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95/ Folks, I am struggling to keep up. So many bombshells. Trump was like an octopus with his tentacles *directly* in all of this. *Many* GOP members of Congress had their tentacles in this. And Trump was working with his allies to hatch so many schemes: a Special Counsel one... — PolitiTweet.org

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94/ So Trump was pressing Engel to get DOJ to let a *state Attorney General* investigate the election on behalf of DOJ. Oh God... remember that the Republican Attorneys General Association helped set up the events of January 6. This conspiracy is so complicated and encompassing. — PolitiTweet.org

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93/ This new lawsuit intended to be filed by and "as" DOJ was created by... unnamed *outside parties*. Everyone see where this is going? Some group outside government created a lawsuit intended to go before Clarence Thomas. If Ginni Thomas knew about any of this... holy ****. — PolitiTweet.org

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92/ Kinzinger has turned to Steven Engel from the Office of Legal Counsel. Apparently Trump sent a draft lawsuit to Engel to have him, Rosen, and Cipollone have the DOJ file the lawsuit with the *Supreme Court*. Trump wanted to go right... to the *SCOTUS*. Where *Thomas* was. — PolitiTweet.org

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91/ The hearing has now resumed. I want to remind everyone that Trump was involved—directly and personally and by phone and sometimes in person—at every single stage of the Eastman-Klukowski-Clark plot that Groundswell’s Blackwell was trying to aid behind the scenes. — PolitiTweet.org

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90/ To be very clear here, I *don’t* mean Wood did anything wrong(!), I mean that he cannot credibly be a lead investigator for the House January 6 Committee if they are shortly going to set their sights directly on Ginni Thomas, as all the evidence suggests they are going to do. — PolitiTweet.org

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89/ Remember that Republican attorney John Wood—a former Clarence Thomas clerk, member of the Thomas Clerk World listserv, and an investigator for the House January 6 Committee—just unexpectedly left the HJ6C. The Post says he may run for Senate—but I think it’s more complicated. — PolitiTweet.org

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88/ This story is way wilder than I thought, I must admit. PROOF hasn’t focused on the DOJ angle of the coup, but I *know* that a lot of what we’re learning right now—especially about Klukowski, Perry, and Blackwell—has not been reported before. This is bombshell after bombshell. — PolitiTweet.org

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87/ OK, more on Ken Klukowski: this John Eastman associate shows up suddenly as a new Jeffrey Clark deputy at DOJ on December 15th, 2020; he had co-written "the letter" with Clark (again, I suspect with aid from Eastman and Giuliani); and he began rogue investigations with 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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86/ You are going to have to Google this to understand that I am right when I say it, but Kenneth Blackwell is the man who stole the 2004 presidential election for Bush—*single-handedly*. I cut my teeth in political journalism researching the actions of Kenneth Blackwell in 2004. — PolitiTweet.org

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85/ 🤯 — PolitiTweet.org

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84/ So Clark got raided by the FBI today; *everyone* agrees the Eastman-Klukowski-Clark plot was aided by Donald Trump and Rep. Perry and was a *criminal* plot; and we now have Ken Blackwell trying to aid the plot behind the scenes as he was part of *Ginni Thomas’s* Groundswell. — PolitiTweet.org

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83/ We are now in a 10-minute recess. I wonder how many major-media journalists now discussing the HJ6C hearing realize how close we just came to Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’s wife Ginni Thomas being directly implicated in a criminal conspiracy on national television. — PolitiTweet.org

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82/ Clark recruited another lawyer at DOJ (Ken Klukowski [ph]) who had worked with Eastman to help him. OMG—we now have a letter from Ken Blackwell, of Ginni Thomas’s Groundswell group, supporting the Eastman-Klukowski-Clark plot. I told you we’re coming closer to Ginni Thomas. — PolitiTweet.org

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81/ On January 2, 2021, Donoghoe and Jeffrey Clark had yet *another* "highly confrontational" meeting. Clark was spouting insane conspiracy theories and responded to claims he was meddling in an election that "many people have meddled in this election." Scary, unhinged stuff. — PolitiTweet.org

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80/ But Clark did not relent. Why? It’s clear: he had the support of Trump and Perry. So Clark started secretly "conducting investigations of his own"—and got DNI to brief him on "foreign election interference" (the obsession of Team Kraken; there’s a much longer story here). — PolitiTweet.org

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79/ At a face-to-face meeting immediately thereafter with Rosen and Donoghoe and Clark, Donoghoe told Clark (on December 28) to his face, "what you are doing is nothing less than the United States Justice Department meddling in the outcome of a presidential election." — PolitiTweet.org

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78/ Donoghoe says the letter would’ve had "grave consequences" for America and could’ve "spiralled us into a constitutional crisis" because a) it was NOT the DOJ role to ever send a letter like that, b) the letter did NOT reflect *anything* DOJ had ever found about the election. — PolitiTweet.org

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77/ So Trump had mentioned Clark to Donoghoe, and then Perry mentioned Clark to Donoghoe, then Clark sent his "letter" to Donoghoe and Rosen on December 28 (2020) asking them to send the election-tampering letter—falsely claiming election fraud—to officials in Georgia. — 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

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

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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76/ This is insane. Perry then called Donoghoe (the deputy acting AG) saying he did not trust the FBI and there needed to be a new, special investigation of election fraud in Pennsylvania (apparently the same BS claim Trump had spoken to Donoghoe about earlier; total nonsense). — PolitiTweet.org

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75/ Now we have December 26 (2020) texts from Perry to Meadows telling Meadows he must get Trump to put Clark in at DOJ in a position where he can run elections investigations. (Remember, Clark had no experience at all with any of this—he is an environmental lawyer.) — PolitiTweet.org

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74/ Apparently the *White House* also has a policy making the Trump-Clark meeting a major violation and unauthorized. Wow. And a legislative branch employee—Perry—helped make it happen. This in itself was a major scandal. Cipollone told Clark this was a *White House* violation. — PolitiTweet.org

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73/ We now find that Clark went to a secret meeting in the White House in December—in the Oval Office—at Perry’s invitation. The meeting was unauthorized, and Clark hid it from acting AG Rosen after the fact. DOJ has a policy making this White House meeting a major violation. — PolitiTweet.org

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72/ Giuliani, in a depo, says they wanted "someone who wasn't going to be worried about what would happen to their reputation [if they aided Trump]." A Meadows aide, in depo, says Perry pointed them to Clark. — PolitiTweet.org