Thread by @TrumpFile

THREAD: Listening to "The Siege Revisited: The Rep. Gwen Moore Interview," the new episode of @GaslitNation podcast with @sarahkendzior, @AndreaChalupa, and @RepGwenMoore.

"I LOVE the name of your show!" - Rep. Moore

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During the impeachment hearings, @RepGwenMoore identified three threats we faced by keeping Trump in office for two more weeks:

1) He could declassify state secrets
2) He could sell state secrets to our enemies
3) He could pardon the insurrectionists

"It was really obvious from the beginning that this was a coordinated plot, and the absence of any early intervention was real clear indication that there was support at very high levels of our administration... Maybe even Individual One." - @RepGwenMoore

From Trump claiming beforehand that the election would be stolen to calling Georgia officials and trying to stop the electoral certification...

"We saw the crime unfolding in plain sight." - @RepGwenMoore

I'm posting the above tweets now & live-tweeting as I listen from here! This episode of Gaslit Nation will be available wherever you get your podcasts soon, or listen early and get bonus episodes on Patreon. patreon.com/gaslit

We do NOT know that Trump stopped receiving security / intelligence briefings, and there's no reason to believe he stopped contact with his buddies Vladimir, Kim, and Mohammed.

"It's really not clear to me that we are out of any danger now that he's the former president."

"The fact that he can spend the next four years dangling political contributions and threats and recruiting more Trumpian-like folk for various red states... is completely frightening.... This threatens our national security, our national identity. It threatens our democracy."

"I doubt that we can have a president worse than Trump, but certainly we've created an incentive for someone who's a lot smarter than him to try to get away with it." - @RepGwenMoore

Beware the Posh Trump

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1374178534852202499?s=20

"These issues of corruption and the loss of leverage among the public and this ability of criminal elites to live above the law has just gotten steadily worse." - @sarahkendzior

...

"This is a very fragile democracy." - @RepGwenMoore

"We need to really clarify the framers' intent around tolerating someone who attempts to be a dictator like Donald Trump... As soon as we find someone who's as slimy as he is and is smarter than him, we're gonna be in trouble." - @RepGwenMoore

My entire body tenses up when I hear the name "Josh Hawley." What's the anti-fascist's version of spidey sense?

"This subliminal message of 'we're protecting white male privilege' is very, very powerful. And Ted Cruz and these other people know that this is the only way to retain any measure of power." - @RepGwenMoore

The only way besides voter suppression and canceling democracy.

At this point, 23 minutes in, Rep. Moore begins to walk listeners through her experience on 1/6. For her full retelling of that horrific day, be sure to listen to the full @GaslitNation episode. My threads are only highlights.

"We have heard many of our colleagues say that they saw tours [of the Capitol on 1/5]. I don't know whether they were done deliberately or whether people were just useful idiots... There are investigations." - @RepGwenMoore

"I think that the more we investigate, the closer we're gonna get to the White House in terms of coordinating this display of power." - Rep. Gwen Moore

On COVID / American Rescue Plan:

"The Republicans' contingent is that we've done stuff like made the child tax credit refundable. Their notion is that people need to work for money. Well, I don't know any child six or under that I would pay to do any work." - @RepGwenMoore

"Children have suffered tremendously in an economy where we can't raise the minimum wage... A lot of women w/ children find themselves in jobs where they're making $2.13/hour plus tips, if they can get 'em. There's permanent feminization of poverty through our welfare system."

"I have to appreciate people like Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney - never thought I'd be saying that - because we don't have an opposition party, a legitimate opposition party... These [other Republicans] don't want anything except power." - @RepGwenMoore

That's all for this week's Gaslit Nation! For the FULL discussion, make sure to listen to the episode. You can also access bonus episodes on Patreon at the Truth-Teller level or higher. patreon.com/gaslit

Thank you @sarahkendzior and @AndreaChalupa for working so hard on this every week, and MASSIVE thank you to @RepGwenMoore for joining the show! It was a fantastic episode.

For more Gaslit Nation, here's last week's thread ⬇️

https://twitter.com/TrumpFile/status/1372029186714390529?s=20

I also want to give a shoutout to Andrea's sister, @AlexandraChalup. Five years ago today, she warned Ukraine that Trump was being aided by the same Putin proxy who helped create chaos in the country. Unfortunately, the Ukrainian ambassador thought Trump couldn't win.