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Feb 18 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
This week brought a lot of news related to investigations into former President Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election and the attempt to stop the certification of the election on Jan. 6, 2021. Here are some of the stories we’ve been tracking:
On Tuesday, the select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack issued more subpoenas to individuals involved in the fake-elector scheme, including Pennsylvania Sen. Doug Mastriano and Arizona Rep. Mark Finchem.
cnn.com/2022/02/15/pol…
The Biden administration ordered visitor logs from the Trump White House to be presented within 15 days to the select committee, rejecting the former president’s claim that those records were subject to executive privilege.
washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/…
The @washingtonpost took a look at how texts sent on the day of the Capitol attack have become “among the most important tools the panel has to bring home the gravity of what happened that day.”
washingtonpost.com/politics/inter…
Former Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani is reportedly in talks to testify before the committee.
nytimes.com/2022/02/12/us/…
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A failed legal challenge led by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton attempted to overturn the 2020 election results by invalidating results from four battleground states won by President Biden. Here’s what we’ve uncovered so far about Paxton’s lawsuit.
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