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Tape of people screaming at local election officials. (Totally scary stuff.) Jocelyn Benson (who is totally cool, from all I can see) tells the story of her experience, not knowing if she and her kids were safe. #HATH

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Trump and Giuliani pressure legislators to count him, rather than Biden, as the legitimate winner, based on fraud. #HATH

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Eastman tried to justify this plan in a memo, and also appeared in front of Georgia legislature, telling the members it was their DUTY to shift the state's votes. #HATH

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Trump invited delegations to the White House to get them to switch their state's votes. They saw it was illegal and refused. #HATH

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Trump constantly insisted that HE, not those following the law, was the one protecting the rule of law. #HATH

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Trump put personal information of the legislators he was pressuring into the public sphere to pressure them. #HATH

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Targeted calls to state legislators both from lawyers and from Trump himself. (This is bananas.) #HATH

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Jenna Ellis and Rudy Giuliani totally worked the phones to try to get the legislators to switch their votes. Giuliani kept calling even when told not to. Pressure. #HATH

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Steve Bannon called protesters to the Speaker of the PA House. All of his personal information was put on line. #HATH

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Trump campaign spent millions in ads telling people to call their legislators. It grew dangerous. More tapes of mobs calling for arson and murder. Wow. "The punishment for treason is death." #HATH

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Today we'll hear from those pressured in AZ and GA about how they were treated and how they responded. The most powerful man in the world sought to cling to power, and took it out on them. They stood for the Constitution. #HATH

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Republican witnesses.

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Rusty Bowers, R speaker of AZ house of reps. Brad Raffensperger, GA Sec of State. Gabriel Sterling, R GA operations manager for 2020 election. All Republicans. #HATH

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Bowers first. Campaigned for Trump in 2020. Wanted him to win. But Biden won the popular vote in AZ. #HATH

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Before the hearing, Trump calls Bowers a RINO and references a November 2020 conversation in which Bowers told him the election was rigged and that Trump had won Arizona. Bowers says he had a talk with him, but this statement is false. #HATH

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Bowers never said the vote was rigged, or that Trump won. #HATH

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Trump and Guiliani called Bowers after the election. Guiliani came on first. Then Trump. Initiated conversation. Bowers asks for evidence of fraud. G said they did have proof. Bowers asked for names of the "illegal immigrants," "dead people." #HATH

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G said he would get Bowers the names. Guiliani never produced any evidence. #HATH

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They wanted Bowers to allow an official committee to hear the evidence and take action. He refused. Said he didn't want the "circus" in the House. Didn't want to be used as a pawn. #HATH

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Second ask: Bowers asked "to what end"? Trump said they had "heard" that there was a legal ability to remove the Biden electors and replace them with his. They want to do that. Bowers says that's nothing he's ever heard. #HATH

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Bowers tells Trump that he is asking Bowers to break his oath to the Constitution and to the state. He says he won't do it without deep consultation without attorneys. Bowers says he won't break his oath.

Guiliani would say, "Aren't we all Republicans here? I would think we would get a better reception." #HATH

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Bowers says the AZ legislature had a clear law on selecting electors, and it is a fundamental right of the people to choose their lawmakers. #HATH

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Bowers, on more than one occasion he was asked to break his oath, but it is a tenet of his faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired. Not going to break his oath to it on a person's request. #HATH

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Bowers asked if it had ever been done before. No. #HATH

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Later hearing at ballroom in Phoenix was not official, even through they tried to portray it as one. Bowers had denied an "official" hearing. #HATH

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Meeting was same day Gov. Doug Ducey certified Biden electors. Bowers met with Guiliani that day. Giuliani continued to say the election was fraudulent. Other Republican AZ lawmakers aggressively questioned Giuliani for proof. #HATH

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Giuliani asked Jenna Ellis if they had the proof. She said yes. And Bowers said: Give me the names. They claimed to have all that information, but they hadn't brought it with them. #HATH

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Bowers told them they had not produced evidence. Giuliani said they don't have any evidence but they had a lot of theories. Maybe a gaffe? Afterward, Bowers and others kind of laughed about it.

Later, Giuliani said that AZ law let them switch the electors from Biden to Trump and wanted Bowers to do it. Never provided evidence of election fraud that could have changed the vote. #HATH

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Committee has found that the protests at statehouses were the same people as later showed up in DC at January 6. One, for example, was Jacob Chansley, (QAnon Shaman). He was at AZ statehouse. #HATH

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Also the Proud Boys were there, calling for him by name. #HATH

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Trump called again later in December. Bowers said he had voted for him, supported him, but would not break the law for him. #HATH

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Eastman called later in the month anyway, asking him to take a vote to decertify the electors because they had plenary authority to do so. (Editorial: this is bonkers.) #HATH

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Eastman said they could just... overrule the voters. #HATH

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"Just do it and let the courts figure it out." WTAF

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Eastman said "Just do it and let the courts sort it out." Bowers said: You want me to put my state through something novel and likely illegal? Not happening. #HATH

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Bowers told Trump he would not do anything illegal for him. Eastman said, do it and let the courts sort it out. #HATH

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Bowers. What he wanted was contrary to Constitution of US and state, both.

Andy Biggs also called Bowers. Wanted him to support the decertification of the electors. #HATH

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Bowers made a public statement, calling the pressure "breathtaking" and saying "the rule of law forbids us to do that." #HATH