12-18-2020 was the day that Michael Flynn, Sidney Powell and Patrick Byrne crashed the WH with their plan to seize voting machines using a federal force.
It was also the day of a WH Christmas party and a 9 hour WH briefing on purported election fraud by Rudy Giuliani.
Steve Bannon unveiled the 9 hour presentation, as well as the presence of Giuliani's girlfriend Dr. Maria Ryan, on his War Room podcast.
He describes it as "inside baseball." Did Bannon have a part in this? Was he there?
Bannon reveals one other notable name who was present at the White House Christmas Party: Governor Kemp. He then proceeds how there is an active pressure campaign against Kemp to open a special session of the legislature.
Giuliani tells two of his colleagues were with him.
This is what we know about the meeting with Group Flynn in the White House Oval Office: Sidney Powell and one of her lawyers was with her.
So were the colleagues Giuliani mentions here these two, or were additional lawyers from the Giuliani team present?
Giuliani publicly reveals more information about his meeting with the president. Seeing he talks so freely about it, he should have no reservations to give the @January6thCmte such details either.
He then proceeds to trash both Governor Kemp and Secretary of State Raffensperger.
@January6thCmte We know Giuliani was in the meeting with Flynn.
Now listen to him saying on December 19th: "Starting this morning, there's a completely different strategy. The strategy is gonna focus a great deal on some evidence we have about some of these machines." Audits are a part of this.
@January6thCmte It appears these three people, Byrne, Powell and Flynn, may have been able to sell their idea of seizing voting machines to Giuliani.
This needs more investigation to clear out.
Giuliani may have been in on the plan, one guy was not.
Earlier in the show, Steve Bannon declares without hesitation: "You don't need the insurrection act; you don't need to call up the army."
Not long after, the plan to use a federal force to seize voting machines was nixed.
Now that you are familiar with Rudy Giuliani's account of the Oval Office meeting. And Bannon's disdain for using the insurrection act or the army, let's read what Patrick Byrne has written about the meeting in his book The Deep Rig.
Byrne describes how he, Flynn, Powell and another attorney on Powell's team drive to the White House.
We know they were driven by 1st Amendment Praetorian.
Byrne describes how his group is able to pass all security check points without much effort.
We know Peter Navarro's staffer Garrett Ziegler was one of the people who helped with this.
As this group ends up in the Oval Office with Donald Trump, Patrick Byrne starts telling Trump how his advisors are giving him bad advice.
He claims all his advisors want is for Trump to concede.
Here is the part where Patrick Byrne describes the plan to use a federal force to audit votes and seize voting machines.
Sidney Powell then brings up an executive order from 2018 Trump signed as the legal basis for him to be able to pull off the plan: foreign interference.
Sounds familiar!
It's almost as if they created all the foreign election interference plots to be able to push this through.
Patrick Byrne then proposes to make Sidney Powell "Special Counsel" regarding election matters.
But also: to make Michael Flynn his "Field Marshall" over the whole effort!
Yes, that really happened.
The mood gets more grim. Group Flynn continues to explain how Trump can pull off the plan legally.
At the end of this segment, Patrick Byrne refers to the White House lawyers as [word that rhymes with itches.]
One of the White House lawyers, Pat Cipollone grows really angry at this point.
Cipollone says Trump can make Powell "White House Special Counsel" merely by vocal command.
However, Cipollone still continues to raise objections.
Now the mood gets really really tense!
Patrick Byrne almost gets violent. In the Oval Office nonetheless!!
And Trump? He appoints Sidney Powell "White House Special Counsel" by vocal command.
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Worse: by vocal command, Trump then grants Sidney Powell a Top Secret security clearance.
The meeting continues with Group Flynn and Giuliani in the Yellow Oval.
Byrne adds a disclaimer in his book that martial law or the insurrection act really was not discussed...
The chapter ends with Group Flynn finding out a few days later the White House Special Counsel position for Sidney Powell won't be happening.
People like Cipollone, Meadows and Bannon likely all played a part in preventing that.
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@ZcohenCNN Yet, as opposed to Lyons testimony, access would NOT be voluntary. I'll show the video that I posted earlier In this thread. Giuliani states that he DID NOT have the cooperation of the Republican governors and that they would 🚨 "push them aside." 🚨
@ZcohenCNN 🚨🚨 12-19-2020 Giuliani states: "I think we're gonna succeed in Georgia without him (Kemp). We got a big project working in Georgia right now right around his back. He don't know what the heck is going on."
@ZcohenCNN 🚨 We know that Trump tried to coerce Raffensperger to bend to his will later on. January 2nd 2021 was the day Trump called Raffensperger and said: “So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state.”
@ZcohenCNN 🚨 And on January 7, 2021, they DID breach a voting machine in Georgia. Two men, Scott Hall and Paul Maggio, seen in surveillance video, have acknowledged that they successfully gained access to a voting machine in Coffee County at the behest of Donald Trump lawyer Sidney Powell.
@ZcohenCNN 🚨 By oral command, Donald Trump had appointed Sidney Powell as White House Special Counsel on December 18, 2020. There is no dispute about that.
I believe the videos of Giuliani and Trump I shared within this thread are critical pieces of information.
@ZcohenCNN 🚨 @SethAbramson writes: less than 72 hours after the six-hour December 18 meeting at the White House between Trump, Powell, Flynn, Byrne, Cipollone, and several others, Trump convened a meeting with the House Freedom Caucus to plan for January 6.
https://t.co/MjFlc7htARsethabramson.substack.com/p/book-release…
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson 🚨 That day, December 21, 2020, Sidney Powell was seen entering the White House with a document that clearly referenced the (manufactured) “foreign interference” component of the Waldron Plot (“Iranian Threat Actor Identified Obtaining Voter Registration”) https://t.co/Ctq3BMknWpsethabramson.substack.com/p/book-release…
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson There is a lot more detail about this and other components of the attempted coup that @SethAbramson wrote about in his book Proof of Coup.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson Important to note: @visionsurreal was the one who found a picture of Ivan Raiklin dining with Marjorie Taylor Green at the Trump Hotel after the 12-21-2020 White House meeting.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal Raiklin is a member of Team Kraken. Or as Bill Stepien called them: "Team Crazy."
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal Jim Jordan was also an attendee of the December 21, 2020 White House meeting. news.yahoo.com/11-house-repub…
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal Raiklin is the author of the Pence Card. The plan that preceded the Eastman memo.
I wrote in detail about Raiklin and his plan and the involvement of the White House in the attached thread. Click on that to read all the tweets within that.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal Raiklin associate Marjorie Taylor Greene claims she was the initiator of the December 21, 2020 White House meeting.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal Later on it was revealed that several attendees of both these December meetings asked for Presidential pardons.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal @petestrzok also noted that three of the members of Team Kraken/Team Crazy had very close relationships with people who are either convicted agents of the government of Russia or who were in the employ or acting as agents to the government of Russia.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal @petestrzok But we should not forget that the man they were meeting with, Donald Trump, had its own longstanding ties with the government of Russia.
From close connections to oligarchs, to successful and failed business deals and much more.
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal @petestrzok 🚨 With respect to that, no one should ever forget there was a secret call with Vladimir Putin just before the 2020 election. 🚨 businessinsider.com/trump-secret-c…
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal @petestrzok 🚨🚨 And why is that October 25, 2020 call with Vladimir Putin important?
Because on October 31, 2020, Steve Bannon told a group of associates that President Donald Trump had a plan to declare victory on election night. 🚨🚨 motherjones.com/politics/2022/…
@ZcohenCNN @SethAbramson @visionsurreal @petestrzok It's important to look at the timeline. There's six days between the Vladimir Putin/Donald Trump call and the audio from Steve Bannon.
The conspiracy to steal the election happened a long time before January 6. It's just adapted itself along the way in various forms.
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🧵Thread (1) As I said before, Jack Smith omits most conduct of state legislators and members of Congress in his recent 165 page filing in his case against Donald Trump.
We only see them mentioned in passing on page 64.
🧵Thread (2) On January 2, 2021, Donald Trump (the defendant) informed Mike Pence that "he had spent the day speaking to a secretary of state, state legislators and members of Congress."
You're thinking: WTF was that about?
I'm saying, I told my followers the details years ago.
🧵Thread (3) Indeed, On January 2, 2021, Trump spoke with hundreds of state legislators and GOP members of Congress on Zoom.
These calls included unindicted co-conspirators. And the intention was to pressure Pence and get these people to go along with the plan for the coup.
📢 In her proffer, Jenna Ellis said at a White House Christmas Party, Dan Scavino told her Trump would stay in power no matter what.
I may have done more research on all of these White House Christmas parties/tours than even all my Mar-a-Lago threads combined.
🧵 Thread.
I never got to writing a thread about this before.
But the White House was overrun by insurrectionists and other Trump loyalists. A famous example is Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio with Latinos for Trump and MAGA Drag the Insterstate.