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It was supposedly a staff intern.


Analysis: Ron Johnson's explanation on pushing fake electors makes no sense - CNNPolitics

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"Well that clears things up not at all!

Let’s take Johnson at his word and walk through how he says this all played out.

Step 1: A “staff intern” in the House gave the slates of fake electors in Michigan to Wisconsin to Johnson’s office.

Step 2: Someone on Johnson’s staff alerted Riley, the top aide, to let him know that they had these fake electors slate in their possession.

Step 3: Riley reached out to the vice president’s office and said they had the fake electors and needed to get it to Pence. Hodgson said not to do so. And that’s that.

That timeline, um, raises a few questions.

1) Who is the “staff intern” who somehow had copies of fake electors in two swing states?

2) How did a House intern wind up with these documents?

3) Given the source – again, according to Johnson, a “staff intern” – why did Johnson’s office look to get the fake electors in Pence’s hands?

4) After Hodgson told Riley not to give the electors document to Pence, what exactly did Riley do with the documents? Did he just throw them out? Or did he reach out to any other people in an effort to get them seen by either the vice president or someone in his office?

The simple fact is that Johnson’s answer on the fake electors raises more questions than it answers. A lot more."

 

FBI raids homes and new subpeonas issued as January 6 committee pushes back hearings

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"Federal agents issued new subpoenas regarding the January 6 riot at the US Capitol and raided the homes of two people involved in the plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election, The Washington Post reported.

The FBI confirmed to The Post that it conducted authorised law enforcement activity at the home of Brad Carver, who allegedly signed a document to be a Trump elector, as well as Thomas Lane, who worked on Trump’s effort to overturn the election in Arizona and New Mexico.

Other would-be participants in former president Donald Trump’s scheme to send an alternate slate of electors to overturn the 2020 presidential election received subpoenas.

The subpoenas and activity at the homes comes a day after Arizona state Speaker of the House Russell “Rusty” Bowers, as well as Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger and his deputy Gabriel Sterling, described efforts by Mr Trump and his associates to overturn the election results."

 

Derrick Evans has been sentenced to three months in prison.

Evans was arrested January 8, 2021 at what appeared to be his grandmother's house. Video showed him being taken away in cuffs while his grandmother talked with a reporter.

At the time of his arrest, he was a newly elected delegate from the state of WV. He resigned after his arrest.


Derrick Evans sentenced to 3 months in prison

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"WASHINGTON (WOWK) — Former West Virginia State lawmaker Derrick Evans has been sentenced to three months in prison for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

The Judge said he will also be on supervised release following his prison sentence. He will have to pay restitution.

During Evans’ sentencing, he calls the past 18 months a, “difficult journey,” for him and his family. He thanks the court for letting him be home with his family during this time period.

Kanawha County Family Court Judge believed to be struck by bullet while vacationing in Portland
Near the end of his sentencing, he said, “this court will never, ever see me again. I’ve learned a very valuable lesson.”

The U.S. Attorney previously said that Evans, “committed and attempted to commit an act to obstruct, impede, or interfere with a law enforcement officer from the United States Capitol Police, lawfully engaged in the lawful performance of his/her official duties incident to and during a civil disorder which in any way obstructed, delayed, and adversely affected commerce and the movement of any article and commodity in commerce and the performance of a federally protected function.”"

 

The grandmother of Derrick Evans described him as a fine young man as the FBI was taking him away after arresting him for participating in the riot at the Capitol.

Evans had been involved in activity similar to the type at the riot at the Capitol.


Derrick Evans (politician) - Wikipedia

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"Anti-abortion activities

Before pursuing elected office, Evans was known as a confrontational local anti-abortion protester who, over the course of 2018 and 2019, harassed patients, staff, and volunteer escorts at the only clinic in West Virginia that performed abortions.[5] Evans would livestream himself confronting people outside the clinic to tens of thousands of viewers.[5] In addition to shouting abuse, Evans would livestream himself repeating clinic workers' names over and over and screaming their personal details.[5] His activities prompted the clinic to put up a 10-foot high fence and alert police.[5] Evans' harassment led a woman to file for and receive a restraining order over "alleged stalking and repeated threats of bodily injury"; Evans subsequently violated the order.[6]

Evans also frequently appeared at the West Virginia State Capitol, where he took photographs and videos of state legislators. Democratic State Delegate Danielle Walker said that Evans referred to her as "satanic" and equated her support for LGBTQ rights to defending pedophilia.[5]."

 

Shaye Moss: 'I don't want anyone knowing my name'

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""It turned my life upside down," said Shaye Moss, adding that she has received countless death threats since the 2020 presidential election.

On day four of public hearings, the panel heard from Republicans who Mr Trump pressured to overturn the vote.

She and her mother, also an ex-election worker, said they now live in fear.

"It's turned my life upside down. I no longer give out my business card. I don't transfer calls. I don't want anyone knowing my name," she told the Democratic-led committee on Tuesday.

"I don't go anywhere with my mom. I don't go to the grocery store at all. I haven't been anywhere at all. I've gained about 60lbs."

"I don't do nothing anymore. I don't want to go anywhere. I second guess everything I do. It's affected my life in a major way. In every way. All because of lies," Ms Moss continued.

She, along with her mother, Ruby Freeman, worked on election day counting ballots in Atlanta for Fulton County. She had held the full-time job there from 2017-22.

The month after Mr Trump's election loss, the mother and daughter were thrust into the spotlight after a lawyer for the Trump campaign released a CCTV clip showing Ms Moss appearing to be handed something by her mother.

Conservative media and Trump aides began arguing that the edited footage showed an illegal scheme to input 18,000 false ballots supporting Mr Biden into election counting machines."

 

‘There Is Nowhere I Feel Safe’: Election Officials Describe Threats Fueled by Trump

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"WASHINGTON — Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of Arizona’s House, braced every weekend for hordes of Trump supporters, some with weapons, who swarmed his home and blared videos that called him a pedophile.

“We had a daughter who was gravely ill, who was upset by what was happening outside,” he said. She died not long after, in late January 2021.

Gabriel Sterling, a top state election official in Georgia, recalled receiving an animated picture of a slowly twisting noose along with a note accusing him of treason. His boss, Georgia’s secretary of state, Brad Raffensperger, recounted that Trump supporters broke into his widowed daughter-in-law’s house and threatened his wife with sexual violence.

And Wandrea Moss and her mother, Ruby Freeman, two Black women who served as election workers during the pandemic in Georgia, suffered an onslaught of racist abuse and were driven into hiding after Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Donald J. Trump’s lawyer, lied that they had rigged the election against Mr. Trump."

 

Republican state officials say Trump pressured, threatened them | wusa9.com

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"Like Bowers, Raffensperger and Gabriel Sterling, the COO of the Georgia Secretary of State’s Office, testified about the torrent of threats and harassment they received after Raffensperger declined to join his plan. Raffensperger said his cell phone and email were “doxxed” and his wife began receiving disturbing sexualized threats. Someone also broke into his daughter-in-law’s home. In the phone call, Trump suggested Raffensperger could face criminal charges."

 

Read the full transcript and listen to Trump's audio call with Georgia secretary of state | CNN Politics

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Trump: When are you going to do signature counts, when are you going to do signature verification on Fulton County, which you said you were going to do, and now all of a sudden you’re not doing it. When are you doing that?

Germany: We are going to do that. We’ve announced —

Hilbert: To get to this issue of the personal information and privacy issue, is it possible that the secretary of state could deputize the lawyers for the president so that we could access that information and private information without you having any kind of violation?

Trump: Well, I don’t want to know who it is. You guys can do it very confidentially. You can sign a confidentiality agreement. That’s OK. I don’t need to know names. But we go the information on this stuff that we’re talking about. We got all that information from the secretary of state.

 

I-Team: FBI seizes Nevada GOP chairman's phone as part of fake elector investigation

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"LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — FBI agents served a search warrant Wednesday on Nevada’s top GOP official, sources told the 8 News Now I-Team’s George Knapp.

Agents seized the cell phone of state Republican chairman Michael McDonald, reportedly as part of an investigation into the fake elector scheme initiated at the end of the 2020 presidential election.

A second search warrant was issued for state party secretary James DeGraffenreid, who also signed the document, but FBI agents could not locate him Wednesday, sources told Knapp.

In December 2020, the 8 News Now I-Team reported the Nevada Republican Party’s six electors signed paperwork signaling their support for former President Donald Trump in a symbolic ceremony devoid of any legal merit, which was held in Carson City and coincided with the official state-sanctioned tally on Dec. 14, 2020."

 

Article from January 2022.


I-Team: Nevada Republican Party sent National Archives fake electoral certificates saying Trump won election

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"LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The National Archives received documentation from Nevada’s Republican Party certifying the state’s six electoral votes in the 2020 presidential election to former President Donald Trump, documents obtained by the 8 News Now I-Team indicate.

Despite the state’s real electors submitting the verified documentation for President Joe Biden, Nevada’s GOP went ahead with attempts to validate their own votes.

In December 2020, the I-Team reported Nevada Republican Party’s six electors signed paperwork signaling their support for Trump in a symbolic ceremony devoid of any legal merit which was held in Carson City and coincided with the official state-sanctioned tally on Dec. 14, 2020.

The certificate received by the National Archives looks much different than the official state-sealed one and reads, “We, the undersigned, being the duly elected and qualified electors for president and vice president of the United States of America from the State of Nevada, do hereby certify six electoral votes for Trump.”"

 

Who is Michael McDonald? Nevada GOP chairman reportedly investigated by FBI

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"FBI agents reportedly served a search warrant on Nevada's top GOP official, who was among those subpoenaed by the House select committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Nevada GOP Chair Michael McDonald was among more than a dozen officials who were subpoenaed by the committee earlier this year in connection with a "fake electors" scheme that sought to have representatives in battleground states say that former President Donald Trump, not Joe Biden, had won them.

"We are seeking information about your role and participation in the purported slate of electors casting votes for Donald Trump and, to the extent relevant, your role in the events of January 6, 2021," Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee chairman, said in the letter seeking McDonald's testimony and documents.

The letter to McDonald referenced an illegitimate signing ceremony in December 2020, where McDonald and others had pledged the state's six electors to Trump—even though Biden had carried the state by more than 33,000 votes.

"Our brave electors standing up for what is right and casting their electoral votes for @realDonaldTrump," the Nevada GOP tweeted alongside a picture of the group in Carson City on December 14, 2020."


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New documentary footage reveals Pence reacting to a resolution calling for him to invoke 25th amendment to remove Trump from power | CNN Politics

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"The documentary film crew subpoenaed by the January 6 committee interviewed former Vice President Mike Pence on January 12, 2021, a day before the House of Representatives voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump for inciting the Capitol riot.

In a clip of the documentary from filmmaker Alex Holder, which was obtained by CNN, Pence is shown an email by a member of his staff that includes the draft House resolution demanding that Pence invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power, according to the documentary.

Pence tells his aide, “Yeah, excellent” as he is handed the phone with the email. He then offers a pained smirk and asks the aide to “tell Zach to print me off a hard copy for the trip home.” Pence then collects himself for the rest of the interview.

The next clip shows Pence saying, “I am always hopeful about America,” juxtaposed against the backdrop of crews erecting security fencing around the Capitol building.

The footage of Pence’s interview, which has not been previously released, was captured less than a week after pro-Trump rioters stormed the US Capitol in an effort to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win. Pence had to be evacuated to safety amid calls from rioters to “Hang Mike Pence.”

The same evening that Pence was interviewed, the House passed the resolution calling for Pence to invoke the 25th Amendment to remove Trump from power and deem him unfit for office. Only one Republican, Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, voted in favor of the resolution, which was effectively a symbolic vote taken one day before the House impeached Trump for a second time on January 13, 2021."

 

Bombshell - this does not happen everyday

Feds Reportedly Search Trump DOJ Official Jeffrey Clark’s Home

Federal law enforcement agents on Wednesday searched the home of Trump-era Department of Justice lawyer Jeffrey Clark, whose push to pursue shaky voter fraud claims following the 2020 election caused uproar at the DOJ, multiple news outlets reported Thursday.

It’s not clear which federal agencies searched Clark’s suburban Virginia home or why, but unnamed sources told the New York Times the search was tied to the DOJ’s probe into the push to reverse former President Donald Trump’s 2020 election loss.


The U.S. Attorney’s office in D.C. told CNN and ABC News “there was law enforcement activity in that area yesterday,” but didn’t offer any further details

 

Jeffrey Clark is the person Trump seemed to want to make acting AG if he could somehow dispose of acting AG Rosen who took over when Barr resigned in frustration with Trump stolen election antics.

Trump's officials at the DOJ said they would resign en masse, like a Nixon Saturday Night Massacres. It appears to have made Trump change his mind about disposing of Rosen.


Jeffrey Clark: Feds search home of former DOJ official who pushed Trump's false election fraud claims - CNNPolitics

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"Federal investigators on Wednesday conducted a search of the home of former Justice Department official Jeffrey Clark, people briefed on the matter tell CNN.

Clark is the former DOJ lawyer who former President Donald Trump sought to install as attorney general in the days before the January 6 Capitol riot as top officials refused to go along with his vote fraud claims.

He was at the center of an effort by Trump to get the Justice Department to falsely claim there was enough voter fraud in Georgia and other states that he lost, in a last-minute bid to help sow doubt about Joe Biden’s victory and pave the way for him to remain in power.

A spokesman for the US Attorney’s Office in Washington confirmed that “there was law enforcement activity in the vicinity” of Clark’s home but declined to comment on any particular person or activity.

Attorneys for Clark didn’t respond to requests for comment.

The Center for Renewing America, where Clark works, confirmed the search at Clark’s house, calling it a “weaponization of government.”

“The new era of criminalizing politics is worsening in the US. Yesterday more than a dozen DOJ law enforcement officials searched Jeff Clark’s house in a pre-dawn raid, put him in the streets in his pajamas, and took his electronic devices. All because Jeff saw fit to investigate voter fraud. This is not America, folks,” the group’s president Russ Vought, the former Office of Management and Budget director under Trump, said in a statement. “The weaponization of government must end. Let me be very clear. We stand by Jeff and so must all patriots in this country.”"

 

If they can turn Clark, Trump is toast

 

Rosen, Donoghue and Engel are scheduled to testify Thursday during the January 6 committee hearing.

 

I don't know. trump is like a duck in the jaws of an alligator, but is slimey enough to escape

 

Analysis: Kevin McCarthy is officially in Donald Trump's doghouse - CNNPolitics

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"It’s been a week for House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy.

First came a piece on CNN headlined, “Frustrated with January 6 hearings, Trump turns ire toward his allies,” that included these lines:

“‘I don’t understand why Kevin didn’t put anyone on the committee,’ Trump has recently griped to those around him, according to a GOP source with direct knowledge of the comments – a reference to … McCarthy’s decision to boycott the select committee after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two Republican members he originally chose to sit on the panel.”

Then on Thursday, Politico and The Washington Post both published stories making Trump’s disappointment with McCarthy clear.

The Post piece – “As Jan. 6 committee targets Trump, his consternation at McCarthy grows” – included these lines:

“Trump has said privately for months that McCarthy’s decision to pull pro-Trump Republicans from sitting on the Jan. 6 select committee was a mistake, one that has become clearer as Trump watches the hearings that are working to build the case that he should be criminally charged for conspiring to overturn the 2020 presidential election.”"

 

Trump calls rioters ‘smart’ in clip from Jan. 6 ‘Unprecedented’ documentary - live

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"A new report says that Donald Trump is not only watching the 6 January hearings closely, but that he is furious that there are no Republicans on the panel to fight his corner because House leader Kevin McCarthy pulled three nominees out of the committee when it was formed.

According to the Washington Post, the former president is “about to scream at the TV” during the sessions, which have so far laid out devastating evidence of his and his associates’ plot to illegally wrest the presidency back from Joe Biden.

Meanwhile, as the committee prepares to hold its fifth hearing of the summer this afternoon, chair Bennie Thompson has announced that with a flurry of law enforcement activity on Wednesday and a steady stream of new evidence, it is pausing its schedule after today’s hearing to resume once the House comes back from its 4 July recess."

The panel is in the process of securing the co-operation of longtime right-wing activist Ginni Thomas, wife of Supreme Court justice Clarence Thomas. Congressman Mo Brooks, who spoke at the 6 January rally outside the White House, has also offered to testify, but says he will only do so in public."

 

Numerous former Trump administration officials speaking out against him is excruciating for Trump who is being scalded in the public eye.

He's been spoiled for decades at being able to scald others with relative impunity.