NEW: Nine Oath Keepers — five previously charged and four newly charged — have been linked in an indictment for conspiracy.
The nine planned their actions in DC together and taked openly of stashing "heavy" weaponry just outside of DC. justice.gov/usao-dc/case-m…
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"Where are you? Pence has punked out," one of them, Thomas Caldwell, said in a message to Jessica Watkins.
This was just as the Capitol was beginning to be breached — about 18 minutes before Trump tweeted an attack on Pence.
In case anyone needed to know how the Oath Keepers interpreted Trump's call for a "wild" protest.
NEW: Prosecutors say at least nine Oath Keepers (with others clearly likely to face charges soon) executed a conspiracy to storm the Capitol and stop the election from beign certified.
INCREDIBLE: A newly filed affidavit against a Capitol rioter shows that this man, Daniel Egtvedt, fought with an entire room full of police, was kicked out, returned, fought/injured police again, left, returned, fought with police again and still wasn't arrested that day.
The commissioners agree that 9/11 and 1/6 aren’t particularly comparable except for the enormous damage to American’s psyche. One noted that on 9/11, terrorists wanted to hit the Capitol but failed. politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
The most important things for a new 9/11-type commission:
-Members and staff with non-partisan cred
-Subpoena power
-Carefully worded mandate from Congress
-No artificial deadline
The vote will be the first time since 1868 that a majority of the Senate (though not a supermajority) votes to convict. And it will easily set a record for most votes to convict by members of the president's party. politico.com/news/2021/02/1…
Most of the energy has been for speeding straight through to the final vote. But evidence that Trump attacked Pence while *knowing* he was fleeing the violence has changed the calculus.
Some Rs have signaled they're intensely interested in this as well.
@HerreraBeutler Tonight, Herrera Beutler makes clear she has been emphatic with her colleagues on this point and pleads with others close to Trump — and Pence himself — to start saying what they know.