Thread by @jaketapper

So what was Trump's “sophisticated seven-part plan to overturn the 2020 election and prevent the transition of presidential power" to which @RepLizCheney referred?

Thread with background info from source

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Part one: Trump repeatedly and aggressively lied to the public falsely claiming the 2020 election was stolen from him.

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Part two: Corruption of Justice Dept. --Trump sought to replace the Acting Attorney General with a loyalist so as to weaponize DOJ to use the force of the law to support his election lies.

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Part three: Trump corruptly and repeatedly pressured Vice President Mike Pence to violate the U.S. Constitution and the law by refusing to count certified electoral votes on January 6

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Part four: Trump improperly pressured state election officials and legislators to change their states' election results and undermine the will of the voters in their states by flipping the state from Biden to Trump.

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Part five: Trump’s team, including his lawyers, told GOPers across the country to manufacture fake slates of electors and send those fake elector slates to the U.S. Congress and the National Archives.

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Part six: Trump summoned and assembled a mob of supporters to D.C. and directly told them to march to the US Capitol.

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Part seven: Despite the violence against police and in the Capitol, Trump ignored myriad pleas for help and folks begging him to take immediate action to stop the violence and tell the MAGA mob to leave the Capitol.