Trump's lies inspire his followers to commit crimes and attempt to harm people -- all over the country. Brad Raffensperger Says Fraud-Obsessed Trumpers Broke Into His Dead Son’s Widow’s House https://www.thedailybeast.com/georg...rumpers-broke-into-his-dead-sons-widows-house
Looks like the film footage only serves to underline how guilty Trump is. ‘What the F-ck Is This?’: Team Trump Blindsided by Jan. 6 Committee Getting Doc Footage Former administration and campaign officials tell Rolling Stone they had no idea a film crew had months of access to the former president and his family https://www.rollingstone.com/politi...mittee-subpoena-1371644/?sub_action=logged_in
While elected officials blaming "Overzealous Staffer" for their misdeeds is a time-honored Washington tradition, it's probably not going to fly when seditious conspiracy, and election fraud charges are on the table, Senator Johnson. Ron Johnson insists he had no role in false electors aide sought to share with Pence https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/poli...ught-to-share-with-pence/ar-AAYJZr0?li=BBnb7K Sen. Ron Johnson on Tuesday responded to the House Jan. 6 committee's findings that he apparently wanted to deliver fake electoral votes for Donald Trump from Wisconsin and Michigan to Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, 2021. In its hearing Tuesday afternoon, the committee revealed a text message from Jan. 6 between a senior Johnson aide, Sean Riley, and a member of Pence's team in which Riley wrote that Johnson "needs to hand something to VPOTUS." When told the "something" was "alternate slates of electors" for Michigan and Wisconsin -- which Joe Biden won in the 2020 presidential election -- the Pence aide, Chris Hodgson, replied, "Do not give that to him," according to the text the committee showed. MORE: Dramatic details and key takeaways from Tuesday's Jan. 6 hearing Tuesday's evidence further underscored the extent to which Johnson or his team pursued means of contesting the last presidential race. The new details quickly led some Democratic challengers in Wisconsin to call for Johnson, who is seeking reelection for a third term, to step down. Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said Johnson should resign, while Milwaukee Bucks executive Alex Lasry called him a "seditious traitor." Alexa Henning, a spokeswoman for Johnson, insisted after the hearing that the senator "had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office." "This was a staff to staff exchange. His new Chief of Staff contacted the Vice President's office. The Vice President's office said not to give it to him and we did not. There was no further action taken. End of story," Henning said in a statement to ABC News. Asked about the incident on Tuesday night, Johnson said "nobody knows" who brought the "envelope" of fake electors to his office, but he added that it was "some staff intern" from an unnamed House office. "Somebody from the House, some staff intern said, 'The Vice President needs this,' or whatever. I wasn't involved," he said. The Wisconsin Republican, who declined to say if his office would cooperate with the House select committee's investigation, then said one of his staffers "went over" to the House to get the false electoral slates. MORE: At Jan. 6 hearing, GOP state election officials detail emotional pushback to Trump's pressure "We got contacted by somebody. I don't know who. 'We got this envelope for the vice president. Can you, Sen. Johnson, deliver it?' Because I'm obviously on the Senate floor. And the rest of the story is nothing," Johnson said. "I didn't offer [to give it to Pence]. It was staff to staff," he contended. "There's no conspiracy here," he said. "This is a complete non-story." The Jan. 6 committee's Tuesday hearing focused on Trump's pressure campaign against state election officials and related efforts to overturn Biden's victory in key battleground states. The panel examined Trump's strategy of putting forward false electors on his behalf from states actually won by Biden -- and revealed evidence, committee members argued, directly linking the former president to the effort. According to the committee, in December 2020 the Trump campaign had convened groups of Republicans in key states like Wisconsin to cast their own, illegitimate electoral votes for Trump as the states certified Biden's victory, and they later attempted to send those false electors to Washington. "Freaking Trump idiots want someone to fly original elector papers to the senate President," Wisconsin Republican Party executive director Mark Jefferson texted on Jan. 4, according to a message disclosed Tuesday by the committee. "They're going to call one of us to tell us just what the hell is going on."
‘Team Normal’ Just Looked The Other Way While Alternate Elector Scheme Unfolded Jan. 6 Committee reveals new details of fake elector scheme. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckr...r-way-while-alternate-elector-scheme-unfolded The January 6 Committee laid out new details in the fake elector scheme at its Tuesday hearing, providing a look at how senior Trump officials tried to limit their own involvement in the plan while allowing it to go forward. In November 2020, Trump was searching for a way to stay in office. His efforts, the committee showed on Tuesday, coalesced around a plan to swear in alternate slates of pro-Trump electors in states that Joe Biden had won. GOP-controlled state legislatures could then declare the election invalid and approve the pro-Trump electors by January 6, at which point Vice President Mike Pence would reject the legitimate, Biden votes. Or that was the plan. It’s a wild scheme, and the committee showed on Tuesday two things: that senior Trump officials knew it was insane, and possibly illegal — and that they did nothing to stop it. The panel played a video interview with Justin Clark, a Trump campaign attorney. Clark testified to the committee that he was uncomfortable with helping the alternate elector scheme. Clark recalled a conversation he had with Ken Chesebro, a Trump attorney representing the campaign in Wisconsin. “You just get after it. I’m out,” Clark recalled telling Chesebro. “I don’t think this is appropriate. This isn’t the right thing to do.” Chesebro, released memos show, first advocated internally that the campaign take the alternate elector route, though a hodgepodge of conservative voices had also encouraged Trump to pursue that plan. The effort is now reportedly under federal investigation; Chesebro told TPM that his work fell within the realm of typical advocacy. Testimony released by the committee suggested that Clark did nothing to stop Chesebro — he only limited his own involvement. As an attorney, Clark has continued to represent Trump. Last year, he sued the committee in a bid to stop it from obtaining records held by the National Archives that were created during the Trump administration. Per other testimony released by the committee, the order to move the alternate elector scheme forward came from the very top: Trump himself. RNC Chair Ronna McDaniel testified that Trump called her and connected her with attorney John Eastman, directing the two to coordinate false slates of electors. “My understanding is the campaign did take the lead and we were just helping them,” McDaniel said. The committee played testimony from another campaign attorney, as well: Matt Morgan. Similarly, Morgan shifted responsibility away from himself while indicating he still allowed the plan to go forward. “This is your task,” he recalled directing another campaign official to tell Chesebro. ” You are responsible for the Electoral College issues moving forward.” To Morgan, that was his “way of taking that responsibility to zero.” For the country, however, that direction appears to have helped keep the scheme alive. The panel delved into the scheme along with testimony from two of its victims: Georgia elections worker Shaye Moss, and Speaker of Arizona’s House of Representatives Rusty Bowers. Moss found herself the target of false election conspiracy theories propagated by Rudy Giuliani and Trump himself. Bowers was on the receiving end of intense pressure from White House officials and Trump attorneys to enact the fake elector scheme in Arizona. But unlike Clark and Morgan, Moss and Bowers lacked the luxury of removing themselves from the situation. “A lot of threats wishing death upon me,” recalled Moss, who is Black. “Telling me that, you know, I’ll be in jail with my mother and saying things like, ‘Be glad it’s 2020 and not 1920.'” Bowers recalled multiple conversations with Giuliani, other Trump attorneys, and Trump himself. “You are asking me to do something against my oath, and I will not break my oath,” he recalled telling Giuliani and Trump during a conversation about the alternate elector scheme. Giuliani purportedly replied: “Aren’t we all Republicans here? I would think we’d get a better reception.” The hearing did inject a new mystery into the scheme: that of Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-WI) role. The committee revealed a text exchange between Ron Johnson’s Chief of Staff Sean Riley and Chris Hodgson, a Pence aide. In the texts, Riley said that Sen. Johnson wanted to give Pence “alternate slates of electors” for Wisconsin and Michigan “because archivist receive them.” “Do not give that to him,” Hodgson replied. It’s a piece of evidence which suggests that the plan to feed alternate electors to Pence may have had support from within the Senate. Alexa Henning, a Johnson spokeswoman, said in a statement that the senator “had no involvement in the creation of an alternate slate of electors and had no foreknowledge that it was going to be delivered to our office.”
Jan. 6 panel revises hearing schedule, citing new evidence Rep. Bennie Thompson said they had to consider new footage of the Trump family, documents from the National Archives and tips they had received during previous hearings. https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/22/jan-6-panel-revises-hearing-schedule-00041384 Rep. Bennie Thompson, chair of the Jan. 6 select committee, said Wednesday that significant new streams of evidence have necessitated a change to the panel’s hearing schedule, including the potential for additional hearings. After the committee’s Thursday hearing — which will focus on former President Donald Trump’s effort to deploy the Justice Department to help overturn the 2020 presidential election — House investigators will resume hearings in July, Thompson said. Thompson (D-Miss.) cited newly received footage from documentarian Alex Holder, who had access to Trump and his family before and after Jan. 6; new documents from the National Archives; and a flood of new tips received during the committee’s first four public hearings. Although panel leaders have only teased the possibility of two public hearings beyond Thursday’s, Thompson said they may add one or more hearings, depending on the evidence it collects in the coming weeks. The House is scheduled to leave town for two weeks beginning Friday and to return on July 12. Thompson said the panel’s hearings would likely resume “after the recess.” However, Thompson cautioned that the hearings couldn’t be pushed back much further because the panel has to write its final report, which members expect to release in the fall. Thompson said he has already viewed some of the footage provided by Holder, who is slated to privately speak with the select committee Thursday, though he hasn’t seen all of it yet. He described Holder’s footage as “important” but declined to elaborate.
New documentary footage reveals Pence reacting to a resolution calling for him to invoke 25th amendment to remove Trump from power https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/23/poli...ntary-footage-pence-25th-amendment/index.html
A solid day though Kinzinger should have tried in the profit motive in Trump's scheme, not just his ego.