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Jul 27 • 17 tweets • 12 min read
"The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results"

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses... have asked in recent days about conversations w/ Trump, his lawyers, & others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won"

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 & January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers & advisers about fake electors"

#Jan6
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"In addition, Justice Department investigators in April received phone records of key officials and aides in the Trump administration, including his former chief of staff, Mark Meadows"

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Federal criminal investigations are by design opaque, and probes involving political figures are among the most closely held secrets at the Justice Department.

Many end without criminal charges."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"investigators also want to understand... what Trump told his lawyers & senior officials to do.

Any investigation... must navigate complex issues of... when or whether a person’s speech could become part of an alleged conspiracy in support of a coup."
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"Many elements of the sprawling Jan. 6 criminal investigation have remained under wraps.

But in recent weeks the public pace of the work has increased, with a fresh round of subpoenas, search warrants and interviews..."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The DOJ probe began amid the smoke, blood & chaos at the Capitol and has led to criminal charges against more than 840 individuals, expanding to include an examination of events that occurred elsewhere in the days and weeks before the attack — including at the White House"
"There are two principal tracks of the investigation that could ultimately lead to additional scrutiny of Trump...

The first centers on seditious conspiracy and conspiracy to obstruct a government proceeding...

The second involves potential fraud..."

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"Recent subpoenas... show that 2 AZ state legislators were ordered to turn over communications w/ “any member, employee, or agent of Donald J. Trump or any organization advocating in favor of the 2020 re-election of Donald J. Trump, incl ‘Donald J. Trump for President, Inc.’ ”"
Link to the Kelly Townsend subpoena:

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"Attorney General Merrick Garland has vowed that the Jan. 6 investigation will follow the facts wherever they lead and said that no one is exempt or above scrutiny, while refusing to divulge information outside of court filings."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The Jan. 6 investigation is by some measures the largest ever undertaken by the Justice Department...

This year, the fake-elector scheme has become a major focus of the Justice Department inquiry."

#Jan6th
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"After Trump lost the election, lawyers and others close to him urged GOP officials in key states to submit alternate and illegitimate slates of electors to reject the results of the state vote totals."

#EastmanMemo
#TrumpCoupAttempt
"Last month, federal agents fanned out in multiple states to serve grand jury subpoenas, execute search warrants and interview witnesses — a significant escalation of overt investigative activity."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Trump told acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen that he wanted his Justice Department to say there was significant election fraud, and said he was poised to oust Rosen & replace him with Clark, who was willing to make that assertion."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Rosen told Trump that the DOJ could not “flip a switch and change the election”...

“I don’t expect you to do that,” Trump responded, according to the notes. “Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen.”"

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Jul 29
"The OIG Joseph V. Cuffari did not press the dept leadership at that time to explain why they did not preserve these records...

Cuffari also failed to alert Congress to the potential destruction of government records."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In a nearly identical scenario to that of the DHS leaders’ texts, the Secret Service alerted Cuffari’s office seven months ago, in December 2021, that the agency had deleted thousands of agents’ and employees’ text messages."

#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"In the weeks before the attack on the Capitol, Trump had been pressuring both men to help him claim the 2020 election results were rigged and even to seize voting machines in key swing states to try to “re-run” the election."

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Jul 28
"The charging document cited a speech that Kara-Murza... had given weeks earlier...

His remarks accused Russian forces of dropping cluster bombs on residential areas in Ukraine & staging airstrikes on maternity wards, hospitals & schools."

#WarCrimes
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"The atrocities Kara-Murza described have been verified ...

But Vladimir Putin’s Kremlin couldn’t bear the spectacle of a Russian citizen airing these uncomfortable facts — so it locked him up for telling the truth."

#RussianWarCrimesInUkraine
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Kara-Murza "has continued to campaign for human rights & liberal democracy...

Meanwhile, many politicians in the West have abandoned these values, whether by appeasing dictators such as Putin or by eroding democratic principles in their own societies."

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Jul 28
"one lawyer involved in the detailed discussions repeatedly used the word “fake” to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide ... a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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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”

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The emails show that participants in the discussions reported details of their activities to Rudolph W. Giuliani, Trump’s personal lawyer, and in at least one case to Mark Meadows, the White House chief of staff."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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Jul 28
"an update to that study with 2020 data, which shows even worse numbers:

A national [abortion] ban would result in a 24% increase in deaths for all women and a 39% for non-Hispanic Black women."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
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"Moreover, the states that seek to ban abortion are the same that rank among the worst in a slew of health indicators...

In other words, states looking to force women to have birth have the sickest women and worst health outcomes."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
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"Even among women not seeking abortions, the risk of death will increase."

#AbortionIsHealthcare
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Jul 27
"the right-wing editorial pages of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal, both Rupert Murdoch publications, have broken sharply with Trump.

Trump of all people should understand how the aura of being a “loser” turns people off."

#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"emails that show one lawyer involved in the scheme “repeatedly used the word ‘fake’ to refer to the so-called electors, who were intended to provide VP Mike Pence & Trump’s allies in Congress a rationale for derailing the congressional process of certifying the outcome.”"
"That’s classic “admissions against interest” — the sort of self-incriminating statements that light up prosecutors’ eyes...

The Post’s report also revealed that the Justice Department has the phone logs of senior Trump aides."

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Jul 2
"By “threats to democracy,” they mean ... the spread of baseless claims about rampant election fraud to state legislatures’ efforts to make it more difficult to vote & easier for partisans to overturn legitimate voting results."
~@Sulliview

#Journalism
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The result is a 28-page publication called “The Authoritarian Playbook: A Media Guide,” an effort to give reporters and editors some tools in recognizing what’s happening and in covering it effectively.

#journalism
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
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"While the guide is intended for journalists, every American would benefit from reading it — especially in conjunction with the House committee hearings on the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection."
~@Sulliview

#journalism
#DemocracyNotAutocracy
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