Acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin:

Says numbers of suspects and scope of charges against them is “mind blowing”

170 suspects identified so far, 70 charged.
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Says initial cases charged with misdemeanors. But “this is only the beginning.”
More significant felony charges coming tied to sedition and conspiracy.
Charges range from trespass to theft of mail to assault to theft of national security information to felony murder. 2

Steven D'antuono FBI assistant director is very good at not answering questions.
So far: no answer on how coordinated this was or if suspects have been put on a no fly list.

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Helen Kennedy

@HelenKennedy

3 Jan

The tape of the full hour is up now. #TrumpTapes washingtonpost.com/video/politics…

Listening: he goes through a laundry list of conspiracy theories about ballot stuffing and forgeries and so on - no acknowledgement that none of this has been presented in court over the last two months.

Also my god he’s just filibustering. The Georgians haven’t even said a word yet.

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Helen Kennedy

@HelenKennedy

31 Dec 20

2020 update: well, turns out I had no idea. Setting aside the horrors of the pandemic and the employment/hunger crisis, here are some of the weirder minor events from this year you might have forgotten:

Trump tweets “I was the person who saved Pre-Existing Conditions in your Healthcare,” even though his administration is in court trying to nullify the Affordable Care Act. - Jan. 13, 2020