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20 Sep, 6 tweets, 3 min read
INBOX: Former Rand Paul campaign aide — previously pardoned by Trump for campaign finance crime — charged with yet another campaign finance crime related to 2016 election. lnks.gd/l/eyJhbGciOiJI…
BENTON, who is married to Sen. Paul’s niece, was once a top political aide to GOP Leader McConnell. Story w @joshgerstein TK
@joshgerstein To put a finer point on it: BENTON is charged with funneling $25,000 in money from a Russian national to Trump /RNC in 2016.
NEW: Veteran GOP operative with ties to Rand Paul, McConnell indicted for funneling $25,000 from a Russian national to Trump/RNC in 2016.

w/ @joshgerstein

politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
At Paul’s urging, Jesse BENTON was pardoned by Trump for a 2011 campaign finance crime, part of a wave of last-minute clemency Trump granted before he left office. politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
Wrote about the first charges against Benton in this throwback w @mkraju and @DanielStrauss4 in 2015. Story seems get new life every few months. politico.com/story/2015/08/…

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20 Sep
NEW: Bennie Thompson and Liz Cheney had never even met before the Jan. 6 committee was formed. Now they’re inseparable, talking and texting daily — developing a genuinely warm, and consequential, rapport.

@Olivia_Beavers and I look at their relationship: politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
Thompson, who grew up in the segregated south, and Cheney, the scion of a conservative dynasty, are an unlikely duo.

But Thompson calls her “a great patriot, a great American, a good family person” Dems can trust.” And Cheney returns that praise in kind. politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
The strategic value: It’s good for each of them for the 1/6 probe to be viewed as bipartisan.

But Thompson and others also told us the bond is real. Clyburn told us it was Thompson — not Pelosi or leadership — who decided to name Cheney vice chair. politico.com/news/2021/09/2…
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18 Sep
Heavy police presence ringing the Capitol this morning, fleet of plows for crowd control, clear ‘police line’ signage and police vans for mass arrests situations at the ready. Security not messing around. Image
Some Three Percenter regalia here, including one man with a ‘Vietnam Veteran’ hat and jacket . Several affiliated with these loose anti-govt groups were arrested after Jan. 6. ImageImage
A very good boy doing security. Image
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13 Sep
NEW: Playbook scoops an important moment on the 1/6 timeline. MELANIA Trump was informed of the violence at the Capitol at least *an hour before* Trump tweeted his 2:24 pm attack on VP Pence.

Further undercuts the paper-thin claim that Trump wasn’t aware Pence faced danger.
The timestamp is from former MELANIA chief of staff and former WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham’s new book, an excerpt obtained by @dlippman.

Rioters had surrounded the building around 1 and breached it just after 2.
Melania Trump’s records — including potentially this text and any others surrounding it — are among those the Jan. 6 committee in the House are likely to attempt to obtain from telecom companies and the National Archives.
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11 Sep
BREAKING: The Capitol Police have released results of their internal misconduct probes into officers' behavior on Jan. 6.

Of 38 cases, 6 were sustained including 3 for "conduct unbecoming."
The six violations:

-Conduct unbecoming x3
-Failure to comply with directives
-Improper remarks
-Improper dissemination of information

Story TK
In ALL of the cases, the U.S. attorney's office reviewed and determined no crimes were committed, USCP indicated.
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27 Jul
NEW: In court filing, House counsel says it won’t defend Mo BROOKS from Eric Swalwell’s Jan. 6 lawsuit.
The filing included a letter from Chairwoman Lofgren to DOJ in which she notes that Brooks’ 1/6 comments were made at a political rally — and Brooks has defended them as political statements — which would mean they aren’t covered as official House business.
NEWS: DOJ has joined the House in declining to represent BROOKS, saying that the department can't conclude Brooks was acting in his official capacity when he spoke at Trump's 1/6 rally. Story to come...
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27 Jul
Officer Hodges watches along as footage of his own mask getting ripped off, while he was wedged in a Capitol door, is shown at 1/6 committee hearing
The four officers are sworn in and will testify under oath
Officer Gonnell says as he lost oxygen amid a crush of rioters he thought to himself “This is how I’m going to die.”
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