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1 Feb, 7 tweets, 4 min read

77 DAYS THAT SHOOK DEMOCRACY: How Trump's Big Lie overwhelmed the Republican Party and was propelled forward by new and more radical lawyers, political organizers, financiers and the surround-sound right-wing media. Our first cut of history...A thread
nytimes.com/2021/01/31/us/…

@LeaderMcConnell

The pivotal decision of @LeaderMcConnell to delay recognizing @JoeBiden's win-helping give Trump more room to run-was informed by his bid to have Trump's help in Georgia and assurances from Mark Meadows and Jared Kushner that Trump would accept reality as court losses piled up

The Supreme Court lawsuit that Ken Paxton filed was initially drafted by lawyers close to the White House who tried and failed to have other AG's carry it first. Paxton's own solicitor general chose not to be associated with a legally dubious suit seeking mass disenfranchisement

The Dominion conspiracy theory had its origins in a previous conspiracy about Democratic/Deep State cyber manipulation, and an early version of it surfaced right before the election on Bannon's War Room: Pandemic podcast, with, even, an appearance by Sidney Powell

The initial website for the #trumpmarch rallies and bus tours had promoted the surviving web presences of the white supremacists and extremist groups that had been banned from Facebook and Twitter; and rally organizers had various ties to Trump, Bannon and Flynn

In the end, operatives close to the White House took a huge hand in the January 6 rally that was the prelude to the rally, the president himself weighing in on music and speakers line-up.

@Jo_Becker

Story was a big team effort with @Jo_Becker @EricLiptonNYT @maggieNYT @jmartNYT @AllMattNYT @nytmike and critical help from @bymarkwalker and powerful presentation by pix editor @bfnyt

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About some of the assertions in this Republican letter justifying opposition to a democratic election and in favor of the very undemocratic mass disenfranchisement of millions upon millions of voters...a thread:

"America is a Republic whose leaders are chosen in democratic elections. Those elections, in turn, must comply with the Constitution and with federal and state law."
It is a Republic or is supposed to be. And in 2020 they did, as affirmed repeatedly in state and federal court

"When the voters fairly decide an election, pursuant to the rule of law, the losing candidate should acknowledge and respect the legitimacy of that election. And, if the voters choose to elect a new office-holder, our Nation should have a peaceful transfer of power." TRUE

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@AppleNews

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This: apnews.com/article/joe-bi… (2/5)

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10 Nov 20

NEWS: Biden camp responds to AG Barr via Bob Bauer: “It is deeply unfortunate that the Attorney General Barr chose to issue a memorandum that will only fuel the “specious, speculative, fanciful or far-fetched claims” he professes to guard against.” (1/3)

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“Joe Biden, who won the presidency with more votes than any President-Elect in American history, will take the oath of office on January 20, 2021.” (3/3)

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A one-time subways columnist for @Newsday, he had the beat in his bones to the end: nytimes.com/2020/02/03/nyr…

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30 Sep 20

@NYTmag

NEW from me: I spent 5 months investigating how Trump and Republicans are sowing disinformation and creating panic about supposedly widespread voter fraud. Reporting included 100+ interviews with key players, review of 1000s of pages of records 4 @NYTmag nytimes.com/2020/09/30/mag…

The investigation tracks Trump's 4-year effort to challenge a losing 2020 result as illegitimate, tracing how the federal government joined a larger effort using the specter of exceedingly rare “voter fraud” as a pretext for partisan advantage. Among the findings:

The president’s voter fraud effort has included a commission and several agencies, including DHS, which at one point considered a national ID policy for voting…

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