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White House wanted to swamp the Georgia inspectors with White House stuff. Trump appears to threaten Watson's job.

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Now the Raffensperger call (which R taped because Lindsey Graham had called earlier and then denied what was said. R wanted to protect himself.)

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Trump to Raffensperger call was 67 minutes. Trump again with the suitcases. Everyone had told him that the story of them was false.

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Sterling says they are standard storage boxes.

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The full phone call is on the J6 website. I don't have a link atm.

Sterling says that Fulton County had monitor on site. Before he left, he noted how many ballots had been counted on each machine. He did it again later, so we have the exact numbers-- there were no 18K new ballots.

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(I want to be president and just be able to make sh*t up. But boy would my fantasies be more uplifting than his.)

No dead voters, either.

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Trump says there's no reason not to just say they were wrong and say they recounted. Raffensperger says that was illegal. "The numbers are the numbers and the numbers don't lie."

Raffensperger tells Trump those who found nothing illegitimate were either "dishonest or incompetent."

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Lin Wood tweets that Raffensperger will "soon be going to jail." Then Trump says....

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that R is going to find they're shredding ballots. (He's bonkers.) Says R is taking a "criminal... risk" not to throw them out.

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Then Trump asks: "I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have, because we won the state." Raffensperger says to Schiff: "There were no votes to find."

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Trump warns Raffensperger that it is "very dangerous for you to say" that there was no fraud. R interpreted this as a threat.

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Raffensperger and wife both doxxed. Sexual doxxing for her. Broke into DIL's home (she's a widow). Worried for her and her kids. Didn't quit because it's important to follow the law and the Constitution.

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Trump: "Why wouldn't you want to find the right answer, Brad?... Everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out.... The real truth is that I won by 400,000 votes at least.... Fellas, I need 11,000 votes. Give me a break."

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January 6 Ellipse rally: Trump continued to lie about Fulton County, Georgia, saying that there were 100,000 illegal votes for Biden dumped in the middle of the night.

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Schiff thanks Bowers, Raffensperger, and Sterling. That panel is now dismissed.

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Now the election worker that Trump blamed (falsely) for cheating. You will be shocked, SHOCKED I say, to hear that she is Black. (Sorry. Editorializing.)

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Ms. Moss. 2017-2022 was a Fulton County election worker. She and her mother, Ruby Freeman, were Trump's targets. "Unsung heroes keeping our democracy functioning." (Amen to that.)

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Awww.... She introducing her mother. I love the emphasis here on the American people. This is not theoretical. These are our neighbors who help our system function.

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Schiff now. She worked for the system for more than ten years and loved her job because of how important it is to vote, and how for a long time older Black Americans did not have that right. She loved to help the older voters.

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People trusted her. The next generation of Civil Rights workers (on this day in 1964, 3 civil rights workers-- Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner-- trying to register Black voters were murdered in Mississippi). Moss walks in their path. (Damn, history braids us all together.)

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Trump and Giuliani said Moss and Freeman were criminals. Giuliani on December 10 said they were: "quite obviously surreptitiously passing around USB ports as if they were heroin or cocaine."

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She heard about it when her bosses showed her the video. She was shocked "Why are they doing this?" Trump and his allies not satisfied with the outcome of the election. Election workers getting threats. Told her to check on her mom.

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She opens Facebook in panic, but doesn't know how to use it well, so they show her how to use Messenger. She finds death threats, say she and her mother will go to jail, threatening lynching. Lots of racist ones; lots of hateful ones.

The USB port was a gingermint.

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Trump says that Ruby Freeman is a profession vote schemer. Uses her name 18 times. Moss says she felt like it was all her fault for being an election worker. Attacking her mom-- Moss is an only child. Attacking her grandmother and her child.

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Felt horrible for being the one who always wants to help, always wants to be there. (Trump and his people weaponize our best qualities against us.)

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Ruby Freeman's testimony. She was known as "Lady Ruby," owned a clothing shop. Was wearing a Lady Ruby shirt on Election Day 2020. Will never wear it again. Won't even use her name any more.

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Always worried about who's around her. Have lost her name, reputation, sense of security, all because a bunch of people led by Trump and Giuliani scapegoated her and her daughter to push their lies.

Moss: It has turned her life upside down. Don't want anyone knowing my name. Can't go out. Gained 60 pounds. Second guess everything that she does. Affected her life in every way. "All because of lies. Me doing my job. Same thing I've been doing forever."

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Freeman had to go into hiding, told by the FBI she had to leave her home for safety. Stayed away for 2 months. (Remember, this is the midst of Covid.) Thought: "I can't believe this one person has so much damage to me and my family."

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FBI said she had to leave because of January 6. They worried that people would come to her home. Told her to stay away until at least the inauguration. Freeman is quietly weeping in the hearing room.

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They also went for Moss's grandmother. She called Moss screaming, saying that there were people at her home, knocked at her door. She opened it and they started pushing their way in to make a citizens arrest.

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At night people would continuously send pizzas to harass her, so she would be asked to pay for them repeatedly. She's stuck at home, now, unable to go out.

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All the people in that video have now left their jobs. Moss quit, too. (This is such a loss. She and her mother are exactly the sort of people we need in those positions.)

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Freeman: "There is nowhere I feel safe. Nowhere. Do you know how it feels to have the president of the United States target you?" He's supposed to represent everyone, but he targeted me, as I was trying to help run an election during a pandemic.

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Thompson thanks Moss and Freeman. (Me, too! Thank you both. And your grandma, too.)

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(No one is real to Trump. They are all bit players in his drama. So if he lies to false electors or ruins the lives of election workers... I doubt he ever thinks of it again.)

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Schiff: Trump's actions were unconstitutional, unpatriotic, and unAmerican.

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Lois Ruskai Melina
@LoisMelina

Replying to
@HC_Richardson
The FBI expected violence on Jan 6?

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Elie Mystal
@ElieNYC

I'm going to cry. The shit that this country is comfortable allowing to happen to black folks simply for TRYING to participate in the Republic.