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"The Justice Department is investigating President Donald Trump’s actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results"
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"Prosecutors who are questioning witnesses... have asked in recent days about conversations w/ Trump, his lawyers, & others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won"
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"The prosecutors have asked hours of detailed questions about meetings Trump led in December 2020 & January 2021; his pressure campaign on Pence to overturn the election; and what instructions Trump gave his lawyers & advisers about fake electors"
#Jan6
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#Jan6
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"In an interview ...Trump White House adviser Peter Navarro lays out the plot to overturn the election.
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what’s remarkable here — while also familiar — is how forthrightly Navarro is copping to the plot, as if it was no big deal, really."
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what’s remarkable here — while also familiar — is how forthrightly Navarro is copping to the plot, as if it was no big deal, really."
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"It’s been no secret that Donald Trump tried to leverage VP Mike Pence’s historically ceremonial role overseeing the counting of electoral votes in his effort to overturn the election. But it wasn’t until September that we got a sense of the full scope of the plan"
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#EastmanMemo
"Navarro doesn’t bother with the pretense that this was anything other than an effort with a predetermined outcome."
#Jan6Insurrection
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#Jan6Insurrection
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As Ivan Raiklin’s prominence in developing the #EastmanMemo & #PenceCard - & critical role planning #J6 #insurrection - become more clear and covered by larger press organizations, I hope we’re all taking away a few key lessons:
1/Don’t give legal advice to the VP over LinkedIn
1/Don’t give legal advice to the VP over LinkedIn
2/Don’t plan, execute, and celebrate an assault on Congress and continue to peddle conspiracies and expect to be unnoticed.
3/If you post crazy shit on social media and want to be noticed and seen as the architect of “The Plan”, you will be. But don’t expect to be able to delete and whitewash your background.
"Nine months after the Jan. 6 insurrection at the US Capitol, we continue to learn many new details ... [that] paint an increasingly clear picture of a concerted effort to overturn — and lay a predicate for overturning — the election"
~@AaronBlake
#Jan6
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~@AaronBlake
#Jan6
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"The effort included attempts to politically weaponize the Justice Department and apply pressure on federal, state and local officials in the service of that goal [of overturning the election]."
~@AaronBlake
#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
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~@AaronBlake
#TrumpCoupAttempt #DOJ
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"Given how many moving parts are involved, it can be difficult to keep track of [all of Trump's attempts to overturn the election].
So below is a timeline of all the major events we’ll keep updating as we get new details."
~@AaronBlake
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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So below is a timeline of all the major events we’ll keep updating as we get new details."
~@AaronBlake
#TrumpCoupAttempt
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"However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse."
#Jan6
#Jan6th
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#Jan6
#Jan6th
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"The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Trump himself."
"the country faces a renewed risk of electoral subversion by Trump and his supporters —
only next time they will have learned from their mistakes."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#DemocracyInDanger
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only next time they will have learned from their mistakes."
#Jan6
#TrumpCoupAttempt
#DemocracyInDanger
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"In a normal world, the “Eastman memo” would be infamous by now, the way “Access Hollywood” became the popular shorthand in 2016 for the damning recording of Donald Trump’s bragging about groping women."
~@Sulliview
#EastmanMemo
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~@Sulliview
#EastmanMemo
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"But it’s a good bet that most people have never even heard of the #EastmanMemo.
That says something troubling about how blasé the mainstream press has become about the attempted coup in the aftermath of the 2020 election — and how easily a coup could succeed next time."
That says something troubling about how blasé the mainstream press has become about the attempted coup in the aftermath of the 2020 election — and how easily a coup could succeed next time."
"In other words, how to run a coup in six easy steps.
Pretty huge stuff, right? You’d think so, but the mainstream press has largely looked the other way."
#EastmanMemo
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Pretty huge stuff, right? You’d think so, but the mainstream press has largely looked the other way."
#EastmanMemo
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