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7 Oct, 13 tweets, 9 min read
"Even by the standards of President Donald J. Trump, it was an extraordinary Oval Office showdown."
~@ktbenner

#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/…
"On the agenda was Trump’s desire to install a loyalist as acting attorney general to carry out his demands for more aggressive investigations into his unfounded claims of election fraud."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Trump’s proposed plan, Mr. Cipollone argued, would be a “murder-suicide pact,” one participant recalled.

Only near the end of the nearly three-hour meeting did Trump relent and agree to drop his threat."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"new details contained in a lengthy interim report prepared by the Senate Judiciary Committee about Trump’s efforts to pressure the Justice Department to do his bidding in the chaotic final weeks of his presidency."
~@ktbenner

#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/…
"The report draws on documents, emails & testimony from three top DOJ officials...

It provides the most complete account yet of Trump’s efforts to push the DOJ to validate election fraud claims that had been disproved by the FBI & state investigators."

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"Justice Department officials scrambled to stave off a series of events during a period when Trump ['s] ... actions were so unsettling that his top general and the House speaker discussed the nuclear chain of command."

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The report "brings to light new details that underscore the intensity and relentlessness with which Trump pursued his goal of upending the election, and the role that key government officials played in his efforts."

#JeffreyClark
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"The report raised fresh questions about what role Representative Scott Perry, Republican of Pennsylvania, played in the White House effort to pressure the Justice Department to help upend the election."

@RepScottPerry #TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The report confirmed that Trump was the reason that Mr. Pak hastily left his role as US attorney in Atlanta"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The panel is still waiting for the National Archives to furnish documents, calendar appointments and communications involving the White House that concern efforts to subvert the election."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/…
"the committee has asked the Washington DC Bar Association to open a disciplinary investigation into Mr. [Jeffrey] Clark based on its findings."

nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/…
"The Senate panel found that [Attorney General] Barr personally demanded that the department investigate voter fraud allegations, even if other authorities had looked into them and not found evidence of wrongdoing."

#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
nytimes.com/2021/10/06/us/…
"The report underscored how Trump kept coming back to unsubstantiated accounts of election fraud and demanding that the Justice Department jump on them."
~@ktbenner

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8 Oct
"Republicans are pushing various efforts to “audit” or “recount” the 2020 voting, which should be seen as dry runs for manufacturing pretexts for subverting future outcomes."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#TrumpCoupAttempt
#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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"a GOP governor could refuse to certify a slate of electors for a Democratic winner of the popular vote, or send rogue electors for the GOP candidate, in defiance of the popular vote, for Congress to count."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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“it is theoretically possible that a governor, with the support of a legislature of the same party, could certify a result contrary to the popular vote & that Congress would then count those electoral votes.”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
#GOPCorruptionOverCountry
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7 Oct
"Nine months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, we continue to learn many new details ... [that] paint an increasingly clear picture of a concerted effort to overturn — and lay a predicate for overturning — the election"
~@AaronBlake

#Jan6
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"The effort included attempts to politically weaponize the Justice Department and apply pressure on federal, state and local officials in the service of that goal [of overturning the election]."
~@AaronBlake

#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"Given how many moving parts are involved, it can be difficult to keep track of [all of Trump's attempts to overturn the election].

So below is a timeline of all the major events we’ll keep updating as we get new details."
~@AaronBlake

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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7 Oct
"But it’s not just foreigners who are moving money to the “little tax haven on the prairie”: High-net-worth Americans also are shifting billions to South Dakota... shortchanging federal and home state tax collectors in the process."

#Corruption
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
"With the 1983 law, South Dakota became the first state to allow trusts to exist free of state income tax forever...

Perpetual trusts — rare before the 1980s — have now become a standard tool in the high-end estate planning kit."

#Corruption
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
"Soon, other states — often encouraged by high-end estate planners — started to pass statutes that facilitated additional creative tax avoidance strategies."

#Corruption
#TaxTheRich
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7 Oct
Here's the link to the Senate Judiciary's report:

“Subverting Justice: How the Former President and his Allies Pressured DOJ to Overturn the 2020 Election.”

judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/…

And a thread of the 6 key findings of the report on the #TrumpCoupAttempt :
1-Beginning on the day former AG William Barr announced his resignation and continuing almost until the #Jan6th insurrection, Trump repeatedly asked DOJ leadership to endorse his false claims that the election was stolen & to assist his efforts to overturn the election results. Image
2-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows asked Acting Attorney General Rosen to have DOJ investigate at least four categories of false election fraud claims that Trump & his allies were pushing, violating longstanding restrictions on White House-DOJ communications. Image
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7 Oct
"what’s striking is how arbitrary Manchin’s position seems... for Manchin, lowering the package’s spending is an inherent good in and of itself:

He doesn’t seem to care much which policies are lost in doing so."
~@ThePlumLineGS

#BuildBackBetter
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
Manchin's opposition to 'entitlements'
"neglects the idea that many of these programs wouldn’t merely establish a material minimum. They would also empower people to seek “rewarding” work & boost the broader economy, with positive social ripple effects."

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"sending $300/month to most households w/children also delivers a disproportionately large boost in purchasing power to red, more rural & less populous states.

Because such states tend to have more poor residents as a percentage of population & have larger average family sizes" Image
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3 Oct
"However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse."

#Jan6
#Jan6th
nytimes.com/2021/10/02/opi…
"The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Trump himself."
"the country faces a renewed risk of electoral subversion by Trump and his supporters —

only next time they will have learned from their mistakes."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#DemocracyInDanger
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