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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
154/ Ayres says "everyone" who marched believed Trump was going to be marching with them. And he says he left the Capitol "right" when Trump tweeted out that people should leave. He said he would have left the Capitol earlier if Trump had tweeted that people should leave earlier. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
153/ This is interesting: Ayres did *not* go to the Ellipse planning to march to the Capitol. He said "I was basically just following what he [Trump] said" in going to the Capitol after Trump told the crowd to do so January 6. He said he believed the election could be overturned. — PolitiTweet.org
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152/ Ayres says Trump’s tweets/other far-right social media content convinced him to come to D.C. and made him believe the election was stolen. He now says he doubts it was stolen. He says he may not have come to DC if he knew Trump had no evidence of fraud despite saying he did. — PolitiTweet.org
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151/ Now Stephen Ayres is testifying. He is laying out that he was not always a political radical. He was, as he outlines it, just a regular guy. Ayres has not been sentenced yet, so this is very high-stakes testimony for him. He used to be a Trump supporter, but is not anymore. — PolitiTweet.org
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150/ Van Tatenhove says he left the Oath Keepers when he heard a group of them discussing, while they were all in a supermarket in Eureka, Montana, that the Holocaust—in their (white supremacist, anti-Semitic, deranged, far-right militant) view—never happened. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
150/ Van Tatenhove says he left the Oath Keepers when he heard a group of them discussing, while they were all in a supermarket in Eureka, Montana, that the Holocaust—in their (white supremacist, anti-Semitic, deranged, fa-right militant) view—never happened. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
149/ Jason van Tatenhove says the Oath Keepers’ vision *does not necessarily include* "rule of law", but definitely includes "lies, deceit, intimidation, and the perpetration of violence." This man is pulling no punches whatsoever. I do fear for his safety after this testimony. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
148/ He says during his time with the Oath Keepers they "drifted into white nationalism and...straight racism." He says the group is "very dangerous" and that Rhodes sees himself as a "paramilitary leader." — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
147/ Jason van Tatenhove is now describing how he got involved with the Oath Keepers and what they are—he admits the Oath Keepers are a "violent militia" and they are "largely Stewart Rhodes." He says the best expression of what the Oath Keepers are is "what we saw on January 6." — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
146/ The two live witnesses have now been sworn in. I mentioned previously (above in the thread) who the two witnesses are. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
145/ Incredibly damning words from a Trump campaign manager that will be written in the annals of history. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
144/ Text message post-attack from Brad Parscale to Katrina Pierson saying Trump was pushing for civil war in his speech and his rhetoric got Ashli Babbitt killed—that he felt guilty about helping Trump win election (Parscale was for a time Trump’s presidential campaign manager). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
143/ Trump made one planned reference to Pence *8*. Trump made one planned reference to the march *4*. He reduced the mentions of being peaceful and ad-libbed a big part of his speech—particularly the many references to "fighting" that PROOF and others identified in January 2021. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is of course free. If, as you follow along, you feel moved to use the tip jar in my bio (see the imag… — 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
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing from 1PM ET on. I’m an attorney, journ… — PolitiTweet.org
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142/ Trump single-handedly made his January 6 speech focus on Pence. He was angry—very, very angry—about a call he’d just had with Pence, in which Pence confirmed he was not going to help Trump steal the election. Now an Ivanka aide testifies to how angry Trump was at that point. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
141/ Now depo testimony from Miller—!—in which he admits that other Trump advisers wanted Trump to avoid mentioning Pence. Particularly Eric Hershmann of the White House Counsel's Office worked *successfully* to get the language about Pence *out*. Know who put it back in? Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
140/ Now we have a summary of how Trump kept editing his January 6 speech to make it more inciting. He did this with input—a 26-minute call—with... Stephen Miller. Miller! How *very* unsurprising. Trump and Miller conspired to put Pence’s name into the speech to inflame the mob. — PolitiTweet.org
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139/ Rep. Debbie Lesko (R-AZ)—GOP!—was asking for more security for the Capitol *on Insurrection Eve* because she acknowledged that Trump supporters would be coming *to the Capitol* the next day and when they realized the election would not be overturned they would all go "nuts." — PolitiTweet.org
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138/ This is all just really scary stuff, folks. If you are watching and listening, you know. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
137/ The aforementioned TWITTER WHISTLEBLOWER said he was certain "people would be shooting at each other" in D.C. the following day because of what Twitter was seeing on its platform. Again, all of this is just the tip of the iceberg, as PROOF (and now Rep. Raskin) has now said. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
136/ Trump responded to what he was hearing by tweet, saying, "we hear you from the Oval Office"—directly addressing the crowd and its energy. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
135/ It’s being implied here that Trump may even have been able to *hear*, through an open door between the Oval Office and the Rose Garden, some of the violent, inciting rhetoric coming from the January 5 Stop the Steal event (e.g. Stone, Alexander, Jones, and Flynn). Wow. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
134/ Trump was obsessed with the crowd’s size, energy, volume. He was clearly asking his aides how he could harness the crowd to coerce members of Congress. The Committee is now playing video from the January 5 Freedom Plaza event that PROOF has been writing about for 18 months. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
133/ Matthews said Trump asked staff on Insurrection Eve what he could do to "make the RINOs do the right thing" the next day. It was clear aides wanted him to just give a speech about his policy accomplishments on January 6... but Trump wanted more. More... involving the crowd. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
132/ Several Trump aides are now testifying via depo about how visibly excited Trump was while hearing the Freedom Plaza/Ellipse crowd on Insurrection Eve. Sarah Matthews said Trump was in a "very good," even "fantastic" mood that night after *not* being in a good mood for weeks. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
131/ Trump spoke to Bannon twice on January 5—Insurrection Eve. And it was after the first call that Bannon announced that "all hell would break loose" on January 6 and that it would be surprising to everyone exactly how things would play out. But apparently not Trump or Bannon. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
130/ Rep. Murphy notes that a federal judge has already held it is "more likely than not" Eastman and Trump participated in a criminal conspiracy—one of many reasons a recent NYT article saying that DOJ has not yet moved to openly discussing a criminal probe of Trump is amazing. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
129/ Cipollone says he made clear to everyone in the White House that he did not believe Pence had the ability to do anything but what he actually did on January 6. So Trump knew the White House Counsel’s Office did not support Eastman’s "nutty" constitutional law theories. — PolitiTweet.org
