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22 Sep, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Raffensperger wholly refuses to engage with the substance of @chrislhayes’ line of inquiry. It’s almost like the myth of mass voter fraud has been beneficial to the GOP for decades, but some leaders just found Trump’s clownish, ham-fisted stretching of the myth embarrassing.
A weird thing that happened after the election was that the folks who have been playing this game with voter fraud claims for decades started to worry that Trump was making them look completely ridiculous.
There’s a whole class of professional Republicans who built their careers ginning up fears of mass voter fraud that got really frustrated after the election that the marks didn’t comprehend their role in the con.
“There is no systemic voter fraud in the United States.” huffpost.com/entry/trump-vo…

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23 Sep
I spoke to the woman who reeled in Andrew Taake on Bumble here: huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
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NEW: FreedomWorks has terminated an employee arrested by the FBI for his actions at the Capitol on Jan. 6: huffpost.com/entry/freedomw…
Quite a contrast between how FreedomWorks treated a lower-level staffer who stormed the Capitol for Trump and how they've treated Cleta Mitchell, who advised Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and was on that infamous call to Brad Raffensperger. huffpost.com/entry/freedomw…
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23 Sep
Brandon Fellows tells Judge Trevor McFadden he still wants to represent himself.

Fellows says he’s been studying law for the last “three to four weeks.”

He doesn’t believe the felony charge against him (Obstruction of an Official Proceeding) will hold.

Judge McFadden to Fellows: “I strongly urge you not to represent yourself… There are signifiant downsides to you being the one who is making split-second decisions on courtroom issues.”
Judge McFadden locked up Fellows back in July:
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23 Sep
The selfie Twitter video cited here in the Jan. 6 case against Brandon Prenzlin of FreedomWorks urges Joe Manchin to vote against HR1 (voting rights bill) and protecting the filibuster.
The video was posted two months after Brandon Prenzlin entered the Capitol on Jan. 6.
Shoes: A goldmine for open-source Jan. 6 investigators.
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23 Sep
Some J6 cases on the docket tomorrow:

Jeremy Groseclose, caught on video inside the Capitol, doesn’t want to take the plea deal his lawyer thinks he should.

"The defendant’s position and attitude has made it impossible for counsel to continue in this matter.”

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Also on the docket at 10: a plea agreement hearing for Andrew Ericson of Oklahoma. justice.gov/opa/page/file/… Image
At 1 p.m., there's a status hearing for Jeffrey Sabol, Peter Francis Stager, Michael John Lopatic, Clayton Ray Mullins, Jack Wade Whitton, Logan Barnhart and Ronald Colton McAbee. There was some action w/r/t McAbee's detention status today: huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
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22 Sep
“Outrageous.” Judge lays into Trump-loving deputy charged with attacking law enforcement on Jan. 6 while wearing a “SHERIFF” patch. huffpost.com/entry/capitol-…
Here’s a @SeditionHunters video compilation that shows some of #threepercentsheriff’s handiwork:
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