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Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) is up. #HATH

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The effort to overturn the election at the state level is serious, all of it aimed at January 6. #HATH

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When you hear tapes, remember Trump knew his allegations were nonsense. #HATH

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(Editorial: His MO was always to assert nonsense to lay groundwork for what he was going to do anyway. See
@jeffpearlman
on his football antics.) #HATH

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Reiterating that Trump knew full well there was no evidence that the election was fraudulent.

(Editorial: Did the Stepiens ever have their baby?) #HATH

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Gabriel Sterling's furious press conference. Sigh. Now that violence has been mainstreamed. #HATH

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Trump encouraged violence. #HATH

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Cheney begs people to listen to the evidence, not to divide along political lines. #HATH

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An aside, I love Schiff. ❤️

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Schiff is up. Reiterates that Trump lost, but fought to hold onto power, by stopping the vote count, stopping states from certifying the election by filing frivolous lawsuits. Then threatened state legislators to back him. #HATH

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Wanted states to send two slates of electors so Pence could count them in. When legislators wouldn't, did a sham process they sent in to Congress anyway. #HATH

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Likely conspiracy to defraud the United States. #HATH

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Trump targeted not just Pence, but every level of our elections. Needed those state slates so Pence could count them in. All of it based in a lie. Barr said "bullshit." #HATH

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The Big Lie is "a dangerous cancer on the body politic." Leaves us with nothing but violence to settle elections. #HATH

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Dangerous and escalating pressure on elections officials, including local workers, whose lives were turned upside down. #HATH

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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