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159/ Rudy Giuliani's insurrectionist work continued unabated after 6PM. He called Republican Sens. Blackburn, Tuberville, Graham, Hawley Cruz, and Haggerty—and Rep. Jordan—to tell them to "slow down" the joint session that was about to reconvene. He didn't even mention the riot. — PolitiTweet.org

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158/ A former Donald Trump aide is now saying that the beginning of Trump's 6:01PM tweet, "These are the things and events that happen..." made it sound like Trump had "culpability" for January 6. This is a Trump aide saying this! (And I think any objective American would agree.) — PolitiTweet.org

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157/ At 6PM, Trump sent out a tweet lauding the rioters, saying that what had happened was a consequence of a stolen election, and telling the rioters to "remember this day forever." That night, the only thing Trump said to a key staffer before bed was, "Mike Pence let me down." — PolitiTweet.org

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156/ Now we hear "QAnon Shaman" Jacob Chansley telling people on a bullhorn to go home right after Trump's Rose Garden speech—underscoring (as do other videos just shown) that the moment Trump said anything about going home people listened. He could've done it hours earlier. — PolitiTweet.org

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155/ FORMER WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY PRESS SECRETARY JUDD DEERE: "[Then-President Trump's January 6 Rose Garden speech] was the bare minimum that could be said [at that moment]....[it should have been] a more force dismissal of the violence, a more forceful command to go home..." — PolitiTweet.org

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154/ Pottinger and Matthews are both good witnesses—clear, concise, and articulate. — 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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153/ Now we have testimony from Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Milley saying the only communication he had from Mark Meadows was about ensuring the political "narrative" did not take hold that Pence was acting as POTUS on January 6. That is all the White House cared about. — PolitiTweet.org

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152/ The purpose of this video, and information about Pence also being in touch with Miller, is to emphasize that everyone else in the federal government was furiously doing their utmost to keep people safe, clear the Capitol, and resume the People's (legally mandated) business. — PolitiTweet.org

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151/ After the Rose Garden video, Trump went back to doing *nothing*—though there *was* still violence at the Capitol (in fact, in some places very bad violence). Now we are getting video of McConnell and Schumer talking to Secretary Miller (Pentagon) about resuming the session. — PolitiTweet.org

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150/ It's so easy to forget that almost the entirety of Donald Trump's January 6 Rose Garden speech was about the election being stolen and fraudulent and his enemies being evil. There was so little focus on anything his speechwriters had told him to say about rioters going home. — PolitiTweet.org

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149/ We are now watching the outtakes of the Rose Garden speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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148/ But even in his Rose Garden remarks, Donald Trump rejected—we can now see, from the drafts of the several Rose Garden speeches he rejected—much of what he was told to say (by his speechwriters) about "peace" and people going home. — PolitiTweet.org

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147/ This is really, really key: the Committee is showing that Trump issued a video telling the rioters to go home *only after it had become clear that the cause was lost*. His video was a sham. He waited until he knew his words would have no real effect on any part of his plan. — PolitiTweet.org

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146/ We are now getting more videos about the large number of people, including Trump family members and Trump's most ardent supporters, telling him to do something. Trump did nothing. — PolitiTweet.org

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145/ (Keep in mind that if Trump had thought it was antifa outside the Capitol on January 6, he would've called out the National Guard immediately. That was his dream scenario—it just never materialized, not that he had ever had any reason to believe that it would.) — PolitiTweet.org

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144/ But Trump *immediately* proved that that was a lie and he knew it was a lie by saying—when McCarthy assured him that they were indeed his people—"Well Kevin, I guess they're just more upset about the election than you are." He knew it wasn't antifa (or BLM, for that matter). — PolitiTweet.org

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143/ Molly Michael, Trump's executive assistant, has been seen in depo several times. She was the one who put through Rep. Kevin McCarthy's call to Trump on January 6. Rep. Jamie Herrera Beutler (R-WA) says Trump told McCarthy, "Kevin, these aren't my people. These are antifa." — PolitiTweet.org

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142/ Matthews says some in the White House worried about "giving the media a win" if Trump condemned the rioters. Matthews says she got incensed at talk of politics inside the White House on January 6. She pointed at the TV and said, "Does it look like we're f*cking winning now?" — PolitiTweet.org

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141/ Clarification: Ali Alexander was not in the U.S. Capitol on January 6 (he fled to the Newsmax building) but many Oath Keepers on the encrypted channel were. Ali Alexander was simply closely tracking Trump's social media along with the rest of the January 6 insurrectionists. — 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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140/ Evidence from Stop the Steal (Ali Alexander's social media) and Oath Keeper private communications that they were following Trump's public communications closely and they understood from his tweets that they were to stay in the Capitol and try to coerce members of Congress. — PolitiTweet.org

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139/ MATTHEWS: "[White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany told me] that the president did not want any mention of the word 'peace' in his [3PM-hour] tweet." Ivanka eventually convinced Trump to write "stay peaceful," but it took a while and he resisted it. — PolitiTweet.org

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138/ I'll note that it's not clear how much intel Trump was getting besides info from Fox News, but the Committee has shown *lots* of coverage from Fox News confirming that if you were watching Fox News on January 6 you fully understood how bad things were getting at the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org

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137/ It is pretty clear from Cipollone's testimony that there was only *one person* in the White House who did *not* want Donald Trump to tell the mob at the Capitol to disperse: Trump himself. — PolitiTweet.org

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136/ After the "stay" and "remain" tweets, Kushner and Ivanka and Hershmann and Cipollone and McEnany and Scavino and *many others* were telling Donald Trump he *still* needed to do something. Cipollone says that not a single person in the White House was telling Trump otherwise. — PolitiTweet.org

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135/ Now we see texts from Don Jr. and Sean Hannity to Meadows *imploring* him, in strong language, to get Trump to do something. It's remarkable how many people were telling Trump to do something—I don't think we can appreciate the sheer *volume* of them. Trump ignored them all. — PolitiTweet.org