trump demanded in 2020."
#ISLtheory
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
"That is a genuinely radical proposition...
The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
The idea that legislatures stand unbound by any limit from their own founding documents is a fringe debating point invented for Republican political advantage."
#ISLtheory
#TrumpCoupAttempt
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/ā¦
"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...
Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leadersā texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffariās office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agentsā and employeesā text messages."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to āre-runā the election."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/07ā¦
"one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word āfakeā to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide ... a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
āWe would just be sending in āfakeā electoral votes to Pence so that āsomeoneā in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the āfakeā votes should be countedā
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
"The emails show that participants in the discussions reported details of their activities to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trumpās personal lawyer, and in at least one case to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/ā¦
"The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trumpās actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results"
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
"Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses... have asked in recent days about conversations w/ Trump, his lawyers, & others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won"
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
"The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 & January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers & advisers about fake electors"
#Jan6
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
#Jan6
washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
"the right-wing editorial pages of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, both Rupert Murdoch publications, have broken sharply with Trump.
Trump of all people should understand how the aura of being a āloserā turns people off."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/ā¦
Trump of all people should understand how the aura of being a āloserā turns people off."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/ā¦
"emails that show one lawyer involved in the scheme ārepeatedly used the word āfakeā to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide VP Mike Pence & Trumpās allies in Congress a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome.ā"
"Thatās classic āadmissions against interestā ā the sort of self-incriminating statements that light up prosecutorsā eyes...
The Postās report also revealed that the Justice Department has the phone logs of senior Trump aides."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/ā¦
The Postās report also revealed that the Justice Department has the phone logs of senior Trump aides."
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/ā¦
As an independent voter truth matters to me
Here are a few left wing hashtags that not only prove they don't research anything but make me block them instantly & which push me even further away from the left
HARD FACTS MATTER
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#TrumpTreason
#Trumprussia
Here are a few left wing hashtags that not only prove they don't research anything but make me block them instantly & which push me even further away from the left
HARD FACTS MATTER
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#TrumpTreason
#Trumprussia
2) I will NOT be lied to
I will not be bullied by false narratives.
Their base cannot marginalize me into silence or bully me into voting for them through threats, harassment or through social media pressure.
All they do is insure that I WON'T support them.
I will not be bullied by false narratives.
Their base cannot marginalize me into silence or bully me into voting for them through threats, harassment or through social media pressure.
All they do is insure that I WON'T support them.
3) We desperately need calm voices of intelligence & reason with well thought out plans to help this country recover. We DO NOT NEED emotional temper tantrums, people who stretch the truth at every turn treating our nation's leadership like it's the "Real World".
.@Liz_Cheney reveals at end of #Jan6thHearings #Trump called a #Jan6thCommittee witness we have not yet seen. The witness did not take the call but told their lawyer. The lawyer told the Committee. The Committee referred it to #DOJ. #USAG, is this enuf for #WitnessTampering yet?
Other shattering testimony:
- The 12/18 meeting #TFG held in #OvalOffice with #SidneyPowell, #MikeFlynn, #Giuliani, & aides was āunhingedā-loud screaming, name-calling, almost coming to fisticuffs.
- They were there to discuss draft order to seize voting machines in key states.
- The 12/18 meeting #TFG held in #OvalOffice with #SidneyPowell, #MikeFlynn, #Giuliani, & aides was āunhingedā-loud screaming, name-calling, almost coming to fisticuffs.
- They were there to discuss draft order to seize voting machines in key states.
- It was revealed at 12/18 meeting that #Trump had named #SidneyPowell as special counsel to prosecute cases related to the voting machines. Supposedly gave her a āsecurity clearance.ā
#Jan6thHearings #January6thCommitteeHearings
newsweek.com/eric-herschmanā¦
#Jan6thHearings #January6thCommitteeHearings
newsweek.com/eric-herschmanā¦
āWE COULDNāT BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughterā¦It mustnāt happen again. We canāt let it. We simply canāt let it happen again.ā
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
āCalifornia [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to allā¦
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.ā
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.ā
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
āFreedomĀ is under attack in [Florida]ā¦ In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Donāt let them take yourĀ freedom.ā
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
"Hutchinson testified to hearing Trump order the magnetometers (metal detectors) used to keep armed people away from the president be removed:
āI donāt fucking care that they have weapons, theyāre not here to hurt me... Let my people in."
#IndictTrump
lawfareblog.com/cassidy-hutchiā¦
āI donāt fucking care that they have weapons, theyāre not here to hurt me... Let my people in."
#IndictTrump
lawfareblog.com/cassidy-hutchiā¦
The car thing is not as important as the fact that:
TRUMP WAS TOLD THE CROWD HAD WEAPONS
and said:
"I donāt f-ing care that they have weapons.
They're not here to hurt ME.
Take the f-ing mags [magnetometers] away.
Let MY people inā¦"
#TrumpCoupAttempt
TRUMP WAS TOLD THE CROWD HAD WEAPONS
and said:
"I donāt f-ing care that they have weapons.
They're not here to hurt ME.
Take the f-ing mags [magnetometers] away.
Let MY people inā¦"
#TrumpCoupAttempt
"Trumpās order to ātake the fucking mags away,ā whether or not the Secret Service obeyed it, was not constitutionally protected political speech but, rather, an overt act, sandwiched between sentences reflecting awareness & intent..."
#Jan6thInsurrection
lawfareblog.com/cassidy-hutchiā¦
#Jan6thInsurrection
lawfareblog.com/cassidy-hutchiā¦
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your fāing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your fāing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: Thatās correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: Thatās correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes maāam.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes maāam.
#Insurrection #January6thHearings #Trump portrait of mental instability unprecedntd!Evidence of panickd ppl around #Trump SHOCKING. Military action feared!Trump lost composure,grabbd steering wheel leaping from back seat &assaultg Security.#Jan6Cmtee: #Trumpās political obituary.
#Trump wild activities incl assault & mental instability,known to ALL #GOPCowards Consider #GOP continue to take orders & kiss ring,making his comeback more likely.Greed so immense,#USA/global welfare disappeard from their dashboard.THAT is all that matters.#TRUMPMurdochMonster
Federal agents last week seized the cell phone of John Eastman, a lawyer who pushed false claims that mass voter fraud tainted the 2020 election & urged Trump & other Republicans to block Biden from becoming president.
- @DevlinBarrett
#TrumpCoupAttempt washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
- @DevlinBarrett
#TrumpCoupAttempt washingtonpost.com/national-securā¦
āEastmanās lawyer, Charles Burnham, filed papers in federal court in New Mexico Mon asking a judge to order the cell phone returned to Eastman. It was seized pursuant to a search order when he left a restaurant last Wednesday ā
āa day in which fed agents around the country delivered subpoenas, executed search warrants, & interviewed witnesses in a significant expansion of the criminal probes surrounding #Jan6.
That same day, fed agents conducted a search at the northern Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark,
That same day, fed agents conducted a search at the northern Virginia home of Jeffrey Clark,
āThat could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortionāon the order of the U.S. Supreme Courtā¦ They will now wield [power] however they wantā¦to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.ā@maddow
āWhat makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Courtā¦would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? Iāll tell you the answer: THEY WONāTā¦as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our countryā¦ā
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
ā[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ā60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.ā Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesnāt, I want to know why it doesnāt.ā
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Just 3 minutes after President* Trumpās #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking ācourage,ā a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
āDr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign wasā¦a coup in search of a legal theory.ā
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
āI've lost my name [and] sense of securityāall because a group of peopleā¦scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.ā
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
"he told Eastman that the plan violated the Electoral Count Act and that āMr. Eastman acknowledged that that was the case.ā
...
Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime."
#Jan6
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
...
Knowledge of the plot being illegal is significant when it comes to whether the Jan. 6 plotters committed a crime."
#Jan6
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
"Eastman told Giuliani: āIāve decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works.ā
This is big ā and not just because Eastman sought a pardon, thereby acknowledging his own legal liability."
#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
This is big ā and not just because Eastman sought a pardon, thereby acknowledging his own legal liability."
#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
"Jacob described the process for drafting Penceās statement rejecting the Trump teamās plan. He said Pence wanted it to be ājust soā because āthis may be the most important thing I ever say.ā"
#Jan6thInsurrection
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
#Jan6thInsurrection
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/ā¦
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
āPresident* Trumpā¦followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giulianiāto just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulentā¦ Millions of Americans believed him.ā
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
āThe Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to āThe Official Election Defense Fund.ā @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.ā
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
āI said to him: āAre you out of your fāing mind?ā I said, āI only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.āā
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP š¼ #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP š¼ #January6thCommitteeHearings:
āI made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolenā¦which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshitā¦ The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.ā Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: āDid that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?ā
Ivanka Trump: āIt affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.ā
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: āIt affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.ā
#January6thHearings:
āAny legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States ā all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.ā
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
January 6th š§µ's
I will be watching for new information and ommissions by the committee tonight.
#January6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#January6thHearings
I will be watching for new information and ommissions by the committee tonight.
#January6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#January6thHearings
Good timeline of events.
Proud Boys, Roger Stone, rallies and organizing.
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. (š„:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans wonāt even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans wonāt even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
āWe are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movementā¦ 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.ā@CoryBooker
āWomen and mothers have political powerā¦ We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers donāt act, hold them accountableā [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.ā
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
