.@RepLizCheney talked about a “sophisticated 7-part plan” by Trump to steal the election. Here’s what it looked like….
/2 Step 1: “President Trump engaged in a massive effort to spread false and fraudulent information to the American public claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him.”
/3 Step 2: “President Trump corruptly planned to replace the Acting Attorney General, so that the Department of Justice would support his fake election claims.”
/4 Step 3: “President Trump corruptly pressured Vice President Pence to refuse to count certified electoral votes in violation of the US Constitution and the law.”
/5 Step 4: “President Trump corruptly pressured state election officials, and state legislators, to change election results.”
/6 Step 5: “President Trump’s legal team and other Trump associates instructed Republicans in multiple states to create false electoral slates and transmit those slates to Congress and the National Archives.”
/7 Step 6: “President Trump summoned and assembled a violent mob in Washington and directed them to march on the US Capitol.”
/8 Step 7: “As the violence was underway, President Trump ignored multiple pleas for assistance and failed to take immediate action to stop the violence and instruct his supporters to leave the Capitol.”
/9 It’s also important to remember that the select committee is still conducting its probe. And the Justice Department is conducting its own criminal investigation of the attack
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From @BennieGThompson opening statement tonight: “We can’t sweep what happened under the rug. The American people deserve answers. So I come before you this evening not as a Democrat, but as an American who swore an oath to defend the Constitution…”
/2 More Thompson: “The Constitution doesn’t protect just Democrats or just Republicans. It protects all of us: ‘We the People.’ And this scheme was an attempt to undermine the will of the people.”
/3 “So tonight, and over the next few weeks, we’re going to remind you of the reality of what happened that day. But our work must do much more than just look backwards. Because our democracy remains in danger. The conspiracy to thwart the will of the people is not over.”
The $1.5 trillion omnibus is 2741 pages long. The House will vote on it later today (meaning there's zero chance members will have a chance to read it.) Here's a link to the full bill rules.house.gov/sites/democrat…
/2 "In total, the regular 12 appropriations bills include $730 billion in non-defense funding, a $46 billion increase over fiscal year 2021. This 6.7 percent increase in non-defense funding is the largest in four years..."
/3 "The bills provide $782 billion in defense funding – an increase of $42 billion, 5.6 percent, over fiscal year 2021." Here's a summary: appropriations.house.gov/sites/democrat…
In new letter sent to Hill offices, Attending Physician Brian Monahan says more than 13% of those tested at Capitol every day have Covid.
/2 However, Monahan added: “‘Breakthrough’ infections among Members and staff have not led to hospitalizations, serious complications, or deaths, attesting to the value of coronavirus vaccinations.”
/3 Monahan is calling on Hill offices to “immediately review their operations to adopt a maximal telework posture to reduce in-person meetings and in-office activities to the maximum extent possible.”
News - A group of Jewish House Democrats are about issue a statement slamming @IlhanMN for her comments comparing the “unthinkable atrocities committed by the US, Hamas, Israel, Afghanistan and the Taliban.”
/2 A group of two dozen or so House Democrats have been debating for hours about how harsh a statement to issue on Omar
/3 Told this statement is coming tonight, but it may take longer. What’s clear is that these Democrats are upset at Omar & see her comments as anti-Semitic