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71/ Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) apparently helped Trump and Giuliani select Clark—an environmental lawyer!—for their coup plot inside DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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70/ Holy cow! First mention of the big December 21—2020—meeting in the Oval Office with Trump’s congressional allies. PROOF has talked about this a lot. Greene, Gohmert, Gaetz, Jordan, Hice, Perry, all the insurrectionists were there. Wow, the HJ6C is really going after Congress. — PolitiTweet.org

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69/ It should be understood that *all* these conversations were inappropriate. Trump was a candidate in the election and he was directly pressuring top DOJ officials to bring a cause of action (and/or investigations) on his behalf *and* step on states’ rights to do so—incredible. — PolitiTweet.org

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68/ Donoghoe is making very clear that DOJ *never* found any fraud that would even come *close* to changing the result in any state. (To be clear, Donoghoe was in the Oval on December 15; in calls with Trump after; and the big historic Rosen-Clark meeting was on January 3, 2021.) — PolitiTweet.org

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67/ Critically, Trump wanted Big Government to step on the faces of states’ rights; states get to run their own elections, but *Trump* wanted *DOJ* to decide how states should run elections. This goes against *everything* the party Trump was then leading stood for. *Incredible*. — PolitiTweet.org

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66/ Donoghoe is giving the example of Trump claiming "200,000" (or "250,000") votes were counted in Pennsylvania that were never cast. Donoghoe had never even *heard* of this allegation before. — PolitiTweet.org

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65/ And he is emphasizing that DOJ *did* investigate all these allegations, so when it knocked them down it explained *exactly* to Trump how they were knocked down. Donoghoe says not a *single* Trump allegation—I emphasize here, not *one*—was ever found at *all* credible by DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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64/ DOJ *immediately* knocked down every pile of BS Trump threw at the wall. Every single one. Trump only got more and more incensed. Donoghoe is emphasizing that the ASOG report on Antrim County wasn’t just wrong but *wildly*—almost *comically*—false. Football fields from sane. — PolitiTweet.org

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63/ Donoghoe is testifying that Trump appeared to have a bottomless "arsenal" of conspiracy theory allegations. Donoghoe said "there were a lot of people whispering in his ear, feeding him conspiracy theories." He knocked down every single one in 90 minutes (Rosen took 2 hours). — PolitiTweet.org

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62/ This is *by far* the most direct accusation the Committee has ever made against sitting members of Congress. It’s on, apparently. — PolitiTweet.org

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61/ Videos are being shown of a Fox News host, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ), Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) , Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) and Trump falsely telling America there was fraud after they knew DOJ had found *none*. — PolitiTweet.org

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60/ DOJ never found any information whatsoever to confirm the claims made by ASOG, which was working hand in glove (I am saying this now, based on my research at PROOF) with Trump’s legal team (e.g., Giuliani, Eastman, and Powell). — PolitiTweet.org

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59/ On December 15, Donoghoe was called to the White House with others to discuss a recent report from the Mike Flynn-affiliated, Dallas-based, far-right Allied Security Operations Group claiming fraud in Michigan. Trump claimed to be certain that ASOG had found election fraud. — PolitiTweet.org

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58/ Former AG Rosen is saying that Trump kept asking him to meet with Rudy Giuliani and insisted he wanted to appoint a special counsel for the 2020 election (eventually he would consider Sidney Powell for this and, according to her, even tell her that she had *gotten that job*). — PolitiTweet.org

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57/ (The "reasonable person" standard can stop a criminal defendant from claiming "earnest belief" under the "willful ignorance" legal doctrine.) — PolitiTweet.org

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56/ Thompson, in his questioning, is doing a good job of reminding America that *at all times* Trump knew—had been told—that he lost the election and that there was no systemic fraud, and that information *never* stopped him from claiming otherwise (unlike any reasonable person). — 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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55/ The three witnesses listed early in this thread have just been sworn in. — PolitiTweet.org

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54/ Trump was advised—to his face—that if he took that action he’d face resignations at DOJ. (And it soon became clear it would be the biggest mass exodus from DOJ, from offices *all across the country*, any president in history had faced. Trump apparently wasn’t expecting this.) — PolitiTweet.org

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53/ ...and asked the men before him (Rosen and Donoghoe) what they would do if he replaced Rosen with Clark. Again, *nothing* he was hearing *in the room* was pointing to that course of action, but the whole event had been staged—it appears—so Trump could fire Rosen in this way. — PolitiTweet.org

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52/ Cipollone was also there, and Eric Hershmann. They *all told Trump* that Clark was not qualified to be AG and Cipollone said the "letter" Clark had was a "murder/suicide pact" that would destroy the professional life of anyone who touched it. But Trump was "intrigued"... — PolitiTweet.org

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51/ Keep in mind this was in a sense staged: Trump would’ve known about this letter, and Clark, and how the letter was created (apparently with aid of Giuliani/Eastman). Trump had staged a play in which there’d be a DOJ coup. But everyone else in the room attacked Clark directly. — PolitiTweet.org

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50/ This Oval Office meeting has to be one of the most historic in history. Clark was there, and Trump, and Rosen, and Rosen’s deputy Donoghoe, and several other lawyers. Clark was pitching *himself* to take over for Rosen—a DOJ coup—using the "letter" he’d written to aid Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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49/ Now we get video from Trump lawyer Eric Hershmann—a *pro-MAGA guy*—saying that he told Clark to his face that if he became AG and did what he planned his *first* act would be a federal felony. Now we see a video dramatizing the Oval Office meeting about possibly firing Rosen. — PolitiTweet.org

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48/ In his opening statement, Rep. Kinzinger (R-IL) is playing video of Democratic and GOP Attorneys General at their nomination hearings outlining how AGs *must* be independent from the White House. Kinzinger is comparing this to Jeffrey Clark’s criminality as a prospective AG. — PolitiTweet.org

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47/ Trump told Rosen to "just call the election corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressman." Trump knew at the time that the election was free and fair and that he had *lost*. He was *clearly* saying that GOP elected officials would help him perfect his coup. — PolitiTweet.org

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46/ Note that former federal prosecutor Barb McQuade has said on MSNBC that if Rosen had been fired, *100+ top federal prosecutors*—US attorneys and leading AUSAs—were going to resign their jobs immediately in what would’ve been the most historic revolt by lawyers in US history. — PolitiTweet.org

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45/ Now stunning deposition video from former AG Bill Barr saying that if this Trump-Clark plot at DOJ had succeeded, "I'm not sure we would have had a transition [to a Biden administration] at all." — PolitiTweet.org