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7 Jan, 4 tweets, 1 min read
Don't forget that Trump advisor Peter Navarro falsely told Fox News that Trump could move Inauguration Day—and that many Trump advisors have long said January 20 is the real endpoint for Trump's fight. Trump can't move Inauguration Day—but the rhetoric from his advisors is scary.
Anyone who does not think Donald Trump can substantially further desecrate and endanger our country in the next two weeks somehow missed both what happened today and everything that led up to it for four years. Congress must immediately take up the matter of impeachment tomorrow.
The reports we had today that Trump is spreading anarchist rhetoric, was gleeful at today's insurrection, repeatedly blocked the National Guard being deployed, had Rudy Giuliani secretly working to delay Biden's certification, and much more should cause extraordinary worry in DC.
He's in a position now where he doesn't trust his Cabinet because he knows they're discussing the 25th Amendment, certain of his top aides have resigned or are about to, the White House counsel has told staff not to interact with him... there's no way he can carry out his duties.

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9 Jan
In January 2020, 45 GOP senators had the view that the Senate can vote on articles as soon as they're received. Pelosi holds the articles until January 20; the Senate votes—with an aim of precluding Trump from holding office again—that evening. All over by Biden's first full day.
PS/ That a Senate impeachment trial determines removal *and* disqualification from future office means it *can* be conducted after the officeholder is no longer in office. In this case, a vote on conviction and disqualification—win or lose—would only follow Trump's term by hours.
PS2/ The idea of a vote without trial is troubling. But of course impeachment is a political process, not a legal one, as we've been told interminably, and what I'm suggesting would only occur if the president's party *refused* to conduct a timely trial following an insurrection.
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8 Jan
(FULL INSURRECTION VIDEO) I post this to counteract the lies being spread by Trump supporters about what happened during the coup attempt on Wednesday. Be advised that this video gets scary and violent.

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT. VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED.
PS/ Note the many references in the video to "burning this down" and "revolution"; the willful, wanton destruction of property; the repeated assaults on law enforcement; the many insurrectionists in tactical gear; the legitimate fear on the faces of officers vastly outnumbered...
PS2/ ...the law enforcement officers told, sometimes civilly and sometimes not—sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly—that they will be physically harmed by the mob if they don't stand down; the angry refusal of every lawful order given by law enforcement inside the building...
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8 Jan
Several thoughts. First, some of these judgments may be revisited by a new DOJ. Second, those who think they know all the evidence involved in Trump's insurrection haven't been reading the news; more is emerging by the minute. There's increasingly evidence of criminal conspiracy.
(PS) Incitement charges would view the words of Trump, Jr., Giuliani, and Brooks in a vacuum—i.e. assume that mere words are the entirety of the evidence against those individuals. The emerging evidence suggests that the attack on the Capitol was the result of a coordinated plan.
(PS2) Why was Trump's lawyer telling GOP senators to "slow it down" as a "strategy," even as Trump was inciting a crowd to think he'd go to the Capitol to interrupt the certification? Why did he flee to the White House? Why was he "pleased" at the attack?
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8 Jan
Never forget that the "Stop the Steal" hashtag Trump promoted was intended from the start to dovetail with his call for a march on Congress—and result in actions at the Capitol that would *literally* "stop" the "steal" by stopping Congress' joint session.

Team Trump wanted this.
(PS) This is why Giuliani's misplaced call to Sen. Tuberville—accidentally sent to another senator—is such critical evidence in this ongoing criminal investigation. Trump's lawyer explicitly said Team Trump's goal was to delay the certification of Biden's win.

This was a *plot*.
(PS2) Trump and his team believed an armed insurrection would delay the certification of Biden's win for *days*. That's why we now have reporting that Trump was "pleased" and "delighted" at the insurrection and "confused" that anyone in the White House had a different reaction.
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8 Jan
This is an *incredible* piece of journalism that takes you through the route of the mob with maps and detailed explanations and timelines. Well worth checking out.
(PS) What the maps underscore is that the mob had a very specific purpose—they were trying to get to the House chamber to block the joint session of Congress. They met greater and greater resistance, in terms of both armed forces and barricades, the closer they got to their goal.
(PS2) After the mob had partially destroyed the barricade protecting the Speaker's Lobby, Babbitt, a former soldier, tried to be the first into the breach. Her intrusion, if permitted to stand, would"ve flooded the Speaker's Lobby and brought the mob quickly onto the House floor.
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8 Jan
BREAKING: In new video, Trump lies repeatedly about his sedition. He says the Capitol attack outraged him—reports say he was "enthusiastic." He says he called out the Guard immediately—reports say he rebuffed requests "repeatedly."

This is a raft of lies.
1/ Trump *repeatedly* tweeted after the attack began—and never *once* said rioters should leave the Capitol. He now claims he acted quickly to see to it his insurrectionists were "expelled." This bald-faced lie is contradicted not just by media reports but his public statements.
2/ He calls the insurrectionists "demonstrators" and implies only *some* of the rioters "broke the law"—when in fact *all* did, as all the insurrectionists were knowingly trespassing on federal property under circumstances in which the fact of a trespass was unmistakable to them.
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