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183/ CHENEY: "Trump was confident he could persuade his supporters to believe whatever he said, no matter how outlandish, and they could be summoned to Washington to help him remain in office for another term." She underscores Giuliani *admitting* there was no evidence of fraud. — PolitiTweet.org

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182/ We are now getting the secret Bannon audio PROOF has reported on, in which Bannon outlines every part of the Big Lie *pre-election*. *Pre-election*. In other words, as Cheney says, Trump "premeditated" lying about election fraud, whether he had any evidence of it or not. — PolitiTweet.org

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181/ Cheney is underscoring that all of the evidence we have heard from the HJ6C is coming from Republicans—not Trump's Democratic political opponents—and that none of these people would've withered under cross-examination by Trump allies (like those McCarthy wanted on the HJ6C). — PolitiTweet.org

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180/ Now Cheney is speaking again, lauding the "courage" of HJ6C witnesses and the cowardice of "60-, 70-year old men hiding behind executive privilege." As ever, she is pulling no punches. You can tell she wants to encourage new witnesses to come forward and *be courageous*. — PolitiTweet.org

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179/ REP. THOMPSON: "Our investigation is going forward. We continue to receive new information every day." Thompson is making clear that we have a long, long way to go with this January 6 investigation. — PolitiTweet.org

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178/ Luria, the former Navy Commander, is not a great speaker, but she gave a good closing statement. Now Cheney is making her final statement—brief—and sending it over to Rep. Thompson (on video). — PolitiTweet.org

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177/ Now Luria is giving a closing statement, starting with a summary of what was established by this hearing. LURIA: "Trump summoned the mob and promised to lead that mob to the Capitol...and when he was thwarted in leading that armed uprising, [he sent the mob against Pence]." — PolitiTweet.org

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176/ Adam Kinzinger is probably giving the best speech of his life right now. — PolitiTweet.org

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175/ KINZINGER: "The forces Donald Trump ignited that day [January 6] have not gone away....they're all still out there, ready to go." — PolitiTweet.org

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174/ Kinzinger is giving his closing statement now. He is underscoring how truly amazing it is that Trump refused to follow the advice of every single person in his life and do his job. Kinzinger says that Trump spoke up only—*only*—once he knew his plan for January 6 had failed. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is free. If, as you follow along over the next 4 hours, you feel moved to use the Venmo tip jar in my… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing tonight. I’m an attorney, journalist,… — PolitiTweet.org

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173/ Stunning text messages between Trump aides Murtagh and Wolking about being disgusted by Trump's statements during and after January 6. Hard to summarize these texts, but these men are saying Trump lacks character, is a liar, and is responsible for January 6. Shocking texts. — PolitiTweet.org

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172/ On a call with Trump post-1/6, per McCarthy, Trump said he bore some responsibility for January 6. We have no idea if this ever happened or not. Trump has never said anything like this publicly. — PolitiTweet.org

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171/ REP. MCCARTHY (post-1/6, on a call with Republicans): "I've had it with this guy [Trump]. What he did was unacceptable....the only discussion I would have with him is that I think this will pass [an effort to force him from office pre-January 20] and that he should resign." — PolitiTweet.org

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170/ Speaking of poetry, Pottinger is now waxing poetic... er, at *length*... about democracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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169/ Side note: in the video, Trump says that it is hard for him to physically say the word "yesterday." As a recovering poet, can I just say that this is a literary metaphor waiting to happen? — PolitiTweet.org

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168/ We are now watching Donald Trump, in his outtakes, refuse to say "the election is over" and refuse to talk about the rioters having violated the law. He is very clear about what he does and does not want to say. You can tell he is angry about giving the statement. — PolitiTweet.org

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167/ It appears we are now getting outtakes from the January 7 speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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166/ On January 7, Trump refused "for hours" to record an address to the nation that day. Cassidy Hutchinson testified that her understanding was that the only reason he gave an address that day was because he was worried about being removed from office under the 25th Amendment. — PolitiTweet.org

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165/ POTTINGER: "It [1/6] emboldened our enemies [by way of] feed[ing] a narrative that our system of government doesn't work and our country is in decline....it helped feed a perception that emboldens our adversaries....[allies] were concerned about the health of our democracy." — PolitiTweet.org

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164/ Pottinger is now testifying on how January 6 undermined our national security—because the moment of transition of power following a presidential election is a moment of "vulnerability" for the nation. January 6 might've sent a message to our enemies that we were vulnerable. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 3/ PROOF also now offers an expansive House January 6 Committee archive for subscribers (🔐). It includes all PROOF HJ6C l… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is free. If, as you follow along over the next 4 hours, you feel moved to use the Venmo tip jar in my… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 1/ At times I may make reference in this thread to evidence previously published in the 200+ reports on January 6 that ap… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing tonight. I’m an attorney, journalist,… — PolitiTweet.org

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163/ Former Trump Labor Secretary Eugene Scalia says he wanted a Cabinet meeting immediately after January 6 to try to ensure Trump would not do anything desperate or dire on Giuliani's (or others') advice. Meadows told Pompeo after January 6, "[Trump] is in a very dark place." — PolitiTweet.org

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162/ Pat Cipollone says he considered resigning after January 6, but he "had some concerns that it [his replacement] would be someone who had been giving bad advice [to Trump]." — PolitiTweet.org

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161/ At 3:49AM on January 7, Donald Trump aide Dan Scavino posted on his Facebook feed what was supposedly a message from Trump. Jason Miller had actually written it, and had to work to persuade Trump to release it. It repeated the Big Lie but spoke of an "orderly transition." — PolitiTweet.org

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160/ MITCH MCCONNELL (early on 1/7): "President Trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day [1/6]. No question about it. The people [who stormed the US Capitol] believed that they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their President." — PolitiTweet.org