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121/ Then-Acting AG Rosen is detailing what he did on January 6. He was a Cabinet-level official and he was in touch with Pelosi, McCarthy, Schumer, McConnell’s chief of staff, many members of Congress, and other Cabinet heads. They were telling him that the situation was dire. — PolitiTweet.org

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120/ We are now getting excerpts from Trump’s January 6 "incitement-to-insurrection" speech in which Trump repeats all the lies he had been told for *weeks* by DOJ were lies. — PolitiTweet.org

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119/ Donald Trump called Donoghue that night (January 4, 2021) giving him "new" information about "shredded ballots" in Georgia. This—I know from my PROOF research—was now coming from Trump’s Willard Hotel Insurrection Week "war room" (Giuliani, Eastman, Oltmann, Bobb, et. al.). — PolitiTweet.org

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118/ It’s at this point that White House Counsel Pat Cipollone told Trump the "Georgia letter" and installing Clark at AG was a "murder-suicide pact." Trump was told that Clark would preside over a "graveyard"—an empty DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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117/ It appears the only thing that stopped Trump was that Donoghue told Trump, "You’re going to lose your entire Department leadership." Donoghue then described for Trump a *total collapse of the Department of Justice across the entire United States*. Read that sentence twice. — PolitiTweet.org

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116/ *No one* in the room supported Clark’s takeover. But Trump said, "What do I have to lose?" — PolitiTweet.org

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115/ So then-President Donald Trump said to the room, "What do I have to lose?" Absolutely chilling that he even said this. He had no thought of the country or the rule of law whatsoever. Trump was being told how dangerous this would be and how *unqualified Clark was* to be AG. — PolitiTweet.org

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114/ Testimony now about what happened in that January 4 hearing in the Oval. Clark spread all his conspiracy theories and they were all batted down—with evidence. Then the conversation turned to replacing Rosen with Clark, which everyone knew meant "the letter" would go out. — PolitiTweet.org

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113/ I haven’t said it yet but will say it now: all three of these witnesses are extremely professional and credible. And they are all ardent Republicans. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m now live-tweeting today’s (Thursday’s) 3PM ET House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m a lawyer, journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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112/ OMG, by January 3 the White House was already calling Clark "the acting Attorney General." Clark was in regular contact with Trump the weekend before January 6. The January 4 hearing was angry and *everyone* was fully against the plot hatched by Trump and Clark. *Everyone*. — PolitiTweet.org

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111/ Donoghue helped Rosen find out what the AAGs (Assistant AGs) would do if Trump fired Rosen and replaced him with Clark. Donoghue said they had a few minutes to tell him and Rosen what they’d do. They needed this info to present to Trump on Monday. All said they would resign. — PolitiTweet.org

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110/ Imagine trying to condense a scandal five times worse than Watergate into a single congressional hearing. That is this hearing. — PolitiTweet.org

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109/ Clark comes off as a madman in this hearing, quite honestly. So do Trump and even Meadows, not to mention Perry, Eastman, and Klukowski. I do not know where we would be without Rosen, Donoghue, and Engel. This hearing is absolutely astonishing me. I mean... my God. — PolitiTweet.org

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108/ The hearing is now covering the flurry of phone calls in advance of the Monday, January 4 (2021) meeting—48 hours before the attack on the Capitol—at which Trump planned to fire Rosen and install Clark. — PolitiTweet.org

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107/ Apologies, I have been misspelling "Donoghue." Will stop doing so. — PolitiTweet.org

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106/ Jeffrey Clark had sworn to AG Rosen that he would have no secret contact with Trump. But he had continued doing so. It is now clear that he maintained this contact *because Trump was dangling the AG position in front of him* to get him to violate White House and DOJ policy. — PolitiTweet.org

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105/ The weekend before January 6, Trump was working on replacing the AG (Rosen) and replacing him with Clark. Rosen tried to talk sense into Clark—who maintained a belief in conspiracy theories, though he had no evidence to support them. He revealed he was in contact with Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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104/ OMG... Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller actually *reached out to Italy’s government via an attache* to try to investigate this insane Italian conspiracy theory. Again, Congress should be asking which "intel" people were feeding this to Trump. I am pretty sure I know. — PolitiTweet.org

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103/ OMG... now Kash Patel, from the Pentagon, is getting involved, asking Donoghoe about the Italy conspiracy theory. Jesus... these coup conspirators had brought the *Pentagon* in their plotting. (We will learn, soon I think, who was doing "intel" work for Trump’s legal team). — PolitiTweet.org

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102/ Donoghoe called the video he was sent "pure insanity." — PolitiTweet.org

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101/ Perry was sending crazy conspiracy theories to Mark Meadows, who then sent them to Rosen, who sent them to Donoghoe. We are watching a video describing the conspiracy theory... it is too insane for me to even live-tweet. It involves Italy, MI6, the CIA, and the U.S. embassy. — PolitiTweet.org

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100/ On January 1, 2021, Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows sent a message to Rosen telling him to send Clark to Georgia to investigate Fulton County. This is batsh*t. Rosen said that message made it clear to him that Trump was getting closer and closer to just installing Clark. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is of course free. If, as you follow it from now until 5:30PM, you feel moved to use the tip jar in m… — PolitiTweet.org

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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

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m now live-tweeting today’s (Thursday’s) 3PM ET House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m a lawyer, journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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99/ Trump apparently *ordered* the Department of Homeland Security to seize voting machines—directly ordered Ken Cuccinelli, head of DHS. OMG. This is f*cking terrifying. That would have plunged us into autocracy. DOJ had never told Trump that DHS could seize voting machines. — PolitiTweet.org

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98/ Seizing voting machines is what Team Kraken had demanded on December 18 during its secret three-hour meeting at the White House with Trump in the Oval Office and then the Presidential Residence (I did a viral thread on this recently many of you will have seen). — PolitiTweet.org

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97/ All these plots were being held back by 3 men: Rosen, Donoghoe and Engel. Today’s three witnesses. So on January 3, Trump threatened to clean house at DOJ completely. But first Trump held a December 31 (2020) meeting where he was angry and wanted to *seize voting machines*. — PolitiTweet.org

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96/ ...involving Sidney Powell; a state Attorney General one that I imagine would have involved Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton; the Eastman-Klukowski-Clark plot to send the "Georgia letter"... My God. Our Department of Justice was under major attack from *so many directions*. — PolitiTweet.org