🚨🚨 The Jan. 6 security tapes have a big surprise.
There is video of attorney Ken Chesebro & Trump campaign aide G. Michael Brown handing off fake GOP elector documents (from Wisconsin & Michigan) to aides of Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA - on Jan. 5. 🧵
While Chesebro & Brown delivered the documents on Jan. 5, aides to Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA were unable to get the materials to Pence, as the Senate Parliamentarian refused to accept the fake elector envelopes. More at 2/ jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surpri…
The Capitol Hill security cameras first picked up Chesebro and Brown at 3:40 pm on Jan. 5, as they walked to the Longworth House Office Building. 3/
Chesbro and Brown walked to the Longworth House Office Building and waited outside. At 3:51 pm on Jan. 5, two aides from the office of Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA came outside to meet them; they returned with the fake elector documents. 4/
The aides to Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA walked the fake elector documents to the Capitol. But that's where things went haywire. A source familiar with the matter says that the Senate Parliamentarian's office refused to accept the envelopes on Jan. 5. 5/
Unable to deliver the fake GOP documents from Michigan and Wisconsin on Jan. 5, the aides to Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA then spent 30 minutes just walking around the second floor of the Capitol - seemingly waiting for instructions. 6/
Out of options, the Kelly aides took the fake GOP elector documents from MI/WI back to their office.
That led to a scramble the next day, on Jan. 6, involving Sen. Ron Johnson R-WI, to get the WI/MI documents to VP Pence. Those efforts all failed. 7/
How do we know there were fake elector documents in those envelopes? Chesebro said so in his own text messages on Jan. 6, when he said that he dropped off the documents to aides for Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA a day earlier. 8/
The Jan. 6 committee couldn't figure out where and how the fake GOP elector documents were delivered on Jan. 5. It took me several months of going through the Capitol security tapes to find the answer. jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surpri…
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🚨Before the 10-day clock can start for Trump on the housing bill - the final enrolled bill must be signed by Speaker Johnson & the Senate President Pro Tem (Grassley). Then the bill goes to the White House.
Those steps have not happened yet. 1/
Republicans have repeatedly held bills back from the White House, even after final House and Senate votes.
For example, HR 972 won House approval on 2/26 and Senate approval on 3/3 - but it wasn't sent to the White House for over 2 months (5/19/26). 2/
One bill backed by Sen. Thune, S. 723, was held back for nearly 2 months after final House and Senate votes. The 10-day clock on the housing package cannot start until the bill is given to the White House. 3/
🚨House Republicans have made substantial changes to the revised SAVE America Act, dropping provisions which would have forced Americans to prove their citizenship at the polls on Election Day. 🧵 1/
The revised SAVE America Act still requires voters to prove their citizenship to register - but not on Election Day.
The original plan would have forced people to bring their passports, or both a driver's license and birth certificate to the polls. That is now out. 2/
Another new provision prohibits the use of any photo ID cards 'provided by an educational institution.'
Valid ID's to vote would include state-issued driver's licenses and ID cards, US passport, military ID, and tribal ID - but nothing from colleges or universities. 3/
Republicans have a new version of the SAVE Act which is coming up for a House vote. It has new requirements for voter ID, which require you to demonstrate your citizenship - at the polls. 🧵 1/
Usually, "Voter ID" means you show your driver's license or government photo ID at the polls. But the new GOP SAVE America Act requires that ID to show that you are a US citizen. 2/
What photo ID also proves that you are a citizen? There are only two options. 1) US Passport 2) "Enhanced" driver's licenses, which are only offered by 5 states: Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont, and Washington State
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Why was there evidently a subpoena issued for the telephone records of Sen. Ron Johnson R-WI as part of the Jan. 6 investigation? Here is some of the evidence on the public record. 1/ 🧵
On Jan. 6, a top aide to Johnson messaged an aide to Vice President Mike Pence. "Johnson needs to hand something to VPOTUS please advise." What was it? Fake elector documents from Michigan and Wisconsin. 2/
How did Johnson's office get the fake elector documents from Michigan and Wisconsin? They were handed over by an aide to Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA in a document dump that took place across the street from the U.S. Supreme Court - on Jan. 6. 3/
Let's start with the top name on this GOP list. Why would the FBI have tracked Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA about Jan. 6? Because his office was involved in Trump's fake electors effort to overturn Joe Biden's victory. 🧵 1/
We know from the Jan. 6 tapes - released by House Republicans - that there is video of two Trump allies handing off fake elector documents from Wisconsin and Michigan to aides of Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA - on Jan. 5. 2/ jamiedupree.substack.com/p/video-surpri…
Here is video from the Jan. 6 tapes of the Jan. 5 fake elector document handoff to aides of Rep. Mike Kelly R-PA 3/
Let's go through the rescission package submitted by the White House. The first cut would rescind $33 million of $1.5 billion approved for 'Contributions to International Organizations.' 1/
The second cut is from the same 'Contributions to International Organizations' account, but for 2025. This rescinds $169 million of $1.5 billion approved by Congress. 2/
The third cut is from money approved in 2024 that goes to UN peacekeeping activities. This is the second cut from FY 2024 money which was evidently unspent. 3/