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83/ As she tends to do—and as is wise—Cheney's summarizing past hearings. Now she's noting that the "angry, armed mob" was Trump's last chance to stay POTUS after all his failed plans of December 2020 and January 2021. She says we'll hear about what people were thinking that day. — PolitiTweet.org

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82/ Cheney shows a video of Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) damning Trump from the U.S. Senate floor on January 6. And she notes that McConnell said this having *none* of the even more damning evidence the Committee now has. She says we will now learn Trump's "motive" on January 6. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING NEWS/ As PROOF said would be the case almost two weeks ago, Rep. Cheney has now *confirmed*—explicitly and on the record—that there will be a new round of House January 6 Committee televised hearings in September. This is wonderful, wonderful news for all Americans. — PolitiTweet.org

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81/ Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is now speaking. She says Trump had a 7-step plan to overturn the November 2020 election, and tonight covers the seventh step. *But* she says that "the dam has begun to break...and we have far more evidence to share with the American people." — 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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80/ THOMPSON: "There needs to be accountability. Accountability under the law. Accountability to the American people....all the way up to the Oval Office." Thompson quotes a federal judge calling Trump's January 6 plot "a coup in search of a legal theory [to support it]." — PolitiTweet.org

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79/ Rep. Thompson says that this hearing will track what Trump was doing *and* show what was happening at the Capitol at the time. Thompson says the Committee will—after this hearing—"reconvene in September." CNN is reporting this as a sign more hearings are coming in September. — PolitiTweet.org

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78/ Thompson says that Trump was a flurry of *activity* pre-January 6, but *suddenly stopped doing anything* the moment the Capitol was under attack. He sat in his dining room ignoring even his daughter Ivanka's pleas, brushing off calls from frantic allies, and watching TV. — PolitiTweet.org

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77/ Rep. Thompson (D-MS) says Trump violated his Oath of Office. He "summoned" a mob to the Capitol and once there—and *he knew they were armed*—he told them to go to the U.S. Capitol and "fight like hell." There is no doubt the Committee believes Trump committed federal crimes. — PolitiTweet.org

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76/ The hearing has now been gaveled in. Rep. Thompson is providing an opening statement via video because of his COVID-19 diagnosis. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 4/ I expect everything we are about to hear from Pottinger and Matthews will be corroborated just as Hutchinson's testimony has been. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 3/ While there was never a reason to doubt Hutchinson—she had no reason to lie and appeared candid and credible and honest—it is useful to note that the attacks on her were all lies and have now been rebutted because of what's about to happen to Matthews. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 2/ The last few days have brought breaking news about the *corroboration* of Cassidy Hutchinson's testimony, including *two* Secret Service agents and at *least* one D.C. Metropolitan Police officer whose January 6 testimony corroborates key parts of it. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS/ DHS is looking at 24 USSS agents' phones as possible sites of January 6 evidence, including the head of VP Pence's security detail and Bobby Engel, the agent Trump allegedly assaulted on January 6. A brief note on Cassidy Hutchinson related to this news: — 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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75/ As historically shocking as the House January 6 Committee hearings have been, and as much as DOJ has already indicted well over 800 insurrectionists, what you have heard so far—if you've only watched the HJ6C hearings—is just the tip of the iceberg with respect to January 6. — PolitiTweet.org

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74/ The main thing I want to emphasize, as we are five minutes from the start of this hearing—which I will live-tweet—is something that both everyone on the House January 6 Committee *and* every January 6 historian understands: there is *so much more for Americans to learn here*. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 2/ This is big news because it raises many questions. Does Tony Ornato have a new lawyer? Or Bobby Engel? Are these lawyers connected to Trump—given Trump's long history of ensuring he has approved the lawyers of anyone who may have to lie to protect him? — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS/ Several Secret Service agents have retained private counsel now that the DHS investigation of the destruction of January 6 USSS texts—potentially covering Trump's employment of extremists to lead the January 6 march—has become a criminal probe. Big news. — PolitiTweet.org

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73/ But of course these HJ6C hearings are for the average American voter, who has had far too much going on to focus on January 6 with the same intensity as political journalists and Trump historians. To most Americans, the evidence that we hear today will be absolutely shocking. — PolitiTweet.org

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72/ ...of exactly what Trump wanted to see happen on January 6. In fact, PROOF published a twelve-point summary of Trump's Insurrection Day game-plan in March of 2021 that turned out to be dead on. All the evidence, then and now. pointed to a clear scheme: https://t.co/CslUOj4D9F — PolitiTweet.org

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71/ ...calling Tuberville himself, then having his lawyer John Eastman attempt to delay the joint session post-riot by *using the fact of the riot* as a claim that the 1887 Electoral Count Act had been violated, freeing Pence to willy-nilly reject electors—we have a good sense... — PolitiTweet.org

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70/ To those who've researched January 6 obsessively for 18 months now, much of this is unsurprising. Given that we already know Trump needed the riot to delay the joint session—even having Rudy Giuliani call Sen. Tuberville to demand a challenge to *10* states' electors, then... — PolitiTweet.org