🚨🚨 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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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/
House Speaker Mike Johnson is still trying to kill a move to allow 6 weeks of proxy voting for women lawmakers who give birth while in office.
"Proxy voting, in my view, is unconstitutional," the Speaker says.
But - you know what's coming.
Short nerdy thread 🧵 1/
Speaker Johnson often talks about how he led a lawsuit against proxy voting (which failed).
But Johnson still voted remotely. This was during the last week of Congress in December 2022 - just before the GOP took charge of the House and did away with proxy voting. 2/
Speaker Johnson didn't just vote by proxy once or twice at the end of the 117th Congress.
While Johnson calls proxy voting 'unconstitutional' - he used it for 17 straight votes on Dec 21-22, 2022. 3/
A group of Democrats has asked Speaker Johnson to review whether Rep. Kat Cammack R-FL broke House rules and ghost voted for Rep. Byron Donalds R-FL - while Donalds was on a trip to California on Feb. 7.
Extra nerdy🧵 1/
We know Donalds was in California on Feb. 7 - he told us that with his own tweets. And yet, he was recorded as voting on the House floor that day, oddly siding with all Democrats on one of the votes. 2/
The vote from Rep. Byron Donalds R-FL that raised eyebrows on Feb. 7 was on a motion from Democrats to block a GOP bill on fracking. His vote stuck out like a sore thumb, because he was the only Republican to vote that way. 3/
Not sure what's going on here - but the documents shown by DOGE and cited earlier for this $8 million in ICE savings has now been *changed* to $8 billion in the Federal Procurement Data System. 🧵
The top is what it looked like a few hours ago - now someone has gone in and changed $8 million to $8 billion in the FPDS system. Also the dates are different. 2/
The Johnson staffer brought the two envelopes with fake elector documents from MI & WI back to the Hart Senate Office building about 40 minutes before the Joint Session to count the electoral votes. 3/