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Jan 21 • 9 tweets • 5 min read
It's becoming increasingly clear how seriously Trump considered seizing voting machines in an attempt to subvert the election.

The timeline is becoming clearer:

politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
Thanks to @woodruffbets we now know there was a draft executive order on DEC. 16 to do this. Read it here: politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
@woodruffbets Bernie Kerik also revealed there was a Dec. 17 letter titled:

“DRAFT LETTER FROM POTUS TO SEIZE EVIDENCE IN THE INTEREST OF NATIONAL SECURITY FOR THE 2020 ELECTIONS.”

politico.com/news/2021/12/3…
@woodruffbets And on Dec. 18, Trump met in the Oval Office with Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn and others, where they discussed seizing election equpiment and naming Powell some kind of roving election fraud special counsel.

politico.com/news/2020/12/1…
@woodruffbets The Executive Order draft itself is a blueprint for the Jan. 6 committee to help prevent a similar effort in the future.

It cites supposed autorities Trump was relying on to seize equipment. The panel is likely to recommend changes in this area.
@woodruffbets MORE: In case there was any question about who was going to be special counsel (Trump had eyed Sidney Powell, though he ultimately opted against this plan)
@woodruffbets It's hard to overstate what a historic document this is. Ultimately, it was never implemented, but someone authored it, and there's lots of evidence it this was seriously considered by Trump and the people with whom he kept counsel, even after Jan. 6.

politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
@woodruffbets Also, anyone know what NSPM 21 is?

irp.fas.org/offdocs/nspm/i…
@woodruffbets And here's @woodruffbets with the answer:

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Jan 21
Rep. Andy BIGGS used his opening statement at a Judiciary Committee hearing on prison reform to claim that "most" Jan. 6 pretrial detainees held in DC jail should have been released.
He says that because many of them had no prior criminal history, the ~50 detainees or so should never have been held.

But criminal history is just 1 of 4 factors judges consider in detention. And every one of them was judged too dangerous for release or a flight risk.
Some of the detention decisions have been close calls for judges, including some Trump appointees who have agreed to detain several of the Jan. 6 defendants.

Others have not been particularly close questions.
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Jan 21
NEW: Jan. 6 investigators are increasingly focused on the Trump campaign and White House’s role in assembling false slates of presidential electors — who then signed certificates claiming to be real and shipped them to Congress.

w/ @nicholaswu12

politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
The select committee is awaiting a tranche of documents from the National Archives that would shed light on efforts to pass off the false slate as legitimate. Multiple states have investigated the matter and referred it to federal authorities. politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
MORE: I began asking Trump electors in Nov. 2020 whether they favored sending false ‘alternative’ slates to Congress. The strategy had emerged among Trump allies and appeared poised to cause a mess as Trump tried to subvert the election. What they told me: politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
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Jan 21
JUST IN: Prosecutors have released their memo calling for the pretrial detention of Stewart RHODES, the leader of the Oath Keepers.

Read it here: politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
The summary:

"Rhodes stood at the center of the seditious conspiracy—orchestrating plans to use force, recruiting and financing co-conspirators, purchasing weaponry and tactical gear, inciting support and action, and endeavoring to conceal his and other co-conspirators’ crimes"
Proescutors also say their search of Rhodes' phone in May showed he had deleted evidence of his involvement in the Capitol attack.

politico.com/f/?id=0000017e…
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Jan 20
HAPPENING NOW: Prosecutors are arguing for the pretrial detention of Ed Vallejo, an Oath Keeper charged last week with seditious conspiracy for efforts to disrupt transfer of power.
As the riots were going on at the Capitol, Vallejo texted someone “we have taken the Capitol," prosecutors say.
Proescutors say they haven't really kept tabs on Vallejo since February, when he first spoke with law enforcement.

“Whether he’s amassing guerilla weapons or whether he’s sitting watching TV we can’t say.”
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Jan 20
UPDATE: Several key pieces of new evidence stand out to me in this Ivanka Trump letter from the Jan. 6 committee.

1) Staff viewed Ivanka Trump's intervention as violence unfolded as a last-ditch effort to get Trump to act.

politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
2) KELLOGG told the panel that staff advocadted against Trump doing a live briefing amid the attack because they were worried about him going off-message.

politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
3) Sean Hannity urged press secretary Kayleigh McEnany on Jan. 7 to tell Trump to stop discussing the stolen election and that efforts to invoke the 25h Amendment or Impeach him were real. politico.com/news/2022/01/2…
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Jan 20
HAPPENING NOW: Trump spokesman Taylor Budowich is fighting the Jan. 6 committee in court over the panel's access to his financial records.

Yesterday's Supreme Corut ruling is already having a ripple effect here.
Judge in Budowich notes that the Supreme Court left in place the Appeals Corut determination that the Jan. 6 committee has a legitimate legislative purpose — effectively invalidating claims by Trump allies that it doesn't.
BUDOWICH's attorney now arguing that the committee is invalid because it doesn't have a full slate of 13 members. Judge Boasberg now asking House counsel to respond to that claim.

Here's how they've argued it before: politico.com/news/2022/01/1…
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