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PS4/ With Flynn pleading the 5th; it being unlikely Powell will talk given the HJ6C said she "conspired" with Trump; the status of the Lewis subpoena unclear and unreported on by media; Cipollone’s *the* man there that night the HJ6C is closest to getting. https://t.co/ygezmaaeBr — PolitiTweet.org

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PS3/ It’s also worked behind the scenes to get Cipollone to testify; somehow got Giuliani to give evidence—though its clarity/accuracy is unclear; referred Navarro for indictment and did so successfully; has spoken with Eric Hershmann; but clearly it believes it needs Cipollone. — PolitiTweet.org

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PS2/ ...he had *non-public intel* about January 6 (presumably, some sort of information gleaned from acting as security for Ali Alexander and Michael Flynn and Patrick Byrne and Sidney Powell, meeting multiple times with John Eastman, and boasting of contact with Stewart Rhodes). — PolitiTweet.org

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PS/ I really think the Committee is doing its very best here. It subpoenaed Robert Patrick Lewis the same day it did Enrique Tarrio (indicted for Seditious Conspiracy) and Stewart Rhodes (indicted for Seditious Conspiracy), saying in its public letter to Lewis that it believed... — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) THREAD: Today the House January 6 Committee made the most direct appeal it’s ever made to a prospective witness: Rep.… — PolitiTweet.org

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CONCLUSION/ America needs Michael Flynn to talk. And Robert Patrick Lewis. And Sidney Powell. And Patrick Byrne. And Powell’s assistant. And Peter Navarro (indicted for Contempt) and Navarro’s aide. But in lieu of that—and it ain’t looking good—we need *Pat Cipollone* to testify. — PolitiTweet.org

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50/ And that tweet—sent in the middle of the night, right after Team Kraken left the Presidential Residence—cited a report by Navarro, the boss of the man who’d let Team Kraken into the White House. It’s a series of events more stunning than *anything* in the Watergate timeline. — PolitiTweet.org

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49/ ...Trump sent out a tweet saying the White House was giving its imprimatur to a January 6 event being held on the Capitol grounds by none other than Alexander—a domestic terrorist who’d openly threatened political violence across Georgia and Arizona as part of Stop the Steal. https://t.co/q7JC2TMVio — PolitiTweet.org

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48/ But here’s what we *do* know (and keep in mind here that Lewis had been acting as security for Ali Alexander; Powell had appeared on stage with Ali Alexander; Flynn had appeared at events with Ali Alexander; well, you get the idea): just *one hour* after the cabal broke up... — PolitiTweet.org

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47/ Now of course Cipollone doesn’t know as much as Powell, Flynn (Fifth), Byrne and Powell’s aide know. Or Giuliani—who appears to have hurried to the White House to participate in the secretive final hour of the cabal meeting. And we don’t know how much Lewis knows of all this. — PolitiTweet.org

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46/ But there are three exceptions to that. (1) Giuliani is saying *something* to the Committee. We don’t know if it’s the truth or not. (2) Patrick Byrne has released the deranged videos that PROOF reported on and analyzed at length—all about that night. And... (3) Cipollone. — PolitiTweet.org

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45/ The cabal continued discussing the End of America for another *hour*. No one knows what was said because no one involved in any of this, down to the paramilitary-unit driver to assisted Team Kraken in getting to the White House, *appears* to be talking (that we know of). — PolitiTweet.org

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44/ Think of it: (1) Insurrectionists seeking a violent coup sneak into the Oval. (2) Trump hears them out for 30+ minutes. (3) The Adults break in and shout, this is madness! (4) The Adults leave. (5) Trump sneaks the insurrectionists up to his private residence. *Terrifying*. — PolitiTweet.org

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43/ What’s scary is that folks don’t realize something critical... ...which is that the meeting *didn’t end in the Oval Office*. PROOF reports—with full eyewitness sourcing—that after the Oval Office meeting ended Trump took the insurrectionists *to the Presidential Residence*. — PolitiTweet.org

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42/ Cipollone heard enough to know what had been discussed in his absence—or at least some of it—which again, and I cannot stress this enough, was essentially turning America’s democracy into an autocracy overnight, with Trump becoming a military overlord rather than a president. — PolitiTweet.org

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41/ Pat Cipollone was there. So were others from the White House Counsel’s office. What ensued was a shouting match in which Patrick Byrne now says he almost clocked Cipollone, and Michael Flynn was yelling, calling everyone not on Team Kraken a traitor to Trump. It was *insane*. — PolitiTweet.org

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40/ Because the meeting was a coup plot, it was secretive. No one in the White House knew it was coming. Byrne says even *Trump* did not know in advance. So of *course* the Responsible Adults in the White House did not know. But then they found out and rushed to the Oval Office. — PolitiTweet.org

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39/ ...nor do we know what the status of Byrne and Powell are except that the latter is in the process of being disbarred and the former recorded the deranged confession videos PROOF published) all hell broke loose. Why? The White House lawyers suddenly broke into the meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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38/ After 30+ minutes of God-knows-what—or Giuliani-knows-what—being said by Team Kraken to Trump (remember Flynn has pleaded the Fifth, we don’t know if the 1AP driver for this event has honored federal subpoenas issued on the same day in November 2020 as to Tarrio and Rhodes... — PolitiTweet.org

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37/ So if you wonder why Giuliani is willing to talk to the HJ6C, there’s your likely answer—he’s hedging bets. He thinks it’s *possible* that Seditious Conspiracy charges can be hung on others (Team Kraken) rather than on him or (say) Jenna Ellis. So he tries to play both sides. — PolitiTweet.org

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36/ It’s clear from reporting that Giuliani had *not* known this December 18 nighttime impromptu Oval Office cabal was going to occur—and that in fact Team Kraken had been going around his back. It’s also clear he didn’t really support their coup plot, which involved martial law. — PolitiTweet.org

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35/ So the then-president didn’t want to have a conversation of the sort Flynn, Powell, and Byrne wanted without Giuliani present. But also—keep in mind—the Trumps wrongly think that if an attorney is present in *any* conversation, that conversation is a secret (this is *false*). — PolitiTweet.org

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34/ That exception was Giuliani, who’d been in the Oval that day and who Trump now brought back via speakerphone. Why? Because Trump had crimed with Giuliani; he didn’t know these others as well. Flynn he didn’t much personally care for; Byrne had been a political enemy of sorts. — PolitiTweet.org

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33/ It ultimately, by hook and by crook, wound its way through various offices—where did the Navarro aide go, we wonder? Good question!—to the Oval Office, where it found Trump. And it got at *least* 30 minutes alone with him there with no one else present (with a key exception). — PolitiTweet.org

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32/ In the two recorded confessions and one recorded inculpation of Byrne by an eyewitness that PROOF published—see the links early in this thread—we learn that it took a *long* time for Team Kraken to sneak its way into the Oval. And it did—it *snuck*. This was a clandestine op. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) THREAD: Today the House January 6 Committee made the most direct appeal it’s ever made to a prospective witness: Rep.… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) If you’re just getting home from work and weren’t able to watch the devastatingly emotional House January 6 Committee… — PolitiTweet.org

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31/ Powell, Byrne, Flynn, and a Powell assistant only got into the White House because an aide to Peter Navarro let them in; it is unclear what this aide knew or did not, but he has since revealed himself to be a far-right radical and that is an *understatement*. But they got in. — PolitiTweet.org

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30/ ...who pleaded the Fifth 100+ times in reply to his subpoena, with Flynn—who’s also pleaded the Fifth in reply to all queries—and Byrne, who acknowledged orchestrating what amounts to a coup plot, and has bragged about doing security for Ali Alexander as the Proud Boys did.) — PolitiTweet.org

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29/ (This latter point is unclear because Lewis has not yet testified publicly. I don’t know if he has honored his subpoena yet or not. We only know he has boasted about contact with indicted Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes—charged with Seditious Conspiracy—with John Eastman... — PolitiTweet.org