THREAD: If you’re still unsure whether or not Trump planned and #Incited the #Insurrection with his #BigLie about the election being stolen, failure to concede, and committing to peaceful transfer of power. Let’s agree to disagree.
2/ We must not ignore what Trump failed to do. Once the mob overran the Capitol PD, broke into the Capitol bldg, and the #Insurrection was underway, Trump REFUSED to call off the #Insurgents awaiting HIS instruction. He even told them he’d be w/them.
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3/ Trump’s Campaign planned the rally and invited the mob. D.C. Mayor Bowser was ready on December 31st. The #Insurgents said Trump took care of the Nat Guard for THEM. They KNEW the Nat’l Guard wouldn’t be on site and the ~2,000 Capitol PD force could be easily overrun. —>>
4/ The only person that gets any retrospective apology from me is @Mike_Pence and his family. Had NO idea how close they were to danger during the #Insurrection. Hope @RepLizCheney and @RepKinzinger are in contact with him. Our country needs a —>>
5/ ...healthy two-party system. We can debate ideology and policies. We cannot debate facts or truth. We can never again allow a division to occur that places our fragile 244-year young democracy and Republic in jeopardy.
2/ ...anyone else who may have been sheltered with @Mike_Pence and his family who may have been in contact with Trump or his team during the Capitol #Insurrection on January 6th. Hope @RepRaskin will subpoena them all and their phone records, if required.
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3/ @RepRaskin I’m confident this will clear up doubt some GOP Senators have about when Trump knew Pence was evacuated, and how long it took from that point for Trump to call for an end to the #Insurrection. What time was Ofcr Brian Sicknick beaten, Ashli Babbitt killed, were
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#WeThePeople MUST demand @HouseDemocrats AND @HouseGOP proceed with the #ImpeachmentVote of President Trump on a bi-partisan basis. Subsequently, the Senate, MUST hold a fair and impartial trial in which the rules and witnesses are agreed to on a bi-partisan...
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...basis by the @SenateJudiciary@JudiciaryDems Committee. OUR House, the White House is on fire. The arsonist, Pres. Trump, was in the House setting it ablaze w/a blow torch. He’s exchanged the blow torch for a rocket launcher and taken aim at the #2020Elections.
@frankthorp@SenatorBurr The dangerous problem w/ Republicans doubling down on this bogus conspiracy theory about Ukraine meddling in the 2016 Elections for @HillaryClinton’s benefit:
1. For two years the GOP controlled the House, Senate AND White House. They investigated EVERYTHING Hillary...
...Clinton related. IF they TRULY thought there was an issue wouldn’t we have heard about long before now? Only because it was recently determined by Trump’s DOJ #CaseClosed on her emails that Republicans are trying to pin another tale on Secretary Clinton.
2. Why didn’t Republicans investigate this bogus Secretary Clinton/Ukraine/2016 Election meddling claim in 2017 or 2018? Open a counterintel investigation? Impose sanctions on Ukraine?
GOP controlled the House, Senate and White House the first 2 years of Trump’s...
I know. We don’t need to resist. We need a ‘60’s Civil Rights Movement-type revolution. But, can we just pump our brakes until we get the most racist President in the history of our country out of the White House...before he starts ANOTHER Civil War?
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It’s great to be “woke”. I’m just saying let’s win FIRST. In case you didn’t realize it, Trump is actively undoing every Obama accomplishment. It’s like playing Spades with your cheating uncle, he’s “pencil whipping” US! WE should ALL take this personally. I do.
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The ultimate revenge to Trump, #MoscowMitch and the other GOP racists would be to send Obama’s main man, Joe Biden back to the White House — so he can appoint Eric Holder and Neal Katyal to #SCOTUS to put the furniture back.
Michael Cohen warned us in his public testimony before the @OversightDems Comm. He said, “...Everything had to go through Mr. Trump and it had to be approved by Mr. Trump. Everything was done with the knowledge and at the direction of Mr. Trump...”
Cohen cont., “Everybody’s job at the Trump Organization is to protect Mr. Trump. Every day most of us knew we were coming in, and we were going to lie for him on something. And, that became the norm. And, that’s exactly what’s happening right now-
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in this country. And, that’s exactly what’s happening here in government, sir.” — Michael Cohen, testimony before House Oversight Comm. (@OversightDems) re: required lying for Trump in biz & gov’t... @HouseGOP@SenateGOP
a) It doesn’t matter how many troops we had in Syria, a handful or a legion. Trump made and announced the decision w/Erdogan to pull them w/out consulting Congress.
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b) Did I mention this president is unhinged @JPodhoretz?
3. You surely get the loss of human life of our allies the Kurds; who stood by us since we invaded Iraq in ‘03? Do you also get the message this sends to ALL our allies? It says, don’t count on the U.S.