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45/ I've no doubt the Trumpists are worried about Matthews. When former Trump adviser (and white supremacist) Garrett Ziegler recently called Cassidy Hutchinson and Alyssa Farah "hoes and thots" he was likely also presaging the Trumpist counterattack against Matthews. Here's why: — PolitiTweet.org

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44/ But we will *also* hear testimony today—which could be just as damaging—from former Trump Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Matthews, who like Pottinger resigned on January 6, 2021, but also like Pottinger was considered a loyal Trumpist. She has called January 6 a "coup attempt." — PolitiTweet.org

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43/ If Matthew Pottinger does have firsthand information about the things Trump said and did on January 6—as he well might, as he was a member of Trump's National Security Council—his testimony could be the most damning ever issued against a former President of the United States. — PolitiTweet.org

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42/ The ability of Trump and his minions to say Pottinger is a "Never Trumper" is zero. The ability of Trump and his minions to say Pottinger wasn't in the room where key decisions were made is zero. Frankly the ability for Trump and his minions to discredit him at *all* is zero. — PolitiTweet.org

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41/ Pottinger was hired by (and has co-authored at least one critical intelligence document with)...Michael Flynn. Not only was he a top intel official, not only was he a MAGA guy in good standing, but he arguably helped co-author Trump's virulently anti-China political rhetoric. — PolitiTweet.org

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40/ One of the two known live witnesses tonight, former Trump Deputy National Security Advisor Matthew Pottinger, is the highest-ranking Trump official ever to testify against him live. Pottinger spent four years—until his resignation on January 6, 2021—in the Trump White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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39/ All this said, because tonight is indeed the last in *this* run of hearings—technically the third such run after one in 2021 and one last month—the Committee has chosen to focus on January 6, 2021 itself and, even more than this, on the timeframe of the Capitol attack itself. — PolitiTweet.org

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38/ But that just isn't so. The "coup at the DOJ" HJ6C hearing focused on January 3-4 of 2021, while the most *recent* HJ6C hearing focused on December 18, 2020. So in reality, the hearings have been *topic-based* and will likely continue to be, with many key topics yet to cover. — PolitiTweet.org

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37/ Those seeking to bend over backwards to be fair to a pretty persistently irresponsible contemporary corporate media sphere might say that media thinks this is the last HJ6C hearing because the hearings have thus far been *sort of* chronological—and we are now up to January 6. — PolitiTweet.org

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36/ (I should add that Raskin made a great point last week: even the stunning evidence America has seen across seven HJ6C hearings so far is only *some* of the evidence the Committee has. So future hearings *already* have a massive stock of withheld evidence that they can share.) — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 2/ We already knew we'd be seeing a lot of footage from former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, but now we see video from former Trump White House Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany *and others* saying Trump spent January 6 watching TV in his dining room. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS/ Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), a former Air Force pilot who will be one of the two people conducting the questioning today with Rep. Elaine Luria (R-VA)—a former Navy Commander—has released some new deposition footage as a "tease" of tonight's HJ6C hearing. — PolitiTweet.org

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35/ It's against this backdrop that the HJ6C continues fighting in court to access new witnesses, interviews key witnesses like Byrne, continues contemplating subpoenaing other witnesses of great import, and holds tonight what's likely *not* the last of its summer 2022 hearings. — PolitiTweet.org

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34/ So for all that the HJ6C and DOJ have butted heads on occasion while the HJ6C is in the midst of its work, the end of that work for now—*should* it come in early January—will result in the remainder of the HJ6C work-product going to DOJ *and* media turning its focus to DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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33/ With DOJ now having charged ~25 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers with Seditious Conspiracy, it appears prepared—admittedly, 18 months tardy—to move to the echelon of coup plotters *above* these men. In other words, Trumpworld. By January, DOJ will have been at it for half a year. — PolitiTweet.org

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33/ With DOJ now having charged ~25 Proud Boys and Oath Keepers with Seditious Conspiracy, it appears prepared—admittedly, 18 months tardy—to move to the echelon of coup plotters *above* these men. In other words, Trumpworld. — PolitiTweet.org

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32/ Indeed, *if* America for some reason votes an insurrectionist bloc back into power in November, those who helped enable before-the-fact—and/or cover up after-the-fact—the crimes of January 6 will take it as cause for celebration. But it will just be the start of a new stage. — PolitiTweet.org

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31/ We know from Attorney General Merrick Garland himself that he and his top prosecutors are watching these hearings—*and* learning from them. Which makes it doubly abominable that there have been efforts in major media to prematurely force the HJ6C probe to a close this month. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS 2/ PROOF previously revealed that insurrectionist Rep. Andrew Clyde (R-GA)—who infamously called the Capitol attackers "tourists"—is on video frantically stacking chairs to block a door at the Capitol on January 6. So I'd expect content along those lines. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS/ As readers of this feed and of PROOF know, I will always break a thread for breaking news. It appears part of the hearing tonight will focus on the cowardice and lies of GOP lawmakers who now claim that January 6 was no big deal. https://t.co/pLn3RXxiE9 — 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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30/ While I've been as critical of the slow pace of the DOJ investigation as anyone—there are many investigative maneuvers DOJ should have made 18 months ago, and its investigative strategy is beyond blinkered—the moment November passes DOJ can pick up any slack left by the HJ6C. — PolitiTweet.org

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29/ ...say in its report that i) it still had work to do when it was disbanded by GOP members the report calls Trump January 6 compatriots or co-conspirators, ii) note—as did Mueller—that evidence it needed was criminally destroyed, tampered with or artificially made unavailable. — PolitiTweet.org

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28/ And if the Dems keep the House in November—a long-shot but not an impossibility—the Committee will continue on. But even if the Committee ends its work by January 2, 2023, it will surely either (a) not disband until the GOP shows its hand and destroys it brazenly, and (b)... — PolitiTweet.org

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27/ In other words Trump has *already* declared January 6 a political issue. So if Trump is going to make the 2020 election a big part of his 2024 campaign, and if Trump is going to call any prosecution of him a partisan act, voters *must* know the *real* facts of the case *now*. — PolitiTweet.org

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26/ But it's more than this. Recent breaking news revealed that Trump is—as many of us have said for some time—planning to run because he believes DOJ will be unwilling to charge him if he's an active candidate, and/or he'll have an easier time framing a prosecution as political. — PolitiTweet.org

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25/ We're past the point at which any American can pretend that voting Republican this fall is *anything* but voting for Republicans—and a Republican Congress—that will try to re-install the traitorous Trump in the White House. So voters *need* to know the crimes Trump committed. — PolitiTweet.org

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24/ Trump recently confirmed in a magazine interview that he's running for POTUS in 2024—and may even announce his run formally in the next few weeks. While he is neck-and-neck with Ron DeSantis in a couple polls (NH, MI), nationally he's up on him by 30 points among Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org