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23/ There is also every reason to see the HJ6C hearings as the *most critical election coverage major media could offer to America*. Virtually every elected state and national Republican official has said they will support Trump if he is the 2024 nominee—which he is likely to be. — PolitiTweet.org

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22/ And needless to say the Dems didn't select vulnerable incumbents for the HJ6C. The 118th Congress starts on January 3, 2023; there's every reason to think the HJ6C will keep working through November and issue a final report by January 2, 2023—five and a half months from now. — PolitiTweet.org

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21/ The fact that one of the Republicans on the Committee (Kinzinger) is retiring and the other (Cheney) may lose her GOP primary in 4 weeks makes media think we're moving toward an end. But the opposite is true: neither of these Republicans have any impetus to hold back anymore. — PolitiTweet.org

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@johnnypolitic Agreed. — 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: 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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20/ So why has media sought to build a narrative that'd artificially *curtail* the HJ6C's work? There are many possible answers. The most likely: (a) media assumes the GOP will take the House in January 2023 and end the Committee; (b) media wants to move on to election coverage. — PolitiTweet.org

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19/ Importantly, the *Committee* never said today was the end. Indeed, the HJ6C initially said there'd be 5-6 hearings and all would be in June; we're in the second half of July and this is hearing #8—so media already should have realized how fluid the January 6 investigation is. — PolitiTweet.org

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18/ So the notion that today was the "end" of anything was always preposterous. The House January 6 Committee investigation is the largest, most consequential congressional investigation in U.S. history; under normal circumstances we'd expect it to continue for 2 or 3 years more. — PolitiTweet.org

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17/ And we just learned that Trump continues to commit crimes falling under his Conspiracy to Commit Election Fraud—for instance, within the last 10 days he called the top Republican in the Wisconsin Assembly to lean hard on him to "decertify" Biden's 2020 Wisconsin election win. — PolitiTweet.org

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16/ And as all this is ongoing, we have more and more evidence that Trump is committing the federal crime of witness tampering. Most recently, he called a witness who can testify before the HJ6C to corroborate former Meadows aide Cassidy Hutchinson's incredibly damning testimony. — PolitiTweet.org

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15/ We learned in the last few hours that the mass deletion of Secret Service texts covering January 5-6—done after *at least 4 warnings not to do so* from other federal entities—is now a *criminal* investigation. Ornato is unquestionably a leading witness and possibly a suspect. — PolitiTweet.org

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@LMarqusee Provide some but not all of the requested documents. Subpoenas are often for *both* testimony *and* documents. — PolitiTweet.org

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14/ Then we have witnesses who previously spoke to the Committee but may have lied or elided evidence in their testimony. Consider Tony Ornato—the ex-Trump Secret Service detail chief who joined Trump's political team and now appears to be under criminal investigation at the DHS. — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ Then there's someone like Mark Meadows, who partially complied with his subpoena and isn't being prosecuted for Criminal Contempt, but *is* widely believed—*even within Trumpworld*, per major-media reporting—to be likely to eventually be indicted for January 6-related crimes. — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ But remember that there are others still fighting the Committee. Steve Bannon and Peter Navarro have been indicted for Criminal Contempt for refusing to honor their subpoenas at all—even to take the 5th—and it's believed that Alex Jones and others are still fighting in court. — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ The number of Trumpworld witnesses taking the 5th—meaning they think if they answer questions honestly they may incriminate themselves—is startling. Jeffrey Clark, John Eastman, Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Garrett Ziegler, and Robert Patrick Lewis are a few in this category. — 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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10/ Every time the HJ6C interviews a new witness, it (a) increases the odds it'll go back to prior witnesses (remember that some witnesses, like Cassidy Hutchinson, have been spoken to five or more times), and (b) reveals—if someone takes the 5th—where the Committee should focus. — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ ...the Committee just interviewed two suspects in the potentially treasonous "December Conspiracy"—a December 2020 Trumpist plot to use the US Armed Forces to end American democracy—Patrick Byrne and Garrett Ziegler. Ziegler took the 5th, but Byrne may have answered questions. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ The need for more hearings has become clear by the fact that the HJ6C continues interviewing major witnesses, discovering new evidence, and opening new fronts in its January 6 investigation. Besides publicly leaving the door open to questioning Trump, Pence and Ginni Thomas... — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ According to Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), there may well be more hearings. And Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) made clear at the July 12 hearing that the Committee has much, *much* more information to reveal. So Americans should at this point *expect* there will be more HJ6C hearings. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-MS), the Committee chair, recently announced that the report the HJ6C issues in September will be a bare-bones "interim" report and that the Committee will continue working through the 2022 national elections. Meanwhile, we have news on *hearings*, too. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ When tonight's hearing was first announced, it was thought by many that (a) it'd be the last House January 6 Committee (HJ6C) hearing, (b) the HJ6C would be issuing its final report in September, and (c) the Committee was done with its investigative work. All of that is wrong. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ Before we can talk about the hearing coming up in 85 minutes—which will run about two hours, cover the 187 minutes during the January 6 riot when then-President Trump was AWOL, and feature at least two live witnesses—we have to discuss some new information about the Committee. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ PROOF also now offers an expansive House January 6 Committee archive for subscribers (🔐). It includes all PROOF HJ6C live threads—hundreds and hundreds of tweets in total—and all House January 6 Committee hearing videos in full. You can find it below. https://t.co/4tPMhQl2Xn — PolitiTweet.org

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