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Jul 22 9 tweets 2 min read
Perhaps the most damning/horrifying revelation: Trump didn’t make his Rose Garden appearance (at 4:03pm) until AFTER it was clear that the insurrection wouldn’t succeed—the military had been mobilized and the lawmakers had made it to safety.
In today’s hearing, every witness on record describing Trump’s Jan. 6 conduct—Pottinger, Matthews, Milley, Cipollone, Kushner, Deere, Luna, Murtaugh, Miller, McEntee—is a Trump appointee. A damning portrait from everyone around him that day. #Jan6thHearings
O’Brien accepted Pottinger’s resignation but asked him to stay on site until O’Brien had returned to the White House. Pottinger: “I ended up staying at my desk through the night.”
Matt Pottinger on Jan. 6: “It emboldened our enemies by giving them ammunition to feed a narrative that our system of government doesn’t work, that the United States is in decline. China, the Putin regime in Russia, Tehran—they’re fond of pushing those kinds of narratives.”
White House staff had a speech ready for Trump to give on the morning of Jan. 7. Luria says he grudgingly agreed to record the speech that evening — only under threat of removal under 25th Amendment.
Outtakes from Trump’s Jan. 7 address are revealing. “I don’t want to say the election’s over,” he said, almost pleadingly.
Pottinger: “If you continue to contest an election…you’re actually challenging the Constitution itself, you’re challenging the societal norms that allow us to remain unified.” Cites Nixon conceding in 1960, Gore in 2000.
Kinzinger: “Whatever you think about the outcome of the election, we as Americans must agree on this: Donald Trump’s conduct on Jan. 6 was a supreme violation of his oath of office and a complete dereliction of his duty to our nation. It is a stain on our history.”
Kinzinger: “The militant, intolerable ideologies, the militias, the alienation and the disaffection, the weird fantasies and disinformation—they’re all still out there, ready to go.” Warns that our democratic experiment “will not endure” unless rule of law is affirmed.

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Jul 22
White House security official: “Members of the VP detail at this time were starting to fear for their own lives.” Some spoke of saying goodbye to their families.
Knowing the Capitol had been breached by an armed mob, Trump unleashed 2:24pm tweet criticizing Pence.

Former deputy national security adviser Matt Pottinger: “It looked like fuel being poured on the fire. That was the moment I decided to resign.”
Former White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews: “I’ve seen the impact that his words have on his supporters. They truly latch onto every word and every tweet that he says… it was him pouring gasoline on the fire.”
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Jul 19
My statement: “The big picture is of a government that generally ignores or does not comply promptly with public information requests and then selectively provides information according to what narrative it wants to shape in any particular moment.” vanityfair.com/news/2022/07/w…
We are proud to be part of a broad coalition of media (including @propublica @TPRNews @ExpressNews @statesman @HoustonChron @dallasnews @nytimes) seeking the release of records relating to the May 24 school shooting in Uvalde.
So far, much of the info that’s come out has been through selective leaks of information. Every publication loves to publish scoops, @TexasTribune included, but this is far from orderly or transparent. The people of Uvalde are right to be angry.
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Jul 8
At ⁦@AspenInstitute⁩, ⁦@neal_katyal⁩ just said current SCOTUS is the most conservative in our lifetimes and one of the 3 most conservative in US history. The others were in 1857 and 1935; neither time did things go well.
“If Roe can be overruled, then any precedent can be overruled.” Roe was a “super-precedent,” handed down by a conservative majority in 1973 and affirmed by a conservative majority in 1992. Real risk of SCOTUS losing its legitimacy.
@RuthMarcus: Current SCOTUS looks to history, text and precedent only when it’s history, text and precedent it’s comfortable with.

She agrees w/ @neal_katyal that contraception and same-sex marriage are clearly under challenge next, notwithstanding protestations otherwise.
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Jun 24
For months @TexasTribune has been preparing for this day. Texas gave birth to Roe v. Wade (1973). It will now be the largest state to ban all abortions from the moment of fertilization. @eklib: texastribune.org/2022/06/22/sup…
.@WholeWomans, which runs four clinics in Texas and half a dozen in other states, just announced it has stopped providing abortions in Texas. @erinmdouglas23 @eklib: texastribune.org/2022/06/24/tex…
For Texans, New Mexico will likely be a “haven state” where abortion remains legal and largely accessible. The nearest clinic there is a 12h-drive from Houston, 10h from Dallas. @eklib: texastribune.org/2022/06/23/sup…
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Jun 23
“SB8 has had a chilling effect on a broad range of health care professionals, adversely affecting patient care and endangering people’s lives.” ⁦@NEJM⁩: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…
“After receiving fetal diagnoses of spina bifida and trisomy 18, a 39-year-old woman was shocked that her physician would not even inform her about termination options.”
“Patients with a life-limiting fetal diagnosis…are only being counseled to continue their pregnancy and offered neonatal comfort care options after delivery.”
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Jun 22
NEW—> Exactly four weeks after Uvalde school shooting, US Senate votes 64-34 to advance first major bipartisan gun legislation since 1994, with support from @JohnCornyn @LeaderMcConnell and over @NRA opposition. This is big. texastribune.org/2022/06/21/sen…
The legislation doesn’t restrict rights of existing gun owners — a non-starter for Senate Republicans. But it would help remove guns from dangerous people; enhance background checks for purchasers under 21; and provide $15 billion for mental health and anti-violence programs.
This is big. Critics had feared “Cornyn con”—appearing moderate, only to withdraw support at last minute. Tonight he said: “Very soon—not soon enough for me, but very soon—we will see the text of bipartisan legislation that will help keep our children and our communities safer.”
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