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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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."

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

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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.

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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.

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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."

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

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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.)

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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No legal pathway to execute such a request, says Bowers.

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Bowers's statement called on Reagan's inaugural, focusing on the orderly transfer of power, calling it "a miracle." Bowers talking about how much he admires (present tense) Reagan.

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Champions "the will of the people." (Editorial: Reagan's administration began the process of voter suppression.)

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Schiff: Trump and campaign tried to replace certified ballots with fake ones.

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November 18, Chesebro said campaign should organize its own electors in the swing states Trump had lost. Giuliani, Meadows, and congress members were involved.

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RNC directly involved in collecting the false electors. Trump wanted the RNC to help. Ronna McDaniel seems to be trying to get the RNC away from the mess.

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Jeffrey Clark said it wasn't okay. Some now say they wanted out, that the plan was illegal.

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Meadows, Giuliani, etc., knew it wasn't legal. A fake elector says they were "useful idiots," "rubes." Real lawyers had said they wanted nothing to do with it. Fake elector says no one cared if they were putting themselves in legal jeopardy.

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Fake electors told their slates would only count if courts said they should be.

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Fake electors met in secret. They were told they were working directly with the president's team.

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AZ, GA, MI, PA, NM, NV, WI, fake electors met and falsely claimed they were "duly elected" and submitted them to the National Archives.

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Eastman said it didn't matter that they were fake; the very fact they existed created confusion, and Pence should then reject both.

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Senator Johnson wanted to hand deliver false electors? (Did I hear that right?!? I might not have.)

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White House counsels office said this was not legally sound. Trump and crew did it anyway.

Bowers calls it "a tragic parody."

Bowers contemporary diary: "It is painful to have friends... turn on me with such rancor." But "I do not want to be a winner by cheating. I will not play with laws I swore allegiance to."

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Bowers heavy on the Christianity. (Likely to appeal to evangelicals.)

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Bowers and family targeted by Trump mobs. More than 20K emails and tens of thousands of voicemails. Stopped work under the saturation. Even now, protested every week, calling Bowers a pedophile and a pervert. Blaring loudspeakers.

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Threatening them and neighbors. One man threatening had a gun. His gravely ill daughter upset. "It was... disturbing. It was disturbing...."

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Sarah Kendzior
@sarahkendzior

Trump is a symptom.

Elite criminal impunity is the disease.

Accountability is the road forward.

Accountability means holding the enablers to task as well. Officials who look the other way. Rotting institutions that long ago abandoned the American people and still do so now.

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Text messages showing that Ron Johnson wanted to hand deliver fake electors to Pence

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Committee's back. Now Georgia.

Thompson reiterates that the investigation is still ongoing.

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Raffensperger. (I've written that name 6 million times.)

Trump supporter. Says that the election was "remarkably smooth," "successful."

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Raffensperger says Biden won by about 12K votes. And the state literally recounted every ballot in the state. Biden won.

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Trump asked for another count. Three counts all remarkably close to the same number. Trump lost.

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Now Sterling. Tried to push back on disinformation. Asked Trump directly to stop inspiring people to violence. "It's not right."

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That press conference was because a young contractor had been receiving threats thanks to a QAnon video and Sterling saw on Twitter that someone had put that man's name with a noose and said "May God have mercy on your soul." Sterling lost it.

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Trump didn't back off. Instead, he tweeted that there was "massive voter fraud in Georgia." That was false.

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Next day Trump released a video claiming thousands and thousands of votes "all out of whack... all against me."

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Then Giuliani goes to Georgia and starts conspiracy theory about "suitcases of ballots" run through counting machines in the middle of the night. All false.

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Giuliani calls it a "powerful smoking gun." Says those votes are illegitimate. Trump pushes the video footage even as Giuliani pushes out his testimony. All false. Sterling says they reviewed the entire video. It actually showed...

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Fulton County election workers engaging in normal ballot processing. The "suitcases" were election workers going home. They put ballots in secure boxes so they can go home, and putting them under the tables.

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They thought they were going home. Elections director said put your ass*s back in the chairs. (I paraphrase.) They take their coats off and take the ballots back out.

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J. G.🇺🇸🟦  

@Jezibaba im fairly sure this is all just bat shit crazy

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Jҽȥι  

@JGNWYRK I keep thinking about how Republicans are attempting to gerrymander everything so that I can only take this with a grain of salt.

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J. G.🇺🇸🟦  

@Jezibaba unfortunately gerrymandering is not a one party trick. There is all sorts of fuckery happening across the political spectrum.

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Jҽȥι  

@JGNWYRK I want to revisit this with you and discuss more.

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J. G.🇺🇸🟦  

@Jezibaba washingtonpost.com/opinions/in

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The Unabeefer  

@Jezibaba Thank you for posting all this, btw. Stuck at work doing manual labor without a way or time to watch, so this is keeping me up to speed.

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coffeeandhoney  

@Jezibaba He just keeps losing.

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J. G.🇺🇸🟦  

@Jezibaba ive been trying to get her on Coso for years. . Outstanding expert on authoritarianism

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Goddess  

@Jezibaba It as MONSTERSOUS treatment for Rusty,his family ,the Arizona electors and staff. Where were their polices protection & support fir their RIGHTS.

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PΛGΛПMӨƬΉΣЯ  

@Jezibaba He has honor to respect the laws and strictures of the Constitution. Respect that he deserves for serving his role duly.

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Will  

@Jezibaba Yeah, when he said, “It is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired,” I was a bit taken aback.

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Djoko  

@Jezibaba He's a Mormon.

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𝕺𝖜𝖑𝖎𝖊~🦉aka ⚘  

@Jezibaba 😥 I felt so bad for him.

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