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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
94/ Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL) is now giving an opening statement. — PolitiTweet.org
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93/ Having discussed Stone’s contacts with Oath Keepers, Lofgren now focuses on Stone’s association with Proud Boys—e.g., Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio. We’re hearing about Tarrio visiting the White House in December and a scary, terrorist-like video he recorded pre-January 6. — PolitiTweet.org
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92/ (Note that Stone has publicly threatened to sue PROOF for its early, fully sourced, entirely accurate reports on his involvement in the events of January 6.) — PolitiTweet.org
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91/ Lofgren notes that many Roger Stone associates have been charged with Seditious Conspiracy, and at least one has already pleaded guilty to it. — PolitiTweet.org
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90/ Now we have video of Stone pleading the Fifth Amendment rather than answer whether he was involved in planning for the events—and violence—of January 6. PROOF has already published video of Stone having just this sort of involvement. It’s not yet being shown here by the HJ6C. — PolitiTweet.org
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89/ Now we get the Danish-filmmaker-made video of Roger Stone that PROOF reported on days ago. In the video, Stone—around the time of the election, months before January 6—urges violence if Trump loses and says Trump should claim victory even if he loses. https://t.co/pzNuVKBAZj — PolitiTweet.org
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88/ Now we have the infamous January 5 "all hell is going to break loose [on January 6]" video of Steve Bannon seeming to have foreknowledge of how the Trump camp wanted and expected January 6 to unfold. — PolitiTweet.org
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87/ Now we get video of Bannon telling Chinese associates in a secretly recorded video that he *knew in advance* Trump would falsely declare victory on election night. Bannon seemed to have gleeful foreknowledge of the "crazy shit"—Bannon’s words—Trump would do on election night. — PolitiTweet.org
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86/ (Infamously, Fitton also advised Trump to not return classified documents he stole from the White House. One would think that Fitton may be in some conspiracy-related legal trouble, but we’ll see.) — PolitiTweet.org
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85/ The VP’s camp was so certain this would happen that it produced a paper trail of legal memos *pre-election* to dictate how it would handle a false Trump victory claim. Lofgren calls out insurrectionist Tom Fitton for having advised Trump pre-election to falsely claim victory. — PolitiTweet.org
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84/ Rep. Lofgren says Trump’s "false victory speech" was "premeditated" and planned "well before" the election. Indeed, video testimony now shows that people around him—including those in VP Mike Pence’s circle—knew that a false victory declaration was likely to come from Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
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83/ Now we’re getting videos of Trump campaign officials saying they told Trump he couldn’t *under any circumstances* declare victory on election night because of early tallies—which Trump did anyway, in fact going so far as demanding that *all vote-counting stop* (an obscenity). — PolitiTweet.org
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82/ Videos of Trump campaign officials indicating they advised Trump of all this are now being shown. This gives the lie to every preposterous claim ever made by Trump that he couldn’t explain (nor could anyone) why the vote tallies shifted strongly to Biden late on Election Day. — PolitiTweet.org
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81/ Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) is now giving an opening statement. She is most focused on the fact that Trump knew in advance that his own rhetoric on mail-in voting pre-election *ensured* that there would be a large swing to Biden on election night once mail-ballots were counted. — PolitiTweet.org
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80/ CHENEY: "Our nation cannot only punish the [January 6] foot-soldiers." She’s essentially speaking to DOJ here. She’s acknowledging that none of the leaders of the coup plot inside the U.S. government have been held to account yet—nor is there any indication yet they will be. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is free, but if, as you follow along over its 5 hours, you feel moved to use the Venmo tip jar in my… — PolitiTweet.org
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79/ CHENEY: "There is no evidence Trump was duped or irrational." She is laying out the elements of a criminal offense, and doing so quite self-consciously—including that Trump knew he was committing misconduct and has no "defense" to that allegation. — PolitiTweet.org
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78/ Both Cheney and Thompson underscore that there is every reason to fear an event like January 6 could happen again—and future elections could be overturned using some of the same people and tactics who were in play on, before and after January 6. She’s issuing a stark warning. — PolitiTweet.org
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77/ Also critical to the case the House January 6 Committee is now making is that Trump knew the January 6 rioters were armed, knew they planned to engage in illegal conduct, and knew that his own conduct increased substantially the likelihood of this illegal conduct occurring. — PolitiTweet.org
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76/ Critical to the case the House January 6 Committee is making is that Trump *knew* he had lost the 2020 presidential election—because of the information he had, because of the advice he received, and because of his knowledge of what court decisions ruling against him had said. — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: This thread is a live-tweet of today’s House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m an attorney, journalist, a… — PolitiTweet.org
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75/ Thompson and Cheney underscore that today we’ll hear new evidence *and* summaries of past evidence, with a focus on Trump, his "state of mind"—the Committee is consistently using legal/legal-adjacent terms common in criminal law—and the danger of a January 6 happening again. — PolitiTweet.org
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74/ Now Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is raising the prospect of criminal referrals to DOJ without assuring that these will occur. She notes that the real focus of the Committee are "specific recommendations" of how to ensure that something like January 6 never happens again in America. — PolitiTweet.org
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73/ BREAKING NEWS: Thompson says that because today is a formal "business meeting" of the Committee, *live votes may be taken* today regarding "further investigative steps" the Committee plans to take. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
72/ Rep. Thompson is now mentioning some of the new testimony we will hear today, all of which (that he mentions now) have been discussed already in this thread. But Thompson also says Trump’s "knowledge" and "intent" will be revealed (and/or summarized) in greater detail today. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
71/ (Note that the Committee’s insistence on taking evidence primarily from Republican witnesses has of course enabled Republicans to slow or degrade the investigation simply by refusing to testify or even lying/eliding information in their testimony.) — PolitiTweet.org
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70/ Thompson underscores that *nearly all* of the Committee’s evidence has come from Republicans. He uses this as one of several indications that the (bipartisan) Committee’s work has *not* been partisan, as Trump and his co-conspirators within the Republican Party falsely claim. — PolitiTweet.org
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69/ Chair Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS) is beginning with a summary. He says the "evidence" has "proven" Donald Trump "led" a "plan" to "overturn" the 2020 election—and that this "plan" led directly to an attack on the U.S. Capitol and an attempt to stop a congressional proceeding. — PolitiTweet.org
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68/ The hearing has just begun. — PolitiTweet.org
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67/ As I live-tweet today’s hearing now, I ask everyone to remember that there’s no more important topic than the one we’re discussing today—because encompassed by the future of America is the future of every policy initiative and foreign policy event in which America is engaged. — PolitiTweet.org
