Thread by @tburages

What people keep getting wrong about January 6th is that the insurrection WASN'T only about a mob attacking the Capitol.

Jan-6 was just the Hail Mary after a long series of illegal actions - by Trump and many others - intended to overthrow the United States government

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The insurrection was Lindsey Graham asking the Georgia SoS to illegally throw the state to Trump - IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.

The insurrection was Trump, Giuiliani et al attempting to overturn results in swing states - IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.
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The insurrection was Fox News telling its viewers dozens and dozens of times that the election was stolen - WITH AN AIM OF OVERTHROWING THE GOVERNMENT.

The insurrection was Trump calling Michigan election officials to the Oval Office - IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.
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The insurrection was the war room set up by Steve Bannon and Mike Flynn and others - IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE GOVERNMENT.

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That's the story history books should tell about January 6.

The mob was merely the tool of corrupt politicians and foreign agents who would really REALLY love to institute an authoritarian state in the U.S. and place themselves at the helm of power.
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Republicans in swing states issuing counterfeit certificates - IN ORDER TO OVERTHROW THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT.

That's the insurrection. Those are the people who should be prosecuted by DOJ - not just their ignorant fool tools who stormed the Capitol.

https://twitter.com/ZcohenCNN/status/1481418317181198336?s=20