January 6 Select Committee

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January 6 panel accuses Trump of ‘multi-part conspiracy’ in final report
House committee publishes report three days after recommending criminal charges against ex-president

The 17 findings in January 6 committee’s final report

David Smith in Washington
Fri 23 Dec 2022 05.35 GMT

The congressional panel investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol has published its final report, accusing Donald Trump of a “multi-part conspiracy” to thwart the will of the people and subvert democracy.

Divided into eight chapters, the 845-page report includes findings, interview transcripts and legislative recommendations and represents one of the most damning official portraits of a president in American history.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... tol-attack

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Its report presents an in-depth and detailed account of Trump’s effort to overturn his defeat by Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election and what the panel says was his culpability for a violent insurrection by his supporters.

It makes the case that Trump knew he lost but still pressured both state officials and Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the election, then “was directly responsible for summoning what became a violent mob” and refused repeated entreaties from his aides to condemn the rioters or to encourage them to leave.

“The central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed,” the document’s executive summary says. “None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him.”

In the two months between election and insurrection, the committee estimates, Trump or his inner circle engaged in at least 200 apparent acts of public or private outreach, pressure or condemnation targeting either state legislators or state or local election administrators. This included at least 68 meetings, phone calls or text messages, 18 instances of prominent public remarks and 125 social media posts by Trump or senior aides.

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All I can find out is that he says he graduated from Ripon High School then attended an unspecified "renowned" college. Being embarrassed by your answer is not a valid reason to take the 5th. But he may have done that.

I inferred Kirk had lied, under penalty of perjury, elsewhere about his age and education. So he pleaded the Fifth now to avoid a different perjury charge.

That's what I was wondering, since I didn't think you'd invoke the 5th just to avoid being exposed as a run-of-the-mill liar. (Like we don't already know.)

[Kendra]

January 6th Report says Trump tried to contact some of the witnesses

[Kendra]

Rudy Calls: Frantic attempt to reach Trump with multiple phones and reaches him, Blackburn, Lee, Hagerty, Jordan, Graham, Hawley, Cruz, Sullivan, Jordan, Trump

[Kendra]

Jan 6th Report: But a segment of Kayleigh McEnany’s testimony seemed evasive, as if she was testifying from pre-prepared talking points

[Kendra]

New J6 photo from Committee’s report.

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/202 ... nal-report

The 17 findings in the January 6 committee’s final report
Panel looking into storming of Capitol accuses Donald Trump of deliberately making false claims and plotting to overturn 2020 election results

10. Knowing that a violent attack on the Capitol was under way and knowing that his words would incite further violence, Trump purposely sent a social media message publicly condemning vice-president Pence at 2.24pm on January 6.

11. Knowing that violence was underway at the Capitol, and despite his duty to ensure that the laws are faithfully executed, Trump refused repeated requests over a multiple-hour period that he instruct his violent supporters to disperse and leave the Capitol, and instead watched the violent attack unfold on television. This failure to act perpetuated the violence at the Capitol and obstructed Congress’s proceeding to count electoral votes.

17. Trump had authority and responsibility to direct deployment of the National Guard in the District of Columbia, but never gave any order to deploy the National Guard on January 6 or on any other day. Nor did he instruct any federal law enforcement agency to assist. Because the authority to deploy the National Guard had been delegated to the Department of Defense, the secretary of defense could, and ultimately did, deploy the Guard. Although evidence identifies a likely miscommunication between members of the civilian leadership in the Department of Defense impacting the timing of deployment, the committee has found no evidence that the Department of Defense intentionally delayed deployment of the National Guard. The Select Committee recognizes that some at the department had genuine concerns, counselling caution, that Trump might give an illegal order to use the military in support of his efforts to overturn the election.

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#17 -

[Kendra]

CNN says new transcripts just dropped, including Ivanka.

[bob]

Legal Eagle's explainer:

The part I found interesting was about the referral under 18 U.S.C. sec. 1001, aka lying to the feds. And, in this instance: the fake electors.

Executive summary: Stone suggests the actual fake electors were just useful idiots, and quite possibly didn't have the necessary criminal intent. This presumes their defense would be along the lines of that they sincerely believed their "alternative slates" would be used only if the duly authorized slates were tossed.

This requires the leap of faith that, had courts tossed the original slates, states' executives would have certified them. But the rub in a criminal case would be in proving the electors didn't believe that. In other words, plenty of room for one juror to doubt reasonably.

Stone, on the other hand, says the committee showed the higher-ups (i.e., Eastman and his elk) knew the fake slates were worthless but nonetheless hoped Pence would bite on them as a fig leaf to toss some states' electoral votes.

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https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 62fee284aa


Article is short but there is video.

JUST IN: Trump WH Drafted Press Release Threatening To Fire Anyone Who Disagreed With False Fraud Claims

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Another.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics ... 3017581eb3

Hope Hicks told Trump that January 6 was as bad as everyone said it was and he complained that it wasn't fair that he was being blamed

[Kendra]

POWELL was supposed to attend the big meeting with Trump and GOP members of Congress on Dec. 21, 2020, but Meadows and other WH staff blocked her.

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seems this has not shown up here

Transcripts reveal link between Trump, Nevada fake electors

By GABE STERN and RIO YAMAT
December 23, 2022

LAS VEGAS (AP) — New transcripts of closed-door testimony to the Jan. 6 House committee show Donald Trump and his allies had a direct hand in the Nevada Republican Party’s scheme to send a phony electoral certificate to Congress in 2020 in a last-ditch attempt to keep the former president in power.

The documents made public Wednesday evening included interviews with state party leader Michael McDonald and Republican National Committeeman Jim DeGraffenreid in February. Both men served as fake electors in Carson City on Dec. 14, 2020.

That day, six Nevada GOP members signed certificates falsely stating that Trump won Nevada in 2020 and sent them to Congress and the National Archives, where they were ultimately ignored. The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol is digging into the role that these fake electors in key battleground states had in Trump’s attempt to cling to power after his 2020 defeat.

McDonald and DeGraffenreid invoked Fifth Amendment protection hundreds of times in their separate interviews with the Jan. 6 committee, refusing to answer questions about their involvement and the extent to which Trump’s top allies had helped in orchestrating the plot.

Still, the transcripts provide an unprecedented view into the Trump team’s coordinated efforts in Nevada to overturn the results of the election — efforts that included direct communication between McDonald and the president himself.

On Nov. 4, 2020, for example, the day after the election, McDonald had a conference call with Trump, his then-chief of staff Mark Meadows, attorney Rudy Giuliani and son Eric Trump.




https://apnews.com/article/jan-6-commit ... 72c91d7fa9

[Foggy]

They're not admitting it, but Trump was sending them emails promising "8X MATCHING ELECTORAL VOTES if you want President Trump to see your name on the list of HIS MOST LOYAL TOADIES. Act now, while supplies last!"

[Kendra]

From Jan 6 Select Committee deposition w/ Trump personnel director John McEntee

Committee: "Are you aware of conversations... regarding the possibility of giving Congressman Matt Gaetz a pardon?"

McEntee: "I know he asked for it.."

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[Kendra]

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1607 ... 11109.html

JUST IN: The latest batch of Jan. 6 committee transcripts is now live. Includes:

-2 more Cassidy Hutchinson transcripts
-Mnuchin
-McEntee
-Ali Alexander
-The Kremers

Wow.

[Kendra]

Max MILLER: I was such a bit player that no one called me for *8 hours* during Jan. 6 chaos! It's right there in the phone records!

Jan. 6 committee: Actually, that's in Greenwich Mean Time. You got multiple calls.

MILLER: "Forget the time. Time is not important."

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

"Forget time. Time is not important", he lied.

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Former Trump White House aide told Jan. 6 panel Mark Meadows burned documents a dozen times during the transition period

By Jeremy Herb, Marshall Cohen, Hannah Rabinowitz, Geneva Sands, Veronica Stracqualursi, Kate Sullivan and Kristen Holmes, CNN
Updated 10:08 AM EST, Wed December 28, 2022

Washington (CNN) — The January 6 committee released another batch of transcripts Tuesday, including two more of its interviews with blockbuster witness Cassidy Hutchinson and testimony from several other Trump White House officials.

The transcripts shed new light on how then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows regularly burned documents during the transition period, according to Hutchinson. She also described how Meadows occasionally told staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” and potentially omitted from official records.

There were also additional details about Hutchinson’s dueling loyalties that led her to ultimately switch lawyers and provide damning testimony about what she saw and heard at the White House after the 2020 election.

The latest cache of transcripts also revealed some of the rumors, gossip and wild conspiracies that were floating around the White House – including conversations about QAnon conspiracies – while then-President Donald Trump refused to concede and tried to overturn the election results.

Meadows told White House staffers to keep some Oval Office meetings “close hold” during the transition period, potentially leaving meetings off the books, according to Hutchinson, who was a top Meadows aide.

Hutchinson also testified that there “were certain things that had potentially been left off” the Oval Office diary.

Hutchinson said she recalled Meadows having a meeting at the end of November or early December 2020 in which he told outer Oval Office staffers: “Let’s keep some meetings close hold. We will talk about what that means, but for now we will keep things real tight and private so things don’t start to leak out.”





https://edition.cnn.com/2022/12/27/poli ... index.html

[AndyinPA]

No wonder he didn't want to testify. Might not be so easy for the DOJ. He's a lot more than protecting DFO.

[bob]

Runs out the clock; claims victory.

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GOP Sen. Mike Lee Called Rudy Giuliani A 'Walking Malpractice' In A Text: Jan. 6 Report
The text was regarding a voicemail apparently meant for GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville as part of Giuliani’s attempt to sway Republican Senators into blocking the Electoral College votes.

Sebastian Murdock
Dec 25, 2022, 04:07 PM EST

Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R) texted an aide to former President Donald Trump the evening of the 2021 Capitol attack to disparage Rudy Giuliani after the former New York City mayor sent Lee a voicemail message by mistake.

“You’ve got to listen to that message. Rudy is walking malpractice,” Lee texted national security adviser Robert O’Brien on the evening of Jan. 6, according to an 845-page final report from the House Jan. 6 committee on Thursday. The report details the many ways Trump and his associates planned to disrupt the electoral process.

Lee, who helped Trump push schemes to overturn the election, received a voicemail from Giuliani just before 11 p.m. on the day that left several people dead and 140 law enforcement officers injured. The voicemail was apparently meant for GOP Sen. Tommy Tuberville as part of Giuliani’s attempt to sway Republican Senators into blocking the Electoral College votes.

“You can’t make this up,” Lee texted O’Brien. “I just got this voice message [from] Rudy Giuliani, who apparently thought he was calling Senator Tuberville.”

Lee then texted that Giuliani was “walking malpractice.”




https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gop-sen- ... e1505adc4a

[Kendra]

More transcripts!

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