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Acyn
@Acyn

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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All standard operating procedure. The hand tally shows the counting was virtually perfect.

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Sterling kept talking to the people to try to clarify what was really going on. All in plain view. Says he's frustrated that Trump's lawyers keep mischaracterizing it. Their version is "untrue."

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"I just know in my heart they cheated." (And that's what we're up against.)

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Trump continues to say the election is stolen. Blames "Democrats workers." Insists he actually won Georgia.

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Jeffrey Pugh
@JeffreyCPugh

The overlap of people who know Jesus "in their heart" and know the election was corrupt "in their heart" may be more extensive than I imagine.

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Bjay Pak says there was nothing to the accusations. Giuliani was wrong. AG Bill Barr said they, too, looked at it, and the accusations "had no merit."

And they told Trump that.

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(Again, Trump wasn't going to let it go even if he knew it was false because it created justification for him to try to stay in power.)

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Meadows texted 18 times to set up the call w/ Raffensperger. Meadows went to GA. Also set up a call with Frances Watson in which Trump pressures her to change the votes.

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Trump totally sounds like a pathetic child.

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Raffensperger says Trump lost because people refused to vote for him although they voted Republican down ballot.

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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.