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@BillyMallard
Jun 29, 2022 • 122 tweets • 133 min read • Read on X
Four takeaways from the sixth day of Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot hearings
@Reuters #Trump @moirawarburton
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.@reuterspictures of the @January6thCmte hearings on the #CapitolRiot
@Reuters #Trump
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-@RepLizCheney: General Flynn, do you believe in the peaceful transition of power in the United States of America?
-#MichaelFlynn: The Fifth
#Trump @alexjholder @Acosta @FaniWillisForDA

#Trump has proven remarkably resistant to political damage and remains his party's most popular figure. But still, there are signs that #Florida @GovRonDeSantis' star is rising.
@Reuters
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"The federal prosecutors… were just as astonished by #CassidyHutchinson’s testimony to the @January6thCmte about “#Trump’s increasingly desperate bid to hold on to power as other viewers."

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“The former president’s political organization and allies have paid for or promised to cover legal fees for witnesses, as the House inquiry suggests he is trying to influence testimony.”
#Trump @January6thCmte
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“Donald #Trump has accelerated his campaign planning, hoping a White House bid will blunt a series of damaging revelations. Some Republicans are worried.”
@January6thCmte @TheJusticeDept
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(I deleted a tweet that misidentified one of the witnesses subpoenaed in the Georgia DA's probe of the Trump campaign in the state. Corrected tweet and link to corrected story to follow.)
.@RudyGiuliani, @LindseyGrahamSC, @JennaEllisEsq, @DrJohnEastman, @CletaMitchell and @JackiDailyHost were subpoenaed by Fulton Co. @FaniWillisForDA to testify about #Trump pressuring #Georgia officials to “find 11,780 votes” in the state.
@Reuters
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.@FaniWillisForDA's #Atlanta grand jury subpoenas @RudyGiuliani, @LindseyGrahamSC, @DrJohnEastman and others to testify in her probe of #Trump campaign efforts to overturn @JoeBiden's victory in #Georgia.
@Reuters
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Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney OK'd @FaniWillisForDA's out-of-state subpeonas to probe "a multi-state, coordinated plan by the #Trump Campaign to influence the results of the November 2020 election in #Georgia and elsewhere."
.@RudyGiuliani, after @GaSecofState debunked his claims of voter fraud, continued "claiming widespread voter fraud in #Georgia during the November 2020 election and using the now-debunked State Farm video in support of those statements," judge finds.
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Sen @LindseyGrahamSC in at least 2 calls "questioned @GaSecofState #Raffensperger and his staff about reexamining certain absentee ballots cast in #Georgia in order to explore the possibility of a more favorable outcome for former President Donald #Trump."
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.@DrJohnEastman told #Georgia lawmakers "they had both the lawful authority and a “duty” to replace the Democratic Party’s slate of presidential electors, who had been certified... due to unfounded claims of widespread voter fraud within the state."
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.@DrJohnEastman "drafted at least two memoranda to the #Trump Campaign and others detailing a plan through which Vice President @Mike_Pence... could refuse to count some of President @JoeBiden's electoral votes during the joint session of Congress."
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.@jennaellis, in addition to presenting debunked evidence with @RudyGiuliani, "authored at least two legal memoranda to... #Trump... advising that Vice President @Mike_Pence should disregard certified electoral college votes from Georgia," other states.
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.@CletaMitchell and others in the Jan. 2 call "pressured @GaSecofState #Raffensperger to take action in his official capacity to investigate unfounded claims of fraud... #Trump asked Secretary Raffensperger to “find 11,780 votes” in his favor."
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Kenneth #Chesebro worked with #Georgia GOP leaders on "a plan to have 16 individuals... cast purported electoral college votes in favor of former President Donald #Trump, even though none.. had been ascertained as Georgia’s certified presidential electors.
documentcloud.org/documents/2207…
Kenneth #Chesebro "worked directly with #Trump Campaign attorney @RudyGiuliani as part of the coordination and execution of the plan" for unelected electors in #Georgia, judge finds.
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.@JackiDailyHost Deason "presented the State Farm video to the #Georgia State Senate" with #Trump's debunked fraud claims and "possesses unique knowledge about the acquisition of the video "and the manner of its presentation to the Georgia State Senate."
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"Mr. #Cipollone was a witness to pivotal moments in Mr. #Trump’s push to invalidate the election results, including discussions about seizing voting machines and sending false letters to state officials about election fraud."
@January6thCmte
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Fulton County @FaniWillisForDA, who convened the grand jury probe, said more subpoenas for additional Trump associates should be expected and declined to rule out a subpoena for #Trump himself.
@Reuters
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Browser, the electronic-sniffing dog.

@ZcohenCNN @January6thCmte
"#Trump Media's office is on the 2nd floor of an office building on Cattlemen Road [in Sarasota, FL]... Trump's company name was not on the registry in the main lobby nor was there any reference to the name at the office."
@HeraldTribune
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"The #Atlanta Journal-Constitution has been subpoenaed for evidence by the Fulton County special grand jury" for audio of a Jan. 11, 2021 call in which #Trump's newly named federal prosecutor said he also found no fraud in #Georgia.
@ajc @TamarHallerman
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Sen. @LindseyGrahamSC must testify as a "necessary and material witness" to @FaniWillisForDA’s #Atlanta grand jury probe on #Trump’s efforts to overturn the #Georgia 2020 results, Fulton County Superior Court Judge Robert McBurney ordered.
@Reuters
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.@January6thCmte witnesses described a loud, late-night 6hr meeting Dec. 18, 2020, where #Trump disregarded White House staffers urging him to concede and sided with @RudyGiuliani, Sidney Powell etc. to keep pressing his baseless fraud claims.
@Reuters
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White House aides and outside agitators advising #Trump knew before the #riot that he would urge thousands of his supporters to march on the Capitol, according to testimony presented by the @January6thCmte.
@Reuters
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"President #Trump is a 76-year-old man. He is not an impressionable child... He is responsible for his own actions and his own choices."
-@January6thCmte vice chair @RepLizCheney
@Reuters
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"I don't think any of these people were providing the president with good advice. I didn't understand how they had gotten in," #Trump White House lawyer Pat #Cipollone testified to the @January6thCmte about @RudyGiuliani, Sidney Powell et al.
@Reuters
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.@RudyGiuliani, who was escorted from the White House grounds, testified to the @January6thCmte he had argued: "You're a bunch of pussies, excuse the expression. I'm almost certain the word was used."
@Reuters
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The march on the #Capitol was planned. The @January6thCmte showed a draft #Trump tweet, which he had seen: "Please arrive early, massive crowds expected. March to the Capitol after. Stop the Steal!"
@Reuters
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Stephen Ayres, who pleaded guilty to a federal crime over the #Capitol attack, testified to the @January6thCmte he joined because he believed #Trump. He know longer believes the Big Lie. "It changed my life, you know, definitely not for the good."
@Reuters
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Testifying to the @January6thCmte that they thought #Trump should concede to @JoeBiden: @IvankaTrump, his Attorney General William #Barr and his White House counsel Pat #Cipollone, who testified his chief of staff @MarkMeadows believed the same.
@Reuters
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.@RudyGiuliani, Mike Flynn, Sidney Powell gave #Trump a draft "executive order" for the U.S. military to seize states' voting machines, per @January6thCmte evidence. White House counsel #Cipollone testified he thought that was a "terrible idea."
@Reuters
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.@January6thCmte evidence showed #Trump's "wild!" tweet after Dec 18 meeting energized Proud Boys, Oath Keepers etc to gather in DC armed. A right-wing personality's call for a "red wedding," per Jamie @RepRaskin, was code for mass slaughter.
@Reuters
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#Trump, per @January6thCmte, spoke twice on Jan. 5 to Steve #Bannon, who was shown saying, "All hell is going to break loose tomorrow," as he referred to a "point of attack" that would be "quite extraordinarily different."
@Reuters
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.@January6thCmte has referred to @TheJusticeDept a #Trump call to a witness right after the previous hearing, per @RepLizCheney.
Jamie @RepRaskin "Witness tampering is a... crime in federal law and it's a form of obstruction of justice."
@Reuters
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"As somebody who has helped plan #coups d'etat - not here but you know (in) other places - it takes a lot of work. And that's not what he (#Trump) did," said @AmbJohnBolton. He cited #Venezuela but declined to discuss the other coup attempts.
@Reuters
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“The Department {of Homeland Security} notified us that many US #SecretService text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program.”
-Letter from @DHSgov IG Joseph Cuffari
#Trump @January6thCmte @CNN
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The @January6thCmte subpoenaed the @SecretService after the @DHSgov Office of the Inspector General said the service deleted Jan. 5-6, 2021, texts that the watchdog had asked to see.
@Reuters
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.@FaniWillisForDA has warned #Georgia GOP chair @DavidShafer and State Senators @burtjonesforga and Brandon @BeachforGA they could be indicted over the attempt to overturn the election, and is considering asking #Trump to testify, Yahoo News said.
@Reuters
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#Trump @January6thCmte
.@MacFarlaneNews finds 20+ variations of #CapitolRiot defendants telling the judge they were “caught up in” the zany moment.
@January6thCmte #Trump
Federal prosecutors charged two New York state residents with illegally using funds from Chinese and Singaporean investors to donate $600,000 to then-President Donald #Trump's re-election campaign in 2017.
@Reuters
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Jury selection in ex-#Trump aide Steve #Bannon's contempt trial. Judge ruled he can't claim exec privilege or that he relied on lawyer's advice not to testify, supply docs. Might be able to use his recent offer to cooperate with @January6thCmte.
@Reuters
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US Rep. @JodyHice, a #Georgia Republican, was subpoenaed by Fulton County @FaniWillisForDA to testify in her probe of #Trump's attempt to overturn the election result in the state. He is seeking to have the matter transferred to federal court.
@Reuters
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"Is the fight worth it for her to get even closer to Donald #Trump? The further up she goes up this pyramid, the more challenging it's going to be."
-@ajc's @TamarHallerman to @lawfarepodcast on Fulton County @FaniWillisForDA's #Georgia probe
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Prosecutor says ex-#Trump aide Steve #Bannon decided he was "above the law" in defying a the @January6thCmte subpoena. His lawyer said Bannon didn’t ignore it but engaged, believing the panel would negotiate and that its deadlines “were flexible."
@Reuters
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.@SecretService’s "real-time communications and reactions of agents who interacted directly with #Trump or helped coordinate his plans before and during Jan 6 - is unlikely to ever be recovered,” @washingtonpost says, per 2 sources.
@January6thCmte
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.@RudyGiuliani must testify in August before @FaniWillisForDA's Atlanta grand jury probing #Trump's alleged attempts to overturn the #Georgia election results, a judge ruled after Giuliani skipped a hearing in New York.
@Reuters
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Group led by Democrat @Sen_JoeManchin and Republican @SenSusanCollins introduced bills to block repeat of #Trump's attempt to overturn his #election loss to @JoeBiden. Includes clarifying VP has only a ceremonial role in certifying results.
@Reuters
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.@Reuters /Ipsos poll of #Republicans: 40% think #Trump at least partly to blame for #CapitolRiot, up from 33% when @January6thCmte hearings began; 1/3 think he shouldn’t run again, up from 1/4; 55% believe the stolen-election falsehood, down from 67%.
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.@January6thCmte eighth hearing live on @Reuters
#CapitolRiot #Trump
.@January6thCmte @RepLizCheney #Trump @JudyWoodruff
#Trump was informed within 15 minutes of his Ellipse speech that the #Capitol was under attack.
-@RepElaineLuria at the @January6thCmte
At 1:49 p.m. Jan. 6, as the #Capitol Police were declaring a riot, #Trump, watching Fox News in the dining room, tweeted a link to his Ellipse speech.
-@RepElaineLuria at the @January6thCmte
#Trump White House lawyer Pat Cipollone testifies to @January6thCmte that "almost immediately" upon learning of violence at the #Capitol, he forcefully told the president "there needs to be a public announcement, fast" for the rioters to leave. "Many people suggested it."
During the 187 minutes on Jan. 6 before #Trump issued the video telling the rioters to leave the #Capitol, he didn't fail to act, he chose not to act.
-Adam @RepKinzinger at the @January6thCmte
At 2:24 p.m. on Jan. 6, as "violence was getting out of control," per @RepElaineLuria, #Trump tweeted that "Mike Pence didn't have the courage" to do what needed to be done.
-@January6thCmte
#Trump's tweet that "@Mike_Pence didn't have the courage" to do what needed to be done was "pouring gasoline on the fire."
-Trump deputy press secretary @SarahAMatthews1 testifying at @January6thCmte
As @Mike_Pence was being evacuated, #Trump was calling senators to delay @JoeBiden's certification, including @TTuberville, who said he had to hang up as he was also being evacuated from the #CapitolAttack.
-@January6thCmte
.@DonaldJTrumpJr texted #Trump chief of staff @MarkMeadows that he needed to "go to the mattresses" to get the president to call off the #Capitol rioters. "I think it's a Godfather reference," Don Jr testified to the @January6thCmte.
.@SarahAMatthews1 testifies to @January6thCmte that #Trump press secretary @kayleighmcenany told her he resisted tweeting about "peace" at the #Capitol until @IvankaTrump suggested the wording "*stay* peaceful."
During the #CapitolAttack, #Trump chief of staff @MarkMeadows said "we need to kill the narrative" that @Mike_Pence was making all the decisions and establish the narrative that the president was in charge, @thejointstaff chief Gen. Mark #Milley testifies to @January6thCmte.
"I just want to say 'Congress has certified the results' without saying 'the #election is over.'"
-#Trump in outtake from his Jan. 7 speech condemning the "heinous" attack, in video shown by @January6thCmte
"He is preying on their patriotism, he is preying on their sense of justice."
-@RepLizCheney, referring to #Trump and his supporters, to the @January6thCmte
"If he acknowledged the dead cop, he'd be implicitly faulting the mob. And he won't do that, because they're his people."
-#Trump senior campaign official @TimMurtaugh texting colleague @MattWolking 3 days after #CapitolAttack, per @January6thCmte
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.@January6thCmte shows famous pic of Josh @HawleyMO raising his fist during the #CapitolAttack - then new footage of him later running from the building. The hearing room breaks into laughter.
@Reuters
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.@Mike_Pence's security detail "was starting to fear for their own lives" during the #CapitolAttack, a White House security official testifies to the @January6thCmte. Agents were "screaming and saying goodbye to family."
@Reuters
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"President #Trump did not fail to act during the 187 minutes between leaving the Ellipse and telling the mob to go home. He chose not to act."
-Adam @RepKinzinger to the @January6thCmte about the president's behavior during the #CapitolAttack
@Reuters
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#Trump White House lawyer Pat #Cipollone, others testify to @January6thCmte POTUS watched TV for hours during the #CapitolAttack; they're not aware of him calling secretaries of defense or homeland security, attorney general or National Guard.
@Reuters
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"President #Trump sat at his dining table and watched the attack on television while his senior-most staff, closest advisors and family members begged him to do what is expected of any American president."
-@RepElaineLuria to @January6thCmte
@Reuters
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"The mob was accomplishing President #Trump's purpose, so of course he didn't intervene" during the #CaptiolAttack.
-Adam @RepKinzinger to the @January6thCmte
@Reuters
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"He's got to condemn this shit ASAP. They will try to fuck his entire legacy on this if it gets worse."
-@DonaldJTrumpJr texts #Trump chief of staff @MarkMeadows during #CapitolAttack, per @January6thCmte
@Reuters
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"If the president had wanted to make a statement and address the American people, he could have been on camera almost immediately."
-#Trump deputy press secretary @SarahAMatthews1 testifying to the @January6thCmte about the #CapitolAttack
@Reuters
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#CapitolAttack "emboldened our enemies by helping give them ammunition to feed a narrative that our system of government doesn't work, that the United States is in decline."
-#Trump deputy NSA Matthew Pottinger testifies to @January6thCmte
@Reuters
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The @January6thCmte will resume hearings in September, say chair @BennieGThompson and @VICE chair @RepLizCheney
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Harry Anzbock supported Obama. He came to embrace #Trump’s false rigged-voting claim – and threatened to kill election officials over it. @Reuters traces one man’s journey from counterculture youth to rightwing extremism and a dark family tragedy.
reuters.com/investigates/s…
Ex-#Trump aide #Bannon’s conviction for ignoring the subpoena of the @January6thCmte, reached after three hours of jury deliberation, was the first guilty verdict for contempt of Congress since Nixon’s Watergate operative G. Gordon Liddy in 1974.
@Reuters
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Ex-#Trump aide #Bannon castigated the "members of that show-trial" @January6thCmte who he said "didn't have the guts to come down here and testify in open court."
Bannon opted not to testify in his own defense at his contempt of Congress trial.
@Reuters
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“All of these people are from very disparate places in life,” said @GeorgiaStateU's @AnthonyMKreis. “The fact that they’re all being brought together really suggests she’s building this broader case for conspiracy.”
-@FaniWillisForDA's #Georgia case
#Trump
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.@FaniWillisForDA "is clearly going to charge this as a RICO case," said @NormEisen, a House lawyer for #Trump's first impeachment. If so, it “is very likely to be one of the most important criminal #RICO cases ever brought in United States history.”
nytimes.com/2022/07/23/us/…
#CapitolAttack reveals "a burgeoning White Christian nationalist movement. This movement uses Christian language to cloak sexism and hostility to Black people and non-White immigrants in its quest to create a White Christian America."
@JohnBlakeCNN
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3 beliefs tied to White Christian nationalism, which @profsamperry at U. of Oklahoma calls an "imposter Christianity":
-The US was founded as a Christian nation
-A 'Warrior Christ'
-There's such a person as a 'real American'
@JohnBlakeCNN #CapitolAttack
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Judge: @FaniWillisForDA can't question state Sen. @burtjonesforga over #Trump’s attempt to overturn his #Georgia loss since she fund-raised for his opponent. Other prosecutors must investigate. DA doesn't "have to be apolitical but her investigations do."
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.@Mike_Pence's VP chief of staff #MarcShort is the highest-profile official known to have appeared before the federal grand jury probing the effort by #Trump's allies to submit slates of fake electors to overturn his 2020 election loss.
@Reuters
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Things #Trump wouldn't say re #CapitolAttack Jan. 7, per @January6thCmte:
-"You do not represent me. You do not represent our movement."
-"We must send a clear message — not with mercy but with JUSTICE. Legal consequences must be swift and firm."
@Reuters
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.@TheJusticeDept's Arizona fake electors subpoenas want info on #Trump, his campaign, @RudyGiuliani, @DrJohnEastman, @JennaEllisEsq, @BernardKerik, @BorisEP Epshteyn, @JudgeTroupis, Joe DiGenova, @VicToensing, Kenneth #Chesebro and others.
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.@Reuters Explainer: With #Trump and associates under scrutiny from @January6thCmte, @TheJusticeDept, #Atlanta's @FaniWillisForDA, could he faces charges of:
Obstructing an official proceeding? Conspiracy to defraud the United States? Seditious conspiracy?
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“We would just be sending in ‘fake’ electoral votes to Pence so that ‘someone’ in Congress can make an objection when they start counting votes, and start arguing that the ‘fake’ votes should be counted."
-Jack Wilenchik to Trump adviser @BorisEP Epshteyn
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"The emails show that participants in the {#FakeElectors} discussions reported details of their activities to @RudyGiuliani, Mr. #Trump’s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to @MarkMeadows, the White House chief of staff."
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"@BorisEP Epshteyn not only fielded and passed along to @RudyGiuliani the detailed proposal for Jan. 6 prepared by @DrJohnEastman, he also handled questions about how to pay Mr. Eastman and made the arrangements for him to visit the White House on Jan. 4."
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'On Dec. 27, Mr. @BorisEP Epshteyn wrote that Mr. #Trump “liked” an aggressive approach being proposed by the lawyers, and that @DrJohnEastman would be the “face of the media strategy” along with Mr. @RudyGiuliani.'
@January6thCmte
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"@TheJusticeDept is investigating President Donald #Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter."
@washingtonpost
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.@TheJusticeDept "prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings #Trump led in Dec 2020 and Jan 2021; his pressure campaign on @Mike_Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers and advisers."
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"The degree of {@TheJusticeDept} prosecutors’ interest in #Trump’s actions has not been previously reported, nor has the review of senior Trump aides’ phone records."
@washingtonpost @January6thCmte
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"Two principal tracks of {@TheJusticeDept} investigation that could ultimately lead to additional scrutiny of #Trump... Seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding... Fraud associated with the false-electors scheme."
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.@TheJusticeDept "investigation into a central element of the push to keep Mr. #Trump in office - the plan to name slates of electors pledged to Mr. Trump in battleground states won by Mr. @JoeBiden - now appears to be accelerating."
nytimes.com/2022/07/26/us/…
#Trump @TheJusticeDept @renato_mariotti
“@TheJusticeDept’s preemptive move is the clearest sign yet that federal investigators are homing in on #Trump's conduct as he tried to prevent the transfer of power to @JoeBiden."
@CNN
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.@TheJusticeDept “prosecutors are still in early stages of examining any direct #Trump role. Prosecutors appear to be much further along in their investigation of the Trump allies who were orchestrating the scheme to keep him in office.”
cnn.com/2022/07/28/pol…
Andrew "Jackson was also involved in a number of duels as a younger man. As president, he generally confined his outbursts to insults and threats, like proposing to hang his vice president, John C. Calhoun."

POTUS condoning the hanging of his VP? No way.
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In rural Michigan, Sheriff Dar Leaf teamed with a #Trump-camp lawyer to chase the ex-president’s outlandish rigged-#election theories. A member of a radical group of “constitutional sheriffs,” he’s now under investigation himself.
@Reuters @NathanPLayne
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.@Reuters found people spearheading #Trump’s rigged-election claims in Michigan were deeply involved with Sheriff Leaf, making Barry County a pillar of their efforts to overturn the election in a state @JoeBiden won by 154,000 votes.
@NathanPLayne
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A federal judge found #Michigan Sheriff Leaf's claims of “massive voter fraud” so baseless that she sanctioned Leaf's investigation leader,# Trump lawyer #SidneyPowell and other lawyers on the case for misconduct.
@NathanPLayne
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"In their preparations, #Trump’s team has discussed strategies that involve shifting blame... to his advisors for the efforts to overturn the election, per the 3 sources, reflecting a broader push to find a fall fall-guy - or fall-guys."
@TheJusticeDept
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"Other potential strategies include defenses based on the First Amendment and the right to petition the government over a political grievance... as potential defenses against charges related to the “fake elector” scheme."
#Trump
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“The boss still has a very favorable view of you,” @mattgaetz told #RogerStone on a hot mic in 2019, stressing that #Trump had “said it directly.” He also said, “I don’t think the big guy can let you go down for this.”
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.@jonswaine: The hot mic recorded @mattgaetz divulging legally confidential info about the Mueller report to #RogerStone.
#Cipollone subpoena “signals an even more dramatic escalation in @TheJusticeDept’s Department's investigation of the #Capitol attack than previously known,” after recent grand jury testimony by former VP @Mike_Pence staff.
@abcnews #Trump
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#Cipollone subpoena @TheJusticeDept @renato_mariotti
“Ward and Townsend are concerned it could appear *treasonous* for the AZ electors to vote… if there is no pending court proceeding that might, eventually, lead to the electors being ratified,” #Trump campaign lawyer wrote to @RudyGiuliani, others.
nytimes.com/2022/08/02/us/…
In addition to missing Secret Service texts, the Pentagon “wiped the phones of top departing DOD and Army officials at the end of the Trump administration, deleting any texts from key witnesses” regarding the #Capitol attack, @CNN says, per court filings.
cnn.com/2022/08/02/pol…
Pro-#Trump operatives are flooding #election officials nationwide with records requests to seek evidence for his false voter-fraud claims and gather intelligence on voting machines and voters, adding to the chaos rocking the U.S. election system.
@Reuters
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.@ajc opposes @FaniWillisForDA’s request to put under seal docs from her #Atlanta grand jury probe into #Trump’s attempt to overturn his #Georgia election loss.
@TamarHallerman
“On the day of President @JoeBiden’s inauguration, @DrJohnEastman suggested looking for voting irregularities in #Georgia {runoff election for US Senate} — and asked {@RudyGiuliani} for help in getting paid the $270,000 he had billed the #Trump campaign.”
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“If we get proof of fraud on Jan. 5, it will likely also demonstrate the fraud on Nov. 3, thereby vindicating President #Trump’s claims and serving as a strong bulwark against Senate impeachment trial,” @DrJohnEastman wrote @RudyGiuliani Jan. 20, 2021.
nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/…
.@DrJohnEastman-@RudyGiuliani email shows some closest #Trump backers “knew they hadn’t proven their baseless claims of widespread voting fraud - but wanted to continue their efforts to delegitimize the outcome even after @JoeBiden Biden had taken office.”
nytimes.com/2022/08/03/us/…
"By the time @JoeBiden became president, @DrJohnEastman tried to be paid directly, the Jan. 20 email shows, although two people with knowledge of the {#Trump} campaign’s finances said he never was."
#election #CapitolRiot
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