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14 Dec, 10 tweets, 7 min read
"Eight ways the House select committee is changing the conversation on Jan. 6"

A thread of the @JRubinBlogger article:

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"Unlike many in the media and the White House, they made clear this was an attempt to overthrow democracy."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#Jan6thCommittee
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"As Cheney said, “These text messages leave no doubt ... multiple Fox News hosts knew the president needed to act immediately.”

And they leave no doubt about their cringeworthy pandering to Trump and his base, whom they helped radicalize."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"Trump refused to heed pleas to call off the mob, endangering the lives of lawmakers and the vice president and grinding a constitutional process to a halt.

Even Trump’s son knew this was a devastating event."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"While some members of Congress pleaded for help, at least one apologized in a Jan. 7 text for not throwing the election to Trump...

They should never serve in any office. Ever."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"Cheney in her brava performance did more to elevate the importance of the coup attempt than most of the mainstream media and the White House. She forced the media to cover the jaw-dropping evidence."

#Jan6Committee
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"We have yet another reminder of Republicans’ spinelessness as they continue to scrape and bow before Trump.

They know how he conspired to shred our democracy and willfully refused to try to short-circuit the Capitol siege for hours."

#Jan6
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"How in the world does the media treat the GOP & its continued fidelity to Trump as anything but a repudiation of democracy?

... have allowed Republicans to speak in interviews or news conferences without grilling them on their continued enabling of Trump"

#GOPBetrayedAmerica
The White House will find it increasingly difficult to stick to its apparent game plan of ignoring the threat to democracy...

If Cheney knows this is the defining issue of our time, why doesn’t the Democratic president know it, too?"

#DemocracyInDanger
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"The committee has testimony from more than 300 witnesses and access to 35,000 documents. There is so much more that we have yet to learn."

washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…

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7 Dec
TRUMP’S NEXT COUP HAS ALREADY BEGUN

January 6 was practice. Donald Trump’s GOP is much better positioned to subvert the next election.
~@bartongellman
theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
"Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup. It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place. If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024."
"The prospect of this democratic collapse is not remote. People with the motive to make it happen are manufacturing the means.

Given the opportunity, they will act.

They are acting already."

theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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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
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
"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
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/…
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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
washingtonpost.com/outlook/2021/1…
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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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