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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: 1/ At times I may make reference in this thread to evidence previously published in the nearly 200 reports on January 6 t… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m now live-tweeting today’s (Tuesday’s) 1PM ET House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m a lawyer, journa… — PolitiTweet.org
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80/ Kevin McCarthy called Hutchinson *furious* about Trump saying in his speech he was going up to the Capitol. He called in real time—right when Trump said it—saying "you promised me he wasn't going to do this, you lied to me. Do not come up here!" McCarthy knew the threat, too. — PolitiTweet.org
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79/ Trump only backed off his plan once he knew the Capitol was already being attacked—in other words, he was not needed to ensure that that would happen. — PolitiTweet.org
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78/ Cipollone agreed at the time. He told Hutchinson "inciting a riot" would be a charge faced by Trump if he went to the Capitol. Trump aide Max Miller is confirming Hutchinson’s account: Trump wanted to drive to the Capitol. Trump aide Nick Luna says Trump wanted to *march*. — PolitiTweet.org
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77/ Cipollone said the White House would be charged "with every crime imaginable" if Trump went to the Capitol. I want to state here that it is worse than that: had Trump gone to the Capitol he would have been leading an armed force in a hot civil war. A nightmare of nightmares. — PolitiTweet.org
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76/ Hutchinson is testifying about a conversation she had with White House Counsel Pat Cipollone about Trump going to the Capitol. Cipollone was trying to stop this from happening because of "serious legal concerns." Meadows appeared to be facilitating Trump going to the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org
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75/ Hutchinson is now confirming PROOF reporting that Trump *did plan to go to the Capitol* on January 6, which confirms his coordination with the Stop the Steal terrorists that Trump and his supporters have denied for months. All the PROOF reporting on this is confirmed by this. — PolitiTweet.org
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74/ Hutchinson is now testifying to desperate attempts to change Trump’s speech beforehand to exclude references he ultimately put back in—because he and others had been warned that there could be legal consequences for things he was planning to say about "fighting for me" (etc). — PolitiTweet.org
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73/ Meadows continued to ignore all warnings about potential violence. It is clear that he had resigned himself to the violence well in advance of it, presumably because he understood that this was the plan Trump and Giuliani had as to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers all along. — PolitiTweet.org
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72/ The Secret Service knew as the armed mob approached the Capitol that the Capitol defenders were undermanned. She’s saying that not only did Trump want armed insurrectionists marching on Congress but that the administration knew the Capitol wasn’t prepared for an armed attack. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
71/ Donald Trump wanted all the magnetometers removed so that more of the mob listening to his speech at a close distance would be holding AR-15s and pistols. Trump was angry that the armed people in the mob would not be able to get closer to him because of the "fucking mags." — PolitiTweet.org
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70/ I am speechless. This is a horrifying historic moment. — PolitiTweet.org
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69/ According to Hutchinson, Trump said he didn't care how many weapons the mob had "because they're not here to hurt me." He said they were there to march on Congress—with weapons—and that was fine with him. This is the biggest political bombshell America has ever heard. Ever. — PolitiTweet.org
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68/ Trump was merely "furious" about certain spaces not being full in the television "shot" that the news would show. Trump was angry that the Secret Service would not let in people with weapons. He told the USSS "take the fucking mags away"—he *wanted* armed people marching. — PolitiTweet.org
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67/ Hutchinson says that Meadows refused to act on any of the security threats he *and his boss*—Trump—had been told about. Anthony Ornato was telling Hutchinson that the reason some people would not get closer to Trump as he spoke was *they wanted to avoid the metal detectors*. — PolitiTweet.org
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66/ Hutchinson indicates that Meadows was clearly trying to ignore Ornato’s warnings—Meadows did not want to know about active threats throughout the Trump crowd. But (but!) Ornato *confirmed to Meadows* that he had told Trump about all of the security threats. Wow. Wow. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org
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65/ Hutchinson confirms that Ornato relayed to Meadows *before Trump spoke*—at 10AM on January 6—that "knives and guns and spears and flagpoles and bear spray and armor" were present throughout the crowd Trump was about to speak to. There is no way Trump was not told all of this. — PolitiTweet.org
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64/ The Secret Service audio from January 6—truly shocking—is being played. Security emergency after security emergency is being relayed throughout the Secret Service *hours before Trump spoke* due to men with pistols, AR-15, and ballistic equipment and armor. This is...insane. — PolitiTweet.org
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63/ OMG—the Secret Service confiscated *so many weapons* from the people it admitted to the White House Ellipse speech, knowing that *thousands* of people were in areas that didn’t require them to go through magnetometers. The Secret Service knew there were *AR-15s* in the crowd. — PolitiTweet.org
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62/ Ornato had "intel reports" about "potential violence" on January 6 that were distributed in the White House. On Insurrection Eve Ornato had further reports about weapons inside D.C. among January 6 protesters. It is clear that the *whole White House knew* violence was coming. — PolitiTweet.org
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61/ Hutchinson is confirming PROOF reports that Tony Ornato (former Secret Service, then made a political appointee atop White House security) had told Mark Meadows before January 6 that things would get violent on Capitol Hill on January 6. *Trump knew the violence was coming*. — PolitiTweet.org
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60/ Hutchinson said that "when [Trump’s personal lawyer] Giuliani was around" in the White House *pre-insurrection*, should would suddenly hear the phrases "Proud Boys" and "Oath Keepers" repeated frequently in conversation. Um... holy sh*t? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
59/ January 4 national security email from Deputy Acting AG Richard Donoghue: Trump intel apparatus knew that Trump supporters planned to occupy federal buildings and storm the Capitol on January 6. This information would have been widely known inside the White House. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
58/ When the nation’s chief national security official is warning people openly that things are about to "spiral out of control" and get "dangerous" and that Trump should "concede" the 2020 election, that should have terrified every single person in the Trump Administration. — PolitiTweet.org
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57/ Ratcliffe told Hutchinson he believed January 6 could "spiral out of control" and become "dangerous for our democracy." Ratcliffe was the head of intelligence for the Trump administration—a major national security player in Washington pre-insurrection. — PolitiTweet.org
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56/ Hutchinson said that after speaking to Meadows she was "scared and nervous" about January 6, even as Giuliani was very enthusiastic about what was going to happen. Cheney is now asking about a December 2020 conversation Hutchinson had with DNI Ratcliffe (former House member). — PolitiTweet.org
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55/ Giuliani told Hutchinson that January 6 would be great—that Trump would be going up to the Capitol in person. When she asked Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows (her boss) about it, Meadows warned Hutchinson that things could get "real, real bad" on January 6. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org
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54/ The Committee is establishing that Hutchinson’s daily office was *5-10 seconds away* from the Oval Office. Even closer to the Vice President’s Office, Kushner’s office, and—of course—Meadows’ office. Cheney has started her questions. And her first question is about Giuliani. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
53/ Thompson’s questions are intended to establish how central to the operation of the White House Hutchinson was. She says she was in contact with Meadows all day, every day. I am not yet sure who will be doing the "main" questioning, but likely not Thompson. — PolitiTweet.org
