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44/ Trump initially worked with Clark to try to *cajole* acting AG Rosen into signing the letter Clark (likely with aid from Giuliani and Eastman) had written; when that failed, *that* was when Trump was about to fire Rosen and replace him with Clark—to get that letter sent out. — PolitiTweet.org

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43/ The letter would’ve *advised* GOP-led state legislatures to open special sessions. Cheney indicates that Giuliani and Eastman appeared to have helped draft the letter Clark was going to send to battleground states after Trump had installed him as AG (following firing Rosen). — PolitiTweet.org

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42/ Cheney says Clark and Trump conspired to create a letter—a letter in which DOJ falsely declared fraud in the 2020 election—that they would then send to state legislatures to try to get those legislatures to *decertify* Biden’s win. Trump and Clark knew the letter was a lie. — PolitiTweet.org

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41/ Stunning! Cheney just clearly said the RNC *conspired with Trump* in his "fake-elector" scheme. She is saying that the Republican Party as an *institution* was a coup co-conspirator. No wonder Republicans are trying to destroy her career and crazies are threatening her life. — PolitiTweet.org

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40/ Cheney is noting in *her* opening statement that *much* more evidence is coming in hearings, *and* that the ultimate HJ6C report will have evidence we don’t get in the hearings. She’s summarizing all Trump’s misconduct—even going back to his post-election fundraising scam. — PolitiTweet.org

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39/ Powell has since admitted in court filings that no reasonable person should have listened to anything she ever said about the election (yes—feel free to look it up on Google). Trump almost made her the most powerful lawyer in America because his DOJ plot had failed miserably. — PolitiTweet.org

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38/ While it won’t be part of today, a reason Trump almost appointed Sidney Powell a special prosecutor *in the White House Counsel’s office* is because he was failing to get DOJ to do as he wanted. So when the plot we’ll hear of today failed, Trump flirted with the unimaginable. — PolitiTweet.org

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37/ Thompson begins by speaking of Trump’s "pressure campaign" on DOJ. The Committee seems to *like* this term: "pressure campaign." I do not. I know the HJ6C doesn’t want to tread on DOJ’s toes, but it previously used the term "conspiracy"—and that was *exactly* the right term. — PolitiTweet.org

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36/ Jeffrey Clark was *recruited* by outside parties to be a stooge. And I wonder who did that recruiting. Was Ginni Thomas—Trump’s presidential adviser, and scout for legal talent—involved? I imagine that is being looked into also. Rep. Thompson just gaveled in today’s hearing. — PolitiTweet.org

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35/ In Proof of Corruption—my book on Trump-Ukraine—I reported that Trump tried to use his criminal co-conspirators to run a State Department *outside the State Department* but with presidential authority. Trump was impeached for it. Here, he tried to do the same thing with DOJ. — PolitiTweet.org

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34/ As you watch today’s hearing, consider that Trump has complained for years about a "Deep State" that allegedly exists within the federal government, particularly DOJ and the State Department. It *doesn’t* exist—but in *this* scandal, Trump was trying to *build* a Deep State. — 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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33/ Which brings us back to today—and the hearing that’s about to start. The Committee, because of political exigencies and the artificial timeline of the 2022 national elections, is going to try to summarize a Watergate-level sub-scandal in two hours. An impossible task, really. — PolitiTweet.org

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32/ ...and that’s just a start. Remember, Benghazi—an investigation about a non-scandal (albeit a series of tragic deaths)—took *two and a half years* of investigation to reach a conclusion. Were the GOP not possibly about to take the House, the HJ6C would be working for 5 years. — PolitiTweet.org

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31/ We have already had a *number* of HJ6C hearings—all of them explosive—and entire topics have barely been mentioned even a single time: Stop the Steal; the Oath Keepers; Women for America First; the Pentagon; Roger Stone’s fundraising; Trump’s January 2 conference call... — PolitiTweet.org

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30/ I note this because some Americans many wrongly think this delay is somehow a sign of a problem; it’s not. It’s a great thing that the hearings will unfold over a longer period of time—and with more of them than we originally thought—and with even more evidence than expected. — PolitiTweet.org

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29/ For ratings purposes, major media wanted these hearings to be the climax of a congressional investigation; meanwhile, PROOF was writing that the coup conspiracy was so vast and complex that there is *no way* all the evidence could be in by June. And PROOF was correct in this. — PolitiTweet.org

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28/ ...the reason for this appears to be in part because new evidence is coming in to the Committee every day. This is consistent with what PROOF has reported ever since we knew these hearings were happening: they do *not* represent the end but the *middle* of an investigation. — PolitiTweet.org

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27/ ...including testimony from a documentary filmmaker with privileged access to Trump and his family before and after January 6 who testified before the Committee today—thus the late start today—so while we’re getting a two-week-plus delay between this hearing and the next... — PolitiTweet.org

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26/ So let’s look at the broader context for this hearing: (1) violent threats against HJ6C members are exponentially increasing, as Trump rages uselessly online and the GOP has no real response to any of the evidence against him; (2) the HJ6C is getting *tons* of new evidence... — PolitiTweet.org

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25/ Once Barr—who’d surprisingly blocked the statement Trump wanted from the DOJ after being Trump’s loyal stooge for years—was gone, and Biden’s victory certified at the state level, chaos ensued. And Trump’s Watergate-like plot coincided with this late-December backroom mayhem. — PolitiTweet.org

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24/ Barr had announced he was leaving DOJ in mid-December—right around the time Biden’s landslide victory was certified by all 50 states and DC. It was right after this point that Trump, Team Kraken, Stop the Steal, the Proud Boys, and the Oath Keepers got angry and desperate. — PolitiTweet.org

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23/ In any case, if you’re wondering why today’s hearing was initially scheduled for last week, it’s almost certainly because the HJ6C wanted to show how Trump got more and more desperate as the part of his coup plot he thought he had absolute control over failed during December. — PolitiTweet.org

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22/ Many of us who are at once journalists, lawyers and former investigators have long said the issue isn’t the pace of DOJ indictments but DOJ *investigations*. Investigations have a clear time-value—you have to move fast. DOJ has moved at a *glacial* place and it’s inexcusable. — PolitiTweet.org

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21/ This raid should have happened almost a year and a half ago. The subpoenas for fake electors should have been sent almost a year and a half ago. In the interim, witnesses could synchronize stories, destroy evidence, "forget" things in a way that cannot be gainsaid, and so on. — PolitiTweet.org

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20/ But it is also bad news—or, rather, a bad *sign*—because it is the *second* time this week that DOJ has taken an investigative action only at or around the time Congress began discussing an issue in public (the other is the fake-elector plot). Why is DOJ waiting for Congress? — PolitiTweet.org

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19/ It’s both good news and bad news that the FBI did this today. It is good news because Clark certainly himself believes he has potential exposure to criminal liability, he clearly was part of a conspiracy with Trump, and therefore we want the FBI to investigate him thoroughly. — PolitiTweet.org

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MID-STREAM BREAKING NEWS/ As I was writing the last tweet, I saw the breaking news from the New York Times: the FBI has raided Jeffrey Clark’s home. https://t.co/5ctwKNL3bC — PolitiTweet.org