(THREAD) This thread includes my thoughts on the lengthy report just issued by the House January 6 Committee—which seeks a congressional referral to DOJ for Contempt of Congress against former GOP congressman and Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows. I hope you'll read on and share.
KEY REPORT POINT #1: Mark Meadows was on the January 2 conference call in which the January 6 plot was hatched—along with Trump, hundreds of state GOP legislators, the leadership of the domestic-terrorist "Stop the Steal" movement, and several other key Trump allies and advisers.
KEY REPORT POINT #2: As discussed at length by PROOF and other media outlets, the White House did indeed use Trumpist stooge and Pentagon plant Kash Patel in the run-up to January 6 and *on* January 6; Meadows was reportedly in "nonstop" contact with Patel as the attack unfolded.
KEY REPORT POINT #3: It's increasingly clear that Trump, Meadows, and Patel only intended to release the Guard to the Capitol *if* doing so advanced the interests of pro-Trump forces. Meadows apparently admitted this was the planned use of the Guard—and the only contemplated use.
KEY REPORT POINT #4: Mark Meadows appears to have been a—or even *the*—key figure in plotting the overthrow of DOJ leadership in the runup to January 6, with the *specific* goal of furthering the plot PROOF has written about for months: getting "alternate [Trump] electors" to DC.
FOLLOWUP to KEY REPORT POINT #4: To say Meadows was instrumental to the plot to send Trump "electors" to DC from battleground states Biden won is to say that Meadows—like Trump—knew by January 2 that the January 6 joint session had to be delayed *by any means* for that to happen.
KEY REPORT POINT #5: The Committee euphemistically notes Meadows may have violated federal recordkeeping laws in not preserving certain documents. In the hands of DOJ, such evidence could eventually evolve into criminal charges for Obstruction of Justice or Hindering Prosecution.
KEY REPORT POINT #6: We already knew this, but the Report further confirms that Meadows was in the Oval Office on December 18, 2020 during one of the most bizarre and inappropriate meetings in US political history—between Trump, Powell, Flynn, Byrne, Giuliani, and several others.
KEY REPORT POINT #7: Meadows was one of many high-level recipients—and *distributors and advocates*—for the several "coup memos" produced by Team Trump in the days leading up to the attack on the Capitol, all of which were widely—but secretly—distributed amongst GOP politicians.
KEY REPORT POINT #8: The Committee is oddly more credulous to the Kremers than it should be—accepting their team's representation that they told the White House they were worried Stop the Steal leaders Ali Alexander, Roger Stone and Alex Jones were creating a dangerous situation.
FOLLOWUP to KEY REPORT POINT #8: We must remember that the Secret Service had done a security assessment for Capitol Hill and given it to Team Trump days before January 6—and it assessed that the day would be dangerous. So the White House knew either way. sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-january-6-…
KEY REPORT POINT #9: Trump continues to refuse to publicly and formally raise executive privilege, even though he legally must do so to try to gain its benefits. It is clear that he is instead witness tampering—often via lawyers—in the background. This has been his *lifelong* MO.
KEY REPORT POINT #10: Mark Meadows is currently making a claim of absolute testimonial immunity that's not only legally meritless but would have Republicans screaming for life imprisonment if it came from a former Democratic chief of staff in response to a congressional subpoena.
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