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129/ Thompson is now commending Jacob and Pence for their courage and heroism in "putting our democracy first." He is lauding, too, federal judges, state officials, and federal employees at the DOJ for doing their duty. He emphasizes that the danger to America *has not passed*. — PolitiTweet.org

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128/ Cheney’s now making a closing statement that summarizes what we heard and lets us know the next hearing will be about the pressure Trump and Eastman applied to state GOP legislators *and* state GOP executive-branch officials. Cheney implies evidence of more crimes is coming. — PolitiTweet.org

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127/ Redemption story! Luttig makes a powerful statement by responding "Exactly what I said, congressman"—and no more—when Aguilar asks "what he meant" by the most damning sentence by far in his entire opening statement (I won’t quote it—but it was a doozy). Great move by Luttig! — PolitiTweet.org

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126/ Greg Jacob now testifies that if Donald Trump and John Eastman had succeeded, it would have caused "chaos" in the United States and a situation "antithetical" to "our democracy and rule of law." He says the consequences for the nation would have been "significant." — PolitiTweet.org

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125/ When questioned by the House January 6 Committee, John Eastman, having tried and failed to get a presidential pardon from Trump, pleaded the Fifth over 100 times. A federal judge has now said it is *more likely than not* that Trump and Eastman committed Criminal Conspiracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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124/ On January 7 Eastman called Hershmann—still trying to keep Trump in office. Hershmann said, "Are you out of your fucking mind?", told him to keep saying "orderly transition" publicly, then added, "get a great fucking criminal defense lawyer, because you're going to need it." — PolitiTweet.org

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123/ When Pence later learned of this Eastman email, he called it "rubber room stuff"—which Jacob said he interpreted as meaning "certifiably crazy." — PolitiTweet.org

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122/ Eastman later said to Jacob via email—on January 6—that Congress violated the Electoral Count Act by its procedural actions *after* the riot, and again asking Pence to break the law. Understand: Eastman was now trying to *benefit* from the *very riot he incited*. The gall. — PolitiTweet.org

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121/ Jacob emailed Eastman from his secure location at the Capitol blaming him for the Capitol attack; Eastman replied that the violence was *Pence’s* fault (and that of his team). — PolitiTweet.org

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120/ Pence then effectively began running the U.S. government from his secure location, because Trump was 100% AWOL. Pence also checked in on the safety of others (which Trump never did with him, i.e. Pence) and spoke with Kevin McCarthy. McCarthy detailed speaking with Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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119/ Jacob is testifying to Pence refusing to get into a car with the Secret Service. Pence’s detail chief told him the USSS would not take him from the Capitol without his permission. Pence replied that he trusted his chief but did not necessarily feel the same about the driver. — PolitiTweet.org

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118/ A Proud Boy informant told the FBI the Proud Boys would have "killed Mike Pence" if they got to him. (The informant said the same was true of Pelosi.) Wow. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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117/ The mob got to within 13.3 *yards* of the Vice President. Wow. Wow. — PolitiTweet.org

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116/ White House aides openly agreed—at the time!—that Trump had (quote) "poured gasoline on the fire" by tweeting the literal "last thing" he should have said at that moment, knowing (as he and the whole White House did) about the violence *already unfolding* at the White House. — PolitiTweet.org

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115/ Aguilar says the riot "surged" after Trump’s tweet about Pence. (The tweet was read out to the rioters via bullhorns.) — PolitiTweet.org

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114/ Meadows aide Ben Williamson and White House deputy press secretary Sarah Matthews have testified—and we hear Williamson and Matthews in depo now—saying Meadows told Trump about the violence at the Capitol *before* (!) he tweeted his tweet that incited violence against Pence. — PolitiTweet.org

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113/ Remember, Trump made these unilateral edits at a time he *knew* violence was coming. Like the monster he is, he continued stoking the mob in person *and* on Twitter. We now know he openly supported the idea of Pence being assassinated. So I use the word "monster" advisedly. — PolitiTweet.org

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112/ This is the other side of "Satan." On January 5, Trump presented Pence his seductive snake side. On January 6, Trump presented Pence with his demon side. At first, Trump’s January 6 speech *never mentioned Pence*. *Trump* inserted many references to Pence into his speech. — PolitiTweet.org

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111/ Trump apparently shouted at Pence that he was a "PUSSY." Ivanka said the tone of the call was such that she was deeply uncomfortable. — PolitiTweet.org

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110/ But Trump was not alone. He was in the Oval Office with Don Jr., Eric, Lara Trump, Ivanka, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Eric Hershmann. Ivanka (via depo) and Eric Hershmann (via depo) and others testify to a "heated" call. Trump was very aggressive with Pence—calling him names. — PolitiTweet.org

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109/ But Trump was not alone. He was in the Oval Office with Don Jr., Eric, Lara Trump, Ivanka, Kimberly Guilfoyle, and Eric Hershmann. Ivanka (via depo) and Eric Hershmann (via depo) and others testify to a "heated" call. Trump was very aggressive with Pence—calling him names. — PolitiTweet.org

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109/ On the morning of January 6, Pence spoke to Trump by phone. Jacob (testifying now) was at the VP’s residence with him at the time. Pence took the call alone. — PolitiTweet.org

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108/ Aguilar is looking at Trump’s tweets *on Insurrection Day* emphasizing that Pence could hand Trump a second term. These tweets, remember, were *not* for Pence—who’d long ago made clear to Trump what he’d and wouldn’t do—but for the *mob*. Remember that—it was for the *mob*. — PolitiTweet.org

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107/ We are back. Aguilar is giving an opening statement about Trump’s pressure and the "boiling point" it created on January 6. — PolitiTweet.org

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106/ Remember: in her private, secret, treacherous communications in support of the insurrection, Ginni Thomas made reference to speaking with her "best friend"—which friends of the Thomases say is a reference to Justice Thomas—about the pending Trump legal challenges. Chilling. — PolitiTweet.org

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105/ *If* Justice Thomas violated the sacred confidentiality of conversations inside the Supreme Court with the knowledge that his wife was passing intel to Trump’s legal team—which would use this info as justification to *incite an attack on Congress*—it’s a criminal conspiracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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104/ I’m *not there yet*, but I’ll say that this evidence brings me closer than I have ever been as an attorney, journalist, academic, historian, author, and researcher to believing that Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas himself may have participated in a criminal conspiracy. — PolitiTweet.org

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103/ This hearing has also taken us a GIANT step closer to GINNI THOMAS. I mean a giant step. Eastman appears to have claimed some sort of inside knowledge of what the Supreme Court would do if Pence broke the law. And he was secretly corresponding with Ginni Thomas at the time. — PolitiTweet.org

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102/ The best journalists will be able to explain to America how absolutely stunning this hearing has been—even as the hearing itself may have lost some viewers. What we have learned so far is actually staggeringly explosive, but it does require some synthesizing by journalists. — PolitiTweet.org

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