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13 Feb, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Short thread recapping some key takeaways from today.

Trump's lawyers lied on the Senate floor about whether the President knew Pence was in danger. It's just implausible he wasn't informed as soon as Pence was moved. This was a shocking moment (1/x).
Not only did the Secret Service undoubtedly inform the White House in real time that the VP was in trouble, and the Capitol was falling, but Senator Tuberville confirmed that he told the President the VP had been moved.

Pence's team calling Trump, his lawyers liars (3/x):

Kevin McCarthy let it be known that when he called Trump for help the then President refused, and sided with the insurrectionists, leaving Members of Congress/Senators in mortal danger, on purpose (4/x).

This @CNN McCarthy story has far more detail than just the top line exchange between McCarthy and Trump. Feels like a group of House Rs are making a very aggressive move against Trump.

cnn.com/2021/02/12/pol…
As @TerryTeachout1 reminded me tonight, Pence has a "football" with him, as we see below.

Are we really being asked to believe that the Commander in Chief wasn't briefed on the status of the VP and the football? (6/x)

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Simon Rosenberg Profile picture
13 Feb
If Trump's team doesn't call those close to Trump who could help exonerate him - Pence, Meadows, McCarthy, Tuberville, Don Jr, Stephen Miller, Stone, Flynn - it means that they can't actually exonerate him.
This witness thing is a big, big problem for Trump.

Why can't his team produce a single witness to exonerate him?

If there is evidence Trump was not trying to incite the crowd to attack the Capitol, produce it peeps. A single email, conversation, memo, something.

Why can't team Trump produce exculpatory evidence, witnesses?

Because it/they don't exist.

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11 Feb
After GOP let Trump go last Jan we saw a year of epic malevolence - COVID disaster, economy crashes, assault on election/USPS/Census, domestic crackdown, attack on Congress.

What happens if GOP lets him go again?

My bet - Trump assumes clear leadership of violent insurgency.
Reality of what happened on Jan 6th becoming clearer - the President lead an armed insurrection against Congress.

And while a few hundred have been arrested, most of the insurrectionists remain free; and Trump/GOP still refuse to demand they stand down.

Rather than contrition, apologies from those who worked with Trump to push the Big Lie and a domestic insurgency, if anything we are seeing the seditionists dig in, and grow in case some cases more radical, extreme.

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7 Feb
So, have started a new series of in-depth video interviews of important policy makers, political leaders, innovators and through leaders.

We have a strong opening schedule - @RepScottPeters, @glennkirschner2, @AriBerman, @KarenKornbluh.

ndn.org/blog/2020/05/n… (1/x).
Tomorrow, Monday at 1pm we are hosting @RepScottPeters to talk about the @NewDemCoalition 100 Day Agenda.

Will be a great chance to check in with a very thoughtful Member in a time of opportunity and challenge.

ndn.org/blog/2021/02/i… (2/x).
On Tue 2/2 hosted a really compelling discussion about Trump, authoritarianism, the current moment with @ruthbenghiat. Watch if you can - always learn so much from her.

Consider also buying her book "Strongmen" - it is timely, important.

ndn.org/ben-ghiat/20221 (3/x)
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Simon Rosenberg Profile picture
6 Feb
Not going to tweet her again but need to keep pointing out that her narrative and language is the language of insurrection and violence.

Terrorism, tyrants - these fictions are a daily call to arms for armed MAGA "patriots."

This is what the GOP has to shut down (1/x).
Talk a bit more about the importance of the MAGA/Save America narrative, advanced by Trump over the past year, in this piece below.

Getting Rs to move beyond this false story is going to be essential if the GOP is going to deradicalize (2/x).

ndn.org/blog/2021/02/g…
Go deeper into the MAGA/Save America narrative in this thread (3/x).

This is what we have to focus on now. This is what we must counter, debunk and defeat.

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4 Feb
Here’s what the good people of Georgia are waking up to this morning - local extremist groups, some aligned w MTG, talking on the record about a sustained insurgency against the US.
Read what MTG wrote YESTERDAY, below. She repeats the new MAGA blood libel - that Democrats are an existential threat to the nation, which is why she/other patriots are justified in using violence to stop them. (2/x).

Trump wove all these narratives together, he brought everyone together around the idea Dems/radical left existential threat, he/patriots were going to Save America by keeping them/removing them from power.

MTG isn't just Q - she's MAGA. (3/x)

simon-rosenberg.medium.com/republicans-ha…
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2 Feb
1/So I learned this weekend that my 80 year old aunt, who is healthy but has a bad leg so she can't wait on line for hours or walk long distances, still hasn't been able to get vaccinated in her country in NY State north of NYC. No slots.
2/I looked at our population tables, and even though the Trump Administration said we would have 40m people vaccinated by the end of December, we still have not vaccinated the 22m or so over 75. My aunt is 80 - so even higher risk.
3/The original Trump sin was not building a national testing and tracing regime for the eventually vaccination rollout to be built on top of. We could have learned from building that initial system, and been ready for the incredibly tough task of rapidly vaccinating everyone.
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