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Jan 6 7 tweets 5 min read
1/ Having immersed myself in #January6th issues, this line of critique of #January6thReport by @donell_harvin is spot on.

The report's missing piece: addressing the massive intelligence/law enforcement failure.

The most chilling line of his analysis ...
politico.com/news/magazine/…
2/
"[L]acking is analysis of what should have occurred and who was responsible for the massive security failure ... The absence of any such conclusive analysis leaves ample room for conspiracy theorists to string disparate facts together and weave elaborate yet believable lies."
3/ To add to Harvin's analysis:

The committee's report thus leaves space for conspiracy theories to thrive ... the very kind of conspiracies that drive anti-government extremism...the very kind of extremism that helped propel the attack on January 6th and remains ongoing threat.
4/ J6 Committee member @RepRaskin has an important and candid exchange on the podcast @SkullduggeryPod with @isikoff @dklaidman about the Committee's inability to reach conclusions on the intelligence failure (time stamp: 49:00).
art19.com/shows/skulldug…
5/ Indeed, listening to Rep. Raskin and reading @donell_harvin, many of us can't help but think and hope that @SenatorDurbin and the Senate Judiciary Committee should take up where the January 6th Committee left off in this space.
6/ Here's audio clip (and, in following tweet, transcription) of @RepRaskin interview.

Really great questions (including follow-up questions) by @Isikoff and thoughtful, substantive answers by Raskin.

On Jan. 6 Committee’s inability to nail down answers to intelligence failure.
7/7 Finally, a transcription of that audio clip.👇

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More from @rgoodlaw

Jan 5
"Special counsel Jack Smith has received a trove of new documents from local election officials in Wisconsin and Nevada who were subpoenaed as part of the ongoing criminal investigation," including communications with Trump lawyers.

By @ZcohenCNN
cnn.com/2023/01/04/pol…
2. "The documents provided by Clark County[Nevada] officials did not include any communications with Trump directly but did show lawyers working for the former president raising concerns about potential election fraud that were later found to be baseless."
cnn.com/2023/01/04/pol…
3. More on Nevada communications sent to DOJ:

"Trump’s allies also demanded information about workers who were tasked with counting the votes, a request the county registrar sought to delay out of fear for the workers’ safety"

By @etuckerAP @gabestern326
wavy.com/news/politics/…
Read 4 tweets
Jan 1
1/ #January6thCommittee latest release includes RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel.

Key: Two direct conversations with Trump setting up false electors scheme.👇

It is among areas Trump faces greatest criminal exposure.

Step 1: Trump and Eastman call McDaniel.
justsecurity.org/wp-content/upl…
2/ The scheme is for "the RNC helping the campaign gather these contingent electors."

Step 2: Following phone call with Eastman, McDaniel checks in with the campaign.

Step 3: McDaniel back Trump directly to inform him directly it's a go.👇
3/ Step 4:

What is Trump's response to McDaniel's phone call informing him the alternate electors scheme is now up and running?

"Just great."
Read 6 tweets
Dec 24, 2022
|@KateBolduan asked me: "What evidence is most damning" in #January6thReport?

I discuss specific, brand new evidence of Trump and Meadows directing false electors effort.

A key one is Ronna McDaniel's call to Trump to say she accepts HIS request to help organize the effort.
2. The other points I discuss are contained here.👇

Including Trump campaign Associate General Counsel telling committee:

Trump "made it clear that Rudy was in charge of this [false electors] and that Rudy was executing what he wanted.”

justsecurity.org/84551/importan…
3. As for Meadows's criminal liability for false electors scheme.

Week of November 18:

Meadows gets "a spreadsheet that the Trump Campaign had compiled. It listed contact information for nearly all of the 79 GOP nominees" who could serve as false electors (#January6thReport).
Read 4 tweets
Dec 23, 2022
As I discussed with @ErinBurnett @OutFrontCNN, it’s 100% a crime if Trump-affiliated lawyer Mr. Passantino said to Cassidy Hutchinson what she testified.

= suborning perjury

Only question is if DOJ could prove it.

As discussed, looks like significant proof at hand…

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2. Evidence

Hutchinson _contemporaneously_ confided in a friend about what Passantino was telling her to do.

Per CNN (@jamiegangel @jaketapper @jeremyherb @elizabethstuart reporting)👇

cnn.com/2022/12/22/pol…
3. Evidence

Hutchinson _contemporaneously_ confided in former Trump WH official @Alyssafarah and former Republican Congresswoman @BarbaraComstock obtaining their assistance to address what Passantino was telling her to do.

Per NYT @DraperRobert reporting
nytimes.com/2022/07/10/us/…
Read 8 tweets
Dec 19, 2022
1/ Co-conspirators in efforts to overturn election identified in #January6thCommittee Executive Summary:

1 Trump
2 Meadows
3 Giuliani
4 Eastman
5 Clark
6 Chesebro

Individuals involved in obstructing J6 investigation: Many.

Tony Ornato needs a very good defense attorney.👇
2. "Again, as with Section 1512(c), the conspiracy under Section 371 appears to have also included other individuals such as Chesebro, Rudolph Giuliani, and Mark Meadows, but this Committee does not attempt to determine all of the participants of the conspiracy..."
3. “Others working with Eastman likely share in Eastman’s culpability. For example, Kenneth Chesebro was a central player in the scheme to submit fake electors ...”
Read 6 tweets
Dec 16, 2022
With news that the #January6th Sub-committee has proposed criminal referral of Trump for, among other statutes, 18 USC 2383 (assisting an Insurrection) (@kyledcheney @nicholaswu12 reporting)

Read this expert analysis of why that statute might best fit.

justsecurity.org/82713/seditiou…
2. Report by @kyledcheney @nicholaswu12:

“Among the charges that subcommittee proposes for Trump: 18 U.S.C. 2383 Insurrection; 18 U.S.C. 1512(c) obstruction of an official proceeding; and 18 U.S.C. 371 Conspiracy to defraud the United States government.”
politico.com/news/2022/12/1…
3. Plus a second article by same criminal law expert @UChicagoLaw’s Al Alschuler:

justsecurity.org/82696/trump-an…
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