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Oh dang #January6thHearings today are during the day; I’d better tune in now…
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ok here’s the stream for today’s hearing: youtube.com/watch?v=pr5QUInmGI8 (lol they disabled chat this time around)
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last time around, leaving the chat enabled led to it being mostly Morbius: @cooljeanius/1535050219263762432
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hm, seems to be starting a bit later than last time; last time it was 5~6 minutes late, and this time we’re up to 7~8 minutes late… at least they have an indicator up this time showing that the wait is on their end…
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oh so maybe this is why they’re running later this time; apparently the plan for Bill Stepien to appear live is falling through: @mkraju/1536349037632397314
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What a time for his wife to go into labor: @NorthBayNews/1536351454851739649
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His kid will have one heck of a birth story to tell people: “Hey everyone, I’m the reason my dad got to get out of testifying before Congress about his role in the attempted end of American democracy!”
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OK apparently his lawyer will still be appearing: @MacFarlaneNews/1536335832503701504
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…seems to be actually starting now?
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ok yeah Chair Thompson is opening the hearing now
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Rep. Cheney’s turn for an opening statement; they’re going to be focusing on the “Big Lie” portion today
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Eric Herschman (Trump lawyer) says they never found any evidence of any of the Dominion allegations
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The “2000 Mules” thing was showing up a lot last week in the chat (when that was enabled), so it’s interesting to see Rep. Cheney addressing that
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Rep. Lofgren gets an opening statement this time, too
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So yeah we already know that Trump’s 2020 allegations were false; the interesting part here is how they’re going to show that he *knew* they were false and kept making them anyways
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mini-montage of Trump claiming that there would be election fraud even before it happened… I’m not sure how that would be convincing that he was lying to true believers? They’d just say, “Well, his predictions were correct!”
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The witness who could make it (the Fox News guy) is sworn in now; showing a bit more of video of “checked-out” Ivanka and Jared Kushner and Jason Miller from their depositions first
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they’re going to be focusing on the moment when Fox called Arizona
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lol Rudy Giuliani was drunk on Election Night 2020
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so from this deposition it sounds like Trump just completely ignored Stepien’s advice
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I think the Fox News guy is @ChrisStirewalt? He confirms that Biden won.
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Chair Thompson hands off to Rep. Lofgren for questioning Mr. Stirewalt
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Stirewalt explaining the term “red mirage” now
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Bill Barr knew that the “red mirage” was a thing too
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as did Bill Stepien
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so Kevin McCarthy is getting brought into this discussion now
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lol Stirewalt is making this about competition with other news channels
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Stepien/Giuliani infighting
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ok first panel of today is dismissed; there’s still one more to go today
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more Barr deposition clips before we get to the next panel
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clips of Barr/Lofgren debunking “2000 mules” now
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Peter Navarro getting brought up now
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I'm kinda drifting now; wish I'd slept better last night... I get why they have to debunk all these separate claims of fraud, but it's still kinda repetitive to listen to...
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10 minute recess now; phew...
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ok we’re back for the second panel now
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currently hearing from @USAttorneyPak
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Atty Pak debunked the Georgia claims; now back to Barr’s deposition for the Philadelphia claims
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Witness Schmidt is also debunking the Philadelphia claims
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Al Schmidt is @Commish_Schmidt
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Mr. Schmidt telling about the threats he received after Trump tweeted about him
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Current witness: a Mr. Ginsberg, a Republican election lawyer
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Not quite sure of the correct handle for him; probably @BenLGinsberg?
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moving onto quotes from judges who threw out Trump’s post-election court cases now
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ok so that second panel of witnesses went relatively quickly
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closing statement from Rep. Lofgren now
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focusing now on how the “Big Lie” tied in with Trump’s fundraising tactics
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there was no actual such thing as an “Election Defense Fund” that Trump was asking for money for; the money went to his “Save America PAC” instead
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now tying the fundraising emails with how they led right up to the Jan. 6th insurrection
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sounds like Trump might be facing fraud charges for fraudulent fundraising, too
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Rep. Cheney’s closing statement now
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ok today’s hearing is adjourned now