If journalists can uncover all this through the voluntary cooperation of sources, imagine what a commission, select committee, or grand jury could find out with subpoenas.
"'And these people aren’t there for a fucking flower contest,' [said a] co-organizer.
Stockton said ... he and Kremer agreed to call Meadows directly."
"Soon after, Kremer told Stockton 'the White House would take care of it.' ...
Kremer denied that she ever spoke with Meadows or any other White House official about her Jan. 6 concerns. Meadows declined to comment on whether he’d been contacted." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"Our reporting raises new questions that will not be answered unless Trump insiders tell the story of that day. It remains unclear ... precisely what ... officials learned of safety concerns about the march and whether they took those reports seriously." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"To draw such crowds, Alexander made clear Stop the Steal would collaborate with anyone who supported its cause, no matter how extreme their views. 'We’re willing to work with racists,' he said on one livestream in December." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"Kylie Kremer asked her mom to escalate the situation to higher levels of the White House, and her mother said she would work on it, according to the source, who could hear the conversation on speakerphone." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"The source said that in a subsequent conversation, Amy Kremer told her daughter she would take the matter to Eric Trump’s wife, Lara Trump. The source said that Kremer was in frequent contact with Lara Trump at the time." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"At 11:57 a.m, Trump got on stage and, after a rambling speech, gave his now infamous directive. .... Lawrence ... remembers her shock. 'What the fuck is this motherfucker talking about?' Lawrence, an ardent Trump supporter, said of the former president." propublica.org/article/new-de…
"'I’m at the Capitol and just joined the breach!!!' texted Straka, who months earlier had raised concerns about allying with white nationalists. 'I just got gassed! Never felt so fucking alive in my life!!!'" propublica.org/article/new-de…
"Alexander has kept a low profile since Jan. 6. But in private, texts show, he has encouraged his allies to prepare for 'civil war.'" propublica.org/article/new-de…
"'Don’t denounce anything,' he messaged his inner circle in January regarding the Capitol riot. 'You don’t want to be on the opposite side of freedom fighters in the coming conflict. Veterans will be looking for civilian political leaders.'" propublica.org/article/new-de…
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Oh, I see. "Obama took money from one of the 'pallets of cash' ... going to Iran, funneling $400 million to people in Italy [and in] exchange an Italian general used a military satellite to upload software to American voting machines [to] change votes from Trump to Joe Biden."
the meaningless "hi" tweet is doing excellently—many people say, sir, we have never seen such a powerful tweet—and full results will be posted tomorrow
"Trump is seeking to unravel critical elements of our constitutional structure that make democracy work — confidence in the result of elections and the rule of law. No other American president has ever done this."
"The Republican Party is at a turning point, and Republicans must decide whether we are going to choose truth and fidelity to the Constitution." wapo.st/33hlVJY
"The most conservative of conservative values is reverence for the rule of law. Each of us swears an oath before God to uphold our Constitution. The electoral college has spoken." wapo.st/33hlVJY
Corrections are nice, but shouldn't obscure the point that, at a minimum, Giuliani should have known that it was likely he was being used by the Russians. For example, ...
Check out what he said to the Daily Beast last year: "The chance that Derkach is a Russian spy is no better than 50/50." thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-…
And Giuliani's own client, the former guy, *was* in fact told by the FBI that Russian intelligence officers were using President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani as a conduit for disinformation aimed at undermining Joe Biden's candidacy. nytimes.com/2020/10/15/us/…