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7 Oct, 22 tweets, 15 min read
"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
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"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
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…
"The report is the first look at testimony from Rosen & his deputy, Richard Donoghue.

It also comes after we learned new details about a brazen effort by conservative lawyer John Eastman to provide a path for VP Mike Pence to help throw the election to Trump on Jan. 6." Image
"Trump fires the Department of Homeland Security’s top official on election security, Christopher Krebs, after Krebs refuted his claims of a stolen election."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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" Trump calls the speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Bryan Cutler (R), twice to talk about overturning that state’s results. Cutler informs Trump that the state legislature has no power to do so"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
"Trump calls Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) to pressure him to get the legislature to overturn the state’s election results."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
"Trump and top aides meet with conspiracy-theorist supporters, including Michael Flynn and Sidney Powell,

who discuss a number of extreme measures to overturn the election results,

including instituting martial law and seizing voting machines."

#TrumpCoupAttempt Image
"Meadows meets with Georgia’s lead elections investigator, Frances Watson.

Dec. 23: Trump calls Watson and urges her to search hard for election fraud.

“When the right answer comes out, you’ll be praised,” Trump says in a recording of the call"

#TrumpCoupAttempt Image
"Rosen pushes back on Trump’s entreaties, saying the department “can’t + won’t snap its fingers + change the outcome of the election.”

Trump responds that the department should “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me” and his allies."

#TrumpCoupAttempt Image
Trump threatens to replace acting AG Rosen with Jeff Clark.

"Clark circulates a draft letter... [which] includes what amounts to a road map for Georgia to overturn its election results, suggesting the legislature might ultimately choose a new slate of electors — i.e. for Trump." Image
"Trump aide Molly Michael emails Rosen, Donoghue and another Justice Department official a draft of a potential Supreme Court filing that would involve the Justice Department challenging the election results in six key states.

Michael says Trump asked her to send the draft." Image
"Olsen pressures Rosen to file the complaint w/Supreme Court... saying “You’re going to force me to call the President & tell him you’re recalcitrant.”

The DOJ’s Office of Legal Counsel rules the complaint has “no legal basis,” ... & Rosen informs Trump the DOJ will not file it"
"Separately, Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson asks Georgia Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs in a phone call whether there is anything the White House could do to show appreciation for those conducting the state’s audit"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Pence asks a judge to reject a lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to help overturn the election. Trump becomes livid.

Trump calls Rosen and Donoghue in and asks why they haven’t “found the fraud,”"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Conservative lawyer John Eastman writes a memo detailing a path for Pence to reject the results from certain states and possibly allowing Trump to remain in office.
...
Trump tweets, “January 6th. See you in D.C.”"

#EastmanMemo
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Trump speaks with Georgia’s Raffensperger & urges him to find enough votes to call Biden’s victory there into question.

“All I want ... I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have,” Trump says in the recorded call. (Biden won Georgia by 11,779 votes.)" Image
"Clark informs Rosen that Trump has decided to replace Rosen with Clark
...
During a White House meeting in which the DOJ officials say there will be mass resignations and White House counsel Pat Cipollone and others warn Trump about proceeding, Trump abandons the idea." Image
"Eastman meets with Trump and Pence. ...

An anonymous Pence aide recalled that Eastman says Pence probably didn’t have the power, to which Pence responds, “Did you hear that, Mr. President?”"

#EastmanMemo
#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/… Image
"Trump angrily vents to Pence and aides about Pence’s refusal to toe his line on rejecting electors.

He also takes the effort public, tweeting, “The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors.”

... Pence continues to refuse"

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt Image
"In the early afternoon, as Congress meets, the US Capitol is overrun by Trump supporters seeking to overturn the election, shortly after speeches by Trump, Giuliani and other promoters of baseless claims that the election was stolen."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt Image
"During the riot... Trump attacks Pence in a tweet. “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,” Trump says.
...
Rioters ... chanted, “Hang Mike Pence.”

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/…

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"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
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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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"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
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Manchin's opposition to 'entitlements'
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Because such states tend to have more poor residents as a percentage of population & have larger average family sizes" Image
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"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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"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
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"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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