House Document 117-9 — Impeachment of President Donald John Trump, Evidentiary Record, Vol. I (2021)

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This House Document 117-9 is titled Impeachment of President Donald John Trump, The Evidentiary Record, Volume I, an index and public reporting and other documents, Part 1. It is dated February 2, 2021, ordered to be printed, and printed at the direction of Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the House of Representatives, pursuant to H. Res. 40. It is produced by the House Committee on the Judiciary and submitted by Jamie Raskin (D-MD), Lead House Impeachment Manager, and other House Impeachment Managers. The listing of public reporting and other documents includes news articles dated December 2020 and January 2021.

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117TH CONGRESS }
   1st Session       HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES             {    DOCUMENT
                                                                 117-9




             IMPEACHMENT OF PRESIDENT
                DONALD JOHN TRUMP




               THE EVIDENTIARY RECORD
                             VOLUME I

     Index to House Document 117-9 and Public Reporting
                 and Other Documents Part 1




    Printed at the direction of Cheryl L. Johnson, Clerk of the House of
   Representatives, pursuant to H. Res. 40, 117th Cong., 1st Sess. (2021)

                FEBRUARY 2, 2021.-Ordered to be printed



                   U.S. GOVERNMENT PUBLISHING OFFICE
 42-974                     WASHINGTON : 2021
PRODUCED BY THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY
     PURSUANT TO H. RES. 40 AND SUBMITTED BY:

     JAMIE RASKIN (D-MD), Lead House Impeachment Manager
       DIA.'IA DEGETTE (D-CO), House Impeachment Manager
        DAVID CICILLINE (D-RI), House Impeachment Manager
       JOAQCIN CASTRO (D-TX), House Impeachment Manager
        ERIC SWALWELL (D-CA), House Impeachment Manager
           TED LIEU (D-CA), House Impeachment Manager
       STACEY PLASKETT (D-VI), House Impeachment Manager
         JOE NEGUSE (D-CO), House Impeachment Manager
      MADELEINE DEAN (D-PA), House Impeachment Manager




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                       AMY Rt:TKIK, Chief of Staff
          PERRY APELBAliM, Staff Director and Chief Counsel
                       JOHN DOTY, Senior Advisor
                  AARON HILLER, Deputy Chief Counsel
                   DAVJD GREENGRASS, Senior Counsel
        JOHK WILLIAMS, Parliamentarian and Senior Counsel
               BARRY BERKE, Chief Impeachment Counsel
                  JOSHUA MATZ, Impeachment Counsel
          SHADAWN REDDICK-SMITH, Communications Director
MOH SHAR:\IA, Director of Member Services and Outreach & Policy Advisor
           ARYA HARIHARAN, Deputy Chief Oversight Counsel
                    BEN HERNANDEZ-STERN, Counsel
                          SARAH ISTEL, Counsel
                       MATTHEW MORGAN, Counsel
                      MATTHEW ROBI!>.SON, Counsel
                    MADELINE STRASSER, Chief Clerk
                  WILLIAM S. EMMONS, Legislative Aide
                   PRIYMKA MARA, Legislative Aide
                  A."THO!\Y VALDEZ, Legislative Aide
                   CIERRA FONTENOT, Staff Assistant
             JESSICA PRESLEY, Director of Digital Strategy
                KAYLA HAMEDI, Deputy Press Secretary




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Vol. I - Index to House Document 117-9 and Public Reporting and Other Documents Part 1

Vol. II   Public Reporting and Other Documents Part 2

Vol. III Public Reporting and Other Documents Part 3 and Tweets, Photos, Videos, and Congressional
Documents




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                                  Public Reporting and Other Documents



3rd Strike Against Voter Fraud Claims Means They're Out After Signature Audit Finds No Fraud,
Secretary of State Office, GA (Dec. 14, 2020)

A Reporter's Footage From Inside the Capitol Siege, The New Yorker (Jan. 17, 2021)

Aaron Blake, Trump promoted N. M. official's comment that 'the only good Democrat is a dead
Democrat.' Now the man is arrested in the Capitol riot, Wash. Post (Jan. 18, 2021)

Aaron C. Davis, Timeline: How Law Enforcement and Government Officials Failed to Head Off the U.S.
Capitol Attack, Washington Post (Jan. 16, 2021)

Aaron Glantz, Read Pence's full letter saying he can't claim 'unilateral authority' to reject electoral votes,
PBS (Jan 6, 2021)

Aaron Katersk1 & Celia Darrough, Armed protests being planned at all 50 state capitols, FBI bulletin
says, ABC News (Jan. 11, 2021)

ACLU Again Calls for Impeachment of President Trump, ACLU Press Release

AC. Thompson & Ford Fischer, Members of Several Well-Kno,vn Hate Groups Identified at Capitol
Riot, ProPublica(Jan. 9,2021)

Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns Violence at The U.S. Capitol, Homeland Security (Jan. 7, 2021)

Adam Brewster, Wisconsin Supreme Court rejects Trump campaign effort to toss ballots just before
electors meet, CBS News

Adam Rawnsley & Justin Rohrlich 'Ready to Die': Two Months of MAGA Mob Warning Signs, The
Daily Beast (Jan 7, 2021)

Adele M. Stan, Oath Keepers' Stewart Rhodes Calls for 'Bloody War' if Trump Doesn't Invoke
Insurrection Act, Right Wing Watch (Dec. 14, 2020)

ADL, Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Gather for "Million MAGA March", ADL (Nov. 15,
2020)

Aishvarya Kavi, Rampage Weighs on Congressional Staff Members and Capitol Workers, N. Y. Times
(Jan 8, 2021)

Alan Feuer and Nicole Hong, 'I Answered the Call of My President': Rioters Say Trump Urged Them
On, N. Y. Times (Jan. 17, 2021)

Alan Feuer, Police Reassess Security for Inauguration and Demonstrations After Capitol Attack, N.Y.
Times (Jan. 10, 2021)

Alana Wise, Pence Says He Doesn't Have Power to Reject Electoral Votes, NPR (Jan. 6, 2021)

Alex Ward, 3 top Trump advisers are considering resigning follo,ving the Capitol insurrection, Vox (Jan.
6, 2021)
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Alex Woodward, 12 National Guard members with ties to militia groups or 'extremist views' removed
from inauguration, Independent(Jan. 19, 2021)

Alexander Bolton, GOP Senator: Trump 'Committed Impeachable Offenses', The Hill (Jan. 9, 2021)

Alexander Mallin and Luke Barr, Man Who Allegedly Broke Into Pelosi's Office Charged with 3 Federal
Counts, ABC News (Jan. 9, 2021)

Alexander Smith & Saphora Smith, U.S. foes like China and Iran see opportunity in the chaos ofTrump-
stoked riot at Capitol, NBC News, (Jan. 8, 2021)

Ali Swensonn, AP Fact Check: Trump legal team's batch offalse vote claims, AP (Nov. 19, 2020)

Alison Durkee, Pennsylvania GOP lawmakers make clear they won't overturn the election as Trump
wants, Forbes (Dec. 3, 2020)

Allan Smith, D. C. Police make several arrests ahead of major pro-Trump election protest, NBC New·s
(Jan. 5, 2021)

Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan, Capitol Police officer who was on duty during the riot has died by
suicide, his family says, Wash. Post (Jan. 11, 2021)

Alyssa Pointer, Trump's pick for U.S. attorney in Georgia dismisses election fraud claims: 'There's just
nothing to them,' AJC (Jan. 12, 2021)

Amanda Macias, Mattis blames Trump for violence at Capitol, says his actions 'poison our respect for
fellow citizens', CNBC (Jan. 6, 202 l)

Amanda Seitz, Mob at U.S. Capitol encouraged by online conspiracy theories, AP (Jan. 7, 2021)

Amy Brittain, et al., The Capitol mob: A raging collection of grievances and disillusionment, Wash. Post
(Jan. 10, 2021)

Amy Gardner, 'Find the fraud': Trump pressured a Georgia elections investigator in a separate call legal
experts say could amount to obstruction, Wash. Post (Jan. 9, 2021)

Amy Gardner, Ga Secretary of state says fellow Republicans are pressuring him to find ways to exclude
ballots, Wash. Post. (Nov. 16, 2020)

Amy Gardner et al., Trump calls Georgia governor to pressure him for help overturning Biden's win in
the state, Wash. Post. (Dec. 5, 2020)

Amy Gardner and Keith Newell, 'Someone's going to get killed': GOP election official in Georgia
blames President Trump for fostering violent threats, Wash. Post (Dec. 1, 2020)

Amy Gardner & Paulina Firozi, Here's the full transcript and audio of the call between Trump and
Raffensperger, Wash. Post (Jan. 5, 2021)

Amy Gardner, 'I just want to find 11,780 votes': In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures
Georgia secretary of state to recalculate the vote in his favor, Wash. Post (Jan. 3, 2021)

Andrew Beal\ion, MAGA Geniuses Plot Takeover of US Capitol, Washingtonian (Jan. 5, 2021)

Andrew Prokop, Republican senator: White House aides say Trump was "delighted'' as Capitol was
stormed, Vox(Jan. 8, 2021)
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Annie Palmer, Facebook will block Trump from posting at least for the remainder of his term, CNBC
(Jan 7, 202 l)

AP, FBI warns of plans fornationwide armed protests next week, POLITICO (Jan. 11, 2021)

Arizona Republican Party v. Fontes Order

Aruna Vi swanatha, Sadie Gurman & Cameron McWhirter, White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to
Resign, Wall Street Journal (Jan 9, 2021)

Ashley Parker et al., Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump· s failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol,
Wash. Post (Jan. 11, 2021)

Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband Announces Departure from Civil Rights Division, U.S.
DepartmentofJustice(Jan. 17, 2021)

Associated Press, Judge bans Proud Boys leader from Washington, D.C., after arrest, NBC Ne,vs (Jan. 5,
2021)

Associated Press, Trump doesn't ask backers to disperse after storming Capitol, PBS (Jan. 6, 2021)

Azi Paybarah and Brent Lewis. Stunning Images as a Mob Storms the U.S. Capitol, N. Y. Times (Jan. 6,
2021)

Ben Collins & Brandy Zadrozny, Extremists made little secret of ambitions to 'occupy' Capitol in weeks
before attack, NBC News (Jan. 8, 2021)

Ben Collins & Brandy Zadromy, Proud Boys celebrate after Trump debate callout, NBC News (Sept. 29,
2020)

Ben Kasslen, Trump supporters who died during Capitol riot left online presence, NBC (Jan. 7, 2021)

Bernard Bailyn, The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 282 ( 1967)

Betsy Devos Letter of Resignation (Jan. 7, 2021)

Bob Christie & Jacques Billeaud, Arizona Supreme Court upholds election challenge dismissal, AP (Jan.
5, 2021)

Brad Petrishen, Video shows Congressman McGovern exiting House soon before woman fatally shot,
Telegram & Gazette (Jan. 8. 2021)

Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969)

Brandy Zadronzyny & Ben Collins, Violent threats ripple through far-right internet forums ahead of
protest, NBC (Jan. 5, 2021)

Brian Schwartz, Dark-money GOP fund funneled millions of dollars to groups that pushed voter fraud
claims, CNBC (Jan. 13, 2021)

Brian Fung, Capitol riots raise urgent concerns about Congress's information security, CNN (Jan.8.2021)

Brian Stelter and Oliver Darcy, Even worse than it looked on live TV, CNN (Jan. 9, 2021)

Caitlin McFall, Proud Boys flock to Washington 'incognito' for Jan. 6 protests, Fox News (Jan. 2, 2021)
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Carol D. Leonnig, Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that 'Congress itself"
could be targeted, Wash. Post (Jan. 15, 2021)

Carol D. Leonnig & Tom Hamburger, Michigan attorney general ponders criminal probes of state and
local officials who bend to Trump's will on overturning election results, Wash. Post (Nov. 21, 2020)

Carol D. Leonnig et al, Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials hamstrung efforts
to call in National Guard, Wash. Post (Jan. 10, 2021)

Carol Robinson, Lonnie Coffman, Alabama man arrested at DC riot, had homemade napalm in Mason
jars, feds say, AL (Jan. 8, 2021)

Casey Tolan et al., GOP lawmakers' fiery language under more scrutiny after deadly Capitol riot, CNN
(Jan 13, 2021)

Cass Sunstein, Does the 25th Amendment Apply to Trump? Quite Possibly, Bloomberg (Jan. 7, 2021)

Caroline Linton, Capitol Police officer ,vho responded to attack has died, CBS News (Jan. 11, 2021)

Chandelis Duster, 'Credible threats of violence' prompt closure of Michigan capitol to the public ahead of
Electoral College vote, CNN (Dec. 14, 2020)

Chaos in Capitol: Riots over election, Peninsula Daily News (Jan. 6, 2021)

Chelsea Stahl, Jan. 7 highlights and analysis of unrest in Washington, D.C., NBC (Jan. 8, 2021)

Chris Marquette et al., Pro-Trump protesters storm Capitol during Electoral College certification, causing
lockdown, Roll Call (Jan. 6, 2021)

Cheney: I Will Vote To Impeach The President, Liz Cheney Press Release (Jan. 12, 2021)

Chris Sommerfeldt, Pro-Trump rioters smeared poop in U.S. Capitol hallways during belligerent attack,
NY Daily News (Jan 7, 2021)

Christina A. Cassidy, EXPLAINER: Is Georgia's upcoming ballot' audit' a recount?, AP (Nov. 12, 2020)

Christine Mui, Ex-Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly supports 25th Amendment to remove president,
Boston Globe (Jan. 7, 2021)

Claudia Koerner and Julia Reinstein, A Capitol Police Officer On Duty During The Coup Attempt Has
DiedBy Suicide,Buzzfeed(Jan. 11,2021)

Committees Open Review oflnsurrection at Capitol and Threats to Stop Peaceful Transition of Power,
HPSCI Press Release (Jan. 16, 2021)
Congressman Kinzinger Statement on Impeachment, Congressman Adam Kinzinger Press Release (Jan.
12, 2021)

Congressman Mo Brooks Rebuts Vicious & Scurrilous Fake Ne,vs Media And Socialist Democrat
Attacks, Rep. Mo Brooks Press Release (Jan. 12, 2021)

Cotton Statement on Violence at Capitol, Senator Tom Cotton Press Release (Jan. 6, 2021).

Clara Hendrickson, Donald Trump called Monica Palmer after Wayne County Board of Canvassers
meeting, freep (Nov. 19, 2020)
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Colleen Long et al., FBI warns of plans fornationwide anned protests next week, AP (Jan. 11, 2021)

Colleen Long et al., Trump, allies make frantic steps to overturn Biden victory, AP (Nov. 19, 2020)

Connor Sheets, The Radicalization of Kevin Greeson, ProPublica (Jan. 15, 2021)

Craig Mauger, President Trump: Wayne County canvassers 'harassed violently', Detroit News (Nov. 25,
2020)

Craig Timberg and Drew Harwell, Pro-Trump Forums Erupt vvith Violent Threats Ahead of Wednesday's
Rally Against the 2020 Election, Wash. Post (Jan. 5, 2021)

Craig Timberg, Drew Harwell and Marissa J. Lang, Capitol siege was planned online. Trun1p supporters
now planning the next one., Wash. Post (Jan. 9, 2021)

Dalton Bennett et al., 41 minutes of fear: A video timeline from inside the Capitol siege, Washington Post
(Jan. 16, 2021)

Curt Devine, Donie O'Sullivan and Kara Scannell, Twitter permanently suspends Steve Bannon account
after talk of beheading, CNN (Nov. 6, 2020)

Dan Barry & Sheera Frenkel, 'Be There. Will Be Wild!': Trump All but Circled the Date, N. Y. Times
(Jan. 6, 2021)

Dan Barry, Mike McIntire & Matthew Rosenberg, 'Our President Wants Us Here': The Mob That
Stormed the Capitol, N. Y. Times (Jan. 9, 2021)

Dan Cherry, Upton: 'I will vote to impeach', The Patriot Ledger (Jan. 13, 2021)

Dan Packel, Thousands of Attorneys Join Calls for Trump's Immediate Removal, Law.com (Jan. 8, 2021)

Daniel Politi, Trump "s Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany Leaves White House a Few Days Early, Slate
(Jan 16, 2021)

Daniel Dale, Fact checking Trump's barrage of lies over the weekend, CNN (Nov. 16, 2020)

Dave Boucher, Trump 1\veets undermine Michigan leaders; images show Chatfield drinking at Trump
hotel, freep (Nov. 21, 2020)

David Choi, Trump lowers the White House flag after pressure from both Republicans and Democrats,
Business Insider (Jan. 11, 2021)

David D. Kirkpatrick, Mike McIntire and Christiaan Triebert, Before the Capitol Riot, Calls for Cash and
Talk of Revolution, N. Y. Times (Jan. 16, 2021)

David Landau and Rosalind Dixon, The 25th Amendment Can Remove Trump, but We Shouldn't Stop
There, N, Y. Times (Jan. 7, 2021)

David Morgan, Georgia sets timeline for Trump-requested vote recount, Reuters (Nov. 23, 2020)

David Priess & Jack Goldsmith, Can Trump Be Stopped?, Lawfare (Jan. 7, 2021)

David Smith et al., Donald Trump refuses to condemn white supremacists at presidential debate, The
Guardian (Sep. 29, 2020)
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Devlin Barrett and Matt Zapotosk1 , FBI report warned of 'war· at Capitol, contradicting claims there was
no indication of looming violence, Wash. Post (Jan. 12, 2021)

Devlin Barrett and Spencer S. Hsu, FBI probes possible connections between extremist groups at heart of
Capitol violence, Wash. Post (Jan. 18, 2021)

Devlin Barrett, Spencer S. Hsu & Matt Zapotosky, FBI focuses on whether some Capitol rioters intended
to harm lawmakers or take hostages, Wash. Post (Jan.8, 2021)

Dennis Romby, How President Trump misdialed Utah Sen. Mike Lee while the Capitol was under siege,
Deseret (Jan. 7, 2021).

Domenico Montanaro, Timeline: How One Of The Darkest Days In American History Unfolded, NPR
(Jan 7, 2021) ()

President Donald J. Trump, Facebook (Nov. 4, 2020)

Doug Richards, Gov. Kemp agitated by Giuliani's testimony, Trump's tweets, 11 Alive (Dec. 30, 2020)

Drew Harwell, To boost voter-fraud claims, Trump advocate Sidney Po\vell turns to unusual source: The
longtime operator of Q Anon' s Internet home, Wash. Post (Dec. L 2020)

Ed Pilkington, Incitement: a timeline of Trump's inflammatory rhetoric before the Capitol riot, The
Guardian (Jan. 7, 2021)

Education Secretary Devos Resigns, Calling Presidenfs Rhetoric 'Inflection Poinf, PBS (Jan. 7, 2021)

Elaine Godfrey, It was Supposed to be so Much Worse, The Atlantic (Jan. 9, 2021) ()

Eli Stokols, Trump plans big farewell ceremony as Pence does all the work, The World Ne,vs (Jan. 16,
2021)

Eli Stokols, Trump retreats from his job, and Pence fills the yoid as 'acting' president, L. A Times (Jan.
15,2021)

Eliott C. McLaughlin, Before Wednesday, Insurgents Waving Confederate Flags Hadn't Been Within 6
Miles of the US Capitol, CNN (Jan. 7, 2021)

Elizabeth Nolan Brown, Barr Authorizes Election Fraud Investigations. Why Not?, Reason (Nov. 10,
2020)
Emmanuel Felton, Black Police Officers Describe The Racist Attacks They Faced As TI1ey Protected The
Capitol, Buzzfeed (Jan. 9, 2021)

Emily Haavik, 'No credible threats' to Minnesota Capitol but security to remain high through
inauguration, KAREll (Jan. 15, 2021).

Erin Schumaker, Trump officials who have resigned in the wake of attack on Capitol, ABC News (Jan. 9,
2021)

Evan Hill et al., 'They Got a Officer!': How a Mob Dragged and Beat Police at the Capitol, N. Y. Times
(Jan. 11, 2021)

Evan Hill et al., Videos Show How Rioter Was Trampled in Stampede at Capitol, N. Y. Times (Jan. 17,
2021)
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Ewan Palmer, Sidney Powell's Ties to QAnon Movement Explained, Newsweek (Dec. 3, 2020)

Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Plan to Protest Congressional Certification ofBiden's
Victory, ADL(Jan. 4, 2021)

Fandos, Schaff, and Cochrane, 'Senate Being Locked Down': Inside a HarrO\ving Day at the Capitol, N.
Y. Times (Jan. 7, 2021)
FBI Phoenix Field Office, Anti-Government, Identity Based, and Fringe Political Conspiracy Theories
Very Likely Motivate Some Domestic Extremists to Commit Criminal, Sometimes Violent Activity, FBI
(May 30, 2019)

Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Hua Chunying's Regular Press Conference on January 7, 2021, Ministry
of Foreign Affairs of the People's Republic of China(Jan. 7, 2021)

Frank 0. Bowman, III, The Constitutional Case for Impeaching Donald Trump (Again), Just Security
(Jan 9, 2021)

GA Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, Facebook (Nov. 15-16, 2020)

Gabby Orr, President Mike Pence? Trump's half-joking fear bursts into view, POLITICO (Sept. 30, 2019)

George Petras, et al., Timeline: How a Trump mob stormed the US Capitol, forcing Washington into
lockdo,vn, USA TODAY (Jan 8, 2021)

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger Press Conference Transcript: Announces Hand Recount,
Rev (Nov. ll, 2020)

Georgia Senate Election Hearing Transcript, December 3, Rev (Dec. 3, 2020)

Georgia Secretary of State/Georgia Bureau of Investigation ABM Signature Audit Report (Dec. 29, 2020)

Georgia Wells, Rebecca Ballhaus and Keach Hagey, Proud Boys, Seizing Trump's Call to Washington,
Helped Lead Capitol Attack, Wall Street Journal (Jan. 17, 2021)

Glenn Kessler, Fact-checking Trump's call to the Georgia secretary of state, Wash. Post. (Jan. 4, 2021)

Glenn Thrush and Maggie Haberman, Trump Gives White Supremacists an Unequivocal Boost, N. Y.
Times (Aug. 15, 2017) ()

Grady McGregor and Naomi Xu Elegant, Chinese state media is already using Capitol riots in its anti-
U.S. narrative, Fortune(Jan. 7, 2021)

Graham Kates, Armed capitol rallies "will continue" as planned, Boogaloo group member says, CBS
News(Jan.17,2021).

Greg Miler, Greg Jaffe and Razzan Nakhlawi, A mob insurrection stoked by false claims of election fraud
and promises of violent restoration, Wash. Post (Jan. 9, 2021).

Heidi Przybyla et al., After Meeting with Trump, Michigan lawmakers say they see nothing to overturn
Biden's win, NBC (Nov. 20, 2020)

Helene Cooper et al., As the D. C. police clear the Capitol grounds, the mayor extends a public
emergency, N. Y. Times(Jan. 6, 2021)
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Historic First Statewide Audit of Paper Ballots Upholds Result of Presidential Race, Secretary of State
Office, Georgia

House, with SomeG.O.P. Support, Votes to Impeach Trump a Historic Second Time, N. Y. Times (Jan.
21,2021)
Hugh Hewitt, Senator Ben Sasse on Impeachment and Transition, the GOP in Minority, High Hewitt (Jan.
8, 2021)
Ian Cross, Representative from Northeast Ohio one of the fe,v Republicans to vote to impeach Trump,
ABC (Jan 13, 2021)

Ilya Somin, A Qualified Defense oflmpeaching Trump Again, Reason (Jan. 6, 2021)

Ilya S01nin, The First Amendment Doesn't Protect Trump Against Impeachment for his Role in Inciting
the Assault on the Capitol, The Volokh Conspiracy (January 8, 2021)

In pictures: Guns drawn as lawmakers scramble amid US Capitol breach, Euronews (Jan. 7, 2021)

Interview: Jonathan Swan of AXIOS Inteniews Donald Trun1p (Aug. 3, 2020)

Interview: Michael Savage Interviews Donald Trump on the Savage Nation Radio Show (June, 15, 2020)

Interview: Raymond Arroyo Interviews Donald Trump on EWfN's 'World Over' (June 22, 2020)

'Is This Really Happening 9 ': The Siege of Congress, Seen From the Inside, Politico (Jan. 7, 2021)

Ishaan Tharoor, We need to reckon with Trump's lies, Wash. Post (Jan. 11, 2021)

Jack Brewster & Andrew Sol ender, Cly bum's Ipad, Laptop From Pelosi' s Office: Items Stolen,
Destroyed In Capitol Attack, Forbes (Jan. 7, 2021)

Jaclyn Diaz et al., Police Confirm Death of Officer Injured During Attack on Capitol, NPR (Jan. 7, 2021)

Jaclyn Diaz, Portland Police Charge 8 After Demonstrators Vandalize Democratic Party Offices, NPR
(Jan 21, 2021)

Jacy Marmaduke, Colorado congressman says he was trapped in House chambers as rioters tried to break
doors, Coloradoan (Jan. 6, 2021)

James Brooks, Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski calls on President Trump to resign, questions her future as a
Republican, Anchorage Daily News (Jan. 9, 2021)

James Gordon Meek and Catherine Sanz, 'I am not a terrorist': Retired Navy SEAL speaks after Capitol
siege, ABC News (Jan. 12, 2021)

January 6, 2021 Letter from Vice President Mike Pence

Jason Hanna, Kaylee Hartung, Devon M. Sayers and Steve Almasy, Virginia governor to white
nationalists: 'Go home ... shame on you', CNN (Aug. 13, 2017) ()

Jason Silverstein, Trump shares video of supporter saying "!he only good Democrat is a dead Democrat",
CBS (May 28, 2020)

Jason Slotkin, Suzanne Nuyen and James Doubek, 4 Stabbed, 33 Arrested After Trump Supporters,
Counterprotesters Clash In D.C., NPR(Dec. 12, 2020
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Jay Peters, Twitch disables Trump's account indefinitely, The Verge (Jan. 7, 2021)

Jazmine Ulloa and Steve Annear, 'It was like looking at evil': The Capitol attack through the eyes of the
Massachusetts delegation, Boston Globe (Jan. 12, 2021)

Jeff Zeleny el al., Bi den no longer taking Amtrak to inauguration amid security concerns, CNN (Jan. l 3,
2021)

Jeff Seldin, Trump Renews 'Rigged Election' Claim Against All Evidence, VOA (Nov. 13, 2020)

Jeffrey Rosen, American is Living James Madison's Nightmare, The Atlantic (October 2018)

Jemima McEvoy, Trump Claims FBI And Justice Department May Have Helped Rig Election, Forbes
(Nov. 29, 2020)

Jennifer Berry & Thomas Novelly, Nancy Mace's first 100 hours in Congress: threats, violence and
challenging Trump, The Post and Courier (Jan. 7, 2021)

Jennifer Schuessler, Hundreds of Historians Join Call for Trump's Impeachment, N. Y. Times (Jan. 11,
2021)

Jennifer Steinhauer, Katie Benner, Eric Schmitt, and Helene Cooper, Leader of Proud Boys, a Far-Right
Group, Is Arrested as D.C. Braces for Protests, N. Y. Times (Jan. 4, 2021)

Jeremy Duda, Attorney for Sec of State: 'Kraken' lawsuit alleges 'utterly implausible fraud', Arizona
Mirror (Dec. 8, 2020)

Jessica Contrera et al., Va. man arrested at inauguration checkpoint says he was lost and didn't mean to
bring gun, ammunition to D.C., Washington Post (Jan. 16, 2021)

Jeremy Duda, Trump blasts Ducey over election certification betrayed Arizonans, AZ Mirror (Nov. 30,
2020)

Jerusalem Demsas, Rudy Giuliani 's bizzare legal strategy, in t\vo clips, Vox (Dec. 3, 2020)

Jerry Dunleavy, Barr says debate over legitimacy of 2020 election 'precipitated' storming of Capitol,
Wash. Examiner(Jan. 18, 2021)

Jill Colvin, Hurt Feelings, Anger Linger After Pence, Trump Clash, ABC News (Jan. 8, 2021)

Jill Colvin & Zeke Miller, Pence defies Trump, affirms Biden's win, AP (Jan. 7, 2021)

Joe Heim and Valerie Strauss, As U.S. Capitol attack unfolded, some Hill staffers remembered their
school-shooting drills, Wash. Post. (Jan. 14, 2021)

John Eligon, et al, F. B.I. Urges Police Chiefs Across U.S. to Be on High Alert for Threats, N. Y. Times
(Jan. 13, 2021)

John Kelly Interview with Jake Tapper Transcript, CNN (Jan. 7, 2021)

John Podhoretz, Donald Trump Should Be Impeached and Removed from Office Tomorrow,
Commentary Magazine (Jan. 6, 2021)

Joint Intelligence Bulletin (Jan. 13, 2021)
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Joint Statement from Elections Infrastructure Government Coordinating Council & the Election
Infrastructure Sector Coordinating Executive Committees, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure SecuriJy
Agency (Nov. 12, 2020)

Joint Threat Assessment Bulletin from DHS, FBI and eight other agencies

Jon Swaine, Dalton Bennett, Joyce Sohyun Lee & Meg Kelly, Video shows fatal shooting of Ashli
Babbitt in the Capitol, Wash Post (Jan. 8, 2021)

Jonathan H. Adler, Yes, Congress May Impeach and Remove President Trump for Inciting Lawless
Behavior at the Capitol, The Volokh Conspiracy (January 8, 2021)

Jonathan Karl and Will Steakin, Giuliani says he's working on Trump's impeachment defense, would
argue voter fraud claims, ABC (Jan. 16, 2021)

Jonathan Raymond, Georgia election official says Trump is 'flat out, l 00 percent, four square wrong'
about consent decree, I !alive, (Nov. 17, 2020)

Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu, Episode 1: A premeditated lie lit the fire (Jan. 16, 2021)

Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu, Episode 3: Descent into madness .. Trump: "Sometimes you need a
little crazy", Axios (Jan. 17, 2021)

Jonathan Swan, Episode 4: Trump turns on Barr, Axios (Jan. 18, 2021)

Jonathan Swan, Trump trashes McConnell to fellow Republicans, Axios (Dec. 22, 2020)

Jonathan Swan and Zachary Basu, Episode 6: Last Stand in Georgia (Jan 19, 2021)

Josh Campbell and Whitney Wild, Feds warn extremists may be emboldened to carry out additional
attacks after Capitol insurrection, CNN (Jan. 14, 2021)

Josh Dawsey & Ashley Parker, Inside the remarkable rift between Donald Trump and Mike Pence, The
Wash. Post (Jan. 11, 2021)

John Hendrickson, Jamie Raskin Lost His Son. Then He Fled a Mob., The Atlantic (Jan. 8, 2021)

Jonathan Swan, Trump trashes McConnell to fellow Republicans, Axios (Dec. 22, 2020).

Joint statement from Bowser, Hogan, and Northam on Planning for the 59 th Presidential Inauguration,
Press Release (Jan. 11, 2021).

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(Jan 17, 2021)
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Justine Coleman, Liz Cheney blames Trump for riots: 'He lit the flame', The Hill (Jan. 6, 2021)

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Kevin Liptak, et al., Trump held multiple calls with Pennsylvania House speaker on state's electoral
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(Nov. 4, 2020)

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Angeles Times (Nov. 6, 2020)

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Adam Payne, Trump called Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger an 'enemy of the people,'
exactly 2 years after he said he'd be 'fantastic', Business Insider (Nov. 27, 2020)

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(Nov. 19, 2018)
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Kaelan Deese, Trump buzzes over supporters gathered along National Mall, The Hill (Dec. 12, 2020)

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3rd Strike Against Voter Fraud Claims Means Theyre Out
After Signature Audit Finds No Fraud



   3rd Strike Against Voter Fraud Claims Means They're Out After Signature Audit Finds No
   Fraud




               No(iaudulenr absentee ha/lots were identified during /he audir.

(ATLANTA)-After a hand recount and a subsequent machine recount requested by the Trump
campaign, a signature audit has again affirmed the original outcome of the November 2020
presidential race in Georgia. A signature match audit in Cobb County found "no fraudulent
absentee ballots" and found that the Cobb County Elections Department had "a 99.99% accuracy
rate in performing correct signature verification procedures."

"The Secretary of State's office has always been focused on calling balls and strikes in elections and,
in this case, three strikes against the voter fraud claims and they're out," said Secretary of State
Brad Raffensperger. "We conducted a statewide hand recount that reaffirmed the initial tally, and a
machine recount at the request of the Trump campaign that also reaffirmed the original tally. This
audit disproves the only credible allegations the Trump campaign had against the strength of
Georgia's signature match processes."

On December 14, 2020, Secretary Raffensperger announced a signature match audit in Cobb
County follmving credible allegations that the process was not followed in the June primaries. The
Secretary of State's Office partnered with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation (GBI) to conduct the
audit. Of the 150,431 absentee ballots received by Cobb County elections officials during the
November elections, the audit "reviewed 15,118 ABM ballot oath envelopes from randomly selected
boxes," or around 10% of the total. The sample size was originally chosen to meet the 99%
confidence threshold.

The audit found "no fraudulent absentee ballots" with a 99% confidence threshold. The audit found
that only two ballots should have been identified by Cobb County Elections Officials for cure
notification that weren't. In one case, the ballot was "mistakenly signed by the elector's spouse,"
and in the other, the voter "reported signing the front of the envelope only." In both cases, the
identified voters filled out the ballots themselves.

The absentee ballot envelopes for the audit were "pulled from 30 randomly selected boxes of the
accepted ABM ballots and one box identified as accepted Electronic Ballot Delivery ABM ballots."
Each of the boxes that held the ballots were previously "secured in boxes by the Cobb County
Elections Department" and were selected by a random number generator.



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To conduct the audit, Law Enforcement Officers (LEOs), from GBI and SOS were instructed to
"analyze and compare the known signatures, markings, and identifying information of the elector
as stored in databases with the signature, markings, and identifying information on the elector's
ABM ballot oath envelope." They looked for "distinctive characteristics and unique qualities ...
individual attributes of the signature, mark, or other identifying information" to "make a judgment
of the validity of the signature on each envelope based on the totality of the documents."

The LEOs conducting the audit were split "into 18 two-member teams identified as 'inspection
teams' and two three-member teams identified as 'investigation teams."' If the two members of the
inspection team were split on whether a ballot signature was valid, a third impartial "referee" was
brought in to break the tie. This only happened on six occasions.

In cases where additional review was necessary, if no signature was on the ballot, or if additional
identification documents were not available, the absentee ballots were given to the investigation
teams to track down more information.

The inspection teams submitted 396 envelopes to the investigation teams for comparison with
additional documents or follow-up with the elector." 386 of those were accepted as valid. The
remaining ten were referred for additional investigation. "All ten electors were located, positively
identified, and interviewed."

The LEOs used the Cobb County Elections Database which included signature information from
voter registration forms, absentee ballot applications, voter certificates, passports, certificates of
naturalization, in addition to other documents.

The full report is available~:
https: / / sos.ga.gov/ admin/uploads/ Cobb%20County%20ABM%20Audit%20Report%2020201229. pdf

Georgia is recognized as a national leader in elections. It was the first state in the country to
implement the trifecta of automatic voter registration, at least 16 days of early voting (which has
been called the "gold standard"), and no-excuse absentee voting. Georgia continues to set records
for voter turnout and election participation, seeing the largest increase in average turnout of any
other state in the 2018 midterm election and record turnout in 2020, with over 1.3 million
absentee by mail voters and over 3.6 million in-person voters utilizing Georgia's new, secure,
paper ballot voting system.

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  A REPORTER'S FOOTAGE FROM INSIDE THE CAPITOL
                     SIEGE
                                                          By The New Yorker
                                                             January 17, 2021




Luke Mogelwn_followed Trump supporters as thiy_forced their way info the Senate chamber:




W
          hen Luke J\logelson attended President Donald Trump.'s speech on the National ;\fall, in Washington, D.C., on January

          6th, he was prepared for the possibility that violence might erupt that day. l\:Iogelson, a veteran war correspondent and a

contributing writer at The New Yorker, had spent the previous ten months reporting on the radical fringe of Trump supporters,

from anti-lockdown militias to fascist groups such as the Proud Boys. After Election Day, he interviewed Trump supporters who
showed up at ballot-tabulation sites, and who believed the President's lies that the results had been "rigged" and his victory

"stolen." At one post-election pro-Trump rally in D.C., t\·fogelson vvitnessed racist violence against Black residents of the nation's

capital. At another event, he watched the host of the white-supremacist Web program ''America First" declare, 4 0ur Founding
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Fathers would get in the streets, and they would take this country back hy force if necessary. And that is what we must be prepared
to do."


After T'rump's incendiary speech, :.Vlogclson followed the President's supporters as they forced their way into the U.S. Capitol,
using his phone's camera as a reporter's notebook. \i\fhat folJows is a video that int.-ludes some of that raw footage. i\:Jogclson

harnessed this material while writing his panoramic, definitive report, ''Among the lnsurrcctionists," which the magazine posted

on line on Friday. (lt appears in print in the January 25th issue.) His prose vividly e:1ptures bow the raging anger and violence of

the initial breach of the Capitol was followed by an eerily quiet and surreal interlude inside the Senate chamber, where 1'1ogclson

watched people rummaging through desks and posing for photographs. Although the footage was not originally intended for

publication, it documents a historic event and serves as a visceral complement to i\:logelrnn's probing, illuminating report.


Click here fri read :4mong the lnsurrertionists."




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Trump promoted N.M. official's comment that 'the only
good Democrat is a dead Democrat.' Now the man is
arrested in the Capitol riot.


By Aaron Blake                                                                    January 18, 2021




President Trump's culpability for the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol two weeks
ago will be judged by U.S. senators in a looming impeachment trial - and possibly by the
court system after he leaves the presidency.

Now a man with a personal connection to Trump - and whose violent rhetoric Trump
promoted to the world - has been arrested in the riot.

Otero County, N.M., Commissioner Couy Griffin was arrested Sunday for illegally entering
the Capitol on Jan. 6. Griffin, the head of a group called Cowboys for Trump, claims he got
caught up with the crowd and didn't actually enter the building, but the affidavit says video
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Griffin also pledged to return to Washington with guns for President-elect Joe Biden's
inauguration Wednesday, and he alluded to the prospect of violence and another incursion
into the offices of lawmakers. According to the affidavit, he said in a video posted after the
Jan. 6 riot:

     ... We could have a 2nd Amendment rally on those same steps that we had that rally yesterday.
     You know, and ifwe do, then it's gonna be a sad day, because there's gonna be blood running
     out of that building. But at the end of the day, you mark my word, we will plant our flag on the
     desk ofNancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Donald J. Trump ifit boils down to it.

It's not the first time Griffin has employed such violent rhetoric. He did so in May as well.
And at the time, his message was promoted by Trump on Twitter.

In the video, Griffin said, "The onlY-.good Democrat is a dead Democrat." He qualified in the
video that he was only speaking metaphorically about politics.

Trump promoted the video by saying, "Thank you Cowboys. See you in New Mexico!"
(Twitter suspended both Trump's and the Cowboys for Trump accounts this month.)

But while Griffin qualified his comments in the video, he later indicated to the Daily Beast
that he wasn't speaking entirely figuratively. He suggested Democratic governors who locked
down their states amid the coronavirus pandemic could be guilty of treason and might face
the death penalty.

"You get to pick your poison: You either go before a firing squad, or you get the end of the
rope," Griffin said.

He was also asked whether anti-lockdown activists like him might need to resort to violence
to get their way, and he suggested they might.

''I'll tell you what, partner, as far as I'm concerned, there's not an option that's not on the
table," Griffin said.

Trump's connection to Griffin isn't limited to the retweet. Three months earlier, Griffin had
posted photos from an audience with Trump in the Oval Office to the Cowboys for Trump
page on Facebook.

Trump also spoke with Griffin by phone a year earlier, after Cowboys for Trump organized a
week-long horseback ride through Maryland to Washington to highlight border security. It
wasn't just a brief hello; according to Griffin, the two spoke for 30 minutes. Griffin also said
Trump asked for his personal phone number.

When Griffin told Trump his group planned to return to Washington that summer, Griffin
said Trump talked about welcoming them onto the White House grounds.



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"He said, 'Couy, that sounds amazing,' ... 'If you will do that, then whenever you get here,
there's 20 acres on the South Lawn and the gate will be open to you at the v\lhite House
where you can ride your horses right in,' " Griffin said. "Then he jokingly said that he might
have to get on my horse whenever I get there."

Griffin is hardly the only fringe figure in the conservative movement whom Trump has
engaged with and promoted in ways presidents generally avoid. But he's now one who is
accused of actively taking part in an attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol and who
spoke in violent terms about a redux this week. The type of rhetoric he used surrounding his
arrest echoes the message Trump decided to promote less than a year ago.

Just a day after the May retweet, Trump also tweeted of racial justice protesters, "When the
looting starts, the shooting starts" - a phrase with an ugly history: in American P-Olitics.)

Trump's critics argue Trump incited the scenes we saw at the Capitol. They have significant
evidence, in that some of those who participated and were arrested at least cited a belief that
~Y-were indeed acting..at..Ir.!.!m~l.lefil. Now, they can draw a more direct through-line
from Trump's promotion of violent rhetoric to the siege on the Capitol.




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                                    National Security              Foreign Policy           Justice       Military




                                                                 National Security


                               Timeline: How law enforcement
                               and government officials failed to
                                head off the U.S. Capitol attack




            By Aaron C. Davis
                 16,2021


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            enforcement and city officials braced for potential violence in the nation's
            capital.

            But despite numerous internal briefings, intelligence warnings and planning
            meetings, officials failed to take sufficient action to fend off the attacks - with
            deadly consequences. Once rioters began to move en masse to the Capitol, it was
            too late.

            Too few Capitol Police officers stood in their way, and there was no chance to
            summon enough backup quickly enough to keep out the violent mob. The riot
            unleashed hours of unchecked aggression and close calls as marauders came
            within 60 seconds of encountering Vice President Pence, nearly trapped
            lawmakers, and looted and vandalized the seat of U.S. democracy for the first
            time since British forces burned the Capitol on Aug. 24, 1814. Five people died in
            the violence and dozens of police officers were injured.

            Scores of federal criminal investigations have been opened. The inspectors
            general at four federal agencies and the Capitol Police Board have launched
            investigations into the preparedness and response to the attack, and numerous
            congressional inquiries are expected.

            This reconstruction of the key moments leading up the Capitol siege and the law
            enforcement response that day is based on video footage, public documents and
            the accounts of members of Congress, congressional aides and officials with the
            Capitol Police, D.C. government, D.C. police, Defense Department, FBI and D.C.
            government. It will update with new information.




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            PRESIDENT TRUMP

            Trump encourages supporters to converge on D.C. on Jan. 6, the day
            Congress is to take the final step of counting electoral college votes and
            formally declare Joe Eiden the next president. In one of a series of
            tweets, Trump writes: "Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020
            Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there, will be wild!"


                                Donald J. Trump                 e
                                @1oalDonaiciTru1 rip

                  Peter Navarro releases 36-page report alleging
                  election fraud 'more than sufficient' to swing victory
                  to Trump washex.am/3nwaBCe. A great report by
                  Peter. Statistically impossible to have lost the 2020
                  Election. Big protest in D.C. on January 6th. Be there,
                  will be wild!
                (!) This claim about election fraud is disputed
                 6·.4C! /\tv1•Decernber i9, ;20~:o



              Tl1is tweet is a re-creation. Tlie original tweet is not available after President Trump was banned from the
              social network.




            [The repo1·t Trump references in his tweet might be the most
            embarrassing document created by a White House stafferJ




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            Dec.21
            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR

            Prompted in part by Trump's tweets, D.C.'s outgoing police chief briefs
            Bowser and the department begins crafting a security plan. Two
            previous gatherings of Trump supporters after the election had already
            turned violent, and D.C. police fear that with Trump's encouragement,
            Jan. 6 could be the worst yet.
            [Proud Boys sparked clashes during pro-Trump rally, D.C. says]



            Late December
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS• PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MICHAEL STENGER,
            SENATE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

            In the two weeks leading up to Jan. 6, staffers in the offices of Senate
            Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), Senate Minority Leader
            Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi CD-Calif.)
            say they meet repeatedly with Stenger and Irving, both former assistant
            directors of the Secret Service, and are told security preparations for
            Jan. 6 are under control.



            Dec.29

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            Two D.C. officials on the call said that given the violence at the previous
            two Trump rallies, the sense was that all parties should prepare for
            violence again.



            Dec.31
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            Rep. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) speaks with Sund on the morning of New
            Year's Eve. She recalls asking him about staffing and whether Capitol
            Police were gathering intelligence to know what percentage of the crowd
            might have violent intentions. Waters said Sund told her he had a plan
            for keeping protesters far from the building. They would be corralled in
            a grassy area east of the Capitol. If counterprotesters showed up, as they
            had during two previous pro-Trump rallies in D.C. since the election, his
            officers would form a line between the two groups. As a precaution for
            lawmakers, Capitol security would also direct all Members of Congress
            and their staffers to move around using the network of underground
            tunnels that connect the Capitol with House and Senate office buildings.
            Waters recalled asking Sund how big the gathering would be. Sund, she
            said, didn't have a clear answer. She hung up the phone at her home in
            D.C. thinking: "They don't know who's coming. They don't know
            whether any of these are violent groups." Sund recalls the conversation
            differently, saying Waters inquired about the nature of the groups
            getting permits to demonstrate, but didn't ask broadly about intelligence
            surrounding the protest.


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            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR• CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ, D.C. HOMELAND SECURITY
            DIRECTOR• MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM J. WALKER, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD COMMANDER

            Bowser decides to seek help from the D.C. National Guard, overcoming
            concerns among some aides about a repeat of the past June, when city
            officials say the Pentagon countermanded a plan to have the Guard staff
            traffic control points around mass protests against police abuse. Instead,
            D.C. officials said, they watched as soldiers were diverted to protect the
            White House. The mayor and Rodriguez, the city's homeland security
            director, send a letter to Walker requesting guardsmen to again staff
            roadblocks, freeing D.C. police to respond to more urgent needs if they
            arise. Because D.C. is not a state, the president has ultimate authority
            over the D.C. Guard, and the request gets forwarded to the Pentagon.
                                    amassed a red-state army in D.C.                                     and could do so




            Jan.2,2021
            ROBERT J. CONTEE Ill, ACTING D.C. POLICE CHIEF • MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR

            Contee is sworn in as acting D.C. police chief. His first briefing with
            Bowser is about the Trump rally, just days away. Some advisers want
            Bowser to declare a curfew the night of Jan. 6. Bowser says she wants to
            keep a curfew as an option but does not want to declare one
            preemptively. City officials decide to wait and see how arriving crowds
            behave the night ahead of the rally.




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                                                              Pemo<'rac.11 f)i('s in fk.,rbwss




              Acting D.C. police chief RobertJ. Contee Ill 8Ssumed his post days before the Trump rally. (Robb Hill for
              The Washin"ton Post)




            [Expected Jan. 6 protests multiply as Trump continues to call
            supporters to Washington]




            Jan.2
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            Miller and Milley confer about D.C.'s request to activate the Guard,
            according to a timeline later released by the Defense Department.
            [Document: Planning and execution efforts of the Department of
            Defense to address the Violent Attack at the U.S. Capitol on January 6,
            2021]




            Jan. 3
            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR

            Still awaiting a reply from the Guard, Bowser announces the city's plan
            for the expected protests on Jan. 6. She says a wide swath of downtown
            will close to vehicle traffic beginning the morning of Jan. 5. Concerned
            about online posts and news reports suggesting Trump supporters will
            bring weapons, she instructs police officers to begin posting signs that
            guns cannot be carried into the District. She works with clergy to
            discourage counterprotests. Bowser asks all residents and workers from
            around the region to stay away from downtown and "not to engage with
            demonstrators who come to our city seeking confrontation."
            [Bowser warns D.C. residents to stay away when Trump supporters
            amass downtown Wednesday]



            Jan. 3
            CHRISTOPHER C. MILLER, ACTING DEFENSE SECRETARY• GEN. MARK A. MILLEY, CHAIRMAN
            OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF• PRESIDENT TRUMP




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            according to the Defense Department timeline.



            Jan. 3
            An internal Capitol Police intelligence report warns of a violent scenario
            in which "Congress itself' could be the target of angry Trump supporters
            on Jan. 6. The 12-page report says that the president's backers could feel
            a "sense of desperation and disappointment" about the election results
            that "may lead to more of an incentive to become violent." It does not
            appear to have been shared widely "vith other law enforcement agencies,
            including the FBI.
            [Capitol Police intelligence report warned three days before attack that
            'Congress itself could be targeted]



            Jan. 3
            In an email exchange, a Defense Department official asks for
            confirmation from a colleague that U.S. Capitol Police are making "no
            requests for DoD support?" The colleague replies that a Capitol Police
            official - at least two notches below the chief - had confirmed that the
            department was not seeking such help.



            Jan. 4
            The Pentagon communicates to Bowser that the Guard will be activated,
            but with significant restrictions. D.C. officials are told no Humvees or
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            they specifically asked for a limited, unarmed role for the military
            following concerns about the vast National Guard force assembled in
            Washington in June. Soldiers will be driven to their deployment
            positions, mostly manning traffic barricades and Metro stations, via
            shuttle buses. D.C. guardsmen will also receive no ammunition or riot
            gear, and will be ordered to interact with protesters only if necessary for
            self-defense, according to D.C. and military officials familiar with the
            orders. In all, the Pentagon approves activation of 340 members of the
            Guard: 90 are slated for traffic control; 48 for shifts at Metro stations;
            20 to monitor for weapons of mass destruction; and 52 for command

            and control.
            [Pentagon placed limits on D.C. Guard ahead of pro-Trump protests
            due to narrow mission]




            Jan. 4



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            Andrews, about 14 miles from the Capitol, on the day of the protests.
            Defense officials later say it is meant to bolster forces working with D.C.
            police on traffic assignments, not for other operations.



            Jan. 4
            ROBERT J. CONTEE Ill, ACTING D.C. POLICE CHIEF• KARL RACINE, D.C. ATTORNEY GENERAL•
            CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ, D.C. HOMELAND SECURITY DIRECTOR

            Contee, Rodriguez and Racine brief members of the D.C. Council about
            the upcoming protests. In addition to the size of the crowd, some D.C.
            lawmakers have another worry: whether a chaotic event could provide
            an opening for Trump to follow through on a threat made in June by
            then-Attorney General William P. Barr to seize control of the D.C. police
            force, or to invoke the Insurrection Act, bringing active-duty military
            into the nation's capital. Trump's former national security adviser
            Michael Flynn has been urging Trump to declare martial law and use the
            military to carry out a new election in states where he disputes the
            results.
            [Last week, the D.C Councilfeared a Trump police takeover. Now,
            inauguration looms.]



            Jan. 4
            The National Park Service, the federal agency in charge ofland around
            the National Mall, authorizes the groups organizing the Jan. 6 rally to


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            Jan. 4
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MICHAEL
            STENGER, SENATE SERGEANT-AT-ARMS

            Sund says he begins growing concerned about the swelling number of
            expected protesters, he later recounts in an interview with The
            Washington Post. Sund says that in conversations with his superiors -
            Irving and Stenger - he asks for permission to deputize National Guard
            soldiers and place them on standby ahead of the protest. In the
            interview, Sund said that action would have required Irving and Stenger
            to agree to an emergency declaration of sorts. Both were reluctant,
            according to Sund. Irving says he is uncomfortable with the "optics" of
            Guard soldiers stationed around the Capitol. Stenger urges Sund to
            informally seek out his Guard contacts, asking them to "lean forward"
            and be on alert in case Capitol Police need help. Irving has not
            responded to requests for comment; Stenger has declined to comment.



            Jan. 4, 6:30 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM J. WALKER, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD
            COMMANDER

            Sund said he followed Stenger's suggestion, calling Gen. Walker and
            asking him how quickly he could provide help on the day of the protest.
            According to Sund, Walker says he could have 125 soldiers available

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            of the Guard. In an interview, Walker acknowledged receiving a call
            from Sund: "We did talk," he said, "but we never got an official request
            that has to go up the chain of command. We didn't get that until the day
            of, and the Capitol already was under duress."



            Jan.5
            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR

            Bowser sends a letter to acting attorney general Jeffrey Rosen, Army
            Secretary Ryan McCarthy and acting defense secretary Christopher C.
            Miller, saying that unless members of federal law enforcement are
            coordinating with D.C. police, she "discourages" them from patrolling
            D.C. streets on the day of the protest. The letter is another sign of the
            scars that remain from police protests the previous summer, when then-
            Attorney General William P. Barr deployed federal law enforcement -
            including U.S. Marshals and prison riot teams with no identifying badge
            numbers - that used chemical irritants to clear mostly peaceful
            protesters from streets around Lafayette Square. Bowser does not
            request additional forces from the Defense Department in the letter, and
            states in it that the Metropolitan Police Department is "prepared for this
            week's First Amendment activities."




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            Jan. 5, 10 a.m.
            PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF•
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

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            discuss preparations. Lofgren recalls that the two report that everything
            is "all lined up." She says later that Sund did not relay that he had been
            rebuffed by Irving and Stenger on his request for the National Guard.
            "He didn't tell me he needed help," Lofgren says. Sund acknowledges as
            much later to The Post, saying he ultimately felt comfo1table with the
            plan he had in place.



            Jan. 5, afternoon
            An explicit warning from an FBI office in Virginia reaches the FBI Field
            Office in Washington. It states that extremists from at least four states
            are preparing to travel to Washington to commit violence and "war,"
            according to an internal document reviewed by The Post. Agents write
            that in an online thread they were monitoring, they observed this
            message: "Congress needs to hear glass breaking, doors being kicked in,
            and blood from their BLM and Pantifa slave soldiers being spilled. Get
            violent. Stop calling this a march, or rally, or a protest. Go there ready
            for war. We get our President or we die. NOTHING else will achieve this
            goal."
            [FBI report warned of 'war' at Capitol, contradicting claims there was
            no indication of looming violence]



            Jan. 5, within 40 minutes
            The FBI document is briefed to officials in a command post, and then
            shared with the agency's joint terrorism task force, which includes local
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            much the FBI or anyone else could do with the information, because
            they did not know who was making the statements online, and the threat
            wasn't directed at any specific lm,vmaker or person. It was raw
            intelligence, and as such did not prompt officials to change their
            thinking or planning about the next day, according to people familiar
            with the matter. Although it was shared with the task force, that is not
            the same thing as telling senior officials at those agencies. In practice,
            information considered important or urgent is often passed through
            follow-up phone calls or conversations. Senior officials at other agencies
            involved in preparing for Jan. 6, including Sund, the Capitol Police chief,
            and Contee, the acting D.C. police chief, say they never receive the
            warning.



            Jan. 5, 4 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MICHAEL
            STENGER, SENATE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            Rep. Tim Ryan (D-Ohio), whose committee has financial oversight of
            Capitol Police, holds a conference call with Sund, Irving and Stenger.
            Like Lofgren, he too later says the Capitol's top security officials assure
            him "every precaution was being taken" for the next day. Sund does not
            dispute this.



            Jan. 6, 7 a.m.


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            Police officers report to work. Ryan says he's told that represents the
            force's full strength, except for officers who worked the night shift and
            are allowed to go home. A former Capitol Police official says that's a
            deviation from as recently as 2016, when hundreds of officers who
            worked the night shift would routinely be required to stay on through
            the day to help staff a State of the Union address or other major security
            event.



            Jan. 6, 11:15 a.m.
            Trump has not yet taken the stage near the White House, more than a
            mile and a half away, but a group of 200 to 300 protesters arrive at the
            Capitol reflecting pool area, near the west side of the building, video
            captured by a D.C. police camera shows.




            Jan. 6, 11:39 a.m.
            PRESIDENT TRUMP

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            to the stage, erected south of the White House.




            Jan. 6, 11:57 a.m.
            PRESIDENT TRUMP

            Trump begins speaking and quickly starts recounting baseless
            conspiracy theories that the November election results were
            manipulated. "They rigged an election, they rigged it like they've never
            rigged an election before," Trump says. "All of us here today do not want
            to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats .
            ... We will never give up. We will never concede. It doesn't happen. You
            don't concede when there's theft involved."




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            Jan. 6, 12:45 p.m.
            With Trump still speaking, the D.C. police camera captures what looks
            like a wall of people suddenly arriving about a block west of the Capitol.



            Jan. 6, at about the same time
            Officers from the U.S. Capitol Police, along with agents from the FBI and
            ATF, are dispatched to the offices of the Republican National
            Committee, southwest of the Capitol, for a rep01t of a pipe bomb outside
            the building.



            Jan. 6, 12:49 p.m.
            Trump supporters at the front of the large group amassing near the
            Capitol reflecting pool pick up a metal barrier and push it into two
            officers. A crowd begins to press onto the restricted Capitol grounds.



            Jan. 6, 12:59 p.m.
            VICE PRESIDENT PENCE

            Pence enters the House Chamber to preside over the counting of
            electoral votes.




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            Jan. 6, around 1 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• ROBERT J. CONTEE Ill, ACTING D.C. POLICE CHIEF

            "I realized at 1 p.m., things aren't going well," Sund later tells The Post.
            'Tm watching my people getting slammed." Sund requests backup from
            Contee. D.C. police deploy two heavily armored tactical teams. They
            arrive within 13 minutes, identifiable by their bright yellow vests.



            Jan. 6, 1:09 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MICHAEL
            STENGER, SENATE SERGEANT AT ARMS

            Sund contacts Irving and Stenger, he later says, saying he needs to
            declare an emergency because of the outer perimeter barricades being
            breached. He says he asks for authorization to call in the National Guard
            and although Irving and Stenger are the Capitol's two top security
            officials, Sund says he is told the request must be "run up the chain" for
            approval.




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              Capitol Police officers confer as the crowd around the complex grows. (Micl1ael S. Williamson/The
              Washington Post)




            [Outgoing Capitol Police chief: House, Senate security officials
            hamstrung efforts to call in National Guard]



            Jan. 6, 1:10 p.m.
            PRESIDENT TRUMP

            Nearing the end of his speech, Trump says "we're going to walk down" to
            the Capitol, where Republicans must "fight." Trump says he will be with
            the crowd. "We're going to the Capitol," he says. "We're going to try and
            give them the kind of pride and boldness that they need to take back our
            country."
            [Trump issued a call to arms. Then he urged his followers 'to remember
            this day forever!']
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            About the time that D.C. police begin arriving, a second explosive device
            is reported at the Democratic National Committee headquarters, a block
            south of the Capitol. The bomb threats draw away some Capitol Police
            resources as authorities begin evacuating the two House office buildings
            nearby.



            Jan. 6, before 1:30 p.m.
            PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            On the House floor, Lofgren hears from staff that a mass of protesters
            have pushed their way onto the iconic Capitol steps on the west side of
            the building. Through second-story windows, Lofgren's aides can see
            that a ragtag group of rioters have also begun to climb atop the risers
            and platforms erected for the inauguration. Lofgren and her staff try to
            phone Sund, but initially cannot reach him. In a conversation a short
            time later on the House floor, Lofgren recounts that Irving has assured
            her things would be fine. Protesters would be kept outside. The doors
            were all locked, he tells her. "Nobody can get in," Irving says.



            Jan. 6, by 1:30 p.m.
            PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS• MICHAEL STENGER, SENATE SERGEANT AT ARMS
            • MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            Alarmed by the deteriorating security situation outside, senior aides to
            McConnell and Schumer begin crowding into Stenger's office a floor
            below the chambers. Irving sits at a desk placing calls to a law

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            people in the room. Capitol police had not coordinated with the regional
            police departments before this moment, and as he hangs up, Irving tells
            those in the room it will take an hour or two for any officers to arrive. A
            Democratic aide and a Republican aide looked at each other in surprise.
            Irving also begins to talk about bringing in the National Guard.
            [Inside the Capitol siege: How barricaded lawmakers and aides
            sounded urgent pleas for help as police lost control]




            Jan. 6, 1:34 p.m.
            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR• RYAN MCCARTHY, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

            Bowser speaks by phone with McCarthy to request additional Guard
            forces, according to the mayor's office and the Defense Department
            timeline. McCarthy later tells The Post that it was challenging to
            understand what was needed and how exactly the Defense Department
            could help. "No one could articulate what was really going on," he said.



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            Jan. 6, between 1:39 p.m. and 1:49 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• MAJ. GEN. WILLIAM J. WALKER, D.C. NATIONAL GUARD
            COMMANDER

            Sund, who has still not heard back from the sergeant-at-arms about
            authorizing the Guard, is losing patience, he says. Sund calls Walker,
            asking the general to ready whatever troops he can. The Defense
            Department timeline places this call 10 minutes later, and describes
            Sund as seeking "immediate" assistance. Walker said he forwarded the
            request to the Pentagon. "There was no confusion. I just submitted the
            request that I received and submitted it up the channel - the verbal
            request."



            Jan. 6, 1:50 p.m.
            The commander of D.C. police forces at the Capitol declares a "riot."
            [How battered D.C. police made a stand against the Capitol mob]



            Jan. 6, 1:53 p.m.
            A D.C. police radio transmission relays news of the riot and says police
            lines have been breached.



            Jan. 6, 1:59 p.m.

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            Jan. 6, 2:10 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• PAUL IRVING, HOUSE SERGEANT AT ARMS•
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            Text and email alerts go out to all congressional staff, warning those
            inside to stay away from windows and those outside to seek cover: "All
            buildings within the Capitol complex due to an external security threat
            located on the West Front: no entry or exit is permitted at this time."
            Irving calls Sund and gives approval to request the National Guard,
            Sund says.




            Jan. 6, 2:11 p.m.
            Rioters use lumber and a police shield to break through a window, video
            footage shows. About a minute later, a person can be seen crossing the
            sill. Several more immediately follow into the building.


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            Jan. 6, 2:13 p.m.
            VICE PRESIDENT PENCE• MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            A floor above the break-in, Secret Service agents rush Pence from the
            Senate chamber to a nearby office. Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa)
            takes the gavel and seconds later, gavels the Senate to recess.



            Jan. 6, 2:14 p.m.
            About a minute after Pence is secured in the office, rioters reach the
            precipice of the Senate chamber, where lawmakers are still inside.
            Officer Eugene Goodman briefly holds off a group of rioters at the top of

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            [How the rioters who stormed the Capitol came dangerously close to
            Pence]



            Jan. 6, 2:16 p.m.
            At the other end of the building, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, second in
            line to the presidency, presides from the dais for another few minutes
            before she, too, is rushed from the chamber.



            Jan. 6, 2:18 p.m.
            Another text alert goes out to Capitol staff: "Due to security threat
            inside: immediately, move inside your office, take emergency
            equipment, lock the doors, take shelter."



            Jan. 6, around 2:20 p.m.
            CONGRESSIONAL AIDES• DAVID BOWDICH, DEPU1Y DIRECTOR OF THE FBI

            Barricaded inside a Senate office with colleague, an adviser to
            McConnell calls a former law firm colleague who had just left the Justice
            Department: Will Levi, who had served as Barr's chief of staff. Speaking
            in a whisper, the McConnell aide says the situation is dire: If backup did
            not arrive soon, people could die. From his home, Levi immediately calls
            FBI Deputy Director David Bowdich, who was in the command center in
            the FBI's Washington Field Office. Capitol Police had lost control of the
            building, Levi told Bowdich. Bowdich dispatched the first of three
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            Jan. 6, 2:26 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            Despite the warnings to take shelter, lawmakers remain in the House
            chamber in a chaotic scene. They gavel back into session for three
            minutes and then finally recess at 2:29 p.m.



            Jan. 6, about 2:30 p.m.
            STEVEN SUND, CAPITOL POLICE CHIEF• ROBERT J. CONTEE Ill, ACTING D.C. POLICE CHIEF•
            MURIEL E. BOWSER, D.C. MAYOR• CHRISTOPHER RODRIGUEZ, D.C. HOMELAND SECURITY
            DIRECTOR

            In a conference call with city and military officials, Sund again makes an
            urgent request for the National Guard. Sund later says the Army staff
            secretary, Lt. Gen. Walter E. Piatt, replies that he is concerned about the
            "visual" of the National Guard standing a police line with the Capitol in
            the background. D.C. officials say they also recall Piatt expressing that

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            plan before dispatching to the scene.
                                                          over response to



            Jan. 6, 2:30 p.m.
            RYAN MCCARTHY, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY• CHRISTOPHER C. MILLER, ACTING DEFENSE
            SECRETARY• GEN. MARK A. MILLEY, CHAIRMAN OF THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF

            While lawmakers are evacuating from the Senate floor to an
            underground tunnel, McCarthy, Miller and Milley meet to discuss the
            requests to activate more National Guard resources. McCarthy said that
            he and Gen. James Mcconville, the chief of staff of the Army, "ran down
            the hallway" at the Pentagon to Miller's office and were "trying to get a
            handle on this."



            Jan. 6, 2:33 p.m.
            More than 30 minutes after the mob has breached the Capitol, a
            broadcast on the emergency management agency channel in D.C.
            requests that all law enforcement officers in the city respond to the
            Capitol.



            Jan. 6, 2:38 p.m.
            CONGRESSIONAL AIDES• CAPITOL POLICE OFFICERS

            Capitol Police and staffers barricade the main entrance leading onto the
            House floor as lawmakers continue evacuating for four more minutes.

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            Jan. 6, 2:42 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS




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            Jan. 6, 2:44 p.m.
            ASHLI BABBIT

            A Capitol Police officer fires at Babbitt as she is climbing through a
            broken window into the Speaker's Lobby, a corridor beside the House
            Chamber.
                      Babbitt was shot



            Jan. 6, 2:45 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            A large group of senators who evacuated through an underground tunnel
            reach a secure location in a congressional office building.



            Jan. 6, 2:49 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

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            Jan. 6, between 2 and 3 p.m.
            Members of a specially trained D. C. police civil disturbance unit
            commandeer a WMATA bus and have the driver take them as close to
            the Capitol as possible to join in the fray. Police officers from
            surrounding counties in Maryland and Virginia begin arriving. Prince
            George's County police are instructed to try to gain control of the north
            side of the west terrace. Montgomery and Arlington county officers press
            up a staircase on the west side. Virginia state police begin battling with
            rioters under the mid-level terrace on the west side. Some of the units
            from Maryland and Virginia arrive more quickly than Capitol police had
            expected because D.C. police had coordinated in advance to have them
            on standby. When Capitol police asked D.C. for help at 1 p.m., D.C.
            activated its plans with regional forces.



            Jan. 6, 2:52 p.m.
            The first FBI SWAT teams enter the Capitol.




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            Jan. 6, 3 p.m.
            RYAN MCCARTHY, SECRETARY OF THE ARMY

            McCarthy directs the D.C. Guard to prepare to move available
            guardsmen from the D.C. Armory to the Capitol. The D.C. Guard
            prepares to move 150 personnel. McCarthy later says that many
            guardsmen were on assignment in other locations in the city, without
            protective equipment. "We moved as fast as we could from a cold start,
            not configured to take a reaction," McCarthy said.




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            Jan. 6, 3:04 p.m.
            CHRISTOPHER C. MILLER, ACTING DEFENSE SECRETARY

            Miller authorizes full activation of the 1,100 members of the D.C.
            National Guard.



            Jan. 6, 3:30 p.m.
            D.C. POLICE OFFICER MICHAEL FANONE

            While some police have retreated, overwhelmed by the mob, others are
            fighting the attackers. Fanone, a D.C. officer, is surrounded and beaten
            outside the Capitol's west terrace doors, which open to an area under the
            Rotunda. Cmdr. Ramey Kyle, who was in the tunnel-like entrance with
            Fanone, said that before the beating, "We believed at the time that we
            were the only door in jeopardy of being breached."



            Jan. 6, late afternoon
            Police clear the courtyard area on the west side of the Capitol and then
            try to begin pushing rioters down the west stairs. It takes as much as 15
            minutes to clear a single step.



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            About 150 members of the D.C. National Guard arrive at the Capitol to
            begin support operations.



            Jan. 6, 6 p.m.
            D.C. begins a citywide curfew as skirmishes between rioters and police
            continue along First Street. D.C. police begin making curfew arrests. The
            first rioter arrested is found to have a loaded firearm, D.C. police say.



            Jan. 6, 6:14 p.m.
            Police and National Guard establish a perimeter on the west side of the
            Capitol.




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            Jan. 6, 7:09 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS • CONGRESSIONAL AIDES

            Senators exit their secure location with congressional staffers who had
            secured the electoral college votes, carrying them back to the Capitol to
            continue counting.



            Jan. 6, 8:06 p.m.
            MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

            After the Capitol Police declare the building secure, the Senate gavels
            back into session at 8:06 p.m., followed by the House at 9:02 p.m.




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            Carol D. Leonnig, Paul Kane, Matt Zapotosky, Devlin Barrett, Rosalind S.
            Helderman, Peter Hermann, Paul Sonne, Dan Lamothe, Karoun Demirjian,
            Missy Ryan, Emma Brown, Michael Brice-Saddler, Julie Zauzmer, Joyce
            Sohyun Lee, Meg Kelly, Dalton Bennett, Elyse Samuels, Sarah Cahlan and Jon
            Swaine contributed to this report.

            Design and development by Leo Dominguez and Chiqui Esteban. Project
            editing by Matea Gold. Photo editing by Karly Domb Sado,f.


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Read Pence's full letter saying he can't claim 'unilateral
authority' to reject electoral votes
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Associated Press                                                                                                    January 6, 2021




WASHINGTON (AP) - Defying President Donald Trump, Vice President Mike Pence said
Wednesday that he does not have the power to discard electoral votes that will make
Democrat Joe Eiden the next president on Jan. 20.

Pence said in a statement issued minutes before he was to begin presiding over a joint
session of Congress to count those votes that it was "my considered judgement that my oath
to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to
determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not."

In the days before the joint session, Trump has pressured his vice president to toss electors
from battleground states that voted for Eiden to overturn the will of voters in a desperate and
futile bid to undo President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the November election.

"If Mike Pence does the right thing we win the election," Trump told thousands of supporters
who rallied Wednesday on the Ellipse, just south of the v\Thite House, an hour before the
count in Congress was to begin.

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"All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become
president and you are the happiest people," Trump said, repeating a falsehood he has been
promoting leading up to the congressional session.

Trump repeatedly pressured Pence to act during his more than 75-minute speech to
supporters. "Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us," Trump said, "and if he
doesn't, it's a sad day for our country."

Shortly before the 1 p.m. start of the joint session and even as Trump continued his verbal
haranguing, Pence made clear in a three-page letter that he would follow the Constitution,
not the commander in chief. vVhile Trump was speaking, Pence's motorcade carried him
through a heavily-secured Washington toward the Capitol, where thousands of Trump
supporters were marching.

Pence has no unilateral power under the Constitution and congressional rules that govern the
count. It is up to the House and Senate to voice objections, and states' electors were chosen in
accordance with state law, not fraudulently.

Beginning at 1 p.m., Pence began to open the certificates of the electoral votes from each state
and present them to the appointed "tellers" from the House and Senate in alphabetical order.
At the end of the count, Pence, seated on the House of Representatives' rostrum, has the task
of announcing who has won the majority of votes for both president and vice president.

Despite his largely ceremonial assignment, Pence has faced intense pressure from the
president and legions of supporters who want the vice president to use the moment to
overturn the will of the voters in a handful of battleground states.

Read Vice President Mike Pence's full statement on the electoral count.




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                                               January 6, 2021


n~ar Coll<:af.UC:

Tod•y. for the S<ltb titne in our Nation's history, Collj!tt.~s will coovenc, itt Joint S<Js~ion to com\t
tbc eltctarlll votes for Pre~idont of d>e Unite,! Stole>. Under our Con,titutinn, it wil! be nw ,hit,
u Vic~ P"'iide,,t •nil •• Pre>ident of the Senate to ,ave •• Uie pr~siding (!ffieer.              •    •

.Aller 11n ekction with ,ignifkant allegation, of voting lrregolurltl<, and oumcrou, instance, of
olTicilll• ,-,11i11g 1Side stat<, elr,;tion l:tw. I :lhan, the conc·erns of million• of Amcrkml< about the
il>t~p,rity of th.is ekction. Th,: Amerknn pc,opk choo.e the; A11mric:111 Pre,ideru, a.ud t,a.vc <,•cry
rii:ltt under the law In demand free anti fair election, and :t full i1we,uigatio11 "f electoral
mis,·onducL As prc~lding offker, f 14'iU do my duty tn en~ure that tft~se concerns receive a fair
lind ope-11 hcarint in !ho Coo&"'" of th<, l.'11itcd States. Objection, will bo heard. e,·idcncc will
be pr,,Mnred. and the elected J,epr..cntuth-,,, of the AmericM 1ieuple "'ill mckc their dccition.

011r h1unden.<'reatcd tl1e Electnral College in 1787. and it first c,mvened in 1789. With the
advent of p,>titical parti•~- tk Eh,cto11tl Col!ei:e "''"' nmcoded in 1804 tn provide 1hu1 lllectol'.'$
rntc Mtparntely fr,r President and Vice Prc,idcnt Followint a c<mtentious election in 1876, with
wide.,pn:ad allc~•tion• of fr•t•l and malfc..a11<e.:, Con11re,, spout • dc,·a,.lc c;.tabli•hing nik, and
proc-Murc~ to go'l;'em the counting of elr:ctonll vote$ and the ft'._,;0Jutlor1 of uny ohjt:1.'llons.

0\111n4 lbe J::\O year• •in,·e tla, Blec(o,i,! Count Act was puted. Congre,s hu. .,,rhout e>a:eption,
ti~cd fht~&e fonnal f1R1'Ccdnre.:. to cotmt the t~l«tornl vote--l every four :years.

Oi ven tho controvert:,- iurrmtoding thi~ year•$ daotion. ~ome appro11eh this )'Car·, quadrennial
trnditit.1n •·itb great expe..:.:tatiott, am) nthcn -with di:smidSl\'c -clhaJain. Son1-c. bcHl!vc that•'- Vice
PRsidenL l should be able 10 acc-ept ur f<'.i'-"t ele;;trnlll vot~• unil•lom!I)'- Others bcliev~ thal
electoml volt• •huuld never be cbwlkn~cd in a Joint Se~~ion or Couir,·••·

Aftt~r a c,1reful iltudy of our Constitution, our laws, and our bi;;.tory, l believe neither view h:
C.."1.)m.:::Cl.


The Pn,.,idcnt i, the -,hief eiecutiv~ officer of the Feder.,J GQ\'ernment m1dcr our Constitution,
possessing imme11&e po~•er to impact the li~o,; of the America.11 people. Tho Pttsidency bclon11s
to the Atnerkan people. 111d to them 11lone. When dispute~ concerning a presid<tUial election
W$C, undc, Federal law, it ii !he people'.\ reprcientatives wlm n,vkw the csidcn~c and resolve
dispute$ lhrnugh a demo,·Mic pTI><:<'"'·

Our Fouodt!rll were doeply skeptkal of c,mcentntinns of power ,md cr~att:d a R<lpuolic b11st'ld on
~t:paration of powcn; i\Od thock.~ mu.I baJ11.ncef\ uud,;r the Con'-titution of th(: United Statc~t




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Armed protests being planned at all 50 state capitols, FBI
bulletin says




An internal FBI note obtained by ABC News shows warnings of "a
huge uprising."

6:21

US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection
On .Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol, resulting in
deaths, injuries, arrests and vandalism.

Leila Navidi/Star Tribune via AP
Starting this week and running through at least Inauguration Day, armed protests are being
planned at all 50 state capitols and at the U.S. Capitol, according to an internal FBI bulletin
obtained by ABC News.

The FBI has also received information in recent days on a group calling for "storming" state,
local and federal government courthouses and administrative buildings in the event
President Donald Trump is removed from office prior to Inauguration Day. The group is also


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planning to "storm" government offices in every state the day President-elect Joe Biden will
be inaugurated, regardless of whether the states certified electoral votes for Biden or Trump.

"The FBI received information about an identified armed group intending to travel to
Washington, DC on 16 January," the bulletin read. "TI1ey have warned that if Congress
attempts to remove POTUS via the 25th Amendment, a huge uprising will occur."


                                    Stephanie Keith/Reuters, FILE
  Supporters of President Donald Trump participate in a "Stop the Steal" protest outside of the Capitol
                             building in Washington, D.C., Jan. 6, 2021.

Federal law enforcement officials have advised police agencies to increase their security
posture at statehouses arotmd the country following the riot at the U.S. Capitol, law
enforcement sources told ABC News.

Following the violent pro-Trump breach of the U.S. Capitol last Wednesday, Democratic
lawmakers in the House of Representatives pushed forward Monday with an effort to get Vice
President Mike Pence and the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment, which would declare
Trump incapable of performing his presidential duties and would install Pence as acting
president until Biden is inaugurated Jan. 20.

MORE: Trump-Biden transition live updates: House Democrats introduce article of
impeachment
The effort was ultimately blocked by Republican Rep. Alex Mooney of West Virginia, and
House Democrats then introduced an article of impeachment against Trump for "incitement
of insurrection."

The measure, which has more than 200 Democratic co-sponsors, states Trump has
"demonstrated that he will remain a threat to national security, democracy and the
Constitution if allowed to remain in office and has acted in a manner grossly incompatible
with self-governance and the rule of law."


                                     Leila N avidi/Star Tribune via AP
 Supporters gather during a rally supporting President Trump at the Minnesota Capitol, Saturday, Jau. 9,
                                         2021, in St. Paul, Minn.


According to the FBI, approximately 29 individuals and/ or social media accounts of
individuals who unlawfully entered the Capitol had been identified as of Sunday.

MORE: Capitol riots create concerns over inauguration securitY.:: ANALYSIS
The FBI has received nearly 45,000 digital media tips that are now being reviewed.




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At least five people died during the siege on the Capitol, including Capitol Police officer Brian
Sicknick. The FBI bulletin said Sicknick "died from injuries sustained during the U.S. Capitol
breach."

MORE: 2 Seattle police officers being investigated for involvement in Capitol attack
ABC News' Mariam Khan contributed to this report.

This report was featured in the Wednesday, Jan. 13, 2020, episode of "Start Here," ABC
News' daily news podcast.

 "Start Here" offers a straightforward look at the day's top stories in 20 minutes. Listen for
free every weekday onArw.le Podcasts, Google Podcasts, SnotifyJ the ABC News anll or
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1/21/2021                                      ACLU Again Calls for Impeachment of President Trump


   1,.:cru11er1ca,n Civil Liberties Union    Published on American Civil Liberties Union
                                             (https: //www.aclu.org)


   ACLU Again Calls for Imneachment of President Trumn 1,1
    January 10, 2021

    NEW YORK-The American Civil Liberties Union's national board of directors unanimously
    passed a second resolution today calling for the impeachment of President Donald J. Trump.

   As a matter of organizational policy, the ACLU does not regularly call for the removal of public
   officials. Such a move requires action by the ACLU National Board of Directors. The full resolution
   states:

            "Having considered the ACLU's mission to preserve, protect, and advance civil liberties
            and civil rights, its commitment to nonpartisanship, and its policy permitting it to take a
            position on impeachment only where an official's acts pose a 'grave and imminent threat
            to civil liberties,'

            "The National Board of Directors of the ACLU previously resolved, on Dec. 19, 2019, that
            President Trump committed impeachable offenses and violated his oath to preserve,
            protect, and advance the Constitution.

            "The Board now resolves by a unanimous vote that President Trump has committed
            additional impeachable offenses, violated his oath to preserve, protect, and defend the
            Constitution, and poses a 'grave and imminent threat to civil liberties' by engaging in an
            extended pattern of bad-faith conduct designed to subvert the results of a democratic
            election, thereby violating the core principles of our constitutional democracy: the right
            of the people to choose their representatives, and the obligation of officials to abide by
            the results of free and fair elections, and ensure the peaceful transition of power.

            "The pattern includes:

                 • Repeatedly making knowingly false statements about voter fraud and improprieties
                   designed to undermine the legitimacy of the election results, including in a series of
                   frivolous lawsuits, without evidence to support the claims;
                 • Pressuring election officials in several states, including Michigan, Pennsylvania,
                   and Georgia, to interfere v,'ith the results of the election, including a Jan. 2 taped
                   phone call in which he abused the power of the presidency by demanding that the
                   Georgia secretary of state 'find 11,780 votes,' and threatened criminal liability if the
                   secretary of state did not do so;
                 • Seeking to disenfranchise people of color by targeting many of these efforts at
                   counties and jurisdictions, such as in Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, and Wisconsin,
                   with predominantly Black or Brown populations;
                 • Directing Vice President Pence to block Congress' certification of the Electoral
                   College results, where the vice president had neither the authority nor the grounds
                   to do so; and
                 • Urging an unruly mob to riot at the United States Capitol on Jan. 6, in an effort to
                   prevent the certification of the Electoral College results and to intimidate members
                   of Congress from carrying out their constitutional duties.

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            "The Board recognizes that officials have a right to pursue good-faith challenges to
            election results, where there is an arguable basis for doing so, including through public
            statements, outreach to government officials, filing lawsuits, and encouraging one's
            supporters. But the pattern of conduct engaged in by President Trump displayed an
            unfounded, unconstitutional, and bad-faith effort to undermine the election results
            merely because the president lost in order to maintain himself in office.

            "Because our democracy rests on a commitment by representatives to let the people
            decide, these unprecedented acts constitute high crimes and misdemeanors that pose a
            grave and imminent threat to civil liberties, and to the foundations of our Republic,
            warranting President Trump's impeachment.

            "The Board, therefore, supports the impeachment of President Donald Trump a second
            time on the aforementioned grounds."

    Calling for the impeachment of President Trump in December 2019 was the second instance in the
    organization's history that the ACLU National Board of Directors voted to support impeachment of a
    president. This is the first time the ACLU is calling for a second impeachment. The organization also
    supported the impeachment of President Richard Nixon.

   For more than 100 years, the ACLU has worked in courts, legislatures, and communities to protect
   the constitutional rights of all people. With a nationwide network of offices and millions of members
   and supporters, the ACLU takes on the toughest civil liberties fights in pursuit of liberty and justice
   for all.

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1/16/2021                                     Members of Severa! We!!-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot -   ProPubl!ca




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Above- A crowd gathers outside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in Washington. (Spencer Piatt/Getty
Images)




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                                 Members of the ultranationalist street gang known as the Proud Boys were
                                 easy to spot at the protests that flared across the United States throughout
                                 2020, often in the middle of a brawl, typically clad in black and yellow
                                 outfits.

                                 But in December, as the group's leaders planned to flood Washington to
                                 oppose the certification of the Electoral College vote this week for
                                 President-elect Joe Eiden, they decided to do something different.

                                 "The ProudBoys will turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th but this time
                                 with a twist ... ," Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, the group's president, wrote in~
                                 late-December post on Parler, a social media platform that has become
                                 popular with right-wing activists and conservatives. "We will not be
                                 wearing our traditional Black and Yellow. We will be incognito and we will
                                 spread across downtown DC in smaller teams. And who knows ....we might
                                 dress in all BLACK for the occasion."


                                                Enrique Tarrlo , (~Nob!eL.cad
                                           .)   l weekHQO.            176634
                                                 Q Cl Cl I I I

                                                The Washington Post for some reason believed that one of the many
                                                hotels we freqtJent was newsworthy. Because of this the hotel decided to
                                                close for 3 days. A hotel that prides itself with saying thoy h.:ivon't closed
                                                thelr doors since It's open in the 1920s, Th~y have fallen victim to to the
                                                fllke news. With @TheProucJBoys you can see in real t1me the media
                                                machine do the globalists dirty work The media ls the ENEMY of the
                                                people. We had already stopped using the hote! as :a hub 3 months ago.
                                                With tho new ability I've being ab!e to put 1000 boots on the ground w-a
                                                outgrew any sinQle hotel.

                                                The ProudBoys wm turn out in record numbers on Jan 6th b1.1t this time
                                                wlthatwlsL

                                                We will not be wearinQ our traditional Black and Yellow, We wiH be
                                                incognito and we will spread across downtown DC in smaller teams.

                                                 And who knows....we might dress in a!: BU\CK for the occasion.

                                                The night calls ror .a BLACK tie event.

                                                48 L.iw:. of Powwr #3 #-4 #14 #15 #-17 -#29 437 #39 .#48

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                                 Henry "Enrique' Tarrio's Parler post in late December. (ProPublica screenshot)



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1/16/2021                                     Members of Several Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot -   ProPublica

                              The precise composition of the mob that forced its way into the Capitol on
                              Wednesday, disrupting sessions of both houses of Congress and leaving~
                              police officer and four others dead, remains unknown. But a review by a
                              ProPublica-FRONTLINE team that has been tracking far-right movements
                              for the past three years shows that the crowd included members of the
                              Proud Boys and other groups with violent ideologies. Videos reveal the
                              presence of several noted hardcore nativists and white nationalists who
                              participated in the 2017 white power rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, that
                              President Donald Trump infamously refused to condemn.

                              Watch: Footage of the Insurrection at the Capitol


                                            Invasion of the Capitol Was Planned for Weeks in F




                              Tarrio does not appear to have been present during the insurrection. Two
                              days before members of the House and Senate gathered to certify the
                              Electoral College resnlts, Washington's Metropolitan Police Department
                              arrested Tarrio and charged him with possessing high-capacity firearm
                              magazines and destruction of property over the burning of a Black Lives
                              Matter banner last month. A judge barred him from entering the city while
                              he awaits trial.

                              But it appears that Tarrio's followers heeded his advice. A journalist
                              working with ProPublica and FRONTLINE encountered members of the
                              Proud Boys in dark clothes walking through Washington on the night
                              before the attack. The four men posed for a photo and confirmed their
                              membership in the group. Few participants involved in the Capitol siege
                              were seen wearing Proud Boys colors or logos.




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                                              Ford Fischer
                                              @Ford Fischer

                                  I came across some Proud Boys dressed in black arour
                                  H Street.

                                  They're basically using American flags on their masks,
                                  arms, or shirts to distinguish themselves from actual
                                  antifa activists.

                                  I asked to take pie, this is what I got




                                  7:49 PM• Jan 5, 2021 from Washington, DC

                                        828             395 people are Tweeting about this


                              Four men who confirmed membership in the Proud Boys posed for a photo the night
                              before the attack.



                              But since the incident, Proud Boys social media channels have flaunted
                              their direct role in the attack and looting of the Capitol.

                              One prominent Proud Boys account encouraged rioters as the chaos was
                              unfolding: "Hold your ground!!!... DO NOT GO HOME. WE ARE ON THE
                              CUSP OF SAVING THE CONSTITUTION."

                              So far, police have arrested more than 80 people in connection with the
                              attack, including at least one Proud Boy, Nick Ochs. They have seized pipe

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1/16/2021                                     Members of Severa! Well-Known Hate Groups Identified at Capitol Riot -   ProPublica

                              bombs and Molotov cocktails and arrested at least six people on illegal
                              firearms charges, including one Maryland man who was captured in the
                              visitors' center of the Capitol. More arrests are expected.

                              As the crowds ringing the Capitol swelled on Wednesday, a small group of
                              men clad in body armor shuffled toward the doors at the center of the
                              building's east-facing facade.

                              The eight men, whose movements
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                              were captured on video, were
                              identified by ProPublica and
                              FRONTLINE as members of the
                              Oath Keepers, a long-standing            This story is part of an ongoing
                              militia group that has pledged to        collaboration between ProPub!ica and
                                                                       FRONTLINE that includes an upcoming
                              ignite a civil war on behalf of
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                              Trump. Members of the group              interview with reporter A.C. Thompson<
                              joined the protesters and
                              insurrectionists flooding into the
                              Capitol. Footage from later in the day shows Oath Keepers dragging a
                              wounded comrade out of the building.

                              Stewart Rhodes, a former soldier and Yale law school graduate, who
                              founded the Oath Keepers in 2009 and built it into a nationwide network,
                              was seen on video standing outside the Capitol building. While he was not
                              seen entering the Capitol, he could be seen talking with his militia
                              followers throughout the day.




                              Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, at the Capitol on Wednesday. (Ford Fischer)



                              Several other of the participants ProPublica and FRONTLINE identified
                              from video have direct links to the white nationalist movement, which has
                              seen a resurgence of activity during the Trump era.

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                              One was Nick Fuentes, an internet personality who streams a daily talk
                              show on DLive, an alternative social media platform. Fuentes, who
                              marched in Charlottesville during the 2017 white power rally there, speaks
                              frequently in anti-Semitic terms and pontificates on the need to protect
                              America's white heritage from the ongoing shift in the nation's
                              demographics. He has publicly denied believing in white nationalism but
                              has said that he considers himself a "white majoritarian."

                              Fuentes, who spoke at pro-Trump rallies late last year in Michigan and
                              Washington, D.C., said he was at the rally on Wednesday but didn't follow
                              the mob into the Capitol. One group of Fuentes' supporters, who call
                              themselves the Groyper Army, was filmed running through the Capitol
                              carrying a large blue flag with the America First logo.

                              Days before the Capitol was stormed, Fuentes seemed to encourage his
                              followers to kill state legislators in a bid to overturn Biden's electoral
                              victory, as Megan Sqnire, a computer science professor at Elon University
                              who follows online extremist communities, noted on Twitter.

                              "What can you and I do to a state legislator - besides kill him?" he said
                              with a smirk. "We should not do that. I'm not advising that, but I mean,
                              what else can you do, right?"

                              Squire fears that Fuentes' incendiary rhetoric will inspire his followers to
                              engage in more drastic - even lethal - acts of political violence. "Instead
                              of trying to appear democratic he's making an argument for fascism, for
                              monarchism," she said. "He's criticizing democracy at every turn. He
                              doesn't believe in democracy and it's scary because his fans find him
                              fascinating."

                              DLive recently announced that it has booted Fuentes from its platform.

                              Another figure inside the Capitol with ties to white nationalists was Tim
                              Gionet, a livestreamer who uses the handle Baked Alaska and who
                              participated in the Charlottesville rally, which left one woman dead.
                              Gionet was photographed within the Capitol and apparently used DLive to
                              stream from within the building as events unfolded. Part of his video
                              appeared to show him in Nancy Pelosi's office, according to the Southern
                              Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate groups.

                              Other extremist figures present either at the rally or within the Capitol
                              included Vincent James Foxx, an online propagandist for the Rise Above
                              Movement, a now-defunct Southern California white supremacist group.

                              Also on scene: Gabe Brown, a New Englander who helped create Anticom,
                              a now-defunct organization devoted to physically combating leftists. In
                              2017, Anticom members posted a vast trove of bomb-making manuals to a
                              private online chatroom.


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                              The militant group members joined with scores of others who rampaged
                              inside the Capitol.

                              Rep. Andre Carson, a Democrat from Indiana, said the scene reminded
                              him of a Ku Klux Klan rally. Photos from within the Capitol showed one
                              unidentified man carrying a Confederate battle flag and another wearing a
                              sweatshirt emblazoned with a skull and the words "Camp Auschwitz," a
                              reference to the infamous Nazi death camp.

                              Carson and other House members who spoke to ProPublica and
                              FRONTLINE said the body would be launching an extensive investigation
                              of the Capitol Police force and its mishandling of Wednesday's events.

                              The rioters, said Carson, who is Black, "were hostile. They were venomous.
                              And I think there was a sense of entitlement that they carried that
                              somehow their country was being taken away from them."

                              After the siege, a Boogaloo Bois group called the Last Sons of Liberty,
                              which includes militants from Virginia, posted a video to Parler purporring
                              to document their role in the incident - a clip that shows members inside
                              the Capitol. A loose-knit confederation of anti-government militants, the
                              Boogaloo Bois have been tied to a plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen
                              Whitmer and to the murder of two law enforcement officers in California.
                              ProPublica and FRONTLINE have been unable to independently confirm
                              their involvement.

                              Some far-right activists are already calling for retribution over the death of
                              Ashli Babbitt, a 35-year-old Air Force veteran from California who was shot
                              and killed by a security officer. "We've got a girl that's dead. She's shot,
                              laying on the ground in there," said Damon Beckley, leader of a group
                              called DC Under Siege, in an interview just outside the Capitol while the
                              riot was ongoing. "We're not putting up with this tyrannical rule .... If we
                              gotta come back here and start a revolution and take all these traitors out
                              - which is what should happen - then we will."

                              Another person took to Parler to say that they were planning to show up,
                              armed, in Washington for Inauguration Day. "Many ofus will return on
                              January 19, 2021 carrying Our weapons," wrote the Parler user, who goes by
                              the handle Colonel007. "We will come in numbers that no standing army
                              or police agency can match."

                              The Proud Boys also celebrated on social media. On Parler, one Proud Boys
                              leader posted a photo of members of Congress cowering in fear and
                              captioned it with a menacing statement: "Today you found out. The power
                              of the people will not be denied."

                              Logan Jaffe qf ProPublica and Lila Hassan, Dan Glazm and Zoe Todd of FRONTLINE
                              contlibuted reportinf!,.



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                              CorrectWn, Jan. 9, 2021: This sto1y has been updated to remove the name ofan
                              individual who upon further investigation could not be definitively ident(fi-ed.



                                                     A.C. Thompson
                                                     Reporter A.C. Thompson covers hate crimes and racial extremism for
                                                     ProPublica.

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1/21/2021                                   Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns Violence at The U.S. Capito! I Homeland Security

        ~ Off1c1al website of the Department of Homeland Sect1rity


                             U.S. Department of
                             Homeland Security




        Acting Secretary Wolf Condemns
        Violence at The U.S. Capitol
        Release Date: January 7, 2021

        "What transpired yesterday was tragic and sickening. While I have consistently condemned
        political violence on both sides of the aisle, specifically violence directed at law enforcement,
        we now see some supporters of the President using violence as a means to achieve political
        ends. This is unacceptable. These violent actions are unconscionable, and I implore the
        President and all elected officials to strongly condemn the violence that took place yesterday.

        OHS takes the safety and security of all Americans very seriously-it's at the core of our
        mission to defend our homeland. Any appearance of inciting violence by an elected official
        goes against who we are as Americans. Every American is guaranteed the right to peacefully
        protest, but once those protests become violent, we should enforce our laws and bring those
        responsible to justice-regardless of political motivations. After a challenging and saddening
        2020, it's time for every American to respect each other and the rule of law in 2021.

        I will remain in my position until the end of the Administration to ensure the Department's
        focus remains on the serious threats facing our country and an orderly transition to President-
        elect Biden's OHS team."

        Topics: Homeland SecuritY. Entergrise (@121cs/homeland-secur1tv.-enteq:2rise)_, Law Enforcement PartnershiP-S (L!Q.glcsl!aw-

       ~P.:artnershiR§:L Secreta[Y. of Homeland Security_(L!.,Q,12ks/secretarv.-homeiand-securit)'.)_

        Keywords: Acting Secreta[Y. Chad Wolf 1&£Y.words/acting·secretary·chad·wolfL ~gartment of Homeland Security_(DHS).
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        Last Published Date: January 11, 2021




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                    Law enforcement officials say the
                    MAGA mob's attempt to seize the
                    Capitol and sow destruction took them
                    by surprise, but it shouldn't have.

                    Protesters flocked to Washington, D.C.,
                    on ,Jan. 6 because, in the fevered
                    imagination of MAGA world, it
                    represented the last chance to keep
                    President Donald Trump in office. The
                    protest was aimed squarely at
                    pressuring members of Congress and
                    the vice president to reject the reality of
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      After a slew of arrests of his former militia comrades, Sam
      Andrews is singing a different tune.

      Kelly Weillupdated Jan, 21, 2021 8:56AM ET
      Reporter    Published Jan. 21, 2021 4:56AM ET



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                    But since rioters stormed the Capitol,
                    leavingliYf.P-fillple dead in the melee.

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                    The Daily Beast on Wednesday.
                    "Americans going armed to D.C. to
                    protest would be a lot like standing in a
                    field with your best friend over a
                    cowpatty and stabbing each other for
                    who gets to keep the cowpatty."

                    "Ifs a lot of bloodshed for a little shit,"
                    he added.



                   Oath Keeper Leader
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                   Conspiracy in Capitol
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                    Andrews was outside the Capitol on
                    .Jan. 6, but says he did not enter the
                    building. A former member of the fur::
                    rigbt paramilitar.Y..g!:Qll~
                    ~~. he was until very recently a

                    hype-man for bogus claims of voter
                    fraud. But now, as members of his                                             JOIN
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                    storming the Capitol, Andews is one of                                        EXGUJSIVE CONTENT
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                    Following Donald Tmmp's election
                    loss, Andrews appeared in a widely
                    shared video that called on the right to
                    converge on D.C. "armed, in large
                    groups," as the Washington Post

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                    corruption issues."

                    But a Capitol break-in wasn·t in tbe fine
                   print, he said.


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                    "I didn't tell tbem to go into the Capitol
                    armed or to break tbe law," Andrews
                   told The Daily Beast "But what l did
                   tell them was you're going to want to
                    head to D.C. armed because if this thing
                   blows up, you're going to want to be in
                   possession."

                   Andrews filmed himself outside the
                    Capitol with a group of men, and
                    claimed to have got close enough to the
                    action to be struck by police's pepper
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                              loaded, andget
                            ready, because this
                                   couldcomB
                              uncorkedatany
                                 moment."
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                    Earlier this week, prosecutors released
                    multiple conspiracy charges against
                    Oath Keepers, including a leader of the
                    group, for their alleged attack on the
                    Capitol. According to charging
                    documents, Oath Keepers-who count
                    current and former law-enforcement
                    and military among their members-
                    used a walkie-talkie app to plan the
                    assault.

                    "You arc executing citizen's arrest.
                    Arrest this assembly, we have probable
                    cause for acts of treason, election
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                    brutality in Ferguson, Missouri, the
                    Oath Keepers cultivated a controversial
                    presence in the city, suggesting arms
                    training and offering to provide security
                    for business owners. Andrews proposed
                    an armed march alongside the city's
                    Black residents, many of whom told
                    him that police would retaliate against a
                    march of armed Black people, he
                    recalled.

                    Andrews broke from tbe Oath Keepers,
                    accusing the group's leader, Stewart
                    Rhodes, of holding a "racist double
                    standard" when it came to armed
                    actions. Rhodes and the Oath Keepers
                    retaliated, releasing a video accusing
                    him of berating and tearing down other
                    members. Rhodes also cited a 2009
                    custody hearing in which Andrews' ex-
                    wife accused him of abuse, including
                    holding her at gunpoint for two hours,
                    hitting her, and shooting at their dog.

                    "He is potentially unstable and
                    potentially very violent," Rhodes said in                                     JOIN
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                    "BS" and an attempt by Rhodes, who
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                    Oath Keepers, Andrews appeared
                    alongside other figures who would
                    become well-known on the far right in
                    the Trump years. A 2015 Rolling Stone

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                    streetfighting group the Proud Boys.
                    Biggs was arrested on Wednesday for
                    his alleged role in the Capitol riots.
                    Charging documents claim he was one
                    of the first to enter the Capitol through
                    a broken window, although he denies
                    hm~ng forced his way into the building.



                    This Far-Right Militia
                    Went All-In Before
                    the Capitol Riot

                    Kelly Weill




                    Now separate from the Oath Keepers,
                    Andrews has focused his efforts on a
                    Lebanon, Missouri, shooting range,
                    where he said he often trains law
                    enforcement. In a recent podcast, a host
                    claimed Andrews had trained the
                    security team for Missouri Gov. Mike
                    Parson, although both Andrews and a
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                    Ali Alexander, one of the day's lead
                    organizers, initially posted a video
                    refusing to disavow the riot, lli!.UlQl!I'.
                    daims to be in hiding, asking followers
                    for S2,ooo a day to support his security
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                    participants to take the demonstrations
                    to their local statehouses and not to the
                       nation's capital, which was flooded with
                    National Guard members.

                    Statehouse rallies produced only
                    middling turnout.

                    Despite previously claiming on a
                    podcast that listeners should be primed
                    for a gun confiscation in February,
                    echoing years of far-right panic about
                       Democratic presidents, Andrews told
                    The Daily Beast that he was not
                    advocating preemptive action.

                    "My statements are basically telling
                    everyone in the United States: Get your
                    rift es clean, get your ammo and
                    magazines loaded, and get ready,
                    because this thing could come uncorked
                    at any moment," he said.

                    In the meantime, he was looking over
                       his shoulder.

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            Oath Heepers' Stewart Rhodes Calls for
            'Bloody War' if Trump Doesn't Invoke
            Insurrection Act
            <https:1/www,rightwingwatch,org/post_author/astan/>By Adele M, Stan
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            <https://www,lightwingwatch,org/post_author/astan/> December 14, 2020 11:48 am



            At a Dec. 12 rally <https://www.rightwingwatch.org/post/infighting-among-stop-the-steal-activists-
            intensifies-ahead-of-competing-d-c-rallies-saturday/> of Trump fans convened on the

            National Mall, Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes
            <https://web.archive.org/web/20111230074339/https://www.a Item et. org/news/146511 /patriot_schemes:_oa

            th_keeper_founder_goes_off_on_maddow,_mother_jones_--_and_alternet?page=entire> called on

            President Donald Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act in the wake of
            Democrat Joe Biden's imminent ascendency to the presidency of the United
            States, and declare martial law. Should Trump fail to do this, Rhodes said,
            Oath Keepers <https:/lwww.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/group/oath-keepers> and its
            fellow travelers would be compelled to take matters into their own hands, in
            what he said would be a "much more bloody war."




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            The rally was convened jointly <https:/iwww.rightwingwatch.org/post/right-wing-re~us-and-
            political-activists-trying-to-overturn-biden-victory-will-converge-on-washington-dec-12/> by                        Tfi~N~g ht-
            wing groups Jericho March and Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, and organized by the
            hard-right smear-monger Ali Alexander to protest what they claim, without
            credible evidence, was a massive fraud operation by the Democrats in the
            2020 presidential election.


            Rhodes also seemed to call for Trump to pardon Julian Assange "and put him
            in charge of doing a data dump," which would, in Rhodes' mind, expose the
            alleged fraudsters. The Insurrection Act would apparently permit the United
            States Special Operations Command, in Rhodes' reading, to "seize the files"
            that, per his scheme, would then be provided to Assange.


            As Rhodes brought his "bloody war" speech to a close, emcee Eric Metaxas
            <https://www.rightwingwatch.org/posUeric-metaxas-will-emcee-national-right-wing-prayer-rally-to-overturn-

            presidential-election/> offered him a blessing, adding <https://youtu.be/aect4gkka0c>, "This

            guy's keepin' it real, folks."


            Oath Keepers is a group formed in concert with the Tea Party movement that
            comprises a membership of law enforcement officers and veterans of the
            armed forces who pledge not to execute orders that they deem to be
            unconstitutional.


            From Rhodes' rally speech, as livestreamed by Right Side Broadcasting:




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                    RHODES: ... SOCOM that goes [to] seize all the files, all the
                    databases, and he's a free Julian Assange. And put him in charge of
                    doing a data dump to display to all of you all the skeletons out of the
                    closet into the streets, show the world who the traitors are, and then
                    use the Insurrection Act to drop the hammer on them. And all of us
                    veterans who swore that oath-until you're age 65, you can be called
                    up as the militia to support and defend the Constitution. He needs to
                    know from you that you are with him, [and] that if he does not do it
                    now while he is commander in chief, we're going to have to do it
                    ourselves later, in a much more desperate, much more bloody war.
                    Let's get it on now-while he is still the commander in chief.


                    METAXAS: Oh, God bless you. This guy's keepin' it real, folks. I
                    thought we'd bring a little music from Marian Markarian.




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            Government, Jericho March, Oath Keepers, Phyllis Schlafly Eagles, Stop the Steal




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1/16/2021                            Extremists and Mainstream Trump Supporters Gather for "Million MAGA March" I Anti-Defamation League




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       Thousands gathered in Washington, D.C. on Saturday, November 14, 2020 for
       the so-called Million MAGA March. Attendees and speakers, including a
       number of extremists, expressed support for President Trump, who continue
       to insist, without evidence, that he won re-election nearly two weeks ago.

       The rally was loosely organized, and speeches, some of which were
       impromptu, took place in both Freedom Plaza as well as in front of the
       Supreme Court. While the main rally was mostly peaceful, at least 20 people
       were arrested on various charges throughout the evening following the event.
       Most of the conflict occurred between Trump supporters and counter-
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       protesters, with some fistfights, leaving some bloodied. At least one stabbing
       was reported. Some Trump supporters appeared to be harassed by counter-
       demonstrators, targeted with bottled liquid and, in one case, fireworks. After
       altercations between Proud Boys and counter-protesters, Proud Boys
       reportedly chanted 'Break out Kyle!' in reference to Kyle Rittenhouse.

       There was a notable extremist presence at the D.C. protest. Dozens of Proud
       Boys were on the ground, led by Enrique Tarrio. Later, the group held an
       evening "initiation" ritual at the Washington Monument.

       White supremacist Nick Fuentes, accompanied by members of his so-called
       Groyper Army also took part, waving their group's flag alongside Trump 2020
       flags. Fuentes, speaking to a group of groypers, railed against Republican
       legislators and Fox News, adding. "... we are not going to live as captives. This
       is our Republican party. This is our country. USA!"




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       The groypers were joined by fellow white supremacists Patrick Casey, former
       head of Identity Evropa/American Identity Movement, Tim Gionet (aka Based
       Alaska) and Vincent James of the Red Elephants. Reporters also spotted Oath
       Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and Unite the Right organizer Jason
       Kessler marching with the crowd.




       Info Wars' Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer, who have been promoting their
       cross-country "Stop the Steal" tour, both gave speeches.




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       Jones gave perhaps the most inflammatory speech of the day, echoing the
       conspiracy theories that have long defined his tenure as a public figure. He
       framed the march as the second July 4, 1776, to be celebrated "for hundreds of

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       years as the Second American Revolution." He spoke about the "Death to the
       New World Order, death to tyranny, and life to America and our unborn
       children. The pedophile globalists and their attempted election steal and the
       Clinton blackmail rings have only summoned the sleeping giant that is
       America." He also said, "The Satanist pedophiles the Democrats represent
       knew the world awakening was here. And so you're seeing, right now, their
       desperate operation against humanity. And make no mistake, they control the
       corporations, they control Hollywood, they control the blue cities and blue
       states and other governments."




       Boogalooer Mike Dunn, antisemite Jovi Val, a number of QAnon adherents and
       a small group of Patriot Prayer, Oath Keepers and American Guard supporters
       rounded out the extremist presence.

       A number of politicians and public figures took the stage including newly
       elected U.S. Rep. (and QAnon enthusiast) Marjorie Greene (R-GA), U.S. Rep
       Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and former deputy assistant to the President Sebastian
       Gorka.

       Greene spoke about need to win the two U.S. Senate seats in Georgia in order
       to "save America and stop socialism." Gorka told the crowd, "We don't want
       violence, but we will never let them steal our republic." Gohmert, meanwhile,
       characterized the protests against the "stolen election" as "a fight to save this
       little experiment self-government from the establishment, from the
       globalists ... Don't give up the fight!"

       President Trump drove by the event as it began, on his way to play golf,
       waving from his vehicle along the march route. Later, he tweeted an image of
       the crowd and repeated his baseless claims of a "stolen" election. Vice

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       President Pence also voiced his support,                                                "Thank You All! What a
       great #MarchforTrump! MAGA!"

       There was minimal extremist presence, meanwhile, at simultaneous "Stop the
       Steal" rallies in Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, Michigan, and Georgia, where
       QAnon supporters were visible, along with close to a dozen people wearing
       militia-inspired gear.

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1/17/2021                                Rampage Weighs on Congressional Staff Members and Capito! Workers - The New York Times

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Rampage ~ighs on Congressional Staff Members and Capitol Workers
The violence caused by a pro-Trump mob on Wednesday has shaken many who work at the Capitol. And some
people of color say the law enforcement response reopened old wounds.

By A,_ishv~rya Kavi

Published Jan. 8, 2021   Updated Jan. 11, 2021


[Follow our live news on the Capitol Riots.]

WASHINGTON Some huddled in corners of the U.S. Capitol, texting loved ones. Others were glued to their
televisions at home as their place of work was overrun by rioters who smashed windows, ravaged offices and tore
down American flags, shocking the country.
For many congressional staff members and Capitol workers, in particular people of color, the damage wrought on
Wednesday was visceral. It will be a long time before they feel safe again at work, they say, knowing that a building
once thought to be among the most secure in Washington could be breached by a mob carrying, among other things,
a Confederate flag and displaying anti-Semitic iconography.
"They can1e into our house with the worst of intentions," said Tre Easton, a legislative assistant to Senator Patty
Murray, Democrat of Washington. "You add, on top of that, this open bigotry in what are supposed to be hallowed
halls? I don't know if I can feel safe, just knowing that this is possible:•
The Capitol Police have come under fire for seeming, at times, to offer little resistance to the pro- Trump mob. While
some experts defended their actions as prioritizing the protection of lawmakers over the securing of the building,
many congressional staff members, along with custodial and food service workers, were left wondering whether
they were safe.

"I have a lot of mixed feelings about the Capitol Police's stance and their strategy," said Julian Purdy, who works for
the House Veterans Affairs Committee. "One can say that the Capitol Police chose protecting the people, staff and
members above protecting the property and the iconography of the Capitol itself."
Noting that he is an Army veteran, Mr. Purdy, who is Black, said prioritizing people above all was understandable.
But he said that it was hard to reconcile that stance with the destruction his colleagues witnessed in person and that
he watched play out on television.
"I don't think I've fully processed it all yet," he said.
Some food service and custodial workers feel even more vulnerable. Rickie Toon, a cook who works in the Capitol
but was at home on Wednesday, said he knew colleagues who had been caught in the violence and sprayed with tear
gas.
"I have always felt they never did have enough security;' said Mr. Toon, who is Black. But he said the evacuation
response had been handled better than it was on Sept. 11, 2001, when, he said, the police did not even inform kitchen
workers of the terrorist threat to the Capitol, let alone evacuate them.
Many say they have always recognized the risks of working at the Capitol. Before the coronavirus pandemic, the
grounds regularly hosted protests. Even bomb threats were commonplace. But Wednesday's siege came as a shock.

"When you're a staffer, you know when something like that happens, you're not going to be the priority;' said Nicole
Tisdale, a Black consultant who spent 10 years working for Democratic and Republican lawmakers before leaving to
help train congressional staff members and advocacy groups. "I had never felt insecure in the Capitol itself. But now
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Black staff members in particular said the rampage had reminded them of the struggles they had often had to come
to terms with in order to work for Congress.
"I'm a gay, Black guy from rural Georgia - and it's a thnmb in the nose of some that I get to work in this place;' Mr.
Easton said. He noted that he worked in an office building named for Senator Richard B. Russell Jr. of Georgia, who
was a strident supporter of racial segregation and white nationalism.
"But the images of hatred and violence were especially raw and resonant for me;' said Mr. Easton, who watched the
destruction unfold while working from home. "That's something staffers of color especially have felt, when there are
just a few of us in this place, relatively speaking."
One senior African-American Democratic aide spent nearly six hours locked down in the Rayburn House Office
Building. Having worked in Congress for 14 years, she said, witnessing law enforcement officials' lackluster
response to the mob in comparison to how she had seen people of color treated was the final straw.
"I an1 planning to leave;' said the woman, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to talk candidly about the effects
of what had happened. "I'm exhausted from this battle. Wednesday was like a nail in the coffin:'
Another Democratic aide said he had been disturbed by a moment amid the violence on Wednesday when he saw a
few white colleagues, ties loosened and looking unstressed, walking around the Rayburn building with red plastic
cups.

"They were acting like this was normal," said the man, who is Asian-An1erican.
Ms. Tisdale, who works on national security policy, said she and some of her colleagues at the Capitol had viewed
the event as a terrorist attack. But she said they had been left disappointed by the lack of public sympathy for
people in the Capitol who had been caught up in the violence.

"I know how law enforcement responds after a terror attack and after a mass shooting, and I know how the public
responds," Ms. Tisdale said. "That's not what has happened here. Because all of these people work on the Hill,
people are fighting about the politics."




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                                Rep. Andy Kim helped law enforcement officers clean up debris in the Capitol Rotunda on
                                Thursday. Andrew Harnlkj Associated Press



Representative Andy Kim, a New Jersey Democrat, saw a certain arrogance in what the rioters did. "When people
storm in - literally break down the door of America and desecrate this temple of our democracy and this flag - it
shows that they think they're bigger than this country," he said. "They think they're better than our institutions:•
Mr. Kim walked the halls of the Capitol on Wednesday after the building had been secured. He said he had felt
obligated to help clean up the mess that had been left behind. He borrowed a trash bag from Capitol Police officers
and began picking up water bottles, broken flags and even tactical gear that had been left behind.
"Whoever bought it, bought it for the purpose of this event, which scared me tremendously," Mr. Kim said of a
military-grade vest he found, his voice choking over the phone as he spoke through tears.
One Black congressional staff member who also took a walk through the Capitol to survey the aftermath on
Wednesday night said that despite all the damage, he had been stopped in his tracks outside Representative Steny
Hoyer's offlce, where a poster honoring John Lewis, the congressman and civil rights leader who died in August,
had been displayed. It was missing.

He looked for it feverishly and found only a broken piece on the ground next to a trash can. The image of Mr. Lewis
was gone. All that remained of his celebrated quote, "Get into good trouble, necessary trouble;' were the final two
words - smudged by a boot print.
"That portrait was draped in black cloth;' he said. "They destroyed it:'
Pranshu Verma contributed reporting.




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1/18/2021                             'I Answered the Call of My President': Rioters Say Trump Urged Them On - The New York Times




1Answered the Call of My President': Rioters Say Trump Urged Them On
The defense from Trump supporters arrested in the Capitol assault is emerging in court papers and interviews -           and could play a role in
impeachment proceedings.

By Alan Feuer and Nicole Hong

Jan.17.2021


In the two weeks since a raging mob stormed the Capitol, President Trump has shown no sign that he believes he shares responsibility for
the worst incursion on the halls of Congress in more than two centuries. Shielding him further, his loyalists have started shifting blame for
the attack to an array of distracting bogeymen: far-left anti-fascists, Black Lives Matter activists, even vague conspiracies of a setup
involving Vice President Mike Pence.

But one group of people has already come forward and directly implicated Mr. Trump in the riot at the Capitol: some of his own
supporters who were arrested while taking part in it. In court papers and interviews, at least four pro-Trump rioters have said they joined
the march that spiraled into violence in part because the president encouraged them to do so.
In the past few days, a retired firefighter charged with assaulting members of the Capitol Police force told a friend he went to the building
following "the president's instructions;• according to a criminal complaint, and a Texas real estate agent accused of breaching the building
told a reporter that by protesting in Washington, she had ''answered the call of my president."

A Virginia man has told the RB.I. that he and his cousin marched on the Capitol because Mr. Trump said "something about taking
Pennsylvania Avenue.'' And a lawyer for the so-called QAnon Shaman - who invaded the building in a Viking costume - said that Mr.
Trump was culpable, and he planned to ask the White House for a pardon.

"Does our president bear responsibility?" the lawyer, Al Watkins, told The New York Times. "Hell, yes, he does."
The nationwide dragnet for those accused of breaking into the Capitol is only in its early stages, and it is likely to take weeks until the full
scope and contours of the investigation are known. But with dozens of people now in custody and starting to appear in court, the accounts
they give about Mr. Trump could end up not only as fodder in criminal proceedings but also at an impeachment tdal to bolster charges
that the president incited the assault.

On Wednesday, Mr. Trump was impeached for a second time after the House voted to approve a single charge, citing his part in whipping
up the mob that descended on the Capitol on Jan. 6 after attending a rally where Mr. Trump and his allies repeated his baseless assertions
that the election was rigged against him. He now faces a trial in the Senate that could disqualify him from future office.
While it would be unusual if any of the defendants charged in the Capitol attack were called as witnesses in the impeachment drama, it is
possible that Democrats could cite statements about Mr. Trump that those defendants have made in public or to investigators.

At the very least, the emergence of a ''Trump-made-me-do-it" defense could serve to undercut the baseless narrative by some of the
president's congressional allies and his personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, who have sought to push the story that outside agitators or
disloyal servants were responsible for the Capitol attack.

As the criminal cases stemming from the riot move through the legal system. they also could put some of Mr. Trump's most ardent
followers in the awkward position of having to publicly lay blame at the feet of the man they came out to support.



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The approach is formally known as a public authority defense, and in using it, lawyers can try to argue that their clients are not guilty
because a government official permitted them to commit the crimes.

Legal scholars have questioned the viability of the defense in the case of the Capitol breach, noting that anyone who seeks to blame Mr.
Trump for their part in the assault would have to prove not only that they believed he had authorized their actions, but also that such a
belief was reasonable.

But even if trying to offload responsibility onto Mr. Trump may not be effective at a trial, it could ultimately help lighten the punishment
for anyone convicted of a crime in connection with the attack, said Judith P. Miller, a law professor at the University of Chicago.



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''The fact that our country's highest leader is promoting this grand lie and giving millions of people a sense of righteousness, and that
they're on the side of the angels, that seems like it could be potentially strong mitigating evidence;' Ms. Miller said.

Mr. Trump began promoting his Washington event well before it happened, urging his allies to join him for a speech outside the White
House. During the address, attended by thousands, he told the crowd "to waJk down to the Capitol" where Congress, overseen by Mr.
Pence, was certifying the final count of the election results.

"You'll never take back our country with weakness," he admonished the throng. "You have to show strength, and you have to be strong."
Shortly after Robert Sanford, a retired firefighter from Boothwyn, Pa., heard those words, he joined the growing mob that was marching
on the Capitol. There, federal prosecutors say, Mr. Sanford heaved a fire extinguisher at a group of police officers, striking and injuring
three of them.

When Mr. Sanford got home, according to a criminal complaint filed last week, he told a friend he had gone to Washington to hear Mr.
Trump, then "followed the president's instructions" and moved on to the Capitol.

His lawyer, Enrique Latoison, srud in an interview with The Times that he was still exploring whether blaming Mr. Trump for Mr.
Sanford's alleged role in the attack would work in front of a judge.

''You're being told, 'You gotta fight like hell,'" Mr. Latoison said. "Does 'fight like hell' mean you can throw stuff at people? Maybe."

Mr. Latoison noted that the only reason Mr. Sanford was in Washington at all was because of Mr. Trump. "That man wouldn't have been
there if it wasn't for the president," he said.
When Jennifer L. Ryan flew from Texas to Washington on a private plane with friends, she did so, as she later told a reporter, because Mr.
Trump "asked us to go."

"He said, 'Be there,"' Ms. Ryan explained. "So I went and I answered the call of my president.''


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Not long afterward, prosecutors say, Ms. Ryan, a real estate agent from a Dallas suburb, posed for a photograph in front of a broken
window at the Capitol and then illegally entered the building through its Rotunda entrance. In a now-deleted Facebook video, court
papers say, she could be heard joining the trespassing crowd inside shouting, "Fight for freedom!" and 1'This is our house!"




   Supporters of Mr. Trump began to march toward the Capitol after listening to the president's speech. Pete -:'viarovkh for The New York Times



Another video emerged on Sunday of the mob inside the building confronting the Capitol Police, while one man yelled at the officers that
he and his fellow rioters were there because they were "listening to Trump, your boss."
That, in essence, was the argument that Mr. Watkins, who is based in St. Louis, plans to make as he begins his defense of the QAnon
Shaman, a Phoenix man whose real name is Jacob Chansley.
Mr. Chansley, an unemployed actor who has made a name for himself in recent weeks by turning up at pro-Trump rallies in face paint, a
horned battle helmet and a six-foot spear, was charged with breaking into the Senate chamber and leaving a note for Mr. Pence that read,
"It's only a matter of time, justice is coming." On Friday, a federal judge in Arizona ordered him detained pending trial, saying he was "an
active participant in a violent insurrection to overthrow the U.S. government."
Mr. Watkins did not deny that Mr. Chansley was inside the Capitol that day, but suggested he had gone there because he, like others,
"hung on the words of the president" for comfort and guidance. "What you've got here are people like my client who take the president
seriously," Mr. Watkins added, "and look to him to make them feel relevant in a system that has made them feel neglected."
That is why Mr. Watkins plans in the corning days to ask Mr. Trump to pardon Mr. Chansley, comparing him and the others at the Capitol
to cult members.

"They were betrayed by somebody in whom they'd placed their faith;' Mr. Watkins said. "They're like the followers of Jim Jones. The only
thing missing was the Kool-Aid:'
Reporting contributed by Rebecca R. Ruiz.




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Police Reassess Security for Inauguration and
Demonstrations After Capitol Attack
In the wake of last week's assault on the Capitol, Mayor Muriel E. Bowser of Washington
called for officials to expedite security preparations for the inauguration.

By Alan Fe1,1er

Published Jan. 10, 2021   Updated Jan. 15, 2021


[Here's what you need to know about President-elect Joseph R. Eiden Jr.'s Inauguration Day.]

Federal and local authorities across the country pressed their hunt this weekend for the
members of the angry mob that stormed the Capitol building last Wednesday, as
Washington's mayor issued an urgent appeal to start preparing immediately for more
potential violence before, during and after the inauguration of President-elect Joseph R.
Eiden Jr.

Following one of the most stunning security lapses in the city's history, Mayor Muriel E.
Bowser sent a firmly worded letter on Saturday to the Department of Homeland Security,
asking officials to move up to Monday the implementation of heightened security measures
that are otherwise set to begin on Jan. 19, just one day before Mr. Biden's swearing-in.

Ms. Bowser's call to action, which came as law enforcement officers in several states made
arrests related to the assault on the Capitol, was echoed Sunday by Senator Roy Blunt, the
Missouri Republican who is charged with overseeing the planning of the inaugural
celebration.

The Capitol complex, typically a hive of activity, remained cut off from its surroundings
Sunday night by troop deployments and an imposing scrim of seven-foot-tall, unsealable
fencing. Still in shock from the worst breach of the building in more than two centuries,
lawmakers were expected to turn their attention this week to a second slate of impeachment
charges against President Trump, who has said little about the rampage he helped incite -
in part because social media companies, like Twitter and Facebook, have either banned him
or severely limited his use of their platforms.

Security experts warned this weekend that some far-right extremist groups have now
started to focus attention on Inauguration Day and are already discussing an assault similar
to the one on the Capitol, which led to the sacking of congressional offices and the deaths of
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at least five people, including a Capitol Police officer.

As of Sunday, nearly 400 people had joined a private group online dedicated to what is being
billed as the "Million Militia March," an event scheduled to take place in Washington on Jan.
20. On Parler, a social media site popular on the far right that is in danger of being taken
offline because of rampant talk of violence, commenters were debating what tools they
should bring to the march, mentioning everything from baseball bats to body armor to
assault rifles.


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"We took the building once," one person posted. "We can take it again."
While most of the chatter online appears to be directed toward Inauguration Day, some on
the right have argued that pro-Trump activists should instead gather once again on Capitol
Hill and hold other rallies in cities outside Washington on Jan. 17. Over the weekend, fliers
began to circulate on Parler and in private groups on the chatting services WhatsApp and
Signal, calling for an "Armed march on Capitol Hill and all state capitols" at noon that day.
"I'd like to come to this, but want to know, does our president want us there?" asked one
person on the social media site Gab. "Awaiting instructions."
In a statement, the U.S. Secret Service, which is responsible for security at the inauguration,
said the inauguration was "a foundational element of our democracy" and "the safety and
security of all those participating" was "of the utmost importance."

In a separate statement, Representative Jason Crow, a Colorado Democrat and former
Army Ranger, said he had spoken with military officials who were aware of "possible threats
posed by would-be terrorists" in the coming days and were working with local and federal
law enforcements officers to prevent them.


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Even as the throng of hundreds - if not thousands - breached gates, smashed windows
and stormed into the Capitol last week, there were also tense standoffs at statehouses in
Kansas, Colorado, Oregon and Georgia. On Saturday, that trend seemed to continue as
Senator Charles E. Grassley, Republican of Iowa, said he was told of a "disturbing report of a
death threat" received on Friday by the Iowa Democratic Party.
"Threats like this & violence are UNACCEPTABLE," Mr. Grassley wrote on Twitter.
On Monday, the Michigan Capitol Commission is scheduled to meet to consider banning
guns from the building. In April, in a kind of dress rehearsal for the chaos in Washington, a
group of gun-toting protesters decrying coronavirus lockdowns rushed the State Capitol in
Lansing, not long after Mr. Trump tweeted, "Liberate Michigan."
Armed with federal warrants, law enforcement officers spent much of the weekend cracking
down on people who had stormed the National Capitol, making a series of arrests in states
from Iowa to Florida, and filing new charges against some of the more than 80 people who
were taken into custody last week by local officers in Washington. Among those charged so
far have been a man seen hauling off House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's lectern; the leader of
the Hawaii chapter of the far-right nationalist group the Proud Boys; and a proponent of the
QAnon conspiracy theory known for showing up at pro-Trump rallies in a headdress with
horns and a spear.
On Saturday, federal prosecutors filed a new complaint against Cleveland Grover Meredith
Jr., a Georgia man who was accused of threatening Ms. Pelosi by saying in a text message
that he was going to put "a bullet in her noggin on Live TV." Federal agents said that Mr.
Meredith had been staying at a Holiday Inn in Washington and had weapons in his camper-
style trailer that included a Glock handgun, a Tavor X95 assault rifle and hundreds of rounds
of ammunition.
On Sunday, prosecutors brought charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct against a
figure who had first been identified online by civilian sleuths: Eric G. Munchel of Nashville.
In a photograph that circulated widely after the attack, Mr. Munchel, 30, was pictured
wearing tactical military gear and carrying a handful of plastic restraints known as zip ties.
Prosecutors in Washington also filed a complaint Sunday on similar charges against Larry
R. Brock, a retired Air Force officer from Texas, saying he too had been carrying plastic
restraints.
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The F.B.I. has said that it has received more than 40,000 tips online about the Capitol mob,
including photographs and video clips. In an interview with NPR on Sunday, Michael R.
Sherwin, the U.S. attorney in Washington, said that the Justice Department was considering
charges for "theft of national security information" after some in the mob looted laptops,
documents and other items from congressional offices.
Some of those who had been at the Capitol discovered that they had been put on
government no-fly lists as they tried on Sunday to make their way home from Washington.
As charges continued to be filed, more participants in the attack were identified around the
country, among them business executives and local school board officials. Several police
departments - and the New York Fire Department - have said they are investigating
members who may have taken part in the assault.
Reporting was contributed by Kathleen Gray, Zolan Kanno-Youngs, Sheera Frenkel and Adam Goldman.
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submitted his resignation on Thursday, a spokeswoman confirmed. He wasn't
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12 National Guard members with ties to militia groups or
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At least 12 National Guard service members have been removed from president-elect Joe
Biden's inauguration, including two people who made "inappropriate" comments about the
event.

The discovery follows Defense Department and FBI efforts to screen National Guard
members as more than 20,000 troops support law enforcement in Washington DC ahead of
the swearing-in ceremony, days after a far-right mob breached the US Capitol.

Two service members were identified for posting "inappropriate comments or texts" about
the event, Army General Daniel Hokanson told reporters on Tuesday afternoon. At least 10
others were identified by the FBI "as having ties to fringe right-wing groups or had posted
extremist views", according to the Associated Press.
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'Tm not concerned as a large part of our organisation, if you look at 25,000, we've had 12
identified and some of those they are just looking into, it may be unrelated to this, but we
want to make sure out of an abundance of caution, as I stated earlier, that we do the right
thing until that gets cleared up," General Hokanson told reporters.

Pentagon officials did not disclose details about the service members. Spokesman Jonathan
Hoffman said that "much of the information" is "unrelated to the events taking place at the
Capitol or to the concerns that many people have noted on extremism."

"These are vetting efforts that identify any questionable behavior in the past or any potential
link to questionable behavior, not just related to extremism," he told reporters.

Federal authorities have identified a growing number oflaw enforcement and military
personnel who joined the insurrection on 6 January.

In a statement on Monday, acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller said that while it's
"normal" to vet service members for "large security events" like the inauguration ceremony
on Wednesday, the Pentagon has "no intelligence indicating an insider threat". The FBI is
assisting with screening efforts.

"We are leaving no stone unturned in securing the capital," he said. "However, in this case
the scope of military participation is unique. The DC National Guard is also providing
additional training to service members as they arrive in DC that if they see or hear something
that is not appropriate, they should report it to their chain of command."

More than 30 police officers from more than a dozen states participated in the rally that
incited the riot to support Donald Trump's attempt to overturn the 2020 presidential
election, and several other officers - as well as US military veterans - joined the mob inside
the Capitol, underscoring warnings from civil rights groups about the far-right radicalisation
inside law enforcement departments across the US.

On Monday, FBI agents also arrested two members of the Joint Terrorism Task Force at its
Boston field for their "alleged roles in connection" to the Capitol insurrection.

Federal law enforcement has identified at least six people with military histories now in
federal custody from its sprawling investigation into rioters. That includes a retired Air Force
lieutenant colonel, a US Army officer and an Army reservist. An Air Force veteran was killed
by Capitol Police during the attack.

The Pentagon and Justice Department now are acting with relative urgency after civil rights
group as well as federal agencies have sounded alarms about the rising threats of far-right
violence and white supremacist groups.
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The Associated Press cited a US Army official and a senior intelligence official \Nith
knowledge of the troops' removal and extremist ties. It was not immediately clear on Tuesday
which states the two service members were from or what militia groups they are connected
to.

Heightened security throughout the nation's capital surrounding the inauguration follows
intelligence warnings among federal law enforcement in the wake of the attack on the
Capitol.

The attacks in Washington DC and the deaths of rioters will "very likely serve as a significant
driver of violence" and galvanise groups and inspire "more sporadic, lone-actor or small-cell
violence" against others, according to the bulletin, released by the FBI, Justice Department,
Department of Homeland Security and National Counterterrorism Center.

The latest bulletin, dated 13 January, says those groups "very likely pose the greatest
domestic terrorism threats in 2021."

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GOP senator: Trump 'committed impeachable offenses'

Alexander Bolton                                                               January 9, 2021




Sen. Pat ToomeyPatrick (Pat) Joseph ToomeyGovernment
used Patriot Act to gather website visitor log~9-
Appeals court rules NSA's bulk phone data collection illegal
Dunford withdraws from consideration to chair coronavirus
oversight panel MORE (R-Pa.), who has played a leading role
in opposing efforts to throw out the results of the 2020
election, on Saturday said President TrumpDonald
TrumpClinton, Bush, Obama reflect on peaceful transition of
power on Biden's Inauguration DaY-Arizona Republican's
brothers say he is 'at least partially to blame' for CapiJ;cl
violence Biden reverses Trump's freeze on .a billion in funds
MORE has "committed impeachable offenses."

"I do think the president committed impeachable offenses," Toomey said
during an interview on Fox News's "The Journal Editorial Report."

Toomey is the top-ranking Republican on the Senate Banking Committee.
He plans to retire from Congress at the end of 2022 to return to the private
sector.



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Toomey said he did not know whether the Senate would act on any articles
of impeachment passed by the House during the final 11 days of Trump's
term in office and voiced concern that Democrats may try to "politicize" the
process.

"I don't know what they are going to send over, and one of the things that I'm concerned
about, frankly, is whether the House would completely politicize something," he said.

While Toomey said he believes Trump "committed impeachable offenses," he added, "I don't
know what's going to land on the Senate floor if anything."

Speaker Nancy PelosiNanc.Y- PelosiGOP operative installed as NSA top
la:wyer placed on administrative leave: reports Budowsk_Y-: Democrac_Y- won,
Trump lost, President Biden inaugurated Biden taps career civil servants to
acting_posts at State, USAID, UN MORE (D-Calif.) wrote in a letter to
colleagues Friday that if Trump does not leave office "imminently and
willingly," the House will proceed with action.

During a phone call that lasted more than three hours on Friday afternoon, an overwhelming
majority of House Democrats voiced support for impeaching Trump for a second time.

Pelosi expressed hope that the threat of impeachment would mobilize Trump's Cabinet to
invoke the 25th Amendment to remove him from office.

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Pelosi had not announced as of Saturday afternoon a final decision on how the House will
move forward.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnellAddison (Mitch) Mitchell
McConnellBudowsk_Y-: Democrac.Y- won, Trump lost, President Bi den
inaugurated Biden's inauguration marked b.Y- conflict of hope and fear
McConnell faces conservative backlash over Trump criticism MORE (R-
Ky.) on Friday circulated a memo laying out the procedures for another
impeachment trial if the House votes a second time to impeach Trump.

McConnell's memo stated that while the Senate could receive a message from the House
informing the upper chamber that it has passed articles of impeachment, the secretary of the
Senate could not notify the Senate of the message until Jan. 19, when the senators are
scheduled to return from a recess.




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As a result, the House impeachment managers could not exhibit the articles of impeachment
on the Senate floor until Jan. 19 unless all 100 senators agree to allow business to take place
before the recess is scheduled to end - an unlikely possibility, according to McConnell's
memo.

The Senate's impeachment rules do not allow the upper chamber to begin the trial until one
day after the House impeachment managers exhibit the articles of impeachment, which
means another trial couldn't begin before 1 p.m. on Jan. 20, after Joe
BidenJoe BidenKatY- Perry and her 'Firework' close out inauguration TV
212ecial Arizona Re12ublican's brothers saY- he is 'at least 12artiallY- to blame'
fur..C_apitol violence Tom Hanks: After Y-ears of 'troubling rancor,~
Inauguration Day 'is about witnessing~12ermanence of our American
ideal' MORE is sworn in as president - unless all 100 senators agree to
return earlier.

McConnell's memo stated that it's not clear whether Supreme Court Chief Justice John
Roberts would preside over Trump's second impeachment trial, if it happened, because he
would no longer be president when it started.

Two other Republican senators have expressed willingness to remove Trun1p from office over
what they see as his role in whipping up a pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol Friday.

Sen. Ben SasseBen SasseBudowsky: Democracy won, Trum12 lost, President
Biden inaugurated Pom12eo labels China's treatment of Uighurs 'genocide'
GOP senators wrestle with 12urging Tnun12 from 12fil1Y-MORE (R-Neb.) told
"CBS This Morning" that if the House comes together on an impeachment
process, "I will definitely consider whatever articles they might move
because, as I told you, I believe the president has disregarded his oath of
office."

Sasse said he "swore an oath to the American people to preserve, protect and defend the
Constitution" and that Trump "acted against that."

Sasse later said he heard from senior vVhite House officials that Trump was "delighted" to
learn that his supporters broke into the Capitol building. The melee resulted in the death of a
Capitol police officer and several rioters.

Sen. Lisa MurkowskiLisa Ann MurkowskiMcConnell faces conservative
backlash over Trum12 criticism GOP senators praise Biden's inauguration
212eech Biden urges Americans to join together in am,eal for unitY- MORE
CR-Alaska) told the Anchorage Daily News on Friday that Trump should
resign.

"I want him to resign. I want him out. He has caused enough damage," she
said.

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Toomey said in the interview that aired Saturday that Trump's false claims of widespread
election fraud cost Republicans control of the Senate by depressing GOP turnout in two
runoff races in Georgia.

"We lost those races because the races were about Donald Trump and not about our
candidates. I think we had better candidates. He had a very, very good rationale to present to
the voters, which is you don't want to risk the Democrats who have gone to this extreme left
in recent years, you don't want to give them power," he said.

But Toomey said that message "got eclipsed."

"We had turnout problems. It's hard to turn out voters when you're telling them that the
election is rigged against them anyway. It's not a great message to inspire people to go to the
polls," he said. "I think we could have won both of those races."

Toomey defended McConnell's handling of Republican objections to electoral votes for Biden
in Arizona and Pennsylvania.

The GOP leader warned his colleagues not to support objections to electoral votes, which he
argued would put fellow Republicans in a tough spot and undermine states' rights to set their
own election rules.

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"Mitch McConnell has been handling some very, very difficult circumstances about as well as
anybody could," Toomey said. "He knew that it was a very bad idea to go down this road of
rejecting electors that states had duly authorized, and he made the case for why we shouldn't
go down that road."

Asked if Senate Republican colleagues bore some responsibility for a pro-Trump mob
storming the Capitol on Wednesday when Congress was counting the Electoral College vote,
Toomey said, "I think there's a lot of soul searching that's going to have to happen."

"There are people who perpetrated the big lie that Donald Trump won in a landslide and it's
all been stolen from him. That's not true," he said.

He said there was "a compounding of dishonesty" by people who propagated the idea that
Congress's tallying of the Electoral College vote on Wednesday "could result in a different
outcome and therefore it was reasonable to try to pressure lav,rmakers."

"That was never going to happen. That was never possible. And so to willfully mislead people
about that, that's a real problem," Toomey added.

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Man who allegedly broke into Pelosi's office charged with
3 federal counts




He was arrested Friday morning in Little Rock, Arkansas.

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US Capitol riots: Tracking the insurrection
On Jan. 6, rioters coming from a pro-Trump rally broke into the U.S. Capitol, resulting in
deaths, injuries, arrests and vandalism.

Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA via Shutterstock
Richard Barnett, the man who allegedly broke into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office,
posed for pictures and stole mail from her desk, was arrested Friday morning in Little Rock,
Arkansas, and has been charged with three federal counts.

Barnett allegedly entered the restricted office area and took photographs with his feet
propped up on furniture, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in
Washington, D.C.




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Barnett, who goes by the name "Bigo," was captured in news media photographs and took an
envelope off of Pelosi's desk addressed to Rep. Billy Long, R-Mo., the complaint says.

Saul Loeb, a staff photographer at Agence France Presse, was the one who snapped the now-
infamous photograph of Barnett behind the desk in Pelosi's office.

"[Barnett] was sitting at her, at a staff member's desk, in her office with his feet up, just
making himself at home, you know, just sort of like he owned the place," Loeb told ABC
News. "Here you have Nancy Pelosi, one of the highest members of the U.S. government, and
this theoretically highly secure location in this highly secure building and these people are
just basically doing whatever they want and looking whatever they want."


                                     Saul Loeb/Al'P via Getty Images
 A supporter of President Donald Trump sits inside the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after
 protesters broached the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., ,Tan. 6, 2021, as Congress met to certify the a
                                       2020 presidential election.


Barnett was charged with entering a restricted building, violent entry and disorderly conduct
on Capitol grounds, and stealing public property.

"The shocking images of Mr. Barnett with his boots up on a desk in the Speaker of the
House's office on Wednesday was repulsive," said Jeffrey A. Rosen, acting attorney general of
the United States.

Loeb said when he encountered rioters, they wanted to have their picture taken and would
often pose for photographers like himself.

MORE: West Virginia lawmaker charged after filming himself at pro-Trump siege inside
Capitol
"They were taking lots of selfies of themselves. You know, they just sort of seemed like happy
to be there, sort of surprised that they were there, I would guess," said Loeb.

Recently elected West Virginia state Republican lawmaker Derrick Evans was also charged
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Grounds after he allegedly recorded himself in a video entering the Capitol.

Evans allegedly streamed a live video to his Facebook page of him "joining and encouraging a
crowd unlawfully entering the U.S. Capitol," according to the US Attorney's Office for the
District of Columbia.

The office alleges that the video shows Evans entering the U.S. Capitol and shouting, "We're
in, we're in! Derrick Evans is in the Capitol!"




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On Saturday, Evans resigned from the West Virginia House of Delegates, effective
immediately.

"The past few days have certainly been a difficult time for my family, colleagues and myself,
so I feel it's best at this point to resign my seat in the House and focus on my personal
situation and those I love," Evans said in a statement. "I take full responsibility for my
actions, and deeply regret any hurt, pain or embarrassment I may have caused my family,
friends, constituents and fellow West Virginians."

Several others also face charges.


                                   Jim Lo Scalzo/EPA via Shutterstock
   Richard Bigo Barnett takes a seat in the office of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi after breaching
     Capitol security during a protest against Congress certifying Joe Bi den as the next president in
                                         Washington, Jan 6, 2021.

On Wednesday, Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said that there
were Molotov cocktails found in the cooler of a truck. On Friday, Lonnie Coffman was
arrested for allegedly possessing them.

While K-9 units were searching for explosives at the Republican National Committee and
Democratic National Committee, they got a hit on what allegedly was Coffman's truck -- and
upon approaching the truck they saw the handle of a handgun that was ultimately recovered
from the passenger seat, according to a complaint.

MORE: An attempted murderer, a lawmaker, white supremacists: Arrest records shed light
on those arrested in Capitol siege
Officers also allegedly recovered 11 mason jars containing an unknown liquid with a golf tee
on the top of each jar, cloth rags and lighters.

"Upon finding these materials, bomb technicians observed that the items appeared to be
consistent with components for an explosive or incendiary device known as a 'Molotov
Cocktail," the complaint says.


                           Washington County Sheriffs Office via Getty Images
Richard Barnett is shown in a booking photo released courtesy of Washington County Sheriffs Office, ,Jan.
                                                8, 2021.

Coffman was sitting in the passenger seat of someone else's car and asked officers whether
the bombs from the RNC and DNC were cleared, according to the complaint.

Officers then asked his name and he said it was Lonnie. They then detained him because his
matched the name of the owner of the truck. After further questioning he was arrested when
they found a handgun and, in his pocket, the keys to the truck that contained the alleged

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Molotov cocktails. It is alleged that Coffman's vehicle contained 11 Molotov cocktails and
firearms.

Coffman is not believed to be a suspect in the placement of pipe bombs outside the RNC and
DNC, the complaint says. But he was charged Friday with possession of an unregistered
firearm (destmctive device) and ca1Tying a pistol without a license.

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Christopher Michael Alberts was one of the protesters who stormed the Capitol and was
"slow in responding to orders to leave the premises," according to a complaint. That is when
a Capitol Police quoted in the complaint said he noticed Alberts had a handgun on his hip
and was wearing a bulletproof vest and a backpack. Alberts tried to flee when officers noticed
his weapon, but officers detained him quickly, according to the complaint.

"A black Taurus G2C 9mm was recovered from D-1's right hip. Additionally, a separate
magazine was located on D-1's left hip. Both the gun and the spare magazine were in held in
two separate holsters. The handgun had one round in the chamber with a twelve round
capacity magazine filled with twelve rounds; the spare magazine also had a twelve round
capacity and was filled with twelve rounds. MPD Officers also seized a gas-mask from the
defendant's person as well as the defendant's backpack containing a pocketknife, one
packaged military meal-ready to eat (MRE), and one first-aid medical kit," the complaint
says.

Alberts was charged with carrying a firearm on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol.


                             Matthew Rosenberg/The New York Times via Redux
  Richard "Bigo" Barnett, 60, from Gravette, Ark., shows off the envelope he took from House Speaker
Nancy Pelosi's office at the Capitol in Washington, after a mob suppmting President Donald Trump broke
 into the building and disrupted the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden's election, ,Jan. 6, 2021.

Mark Leffingwell was in the U.S. Capitol building and attempted to push past the officers
who secured a barrier, according to his complaint.

"Wnen he was deterred from advancing further into the building, Leffingwell punched me
repeatedly ¼1th a closed fist. I was struck in the helmet that I was wearing and in the chest,"
an officer said in the complaint.

The complaint also adds that he apologized to the officer he struck, but was still arrested.

Leffingwell was charged Thursday ¼1th knowingly entering or remaining in any restricted
building or grounds without lawful authority, assault on a federal law enforcement officer,
and violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds.

MORE: American diplomats sign 'dissent cable' over Trump remarks as White House fires
official who said Trump must 'go.'.

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Joshua Pruitt was arrested for not complying with the Washington, D.C., mayor's 6 p.m.
curfew, according to his complaint.

While at the processing center, court documents say, a Metropolitan Police Department
investigator noticed his picture matched one on The Washington Post website and identified
him as someone who was allegedly in the Capitol.

vVhen officers asked Pruitt if it was him in the Capitol, he said said it was and that he was
only attempting to de-escalate the situation. He was charged Thursday with knowingly
entering or remaining in any restricted building or grounds ,vithout lawful authority.

Editor's Note: This story has been updated with additional arrests and charges and
corrects that charging information came from criminal complaints, not indictments.




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U.S. foes like China and Iran see opportunity in the chaos
of Trump-stoked riot at Capitol

                                                                                         January 8, 2021




Jan. 8, 2021, 9:32 AM UTC

By Alexander Smith and Saphora Smith

LONDON - For America's adversaries, there was no greater proof of the fallibility of
Western democracy than the sight of the 11.S,J.,;.apitol shrouded in smoke and besieged_by_a
mob whipped up by their unwillingly outgoing president.

Already China, Iran and Russia have pointed to the tumult in Washington as evidence that
the much-vaunted U.S. system of government is fundamentally flawed and riddled with
hypocrisy.

Across Europe there is grave concern, too. Not just at the division and instability rocking
their powerful trans-Atlantic ally, but also at what it means for their relationship with
Washington after President-elect Joe Biden is inaugurated in two weeks.

Many question how the U.S. can ever again lecture other countries about democratic values
or how it can tell other countries that they aren't internally stable enough to have nuclear
weapons.

            Protesters enter the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday.Win McNarnee / Getty Images


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"You are now seeing the situation in the U.S.," Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said
in a live televised speech Friday. "This is their democracy and human rights, this is their
election scandal, these are their values. These values are being mocked by the whole world.
Even their friends are laughing at them."

½'bile Iran criticized, its government in Tehran has clamped down on its own people's rights
of freedom of expression and assembly, and its security forces have used lethal force to crush
protests, killing hundreds of people and arbitrarily detaining thousands more, according to
Amnesty International in London.

In China and Russia, officials asked why U.S. lawmakers have been so quick to support pro-
democracy protesters in other parts of the world while unrest rages in their own streets.

"You may all remember the words that some U.S. officials, legislators and some media used
about Hong Kong then," China's Foreign Affairs Ministry spokesperson, Hua Chunying, said
at a briefing Thursday. "vVhat do they say about the United States now?"

Police in Hong Kong arrested more than 5.Q...pro-democracy figJJiel, Wednesday for allegedly
violating the stringent new national security law. Antony Blinken, Biden's nominee for
secretary of state, said on Twitter this week that the new administration would "stand with
the people of Hong Kong and against Beijing's crackduwn on democracy."

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In Russia, Leonid Slutsky, chair of the foreign affairs committee of the lower house of
Parliament, told state media that "the boomerang of the 'color revolutions,' as we can see, is
returning to the United States," referring to the wave of Western-endorsed democratic
uprisings across former Soviet republics in the 2000s.

Plenty of people have pointed out that many of the demonstrators - in the former Soviet
republics and Hong Kong - were advocating for more democratic rights. Under President
Vladimir Putin, the rights of regular Russians have been severely eroded, according to
monitors.

The mob at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday, however, was seeking to overturn a legitimate
election.

The distinction hasn't stopped America's detractors from making a vivid comparison.

"This an absolute gift for authoritarian leaders whose prime narrative is that democratic
systems are weak and unstable," said Matthew Harries, a Berlin-based senior research fellow
at the Royal United Services Institute, a think tank.




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"Someone like Xi Jinping can say: Look, these people can't get a grip on Covid-19 and they
can't even protect their legislature," he said, referring to China's leader, whereas v1,ith the
Chinese Communist Party "you get stability and growth."

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., echoed that sentiment Thursday, calling Trump "a
complete tool of Putin" and saying that by encouraging the Capitol riot the president gave
"the biggest of all of his many gifts" to the Russian president.

       A flag that reads "Treason" on the ground early Thursday after protesters stormed the U.S.
                                       Capitol.Andrew Hamik / AP

Victor Gao, who was an interpreter for China's late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, said
the scenes in Washington were a vivid riposte to those wanting to transplant American
political values elsewhere.

"Our system has its own problems, but this system for China works for China for the past 45
years," he said of the one-party state. "China will never accept any attempt by the United
States to impose its system onto China because it doesn't work" for China.

Although President Donald Trump has spoken warmly about Xi, he has also hit China v1,ith
tariffs and sanctions for what the U.S. says is its restriction of Hong Kong's autonomy and its
human rights abuses against the Uighur Muslims, both of which Beijing contests.

Perhaps the most notable recent attempt to export an American-style democracy was in Iraq,
with institution-building being one of the stated aims of the U.S.-led invasion in 2003. After
Wednesday's events, a meme circulating showed Iraq tanks launching an invasion "to bring
democracy back to the United States."

"It has been 20 years since George W. Bush tried to export American democracy as a model
for the rest of the world, and these days this model is in deep crisis," said Giovanni Orsina,
director of the School of Government at Luiss Guido Carli University in Rome.

"After what we saw, the idea that Americans can teach democracy to the rest of the world is a
lot weaker," he said. "And to make matters worse is the fact that there are no great alternative
democracies out there - so America's crisis reflects a crisis of democracy in the world."

               The front pages of Italian newspapers Thursday. Andrew Medichini / AP

The sense of a shared crisis was clear in the statements of alarm by several European leaders.
The U.S. is far from the only country grappling with its populist right, fueled by
disinformation conspiracy theories online.

"Inflammatory words turn into violent acts on the steps of the Reichstag, and now in the
Capitol," German Foreign Minister Reiko Maas tweeted, referring to an attempt by anti-
coronavirus lockdown protesters to storm the German Parliament in August. "The disdain for
democratic institutions is devastating."

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After a bruising few years of Trump, few European leaders have kidded themselves that
Bi den's win means they can go back to the way things were. There are moves headed by
French President Emmanuel Macron, for example, to become less reliant on Washington
militarily.

And yet this week's events in Washington have brought the future of their relationship with
the U.S. into sharp focus.

In Paris, Frarn:;ois Heisbourg, a senior adviser for Europe at the International Institute for
Strategic Studies, said, "The outside world has to assume there is an uncertainty, a high
degree of instability as to where the U.S. will be in the next few years."

European powers "have to assume the fate of the U.S. is uncertain," he said. "A.nd if that is
the case, we have to prepare for a world in which the U.S. is not the partner that we use to
have."

Alexander Smith reported from London; Saphora Smith from Bristol, England; Claudio
Lavangafrom Rome; Nanc:y Ing from Paris; Andy Eckardt from Mainz, Germany;
Tatyana Chistikovafrom Moscow; and Dawn Liu from Beijing.




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response to a reporters guestion about where the FBI has been in all this. (AP
Photo/Jac(;!uelyn Martin).

Despite a lack of evidence of widespread irregularities or fraud, President Donald Trump's
legal team used a Thursday press conference to go through a laundry list of far-fetched,
thoroughly debunked claims on the 2020 election.

Trump attorney Sidney Powell spun fictional tales of election systems flipping votes, German
servers storing U.S. voting information and election software created in Venezuela "at the
direction of Hugo Chavez" - the late Venezuelan president who died in 2013. She also said
Trump beat Democrat Joe Eiden "by a landslide," which he decidedly didn't Eiden was the
clear winner.

A look at the claims and reality:

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POWELL: "The Dominion Voting Systems, the Smartmatic technology software, and the
software that goes in other computerized voting systems here as well, not just Dominion,
were created in Venezuela at the direction of Hugo Chavez to make sure he never lost an
election after one constitutional referendum came out the way he did not want it to come
out."

THE FACTS: No, Dominion does not have any ties to Venezuela, nor does it have a
partnership with Smartmatic, according to Eddie Perez, a voting technology expert at the
OSET Institute, a nonpartisan election technology research and development nonprofit.

Smartmatic is an international company incorporated in Florida by Venezuelan founders.
The company states on its website that it's not associated with governments or political
parties of any country.

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POvVELL: "One of (the software's) most characteristic features is its ability to flip votes. It
can set and run an algorithm that probably ran all over the country to take a certain
percentage of votes from President Trump and flip them to President Eiden."

THE FACTS: That didn't happen. There's no evidence that any of Dominion's systems
switched votes for Trump to count as votes for Bi den. A statement released by the
Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, a federal agency that oversees U.S. election
security, says there's no truth to claims that votes cast for Trump were switched to count for
Eiden or deleted.




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POvVELL, on reports that a U.S. voting server is in Germany: "That is true, it's somehow
related to this but I do not know whether good guys got it or bad guys got it."

THE FACTS: No, it's not true. Powell is referencing a fictitious story that a server hosting
evidence of voting irregularities in the Nov. 3 U.S. election was in Germany.

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Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert of Texas claimed last week that "U.S. Army forces" seized a
server from a Frankfurt office. An Army spokesman described allegations that the Army had
recovered servers in Germany as false.

Two voting software companies that conspiracy theorists said were linked to the German
server - Scytl and Dominion - have both released statements denying those claims.



POvVELL: "President Trump won by a landslide."

THE FACTS: That's false. Biden has an Electoral College lead of 306 to 232 after The
Associated Press on Thursday declared him the winner in Georgia. That's the same margin
Trump had in 2016. Back then, Trump described it as a "landslide." Biden also leads the
popular vote by nearly 6 million votes.



Associated Press writers Jude Joffe-Block in Phoenix and Amanda Seitz in Chicago
contributed to this report.



EDITOR'S NOTE - A look at the veracity of claims by political figures.



Find AP Fact Checks at http://apnews.com/APFactCheck

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Pennsylvania GOP Lawmakers Make Clear They Won't
Overturn The Election As Trump Wants


                                           December 3, 2020




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Election 202o!Dec 3, 2020,07:44pm EST!
Updated Dec 4, 2020, 04:09pm EST

Topline
Republican state lawmakers in Pennsylvania vvill not make any attempt to overturn the
state's popular vote by appointing their own presidential electors, the legislature's leadership
said in a statement Thursday, killing the Trump campaign's hopes of contesting President-
elect Joe Biden's win in the state even as other Pennsylvania Republicans take an election
challenge to the U.S. Supreme Court.

  Rudy Giuliani speaks as Trump campaign advisor Jenna Ellis looks on during a Pennsylvania Senate
  ... [ +] Majority Policy Committee public hearing at the Wyndham Gettysburg Hotel on November 25,
              2020 in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
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Key Facts
Pennsylvania Senate President Pro Tempore Jake Corman, House Speaker Bryan Cutler,
Senate Majority Leader Kim Ward and House Majority Leader Kerry Benninghoff said they
"cannot take steps to appoint electors for this election," as the Trump campaign has expressly
asked state lawmakers to do.




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The Trump campaign pushed the tactic at a recent unofficial hearing with some Pennsylvania
Republicans and has asked the courts to order that lawmakers step in, as part of a broader
long-shot strategy targeting GOP-led legislatures in battleground states that elected Biden.

The lawmakers said the state legislature "lacks the authority... to overturn the popular vote"
by appointing its own electors and would violate Pennsylvania's Election Code and
Constitution if they did, as well as set a bad precedent.

The Republicans debunked the Trump campaign legal team's argument claiming lavvmakers
can appoint their own electors under Article II of the U.S. Constitution, noting that while the
Constitution says states appoint electors "in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may
direct," they've already done that by enshrining in the Pennsylvania Election Code that
electors are appointed by the popular vote.

The state legislature was already expected to reject the Trump campaign's request to appoint
electors, previously .i0journing their session v,ithout taking up a resolution that challenged
the election result, but Thursday's comments mark the clearest and most official statement
yet that the state legislature ,vill not pursue the strategy.

Lawmakers made clear they will continue to investigate alleged issues with the general
election, and Pennsylvania Republicans called on the state's congressional delegation Friday
to oppose the election results in Congress, though that strategy is highly unlikelY- to succeed.

Chief Critic
Giuliani accused the Pennsylvania lawmakers Friday of "covering up for [Democrats']
crimes," sa}ing on Twitter that the GOP legislature "let down America." 'Tm ashamed of
them. They completely misled the President and me," Giuliani tweeted, calling on
Republicans to "let them know what we think of them."

What To Watch For
There are still a few outstanding legal challenges taking aim at Pennsylvania's election result.
Several down-ballot Republican candidates in Pennsylvania, including U.S. Rep. Mike Kelly,
asked the U.S. Supreme Court Thursday to weigh in on a lawsuit that seeks to block the
election from being certified, after the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled against the
Republican plaintiffs. Experts largely expect the litigation to fail, with election law scholar
Rick Hasen fill:Xing the Supreme Court appeal "contains the dumbest argument I've ever seen
in an emergency petition." Supreme Court Justice Samuel Ali to called for Pennsylvania to file
its response in that case by Dec. 9, which legal experts believe is likely a sign the case is dead
in the water, as that is one day after a "safe harbor" deadline for election results on Dec. 8
that v,,jl] make it much harder to change the election outcome. Trump campaign legal advisor




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Jenna Ellis also said Nov. 27 the Trump campaign would appeal its lawsuit contesting
Pennsylvania's election to the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court threw out the case,
but the campaign has not done so yet.

Key Background
The Trump campaign 12ivoted its post-election strategy to focus on state lawmakers
overturning the popular vote following repeated losses in its battleground state lawsuits, even
as GOP lawmakers in a number of states have made comments opposing the strategy and
experts say it is extremely unlikely to work. In addition to Pennsylvania, Giuliani and Ellis
have also urged lawmakers in Arizona, Michigan and Georgia to take the election into their
own hands at recent hearings, but there is no indication their efforts will succeed in any state.
All four states, along vvith the other battleground states of Nevada and Wisconsin, have
already certified their presidential election results.

Further Reading
Here's How The Trum12 CamP-il.ign Is Still Tn:ing To Overturn Biden's Victory (Forbes)

'Not How The Constitution Works': Trum12 Cam12aign's Biggest Election Lawsuit Fails In
Court (Forbes)

Lasigas:P--clfurl.by, Pa. House Re12ublicans to involve state Legislature in recall of 12residential
election results fizzle (Penn Live)

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    Jan. 5, 2021, 11:59 PM EST/ Updated Jan. 6J 2021, 6:08 AM EST

    By Allan Smith

    WASHINGTON - Several people were arrested in Washington, D.C., on Tuesday in connection to
    protests ahead of Congress' certification of the Electoral College votes on Wednesday.

    Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police said six arrests were made as of9 p.m. ET, including some
    involving multiple charges. Those charges included a handful that were weapons-related,
    including carrying firearms without a license, possession of unregistered ammunition and
    possession of an unregistered firearm. Protesters were also charged with assaulting a police
    officer and simple assault.

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       Supporters of President Donald Trump gather in protest downtown on Wednesday on Jan. 5, 2021 in
    Washington, DC. Spencer Platt / Getty Images



    Tuesday's rallies in support of President Donald Trump, who refuses to accept his November
    electoral loss to President-elect Joe Biden, featured an array of conservative speakers and drew
    in throngs of Trump supporters who traveled to the nation's capital ahead of Wednesday's
    proceedings.

    Though the formal events ended earlier Tuesday, protesters remained out in the street well into
    the night, with videos on social media showing some clashing with police.

    The main draw will take place Wednesday morning ahead of the congressional gathering, where
    the president himself will address a protest outside the White House dubbed the "March for
    Trump/Save America" rally. Thousands are expected to attend that event, which was organized
    by the pro-Trump group Women for America First.
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    Jan. 6 certification, claiming that it presents the opportunity for Congress to overturn the
    election. With Democrats in control of the House and dozens of GOP senators opposing the
    effort, that plot is doomed to fail as well.

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    The president has also turned up the heat on Vice President Mike Pence, who will preside over
    the ceremony, claiming he can intervene in the count. But the ceremonial role does not provide
    Pence with such powers.

    Still, Trump's most ardent supporters have heeded his call. In anticipation of possible violence,
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Capitol Police officer who was on duty during the riot has
died by suicide, his family says


By Allison Klein and Rebecca Tan                                                   January 10, 2021




U.S. Capitol Police officer Howard Liebengood - the son and namesake of a former Senate
Sergeant-at-Arms, lobbyist and Hill staffer took his own life on Saturday, days after a mob
breached the Capll;cl, a spokesman for his family said Monday.

Liebengood, 51, who went by "Howie," had been an officer guarding the Capitol since 2005.
The agency did not list a cause of when it announced Liebengood's death, but a spokesman
for the family confirmed Monday that he died by suicide and had been on duty at the Capitol
on Wednesday.

"His death is a tragedy that has deprived all of us a dedicated public servant," Barry Pollack, a
lawyer representing the Liebengood family, said in a statement. "His family has suffered a
devastating loss and asks that they be given space to grieve in private."

Pollack said that Liebengood is survived by his wife and siblings.



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Liebengood, who grew up in Fairfax County and was a race car driver before joining the
police force, was assigned to the Senate Division. A former co-worker said he often worked at
the Delaware entrance of the Russell Senate Office Building - his favorite posting.

His death was the second of a Capitol Police officer in the span of a week: On Wednesday,
Officer Brian D. Sicknick died of injuries sustained while fighting off the "Stop the Steal" mob
that had breached the Capitol while lawmakers were certifying the presidential vote.

Four civilians also died in the confrontation one shot by a police officer and three in
medical emergencies - and dozens of officers were beaten and injured.

"We are reeling from the death of Officer Liebengood," Gus Papathanasiou, head of the
Capitol Police union, said in a statement on Sunday. "Officer Liebengood was an example of
the selfless service that is the hallmark of USCP."

A statement Sunday from the Capitol Police says: "Our thoughts and prayers go out to his
family, friends, and colleagues."

On Sunday, President Trump ordered flags lowered to half-staff in honor of both Sicknick
and Liebengood. Scores of officers lined up outside the Capitol and saluted as a hearse
carrying Sicknick's remains passed by.

On social media, there was a fresh outpouring of grief. Rep. Jennifer Wexton (D-Va.) posted
on Twitter that she was "deeply saddened" over the death of Liebengood, who was her
constituent.

"Officer Liebengood served with USCP for 15 years, continuing a family tradition of
protecting the U.S. Senate," she wrote. "My heart breaks for his family, his loved ones, & our
community."

Former senator and secretary of state John F. Kerry (D-Mass.) called the deaths of Sicknick
and Liebengood "a tragic loss of two patriots who spent their careers protecting the halls of
democracy."

Friends described Liebengood as humble and reserved, and said he shared a love of racecar
driving ,vith his late father, as well as a pull toward the halls of the Capitol.

Charlie Ostlund, 70, taught Liebengood at James Madison High School in Vienna, Va., in the
1980s, and was his wrestling coach. He remembered Liebengood as a team player who often
surprised opponents with his strength and physical talent.

Ostlund said the younger Liebengood looked up to his father, Howard S. Liebengood Sr., who
served from 1981 to 1983 as Senate sergeant at arms, charged with ensuring security in the
Capitol and Senate buildings, as well as protecting members of the Senate.



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In a 2003 interview with a motorsports website, the younger Liebengood said his parents
were his biggest inspiration. My father "has accomplished so much in his professional career
in government and the political arena," he said at the time. "If I could accomplish an [eighth]
of what he has accomplished, I would be very proud ... he is my hero!"

Liebengood told his interviewer he was involved in the National Campaign to Stop Violence,
an effort aimed at middle-schoolers.

"He was a great student and great kid," Ostlund said. "This is just so, so sad."

Liebengood Sr. left his post as sergeant at arms to become a lobbyist, eventually starting his
ov1;11 firm with another former Hill staffer. In 2001, he returned to Capitol Hill as chief of staff
to his longtime friend, Sen. Fred D. Thompson (R-Tenn.), and later to then-Senate Majority
Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.). He died of a heart attack on Jan. 13, 2005, two weeks shy of his
planned retirement.

On the Senate floor after his death, Frist said the elder Liebengood "loved the Senate,"
according to a 2005 transcript. "He loved the purpose of this institution; he loved its
tradition; and, above all, he loved its people. The Senate was his extended family."

A classmate and wrestling teammate of the younger Liebengood, Stu Wilkinson, said his
friend's relationship with Washington's political elite dates back to their childhood - though
he didn't brag about it.

He recalled a school trip to the White House in the 1980s, when Secret Service officers took
Liebengood aside to have him speak with then-Senate Majority Leader Howard Henry Baker
Jr. (R-Tenn.).

"Here comes Senator Baker shaking Hov1;ie's hand," Wilkinson said. "[Liebengood] was so
humble.... None of us had any clue how they knew each other."

Wilkinson said that when he saw news reports of the Capitol riots on Wednesday, his mind
went straight to Liebengood. He scanned the television footage, hoping his friend was all
right. "He was an outstanding guy," Wilkinson said. "A quiet, silent leader."

Bill Beck, So, was a close friend of Liebengood Sr. who watched his son grow up. At the
Capitol, he said Sunday, both men strove to engage lawmakers and staffers regardless of
political party.

On the day of the Capitol attack, Beck said, he emailed the younger Liebengood to see how he
was doing. He didn't hear the news of his death until Sunday.

"I knew him his whole life. He was a good human being," Beck said. "After everything, this is
just ... it's tragic."

Carol D. Leonnig and Julie Tate contributed to this report.

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Trump's pick for U.S. attorney in Georgia dismisses
election fraud claims: 'There's just nothing to them'




United States Attorney for the Southern District of Georgia Bobby Christine speaks during a
Public Safety Committee joint meeting at the Georgia State Capitol building in Atlanta on
Monday, Jan. 27, 2020. Christine was named acting U.S. attorney for Georgia's Northern
District after his predecessor abruptly resigned Jan. 4. (ALYSSA
POINTER/ALYSSA.POINTER@AJC.COM)

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A.JC EXCLUSIVE I Jan 12, 2021

By Chris ,Jo:Y..l1fil:, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Bobby Christine also deflects questions about his sudden appointment in leaked call with
staffers.

The acting U.S. attorney for Northern Georgia, who was named after his predecessor
reportedly angered President Trump for not finding election fraud, told staffers in a
conference call Monday that he dismissed two election fraud cases on his first day.


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"I would love to stand out on the street corner and scream this, and I can't," said Bobby
Christine, according to an audio recording of the call obtained by The Atlanta Journal-
Constitution.

"But I can tell you I closed the two most - I don't know, I guess you'd call them high profile
or the two most pressing election issues this office has," he said. "I said I believe, as many of
the people around the table believed, there's just nothing to them."

Christine also said he found fewer election-related investigations in the office than he
expected.

"Quite frankly, just watching television you would assume that you got election cases stacked
from the floor to the ceiling," said Christine. "I am so happy to find out that's not the case,
but I didn't know coming in."

Christine declined to comment on the call when contacted by the AJC Tuesday.

Former U.S. Attorney Byung J. "B,Jay" Pak, a Republican who had served since 2017, had
planned to remain through the end of the Trump administration but resigned abruptly Jan.
4. Over the weekend, The Wall Street Journal ~ported the v\lhite House forced Pak to resign
because Trump believed he was not being aggressive enough in investigating allegations of
election fraud.

In a i::.allwith Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger two days before Pak's
resignation, Trump disparaged Pak as a "never Trumper U.S. attorney."

Christine, the U.S. attorney for Georgia'sSouthern District, was appointed to replace him.
The appointment bypassed the number two prosecutor in the office, Kurt Erskine, and raised
fears of political interference as Trump was waging a campaign to overturn the results of the
election.

Christine apparently convened the conference call to reassure federal lawyers in the Northern
District office most of whom are working remotely that he was not pushing what Justice
Department officials have called baseless claims of election fraud in President-Elect Joe
Biden's victory in Georgia. Yet the questions from staff attorneys revealed deep suspicions
and fears of political interference.

"Can you walk us through what happened when you were offered this position? Was it a call
from the (Deputy Attorney General's) office, was it the acting Attorney General?" one lawyer
on the call asked. "I think we are entitled to know what specifically was conveyed to you from
either the V\'hite House or main Justice leadership."

Attorneys asked and re-asked why First Assistant U.S. Attorney Erskine had not been
appointed as Pak's replacement during the transition.



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"Many of us have been through multiple administrations, and almost always the FAUSA
takes over," one lawyer on the call said.

"I don't think that's a question I'm going to get into," Christine said. "I appreciate you asking
it; I empathize for why you would ask it, but I'm not going to get into that."




FILE - In this Tuesday, Aug. 13, 2019, file photo, U.S. Attorney Byung J. "BJay" Pak is seen
following a news conference in Atlanta. Pak, the top federal prosecutor in Atlanta, left his
position Monday, Jan. 4, 2021, a day after an audio recording was made public in which
President Donald Trump called him a "never-Trumper." Pak, who was appointed by Trump,
announced his resignation as U.S. attorney for the Northern District of Georgia in a news
release. The statement did not say why Pak was leaving or what he plans to do next. (AP
Photo/Ron Harris, File)

Credit: Ron Harris

Credit: Ron Harris

Won't be 'an election lawyer,' Christine says

Former federal prosecutor Buddy Parker spent 19 years in the Department of Justice, much
of that time working in the Northern District of Georgia, and he said the abrupt resignation
of Pak and appointment of Christine was a blow to the credibility of the office.

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"I have never observed or heard of such an event as what happened last Monday week," he
said.

Referring to the reporting of the Wall Street Journal and others, Parker said it was
outrageous for a vVhite House to force the resignation of United States attorney and appoint
someone from another district to force action on a political matter.

"It's beyond very disruptive," he said. "To me, it's just a culture offear of being created in the
office."

When a U.S. attorney resigns, Parker said the first assistant attorney always takes over in an
acting capacity. It is extremely unusual for a U.S. attorney from another district to be
appointed, he said.

When Pak resigned and Christine was appointed, Parker said he called contacts in Savannah
who described Christine as "absolutely devoted to Trump."

"He takes orders and executes orders. He also has great ambition, according to people I
talked to down in Savannah," he said.

In September, Christine contributed $2,800 to Trump's reelection campaign, the maximum
allowable individual contribution.

Pak alsocontributed to a number of Republican candidates and committees over the years,
but he did not contribute to Trump and has made no political contributions since his
appointment in 2017.

In 30 minutes of introductory remarks, Christine flattered the staff and attempted to
reassure them he was there to "do no harm." Christine was appointed by Trump in 2017 to
head Georgia's Southern District, a position he retains while also serving as acting U.S.
attorney in the northern half of the state.

Christine said he didn't "race" to Atlanta to assume the position, arriving last Wednesday,
partly in deference to his friendship and respect for Pak.

"I also knew we had an election going on Tuesday and I didn't want my arrival to distract any
leadership in our office or in the federal agencies," he said.

'Tm not coming up here to be an election lawyer," he said. 'Tm not coming here for that
purpose."

'No there, there'

Christine said the Northern District office was "running like a sewing machine," but that
description only prompted more questions from staff as to why he decided to bring two
lawyers skilled in election law from the more thinly staffed Southern District.

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Christine said he brought the two election attorneys to help with what he assumed was a
"dump truck full" of election files, but instead found "very, very few."

Even so, Christine met with the FBI, GBI and the Department of Homeland Security on his
first day in Atlanta to get briefed on election cases, he said. So far, Christine said the election
cases were overblown, and cited the two cases he closed last Wednesday.

"In my opinion, there is no there, there," he said.

When asked by a staff attorney, Christine described such issues as "well-intentioned"
complaints of receiving two ballots. "'That may actually be a well-intentioned person who
received an application for a ballot and then the ballot itself," he said.

"We don't have these huge colossal issues that if you turn on the TV you'd think it'd be," he
said. "Some of them might be threatening emails that come from an IP address that actually
might lead us right back to the complainant, right? So election issues are more than just what
we hear about on TV. You all know that better than I do."

Christine also revealed that he has contracted to bring in a third outside lawyer: Miles M.
"Matt" Hart, a former prosecutor from the Northern District of Alabama with history of
prosecuting government corruption and white collar crimes.

Christine said he hired Hart because of his history dealing with public corruption cases and
alluded to something big in the Northern District.

"I am not experienced in public corruption, and it is my understanding that there is a colossal
public corruption series of cases in the office and a well-staffed team that are working those
issues," he said. "BJay made me aware, Kurt's given me more information, and I expect we'll
learn more."

Christine was pushed as to whether he would resign on Jan. 20, as Pak had planned. He said
he wouldn't "be dragged out of here by my heels," but he repeatedly hedged on his future
plans.

"I simply don't know how long that will be. Is it one day? Is it one week? Is it one year? I
don't know," he said. "I assume it's shorter rather than longer, but I don't know."

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Mattis blames Trump for violence at Capitol, says his
actions 'poison our respect for fellow citizens'


                                                                                 January 7, 2021




Key Points

   • Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis placed the blame squarely on President
     Donald Trump for the riot that ensued at the U.S. Capitol.
   • Mattis, who served as Trump's first defense secretary, said the president has used the
     nation's highest role in government to "destroy trust in our election and to poison our
     respect for fellow citizens."

Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis (R) listens to US President Donald J. Trump (L) deliver
remarks during a meeting with members of his Cabinet, in the Cabinet Room of the vVhite
House March 8, 2018 in Washington, DC.

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WASHINGTON Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis on Wednesday evening placed
the blame squarely on President Donald Trump for the riot that ensued on the U.S. Capitol.

"Today's violent assault on our Capitol, an effort to subjugate American democracy by mob
rule, was fomented by Mr. Trump," Mattis wrote in a statement.

Mattis, who served as Trump's first Defense secretary, said the president has used the
nation's highest role in government to "destroy trust in our election and to poison our respect
for fellow citizens."

"Our Constitution and our Republic will overcome this stain and We the People will come
together again in our never-ending effort to form a more perfect Union, while Mr. Trump will
deservedly be left a man without a country," Mattis v.Tote.

Read more: National Guard heads to the CaP-itol to tamP- down P-ro-Trumn
insurrection

The stinging statement from the revered Marine with a military career spanning four decades
is the second time Mattis has broken his silence since leaving the Trump administration.

Last June, Mattis ripped into Trump after protestors were forcibly cleared from Lafayette
Square in order for the president to participate in a photo-op with some members of his
cabinet. The ensuing civil unrest, some of which turned violent, prompted Trump to call for
governors to use harsher tactics and greater force when confronting protesters.

The protests, which rocked D.C. for more than a week, were sparked by the police killing of
George Floyd. Floyd died after a Minneapolis police officer knelt on his neck.

"Donald Trump is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American
people-does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us," Mattis wrote in a
scathing statement published by The Atlantic.

"We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate effort. We are
witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership," he wrote, adding that
he "watched this week's unfolding events, angry and appalled," the four-star Marine wrote.

President Donald Trump welcomes James Mattis as they pose for a photo before their
meeting at Trump International Golf Club, in Bedminster Township, New Jersey.

Drew Angerer I Getty Images

On Sunday, the nation's 10 living secretaries of Defense penned an ominous warning that the
U.S. military should have no role in determining the outcome of a U.S. election.




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"Each of us swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution against all enemies, foreign
and domestic. We did not swear it to an individual or a party," penned Defense secretaries
Mark Esper, James Mattis, Ash Carter, Chuck Hagel, Leon Panetta, Dick Cheney, William
Cohen, Robert Gates, William Perry and Donald Rumsfeld in an Qp-ed published Sunday in
The Washington Post.

The former Defense secretaries, who have collectively overseen America's military forces for
nearly 50 years, argued that "the time for questioning the results" of the U.S. presidential
election has passed.

"Our elections have occurred. Recounts and audits have been conducted. Appropriate
challenges have been addressed by the courts. Governors have certified the results. And the
electoral college has voted. The time for questioning the results has passed; the time for the
formal counting of the electoral college votes, as prescribed in the Constitution and statute,
has arrived," wrote the former Defense secretaries, including two that served under Trump.

The secretaries called on Trump's acting Defense Secretary Miller as well as political
appointees and civil servants to "refrain from any political actions that undermine the results
of the election or hinder the success of the new team."



Former U.S. defense secretary Chuck Hagel on the rioting and bloodshed in Washington,
D.C.

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CHICAGO (AP) - Every video the Louisiana man posts on Twitter and Facebook starts with
a big smile and a wish for his thousands of followers to have a blessed day.

But as he drove to the nation's capital Tuesday morning, he grew loud and angry talking
about the presidential election.

"You aren't going to wake up and see?" Christian Suprean, 42, said in one of a dozen videos
that together have drawn more than 30,000 views on Twitter in recent days. "I think we won
everything. I think we won everything!"

Suprean is one of thousands of President Donald Trump's fiercest supporters who, fueled by
dozens of internet conspiracy theories about the November election, responded to online
cries to join a "fight" on the president's behalf Wednesday. In posts liked and shared
thousands of times, far-right social media users openly hinted for weeks that chaos would
erupt at the U.S. Capitol while Congress convened to certify the election results.

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Despite those warnings that disgruntled crowds of Trump supporters were headed for
Washington, a mob seized control of the Capitol and vandalized the building, sending
members of Congress into hiding for several hours. Lawmakers from both parties have
pledged to investigate law enforcement's actions and questioned whether a lack of
preparedness allowed the melee.

"It's what brought them out to the streets yesterday- that's how they found information
about where to gather," Nina Jankowicz, a disinformation expert at the nonpartisan Wilson
Center in Washington, said of the social media posts. "Yesterday, the effect of disinformation,
conspiracy theories and extremism was on display for the entire world to see."

The president encouraged his Twitter and Facebook followers to attend Wednesday's rally, at
times using warlike imagery to urge supporters to show up. Minutes before they stormed the
Capitol, Trump pressed his hopeless case to overturn the election in front of the crowd in a
speech laced with conspiracy theories.

"The (cavalry) is coming, Mr. President," said one of the president's retweets on Jan. 1
sharing details about the rally.

Reached by phone Wednesday, Suprean said Trump's calls on social media motivated him to
drive 15 hours from Slidell, Louisiana, to Washington. He documented the trip and rally with
videos and photos - all taken from outside the Capitol building - that he shared on his
Twitter, Facebook and YouTube pages, where he regularly references QAnon and has a




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strong following from QA.non accounts. QA.non is a baseless belief, born on the internet, that
Trump has been secretly fighting deep state enemies and a cabal of Satan-worshipping
cannibals operating a child sex-trafficking ring.

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Dozens of QA.non social media accounts spent the days leading up to the D.C. rally hyping up
Jan. 6, expressing hope that the election results would be overturned.

QAnon's influence was evident as the mob descended on the halls of Congress. Police officers
were photographed fending off a man in a "Q" sweatshirt from the Senate chamber. A leading
promoter of QA.non was also photographed in Senate chambers wearing bull horns and face
paint.

Facebook said in a statement late Wednesday that it was removing photos and videos posted
by the mob at the Capitol. Twitter also said it was working to "take action" on threats and
calls for violence.

But as the riot continued, QA.non and far-right conservatives used social media to urge
followers to "hold the line" and "trust the plan," phrases that were mentioned more than
80,000 times across online media Wednesday and Thursday, according to an analysis by
media intelligence firm Zignal Labs. More than 1 million mentions of "civil war" and "storm
the capitol" appeared in Twitter posts, the firm also found. Others called for Vice President
Mike Pence who enraged Trump when he acknowledged that he did not have the power to
unilaterally throw out electoral college votes - to be tried for treason. One Facebook post,
quickly deleted, said Pence, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell should be hanged.

And many pro-Tnunp accounts are still using the platforms to celebrate Wednesday's riots as
a success ·with QA.non hashtags. Others continue to push conspiracy theories that Trump is
the rightful winner of the election.

"WE DID IT! THANK Q PATRIOTS!" one QA.non account wrote on Twitter, moments after
Pence was whisked away from Senate chambers for his safety.

Facebook announced Wednesday that it was suspending Trump's ability to post on its site
indefinitely. Twitter also temporarily locked Trump's account.

While Facebook and Twitter have locked Trump out of his account, the platforms have not
taken strong enough action against the social media network of conspiracy theorists that
encouraged Wednesday's riots, Jankowicz said.

"That's going to embolden these extremists in the future," she said. "They see their job as a
job well done, and they can do it again with impunity."



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The Capitol mob: A raging collection of grievances and
disillusionment

Amy Brittain, Julie Zauzmer, Jenn Abelson, David Willman, Nicole Dungca




The 36-year-old West Texas florist and self-described "conservative die hard patriot" always
took to Facebook when she had something to say. So just hours after Jenny Cudd and scores
of fellow Trump supporters swarmed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday during a violent
insurrection, she launched a live stream vvith a Trump flag draped over her shoulders and
boasted, "We did break down ... Nancy Pelosi's office door."

Nearly 1,700 miles away in Midland, Tex., Heather Bredimus watched in disbelief. She knew
Cudd. Quite well, in fact. The two women had bitterly feuded over mask ordinances during
the coronavirus pandemic. In recent weeks, Bredimus had grown frightened for her personal
safety after she said Cudd, an anti-masker, became increasingly obsessed with targeting those
who supported mask ordinances and openly discussed buying ammunition and a coming
"revolution."

Still, Bredimus says it has been truly stunning to see her "arch nemesis" on tape boldly
claiming involvement in an attempted takeover of the fortress of American democracy.




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"I didn't think she would take it that far," Bredimus said of watching the footage of Cudd in
Washington. "You don't think the people from your hometown are going to be the crazy ones
on TV and in the news." Cudd did not respond to requests for comment for this story.

Four days after the Capitol riot, similar realizations have unfolded in communities across the
country, as social media sleuths, local news accounts and, in some cases, newly filed court
records have begun to fill in the identities of thousands of individuals who descended upon
Washington to trumpet their support for President Trump's false and incendiary claims that
the U.S. presidential election was rigged.

Those who made their way to the grounds of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday hail from at least
36 states, along with the District of Columbia and Canada, according to a Washington Post
list of over 100 people identified as being on the scene of the Capitol. Their professions touch
nearly every facet of American society: lawyers, local lawmakers, real estate agents, law
enforcement officers, military veterans, construction workers, hair stylists and nurses.
Among the crowd were devout Christians who highlighted Bible verses, adherents of the
QAnon conspiracy theory and members of documented hate groups, including white
nationalist organizations and militant right-wing organizations, such as the Proud Boys.

The list is just a limited cross section of the thousands of people who descended upon the
area, yet some striking commonalities are hard to ignore. Almost all on the list whose race
could be readily identified are White. Most are men, yet about one in six were women - also
almost all White.

Many left extensive social media documentation of their passions, ideologies and, in some
cases, disillusionment and vendettas.

Their paths to the nation's capital were largely fueled by long-standing grievances and
distrust, and yet planned in spontaneous and ad-hoc fashion. Several reported pulling
together their travel funds and schedules in just a handful of days. Some took a solitary
journey, including flying from coast to coast alone, only to find a shared community upon
their final destination in Washington. Others traveled in buses that departed Wednesday at
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Ashli Babbitt, 35, was shot and killed in the Capitol on Wednesday. (Courtesy of Timothy
McEntee)
In the wake of the violent mob's collective actions, five people have lost their lives. Ashli
Babbitt - an Air Force veteran - was shot and killed by Capitol Police. One Ca1;1itol Police
officer died of inj.w:i.e.:i and three other individuals died due to medical emergencies during
the riot.

Some of the most distinctive rioters captured in viral images quickly left the District, only to
be taken into custody closer to home: Authorities have charged Richard Barnett, the 60-year-
old Arkansan pictured with his feet on a staffer's desk in House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office;
Jacob Anthony Chansley, a QAnon evangelizer from Arizona also known as Jake Angeli, who
roamed the Capitol shirtless with a horned headdress; and Adam Johnson, a 36-year-old
Florida man who held Pelosi's lectern in photographs. Before he was arrested, Chansle.v. told
The WashingtJlli..l:ofil that he had not committed any violent acts. Barnett told the New York
Times that he had just been knocking on the door when he was pushed in by the crowd.




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Richard Barnett of Arkansas, who was pictured with his feet on a staffer's desk in House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, has been charged. (Washington County, Ark., Sheriff's
Office/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock)




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Jacob Anthony Chansley, a QAnon evangelizer from Arizona also known as Jake Angeli, has
been charged. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters)

LETT: Richard Barnett of Arkansas, who was pictured with his feet on a staffer's desk in
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's office, has been charged. (Washington County, Ark., SherifPs
Office/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock) RlGHT: Jacob Anthony Chansley, a QAnon evangelizer from
Arizona also known as Jake Angeli, has been charged. (Stephanie Keith/Reuters)

A handful of the most notorious rioters, including a man who carried a Confederate flag over
his shoulder though the Capitol, have not yet had their identities publicly confirmed by law
enforcement.

Dozens of people have been arrested some for minor offenses like breaking curfew or
unlawful entry, while others face more serious federal charges, including firearm possession,
violent entry and disorderly conduct at the Capitol building. The count is expected to grow
rapidly in the coming days. On Sunday morning, Michael Sherwin, the acting U.S. attorney
for the District of Columbia told NPR that his staff is working around-the-clock to sort
through "potentially thousands of people that may have information about crimes ... meaning
there could be hundreds of people charged."

One of those whose actions have dravvn law enforcement scrutiny is Cudd, the Midland florist
who spoke on camera about breaking down Pelosi's door. Bredimus and her husband
confirmed that FBI agents recently interviewed them about Cudd's behavior.

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TI1e acrimony between Bredimus and Cudd began in November, when Bredimus, a 37-year-
old graphic designer, squared off against Cudd during a contentious city hall meeting
debating the merits of a mask ordinance. They soon spearheaded rival mask groups:
Bredimus, who is married to a hospital official, heads the pro-mask "Masks in Midland" club,
and Cudd leads those opposed to masks. By December, Bredimus said anti-maskers began
circulating photos of her van and license plate mm1ber, leading to anonymous death threats.

Later that month, Bredimus says, Cudd stood outside of Bredimus's residence with
Bredimus's four children inside and home alone - and began live-streaming to her followers.
Bredimus said she alerted the Midland Police Department to voice concerns over what she
viewed as Cudd's erratic and potentially threatening behavior but was told there was nothing
they could do.

Cudd denied wrongdoing in an interview on FridaY- with a Midland television station, saying
she did not mean for it to be taken literally when she said "we"broke into Pelosi's office. She
deleted her Facebook account late Saturday amid grmving scrutiny of her digital footprint,
which contained a Jan. 3 post that warned: "No matter what Trump will be President for 4
more years. Enjoy the show."

Such a purge became the norm over the weekend, as people who attended the Capitol event
made largely fruitless attempts to scrub lives that were lived nearly entirely online.

At least 15 people who attended the rally have been fired or suspended from their jobs, or
preemptively resigned amid growing outrage, according to a Post tally. One of the fired is 41-
year-old laborer Doug Jensen of Des Moines, who is facing federal charges after he was
captured in photos and videos leading rioters up a staircase as a police officer attempted to
hold the crowd back.

Jensen's boss, Dick Felice, who owns Forrest &Associate Masonry, said he terminated
Jensen's employment.

"He committed a crime as far as I'm concerned," Felice said. Jensen could not be reached for
comment.

Some participants pleaded for forgiveness.

"It was the single worst personal decision of my life," Bradley Rukstales, CEO of a Chicago-
area data analytics company, wrote in..a public statement. Rukstales was fired from his job
and faces two federal charges stemming from his actions inside the Capitol. He did not
respond to a Post reporter's requests for comment.

Others said they had been unfairly maligned.




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Amilee Stuckey, a 55-year-old lawyer from central Florida, said she stayed put outside the
Capitol for roughly two hours, wanting to bear vvitness to what transpired. She said the
resulting violence left her in tears, feeling "just appalled." Still, she scoffed in the face of
social media critics who have written that Stuckey's law firm should fire her.

She does not reply to them, but takes a grim satisfaction in the fact that "I own the damn
firm."

A Huntington Beach, Calif., hair salon owner, 32-year-old Kristopher Drew Martin, said a
viral video in which he claimed "we stormed" the Capitol has been taken out of context and
that he did not personally storm the building. He later said that those who entered the
building were wrong.

Martin blamed "the left" and the media for the backlash to his video, which he says has
included death threats and bad reviews online about his business.

"They enjoy hurting people, especially a Trump supporter," he said. "It feels so good to watch
me suffer right now, but I never wanted them to suffer."

Most who were interviewed by Post reporters remained resolute.

Glynnda ½'hite, a 58-year-old retired local government worker and Army veteran from
Winter Haven, Fla., said she had no regrets about making the trip.

"We were invited by the president" to Washington, said White, who says she stood outside
the Capitol but did not enter the building. "And we went."

Driven by pandemic grievances

Several who traveled to Washington to support the "Stop the Steal" rally told The Post they
were driven by two primary grievances: their opposition to the election results and the
restrictions in place to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

Lindsey Graham, a 39-year-old entrepreneur from Salem, Ore., said her eventual path to the
Capitol began last spring, when the six small businesses she and her husband ovvn, including
tanning salons, a gym and hair salon, were suddenly shuttered because of coronavirus
restrictions. Graham said she voted for Trump in 2016 but did not become politically active
until her family was financially struggling last year.

She defied state orders and reopened her salon in May, rackingJJ12 thousands of dollars in
fines for violations. Since then, the mother of three has posted online under the moniker
"Patriot Barbie," frequently railing against mask mandates and selling trucker hats, red lip
glitter and American flag earrings on her personal website.




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Lindsey Graham defies state orders by reopening her salon in Salem, Ore., on May 5, racking
up thousands of dollars in fines for violations. (Alex Milan Tracy/Sipa USA/AP)
"It has become a passion since my rights were taken away in March," she said. "Before this, I
had nothing to do ,vith politics." In early November, she traveled to Huntington Beach, Calif.,
for her first Trump rally. After the election, she said she grew increasingly convinced that
Trump's claims about election fraud had merit. "I believe that he won the election," she said.
In mid-December, she sued Oregon Gov. Kate Brown (D) for S100,ooo, claiming her civil
rights were violated by the state's enforcement measures. And, on New Year's Eve, Graham
made her next plans clear with a simple post on Facebook: "See you in DC!!!!" She traveled
alone and said she stayed at the home of a welcoming Virginia resident whom she had never
met.

On Wednesday, she said she watched Trump speak with great excitement and then followed
"the planned agenda" by marching to the Capitol. Once there, she said she stayed outside for
three hours, clapping and chanting "U-S-A!" Graham said she was "peacefully protesting"
·with thousands of people. She said she did not enter the building and does not condone
violence.

'Tm glad I was there because I am one of the people that can vouch for the crowd," she said.

Like Graham, 47-year-old construction worker Pete Harding said he was dravm to the Capitol
by his disdain for restrictions to stop the spread of the coronavirus. Until last year, the
Upstate New York resident said he had largely confined his strong political opinions to the

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Internet, describing himself as just a "keyboard warrior."

That's all changed now, in radical fashion. The first days of 2021 found him - by his own
account - charging through the chemical irritants that Capitol Police meant to deter him
from entering the U.S. Capitol, rambling through the building, and then attempting to set fire
to journalists' equipment outside.

Last year, in his hometown of Cheektowaga, N.Y., he began regularly protesting prevention
measures for individuals and businesses and was eventually arrested for refusing to leave a
liquor store where staff asked him to wear a mask.

"We know that if Eiden-Harris was going to get into office, they've said they're going to make
the lockdowns mandatory and mask-wearing mandatory across the country," he said. Hoping
to prevent a president who would take stronger action against the virus, he joined the MAGA
demonstrations in November in Washington, which he described as "gorgeous" and
"inspired." He drove to D.C. again for Wednesday's action.

After listening to Trump's speech and marching to the Capitol, he found that "our people," as
he described the mob, had already pushed police back up to the top of the Capitol steps. He
waded through the crowd to join them, and persisted up the stairs, though he says police
repeatedly deployed irritants to try to deter the mob.

Harding describes himself as a "peacekeeper" who charged up the Capitol stairs to protect
both police officers and rioters. "I started to see everybody going up the stairs at that point,
and I decided I needed to be up there .... I knew that things could escalate and I needed to be
there to de-escalate things," he said. "I was there to protect and keep the peace. That's what I
do every single place that I go."

Harding said that the only weapon he carried was a dinner fork, which he put in his pocket
because he believed he might need it to confront "antifa" or "Muslim brotherhood" fighters.
It stayed in his pocket.

"Fortunately, I didn't have to wield the kitchen fork menacingly," he said.

Once he left the Capitol, he saw journalists with cameras protected by barricades. He says he
walked over twice to taunt them, saying, "You're responsible for this" and "There's a woman
shot - this is on your hands." Harding claims that only after he walked away did other
Trump supporters harass the journalists to the point that they fled, leaving behind their
equipment. He was delighted.

"I was kind of happy about it, to be honest with you, not going to lie, because they deserve it.
But that's not a crime," he said. He said he came back and piled up the abandoned
equipment, then used a lighter to try to set it on fire though he believed most of it was metal
and wouldn't burn.



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"The visual and the imagery was for the media to see, that they have started our country on
fire," Harding said, "with their constant lies about covid and about Trump."

Harding maintains that he did nothing illegal Wednesday. He said he contacted his local FBI
office and offered to talk and has consulted with a lawyer.

'I broke the law'

Many attendees described a type of fervor they felt that drew them to the Capitol. For 48-
year-old Leonard Guthrie Jr., it manifested in his faith in the Lord. The Cape May, N.J.,
resident hasn't often been well enough to work since having two surgeries on his back. In the
absence of employment, he has heavily leaned into his Christian beliefs and conservative
political views.

½'hen he heard about the "Stop the Steal" rally, Guthrie thought he could combine his two
passions. If he and other Christians had been able to pray outside while senators voted
inside, he feels certain it would have changed their votes. "I know it would have," he said.

So despite the misfiring nerves in his back that made sitting in a car for hours a painful
endeavor, he made the journey. And for him, it ended in the D.C. jail. He said he broke
through a police barrier to reach the U.S. Capitol steps and readily admits his transgressions,
bluntly saying: "I broke the law."

Still, he feels aggrieved. "We've been silenced for so long," he said. "For years, because I voted
for Trump, I'm called a racist, a Nazi, a bigot and all that stuff, and it's not right."

Others squarely cited their fealty to the president as the force that pulled them to the nation's
capital. Some, like David Ray Fitzgerald of Roselle, Ill., identified as relatively new Trump
supporters,.

The 48-year-old tattoo artist and father of seven said he doesn't usually vote but became a
statmch Trump fan over the past year as he spent days in quarantine reading up on the
president's attitudes toward trade agreements and abortion. He posted Facebook messages
and memes chastising liberals for being too sensitive, railing against "fake news," and
glorifying Trump.

'Tm not a 'deranged Trump supporter,' "he said. 'Tm an American supporter, and I think
that there's only one person on the ticket that has the same values as I do."

Fitzgerald and friends pooled their resources to organize the drive and book a Holiday Inn
room for the Jan. 6 rally, driven by their hope that Trump could still win the election.

Fitzgerald said he only watched the chaos from the grass and didn't venture into the Capitol
building. Later that night, he was arrested on charges of a curfew violation and unlawful
entry as he stood in the parking lot. Fitzgerald said he hated his experience in jail, but still


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felt like he made the right decisions Wednesday.

"You can't say, Tm here until things get difficult,'" he said. 'Tm here to support everything
to the end, regardless of what happens to me."




Members of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 enter the Senate chamber. (Win
McNamee/Getty Images)




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A rioter is seen hanging from the balcony in the Senate chamber on Jan. 6. (Win
McNamee/Getty Images)

LETT: Members of the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6 enter the Senate chamber.
(Win McNamee/Getty Images) RIGHT: A rioter is seen hanging from the balcony in the
Senate chamber on Jan. 6. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Rick Saccone, a former Pennsylvania state legislator and Republican who in 2018 narrowly
lost a race for Congress after campaigning alongside Trump, boarded a bus in Pittsburgh
before 7 a.m. Wednesday, bound for Washington.

Saccone said he believed that voting irregularities had surfaced during his own campaigns -
and he suspected that Trump had fallen victim to much worse in the November election.

"People are just mad," Saccone recalled in an interview. "I think I speak for many people:
They wanted their vote counted."

Saccone, 62, was not among those arrested in Washington. Nor did he join those who
vaulted, squeezed and rushed into the Capitol. Instead, he said he remained outside on the
West Lawn. Wearing a Trump-emblazoned, royal blue beanie, he posted a video message on
his Facebook page \vith the caption, "We are storming the capitol. Our vanguard has broken
thru the barricades. We will save this nation. Are u with me?"



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Saccone took down his Facebook post later Wednesday and told The Post he believes the
people who stormed the Capitol should be prosecuted.

On Thursday, St. Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., where Saccone, who holds a PhD in
international relations, had taught since 1999, announced his resignation amid a growing
outcry.

Asked whether he had any regrets about his eventful trip to Washington, Saccone cited a
scarcity of portable toilets across the city, which he attributed to Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D).

"I blame the mayor for that," Saccone said. "I think she was trying to torture us."

Bowser's office did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but the mayor has no
authority over toilets on federal property.

'I feel like he is under a spell'

The images from the Capitol violence have left not just a stain on the nation, but in many
families shock that a loved one chose to show up for such an event.

When Robyn Sweet saw the violence break out at the Capitol on Wednesday, she immediately
suspected her father, Douglas Sweet, was part of the mayhem. She and her relatives spent
hours trying to reach him and eventually learned he'd been arrested on a charge of unlawful
entry.




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Douglas Sweet of Virginia was arrested on a charge of unlav,,ful entry of the U.S. Capitol on
Jan. 6. (Olivier Douliery/ AFP /Getty Images)
She described her father as a self-employed handyman in his late 50s who lives in rural
Virginia and became increasingly fixated with conspiracy theories after Barack Obama was
elected president. That escalated when Trump rose to power, Sweet said, and her father
attended the deadly "Unite the Right" rally in Charlottesville in 2017 and has discussed
concerns about child pedophile rings and adrenochrome, a chemical com12ound they believe
is extracted from ca12tive children's blood baseless conspiracy theories spread by QAnon
followers.

"He wholeheartedly believes this stuff," Sweet said. "I feel like he is under a spell. Trump has
got these people under a spell," said Sweet, a 35-year-old health-care worker who helped
organize a Black Lives Matter protest after George Floyd's death in Minneapolis and
launched a Facebook group, Bigotry Exposed, in 2018.

Douglas Sweet, who could not be reached for comment, posted a message on Facebook after
his arrest saying he was released on his own recognizance and described the unlawful entry
charge as "a citation equal to ticket." His daughter provided The Post with a copy of the
message and it was also shared on Twitter.




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"Our Goal was to speak to the house and Senate about 'stop the steal' and infiltration by the
Chinese Communist Party of our government," Douglas Sweet wrote. "I feel strongly about
defending our Constitutional rights and will not sit on the sidelines and watch as both parties
trample our Rights and commit treason with foreign enemies and Governments."

Robyn Sweet said there are many people from their community in Mathews County who
support her father's beliefs and she thinks the arrest vvill further radicalize him, rather than
serve as a wake-up call.

"They are hailing him like he is a martyr," she said. "It's sickening."

Sweet said the relationship with her father is strained - he asked her in June whether she
was a member of antifa and blocked her on Facebook - but she said they still love each
other. She is currently isolating after being exposed to the corona virus, which causes covid-
19, a disease she said her father does not think is real.

Julie Tate, Meryl Kornfield, Hannah Natanson, Alex Horton, Maria Sacchetti, Amar
Nadhir, Justin George, Paulina Villegas, Rachel Weiner, Alice Crites, Devlin Barrett, and
Matt Zapotosky contributed to this report.

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'Find the fraud': Trump pressured a Georgia elections
investigator in a separate call legal experts say could
amount to obstruction


By Amy Gardner                                                                      January 9, 2021




President Trump urged Georgia's lead elections investigator to "find the fraud" in a lengthy
December phone call, saying the official would be a "national hero," according to an
individual familiar with the call who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the
sensitivity of the conversation.

Trump placed the call to the investigations chief for the Georgia secretary of state's office
shortly before Christmas while the individual was leading an inquiry into allegations of
ballot fraud in Cobb County, in the suburbs of Atlanta, according to people familiar with the
episode.

The president's attempts to intervene in an ongoing investigation could amount to
obstruction of justice or other criminal violations, legal experts said, though they cautioned a
case could be difficult to prove.

Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger had launched the inquiry following allegations that
Cobb election officials had improperly accepted mail ballots with signatures that did not
match those on file claims that state officials ultimately concluded had no merit.


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In an interview with The Washington Post on Friday, Raffensperger confirmed that Trump
had placed the Dec. 23 call. He said he was not familiar with the specifics of what the
president said in the conversation with his chief investigator, but said it was inappropriate
for Trump to have tried to intervene in the case.

"That was an ongoing investigation," Raffensperger said. "I don't believe that an elected
official should be involved in that process."

The Post is withholding the name of the investigator, who did not respond to repeated
requests for comment, because of the risk of threats and harassment directed at election
officials.

The vvbite House did not respond to requests for comment.

Since Election Day, Trump has made at least three calls to government officials in Georgia in
an attempt to subvert President-elect Joe Biden's victory, beginning with a conversation with
Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in early December to berate him for certifying the state's election
results.

The president is furious with both Raffensperger and Kemp, who have refused to echo his
claims that the election was rigged. He has complained that they betrayed him after he
endorsed both of their 2018 elections. At a rally Wednesday in Washington, shortly before his
supporters ransacked the Capitol, he attacked them personally onstage, calling the two men
"corrupt."

Trump's call to the chief investigator occurred more than a week before he spent an hour on
the phone ½ith Raffensperger, pushing him to overturn the vote. In that Jan. 2 conversation,
the president alternately berated the secretary of state, tried to flatter him, begged him to act
and threatened him with vague criminal consequences if the fellow Republican refused to
pursue his false claims, at one point warning that he was taking "a big risk."

Legal experts said Trump's call to the secretary of state may have broken state or federal laws
that bar the solicitation of election fraud or prohibit participating in a conspiracy against
people exercising their civil rights.

Trump's earlier call, to the chief investigator, could also carry serious criminal implications,
according to several former prosecutors, who said that the president may have violated laws
against bribery or interfering with an ongoing probe.

"Oh my god, of course that's obstruction - any way you cut it," said Nick Akerman, a former
federal prosecutor in New York and a onetime member of the Watergate prosecution team,
responding to a description of Trump's conversation with the investigator.




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Akerman said he would be "shocked" if Trump didn't commit a crime of obstruction under
the Georgia statutes. He said the fact that the president took the time to identify the
investigator, obtain a phone number and then call "shows that he's trying to influence the
outcome of what's going on."

However, such cases can be difficult to prove, and legal experts said the decision to prosecute
Trump even after he leaves office would be a politically fraught one.

Robert James, a former prosecutor in DeKalb County, Ga., said that proving obstruction
would hinge on what Trump said and the tone he used, as well as whether the president's
intentions were clear.

Without the audio of the call, it would be more difficult to prove wrongdoing, he said. The
later call with Raffensperger is more damning, he said, because of the power of the audio that
was made public.

"He says, 'Go find me some votes.' That can clearly be interpreted as asking someone to break
the law," James said.

In the wake of the Capitol siege by Trump supporters, Democratic House leaders said Friday
they were preparing articles of impeachment that they planned to vote on as early this
coming week. While they were focused primarily on Trump's role in inciting a violent mob to
storm the Capitol, au..eatlY- draft circulated Friday also mentioned Trump's call to
Raffensperger as an example of "prior efforts to subvert and obstruct" the certification of the
2020 election.

Raffensperger briefly mentioned Trump's December call to the chief investigator in an
interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" earlier this week. But the details of the
conversation had not been previously reported.

On the call, Trump sounded much like he did while talking to Raffensperger, according to the
person familiar with the discussion meandering from flattery to frustration and back
again.

It was one in a series of personal interventions by Trump and his allies in Georgia since the
November election. The president has obsessed about his defeat in the state and expressed
disbelief to aides that he could have lost while other Republicans won.

It is unclear how the president tracked down the chief elections investigator. Before his Jan.
2 call to Raffensperger, Trump had tried to reach the secretary of state at least 18 times, but
the calls were patched to interns in the press office who thought it was a prank and did not
realize the president was on the line, as The Post previously reported. White House Chief of
Staff Mark Meadows ultimately arranged the conference call among Trump, Raffensperger
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TI1at conversation followed previous inquiries to state officials by Trump allies.

In mid-November, Sen. Lindsey 0. Graham (R-S.C.) contacted Raffensp.e.rger to inquire
about whether entire counties' mail ballots could be tossed if an audit found high rates of
mismatched signatures in those jurisdictions.

Raffensperger told The Post at the time that Graham appeared to be suggesting that he find a
way to toss legally cast ballots. Graham denied that, calling that characterization "ridiculous."

Then in late December, Meadows traveled to Cobb County to see for himself how the ballot-
signature audit was proceeding.

Meadows said he was not trying to interfere with the investigation but just wanted to "talk
outside of the tweets," Jordan Fuchs, the deputy secretary of state, said at the time.

Meadows was not allowed in the room where the audit was occurring, Fuchs said, but he was
able to peer through the window of the door.

Trump called the chief investigator the folloVving day.

Raffensperger announced the audit on Dec. 14, after allegations surfaced that ballots were
accepted in Cobb County without proper verification of voter signatures on the envelopes.

No evidence has emerged of widespread signature-matching anomalies in Cobb or elsewhere
in Georgia. Raffensperger ordered the audit, he said, because his office pursues all allegations
of election irregularities.

"Conducting this audit does not in any way suggest that Cobb County was not properly
following election procedures or properly conducting signature matching," Chris Harvey,
Raffensperger's director of elections, said at the time. "We chose Cobb County for this audit
because they are well known to have one of the best election offices in the state, and starting
in Cobb will help us as we embark on a statewide signature audit."

If large numbers of mismatched envelope signatures had been discovered, it would have been
impossible to pair those envelopes with the ballots they contained, which are separated to
protect voter privacy as required in the Georgia Constitution.

In the end, Raffensperger's investigations team, working alongside the Georgia Bureau of
Investigation, found just two nonmatching signatures among more than 15,000 examined
during the audit in Cobb County. The audit concluded on Dec. 29, six days after the president
called the chief investigator.

Trump was steaming about the outcome of the inquiry when he spoke to Raffensperger on
Jan. 2.




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"Why can't we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find anything
and don't want to find anything?" the president said, according to .il.1li.UQ..obtained by The
Post. "They don't want to find, you know they don't want to find anything. Someday you11 tell
me the reason why, because I don't understand your reasoning, but someday you'll tell me
the reason why."

Alice Crites, Paul Kane and Mike DeBonis contributed to this report.




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Ga. secretary of state says fellow Republicans are
pressuring him to find ways to exclude ballots


By Amy Gardner                                                                  November 16, 2020




Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger said Monday that he has come under
increasing pressure in recent days from fellow Republicans, including Sen. Lindsey 0.
Graham (S.C.), who he said questioned the validity oflegally cast absentee ballots, in an
effort to reverse President Trump's narrow loss in the state.

In a wide-ranging interview about the election, Raffensperger expressed exasperation over a
string of baseless allegations coming from Trump and his allies about the integrity of the
Georgia results, including claims that Dominion Voting Systems, the Colorado-based
manufacturer of Georgia's voting machines, is a "leftist" company with ties to Venezuela that
engineered thousands of Trump votes to be left out of the count.

The atmosphere has gruwn so contentious, Raffensperger said, that he and his wife, Tricia,
have received death threats in recent days, including a text to him that read: "You better not
botch this recount. Your life depends on it."



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"Other than getting you angry, it's also very disillusioning," Raffensperger said of the threats,
"particularly when it comes from people on my side of the aisle. Everyone that is working on
this needs to elevate their speech. We need to be thoughtful and careful about what we say."
He said he reported the threats to state authorities.

The pressure on Raffensperger, who has bucked his partY- in defending the state's voting
process, comes as Georgia is in the midst of a laborious hand recount of about 5 million
ballots. President-elect Joe Eiden has a 14,000-vote lead in the initial count.

The normally mild-mannered Raffensperger saved his harshest language for Rep. Douglas A.
Collins (R-Ga.), who is leading the president's efforts in Georgia and whom Raffensperger
called a "liar" and a "charlatan."

Collins has questioned Raffensperger's handling of the vote and accused him of capitulating
to Democrats by not backing allegations of voter fraud more strongly.

Raffensperger has said that every accusation of fraud will be thoroughly investigated, but that
there is currently no credible evidence that fraud occurred on a broad enough scale to affect
the outcome of the election.

The recount, Raffensperger said in the interview Monday, will "affirm" the results of the
initial count. He said the hand-counted audit that began last week will also prove the
accuracy of the Dominion machines; some counties have already reported that their hand
recounts exactly match the machine tallies previously reported. Election officials in one
county, Floyd, discovered about 2,600 eligible votes that were not included in the initial
tallies because of a failure to upload them off a memory stick. The secretary of state's office
said those votes probably would have been discovered, but it called for the resignation of the
county election director.

'Tm an engineer. We look at numbers. We look at hard data," Raffensperger said. "I can't
help it that a failed candidate like Collins is running around lying to everyone. He's a liar."

A spokeswoman for Collins replied to a request for comment by linking to a tweet Collins
sent on Monday in which he described Raffensperger's "incompetence as Secretary of State."

Collins ran unsuccessfully for Senate this year and is blamed by some Republicans for
pushing the incumbent in that race, fellow Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler, into a runoff
against the Rev. Raphael Warnock, a Democrat.

In the interview, Raffensperger also said he spoke on Friday to Graham, the chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, who has echoed Trump's unfounded claims about voting
irregularities.




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In their conversation, Graham questioned Raffensperger about the state's signature-
matching law and whether political bias could have prompted poll workers to accept ballots
with nonmatching signatures, according to Raffensperger. Graham also asked whether
Raffensperger had the power to toss all mail ballots in counties found to have higher rates of
nonmatching signatures, Raffensperger said.

Raffensperger said he was stunned that Graham appeared to suggest that he find a way to
toss legally cast ballots. Absent court intervention, Raffensperger doesn't have the power to
do what Graham suggested because counties administer elections in Georgia.

"It sure looked like he was wanting to go down that road," Raffensperger said.

In an interview on Capitol Hill on Monday evening, Graham denied that he had suggested
that Raffensperger toss legal ballots, calling that characterization "ridiculous."

But he said he did seek out the secretary of state to understand the state's signature-
matching requirements. Graham said he contacted Raffensperger on his ov.m and was not
asked to do so by Trump.

"The main issue for me is: How do you protect the integrity of mail-in voting, and how does
signature verification work?" he said.

"Ifhe feels threatened by that conversation, he's got a problem," Graham added. "I actually
thought it was a good conversation."

On the same day that Graham spoke to Raffensperger about signature matching, a lawsuit
was filed in federal court in Georgia challenging the way county election officials check
signatures and allow voters a chance to fix ballots with errors.

The suit, filed by Atlanta lawyer and Trump supporter Lin Wood, seeks to block certification
of Georgia's election until all ballot envelopes are inspected.

Also that day, Trump tweeted about signature-matching in Georgia and criticized
Raffensperger for his management of the state elections: "Georgia Secretary of State, a so-
called Republican (RINO), won't let the people checking the ballots see the signatures for
fraud. Why? Without this the whole process is very unfair and close to meaningless.
Everyone knows that we won the state."

Raffensperger said he will vigorously fight the lawsuit, which would require the matching of
ballot envelopes with ballots - potentially exposing individual voters' choices.

"It doesn't matter what political party or which campaign does that," Raffensperger said.
"The secrecy of the vote is sacred."




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The secretary of state also warned that the Republican attacks on Dominion voting machines
could create issues for the state's Republican U.S. senators, Loeffler and David Perdue, who
face runoffs on Jan. 5 that will be administered using the same Dominion machines.

Over the weekend, social media posts began appearing from Trump supporters questioning
whether they feel comfortable using Dominion machines in the two runoff elections, which
will determine which party controls the Senate.

"I don't think it's helpful when you create doubt in the election process," Raffensperger said.
"People might throw up their arms and say, 'Why vote?'"

Seung Min Kim and Paul Kane contributed to this report.




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Trump calls Georgia governor to pressure him for help
overturning Biden's win in the state


By Amy Gardner, Colby ltkowitz and Josh Dawsey                                   December 5, 2020




President Trump called Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) on Saturday morning to urge him to
persuade the state legislature to overturn President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the state and
asked the governor to order an audit of absentee ballot signatmes, the latest brazen effo1t by
the president to interfere in the 2020 election.

Hours before he was scheduled to hold a rally in Georgia on behalf of the state's two GOP
senators, Trump pressed Kemp to call a special session of the state legislature for lawmakers
to override the results and appoint electors who would back the president at the electoral
college, according to two people familiar vv:ith the conversation, who spoke on the condition
of anonymity to describe the private call.


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Trump also asked the governor to demand an audit of signatures on mail ballots, something
Kemp has previously noted he has no power to do. Kemp declined the president's entreaty,
according to the people.

The governor later referred to his conversation with Trump in a, noting that he told the
president that he'd already publicly advocated for a signature audit.

Kemp's spokesman, Cody Hall, confirmed that the two men spoke. Trump campaign
spokesman Tim Murtaugh declined to comment.

The latest example of Trump's extraordinary personal effort to overturn Biden's win comes as
his legal team has met with resounding failure in its attempts to use the courts to upend the
election. On Friday, the president and his allies suffered legal defeats in six states, including
decisive rejections in Arizona and Nevada of their claims of fraud and other irregularities.

Trump was unable to stop the certification of the vote in all the states in which he has sought
to contest the results, even after making personal outreach to Republican officials in
Michigan.

Despite that, the president has continued to lash out at the results - particularly in Georgia,
where he was furious that Republican officials certified Biden's win.

On the call Saturday, Kemp told the president that his family was mourning the death of a
family friend, a staffer for Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) who was killed in a car crash Friday.
Trump then offered his condolences, according to one of the people with knowledge of the
conversation. But that was not the purpose of the president's call, the person added: "This
was not a condolence call. This was Kemp being chewed out by Trump."

Kathleen Clark, a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said that if Trump
invoked his federal authority in his conversation Saturday with Kemp, or made the call from
the Oval Office, he could have violated criminal provisions of the Hatch Act, which prohibits
government officials from political activity in their official roles.

Though the civil penalties of the Hatch Act do not apply to the president, the criminal
provisions do, she noted.

Even if Trump did not commit a crime, Clark added, his actions threaten to disenfranchise
voters in Georgia who participated in the November election.

"Such a move would undermine public confidence in our constitutional system and do
damage to future elections," she said.

The president's attempts to pressure Kemp come amid high.political stakes in Georgia, where
the U.S. Senate incumbents, both Republicans, face runoff elections against Democrats on
Jan. 5 that could determine which party controls the upper chamber.


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Trump headlined a campaign rally for Loeffler and Sen. David Perdue in the state Saturday
night - his first major political event since before the Nov. 3 election.

GOP officials were working frantically behind the scenes to try to keep the president on script
at the rally, worried that he would use the forum to attack Kemp and other state GOP officials
who have resisted his pressure, according to a person familiar with the discussions.

But the president remained fixated on his loss in the state, promoting baseless claims that
Biden's win was based on fraud, and appears furious with Kemp, a onetime ally.

At his Saturday rally in Valdosta, Ga., Trump briefly lashed out at Kemp for not embracing
the president's allegations of fraud.

"Your governor could stop it very easily ifhe knew what the hell he was doing," the president
said. He added: "So far we haven't been able to find the people in Georgia willing to do the
right thing."

The Georgia governor has become a punching bag for the president, who called him "hapless"
on Twitter and told aides in recent days that Kemp was a "moron," according to the person.
He also complained to aides that Kemp should not have appointed Loeffler to succeed
retiring Sen. Johnny Isakson in late 2019, saying he does not think she is a good candidate.

When asked to comment on Trump's remarks, Loeffler campaign spokeswoman Caitlin
O'Dea said, "Tune in tonight and stop reporting fake news."

In the run-up to the rally, the president kept up his attacks on state GOP officials.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted: "I will easily & quickly win Georgia if Governor
@BrianKempGA or the Secretary of State permit a simple signature verification. Has not
been done and will show large scale discrepancies. Why are these two "Republicans" saying
no? Ifwe win Georgia, everything else falls in place!"

In response, Kemp tweeted: "As I told the President this morning, I've publicly called for a
signature audit three times (11/20, 11/24, 12/3) to restore confidence in our election process
and to ensure that only legal votes are counted in Georgia."

Hours later, the president tweeted back: "But you never got the signature verification! Your
people are refusing to do what you ask. What are they hiding? At least immediately ask for a
Special Session of the Legislature. That you can easily, and immediately, do. #Transparency."

Trump and his allies have claimed with no evidence that county election officials in Georgia
accepted ballots where the voter signatures on envelopes did not match the voter signatures
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Even if officials audited signatures on ballot envelopes, it would be impossible to match them
with the ballots themselves, which are separated from envelopes during processing to protect
voters' privacy, as required in the Georgia Constitution.

Kemp has requested that Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger conduct an audit, but the
governor's office also has made clear that Kemp personally has no power to order such a
move.

"Georgia law prohibits the governor from interfering in elections. The Secretary of State, who
is an elected constitutional officer, has oversight over elections that cannot be overridden by
executive order," Kemp's spokesman said several days ago in response to Trump's public
demands.

Raffensperger, a Republican, has strongly defended the integrity of Georgia's election,
despite pressure from other GOP leaders, including the state's senators, who demanded his
resignation. His office has said there is no specific evidence the signature match process was
done improperly.

Earlier last week, a top official in Raffensperger's office called on Trump to stop spreading
false claims about fraud, saying the rhetoric was leading to threats of violence against
election workers.

Biden secured his victory in Georgia by roughly 12,000 votes. A second recount of ballots
requested by the Trump campaign is expected to be finalized this week and confirm his lead.

Nevertheless, the Trump campaign filed a new lawsuit Friday in Superior Court of Fulton
County seeking to invalidate Biden's win. The suit calls for either a new election or for the
courts to allow the GOP-majority state legislature to appoint electors.

Trump attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani pressed GOP lawmakers to assert such a role when he
addressed a state Senate hearing on the election last week.

"State law doesn't in any way prevent you, the legislature, from immediately taking this over
and deciding this," Giuliani fillid._at the hearing.

Democratic state Sen. Elena Parent pushed back at the idea that the legislature could choose
to override the popular vote and appoint electors sympathetic to Trump.

"According to the law of the state of Georgia, we do not have the power to submit alternate
electors. The provision in the old law is quite clear," said Parent, who has been the target of
death threats on far-right online sites.

A handful of GOP lawmakers have called for a special session, but the idea has been shot
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Lawyers for Raffensperger have determined that current law gives Georgia legislators no role
in seating electors. And the governor does not think the legislature has the power to change
the law with retroactive effect, according to people familiar with his views.




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'Someone's going to get killed': GOP election official in
Georgia blames President Trump for fostering violent
threats


By Amy Gardner and Keith Newell                                                December 2, 2020




A top Republican election official in Georgia lashed out at President Trump during a news
conference Tuesday in Atlanta, blaming him for a flood of threats that have besieged his
office and calling on the president and other Republicans to condemn the behavior.

Gabriel Sterling, a voting systems manager for Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger, was
visibly angry and shaken as he approached a lectern in the Georgia Capitol.

"Mr. President, you have not condemned these actions or this language," he said. "Senators,
you have not condemned this language or these actions .... Stop inspiring people to commit
potential acts of violence."

He added: "That shouldn't be too much to ask for people who ask us to give them
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Sterling's public chastisement represents one of the strongest rebukes yet of Trump's
baseless attacks on the election's integrity by a member of his own party.

The episode revealed a fissure that has been widening within the Republican Party for weeks
as Trump has claimed falsely, again and again, that President-elect Joe Biden won through
election fraud.

Although more and more local and state Republicans have acknowledged Biden's victory
and said they have seen no evidence of ,videspread fraud - most national GOP officials,
including Georgia's two U.S. senators seeking reelection in twin runoffs on Jan. 5, have
refused to do so.

In addition to calling out Trump by name, Sterling also demanded that the two senators,
David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, denounce the threats that flowed into his office after Trump
began attacking Raffensperger for failing to repeat his false accusations of fraud.

"When the president called Brad Raffensperger, who is a fine, upstanding, lifelong
Republican, an 'enemy of the peopk,' that helped open the floodgates to this kind of crap,"
Sterling said. "It takes people who are already spun up .... There are some nut balls out
there."

A Perdue spokeswoman, Casey Black, said in a statement that her boss "condemns violence
of any kind, against anybody. Period." But she added: "We won't apologize for addressing the
obvious issues vvith the way our state conducts its elections."

A Loeffler spokesman tweeted that it is "ridiculous" to suggest that the senator wouldn't
condemn physical threats but said the senator "won't apologize" for calling out "inaction and
lack of accountability."

Trump campaign spokesman Tim Murtaugh said the campaign condemns threats or violence
"if that has happened" - but remains "focused on ensuring that all legal votes are counted
and all illegal votes are not."

Neither senator has offered any evidence of fraud or mismanagement by Raffensperger, nor a
rationale for their call for his resignation, which came after Trump began attacking him and
Gov. Brian Kemp, also a Republican, for their failure to support the president's claims of
fraud. Trump is scheduled to travel to Georgia on Saturday to campaign on behalf of Loeffler
and Perdue.

Late Tuesday night, Trump tweeted in response to Sterling's call for him to condemn threats:
"Rigged Election. Show signatures and envelopes. Expose the massive voter fraud in Georgia.
What is Secretary of State and @BrianKempGA afraid of. They know what we'll find!!!"




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For his part, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) refused Tuesday to take any
questions about the presidential election or Trump's claims, talking only about legislation
that Congress is trying to pass this month. "The future will take care of itself," McConnell told
reporters, when pressed about Trump's statements.

vVhen asked for comment on Sterling's news conference, McConnell's office declined to
comment, referring to his earlier remarks.

Sterling, 50, is a Georgia native, a graduate of the University of Georgia and a Republican
who has worked as a political consultant and served on the Sandy Springs City Council, north
of Atlanta.

Raffensperger, his boss, was among the first Republicans to speak out against Trump's false
claims of voter fraud, defending the integrity of Georgia's elections and calling out Sen.
Lindsey 0. Graham (R-S.C.) for suggesting that he find a way to invalidate tens of thousands
oflegally cast absentee ballots.

That stance has drawn a fusillade of online attacks and personal threats against the secretary
of state and others in his office.

But Sterling said Tuesday that for him, the last straw came when a 20-year-old technician for
the state's voting machine contractor, Dominion Voting Systems, was targeted bY.far-righ!;
social media users who falsely claimed they'd caught him on camera manipulating election
data. Some people called for the worker's imprisonment, torture or execution. One tweet
accused him of treason and included an animated image of a hanging noose.

½'hen Sterling stepped to the lectern inside the Georgia Capitol on Tuesday afternoon, he was
noticeably upset.

"It has all. Gone. Too. Far," Sterling said, adding: "It has to stop."

"This kid took a job," he added, his voice growing louder. "He just took a job. And it's just
wrong. I can't begin to explain the level of anger I have right now over this. Every American,
every Georgian, Republican or Democrat alike, should have the same level of anger."

Sterling specifically called out Joseph diGenova, a conservative lawyer and Trump ally who
on Monday .slJ!J2eared to call for the execution of former federal cybersecurity official Chris
Krebs during an appearance on a radio talk show. Di Genova later said he was joking.

"Someone's going to get hurt," Sterling said. "Someone's going to get shot. Someone's going
to get killed."

Sterling said he was off script and at one point quipped, "I've probably stepped out of line,
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But Raffensperger gave Sterling the green light to speak his mind, Jordan Fuchs, a deputy
secretary of state, said in an interview. "We pointed him in a direction and said, 'Just do your
thing.'"

Fuchs said Raffensperger's wife, Tricia, has received "sexualized death threats." Members of
far-right groups have been found trespassing at the Raffenspergers' home. Someone broke
into the home of one of their adult children and turned all the lights on, "sending a clear
signal that they can get access to their house," Fuchs said. And members of Fuchs's staff have
had to filter through "thousands" of emails saying, "You should be shot" and "You should be
hanged," she said.

All of it has left her and her colleagues bewildered by and infuriated with their own party.

"They need to defend what they're doing," Fuchs said. "They need to defend the coalition that
they have aligned with."

Sterling also had another message for Trump that Republicans in Washington have been
unwilling to deliver: The election is over.

"Mr. President, as the secretary said yesterday, people aren't giving you the best advice on
what's actually going on on the ground," he said. "It's time to look forward. If you want to run
for reelection in four years, fine, do it. But everything we're seeing right now there's not a
path."

Sterling declined to name the Dominion contractor who had been threatened. The
individual's name was surfaced by Ron Watkins, whose father, Jim, owns the far-right
Internet message board Skun, which has been linked to white supremacism, neo-Nazism and
QAnon.

Shortly after midnight Tuesday, Watkins posted what he called "a smoking-gun video" that
he claimed showed the Dominion worker manipulating Georgia voting data.

In fact, the undated video - which was recorded at a distance and includes a man and
woman offering ongoing commentary on the "nerd boy" as he works inside an election office
- shows a man simply using a computer and thumb drive.

Drew Harwell, Michelle Ye Hee Lee, Paul Kane and Donna Cassata contributed to this report.




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Here's the full transcript and audio of the call between
Trump and Raffensperger


By Amy Gardner and Paulina Firozi                                                        January 3, 2021




About 3 p.m. Saturday, President Trump held an hour-long call with Brad Raffensperger,
Georgia's secretary of state, in which 11£:..ll!J~tfilJUY~W:fT.fill.lliJ.11 to alter the outcome of the
presidential vote in the state. He was joined on the call by White House Chief of Staff Mark
Meadows and several lawyers, including longtime conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell and
Georgia-based attorney Kurt Hilbert. Raffensperger was joined by his office's general
counsel, Ryan Germany, and Deputy Secretary of State Jordan Fuchs.

The Washington Post obtained a copy of a recording of the call. This transcript has been
edited to remove the name of an individual about whom Trump makes unsubstantiated
claims.

Meadows: Okay. Alright. Mr. President, everyone is on the line. This is Mark Meadows, the
chief of staff. Just so we all are aware. On the line is secretary of state and two other
individuals. Jordan and Mr. Germany with him. You also have the attorneys that represent



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the president, Kurt and Alex and Cleta Mitchell who is not the attorney of record but has
been involved - myself and then the president. So Mr. President, I'll turn it over to you.

Trump: Okay, thank you very much. Hello Brad and Ryan and everybody. We appreciate the
time and the call. So we've spent a lot of time on this, and if we could just go over some of the
numbers, I think it's pretty clear that we won. We won very substantially in Georgia. You
even see it by rally size, frankly. We'd be getting 25-30,000 people a rally, and the
competition would get less than 100 people. And it never made sense.

But we have a number of things. We have at least 2 or 3 - anywhere from 250 to 300,000
ballots were dropped mysteriously into the rolls. Much of that had to do with Fulton County,
which hasn't been checked. We think that if you check the signatures - a real check of the
signatures going back in Fulton County - you'll find at least a couple of hundred thousand of
forged signatures of people who have been forged. And we are quite sure that's going to
happen.

Another tremendous number. ·we're going to have an accurate number over the next two
days with certified accountants. But an accurate number Vvill be given, but it's in the 50s of
thousands - and that's people that went to vote and they were told they can't vote because
they've already been voted for. And it's a very sad thing. They walked out complaining. But
the number's large. We'll have it for you. But it's much more than the number of 11,779 that's
   the current margin is only 11,779. Brad, I think you agree with that, right? That's
something I think everyone - at least that's a number that everyone agrees on.

But that's the difference in the votes. But we've had hundreds of thousands of ballots that
we're able to actually- we'll get you a pretty accurate number. You don't need much of a
number because the number that in theory I lost by, the margin would be 11,779. But you also
have a substantial numbers of people, thousands and thousands, who went to the voting
place on November 3, were told they couldn't vote, were told they couldn't vote because a
ballot had been put on their name. And you know that's very, very, very, very sad.

We had, I believe it's about 4,502 voters who voted but who weren't on the voter registration
list, so it's 4,502 who voted, but they weren't on the voter registration roll, which they had to
be. You had 18,325 vacant address voters. The address was vacant, and they're not allowed to
be counted. That's 18,325.

Smaller number-you had 904 who only voted where they had just a P.O. - a post office box
number and they had a post office box number, and that's not allowed. We had at least
18,000 - that's on tape, we had them counted very painstakingly- 18,000 voters having to
do Vvith [name]. She's a vote scammer, a professional vote scammer and hustler [name]. That
was the tape that's been shown all over the world that makes everybody look bad, you, me
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Where they got number one they said very clearly and it's been reported that they said
there was a major water main break. Everybody fled the area. And then they came back,
[name] and her daughter and a few people. There were no Republican poll watchers.
Actually, there were no Democrat poll watchers, I guess they were them. But there were no
Democrats, either, and there was no law enforcement. Late in the morning, early in the
morning, they went to the table v,rith the black robe and the black shield, and they pulled out
the votes. Those votes were put there a number of hours before - the table was put there - I
think it was, Brad, you would know, it was probably eight hours or seven hours before, and
then it was stuffed with votes.

They weren't in an official voter box; they were in what looked to be suitcases or trunks,
suitcases, but they weren't in voter boxes. The minimum number it could be because we
watched it, and they watched it certified in slow motion instant replay if you can believe it,
but slow motion, and it was magnified many times over, and the minimum it was 18,000
ballots, all for Eiden.

You had out-of-state voters. They voted in Georgia, but they were from out of state, of 4,925.
You had absentee ballots sent to vacant, they were absentee ballots sent to vacant addresses.
They had nothing on them about addresses, that's 2,326.

And you had dropboxes, which is very bad. You had dropboxes that were picked up. We have
photographs, and we have affidavits from many people.

I don't know if you saw the hearings, but you have dropboxes where the box was picked up
but not delivered for three days. So all sorts of things could have happened to that box,
including, you know, putting in the votes that you wanted. So there were many infractions,
and the bottom line is, many, many times the 11,779 margin that they said we lost by - we
had vast, I mean the state is in turmoil over this.

And I know you would like to get to the bottom of it, although I saw you on television today,
and you said that you found nothing wrong. I mean, you know, and I didn't lose the state,
Brad. People have been saying that it was the highest vote ever. There was no way. A lot of
the political people said that there's no way they beat me. And they beat me. They beat me in
the ... As you know, every single state, we won every state. We won every statehouse in the
country. We held the Senate, which is shocking to people, although we'll see what happens
tomorrow or in a few days.

And we won the House, but we won every single statehouse, and we won Congress, which
was supposed to lose 15 seats, and they gained, I think 16 or 17 or something. I think there's a
now difference of five. There was supposed to be a difference substantially more. But
politicians in every state, but politicians in Georgia have given affidavits and are going to
that, that there was no way that they beat me in the election, that the people came out, in




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fact, they were expecting to lose, and then they ended up winning by a lot because of the
coattails. And they said there's no way, that they've done many polls prior to the election, that
there was no way that they won.

Ballots were dropped in massive numbers. And we're trying to get to those numbers and we
will have them.

They'll take a period of time. Certified. But but they're massive numbers. And far greater than
the 11,779.

The other thing, dead people. So dead people voted, and I think the number is close to 5,000
people. And they went to obituaries. They went to all sorts of methods to come up with an
accurate number, and a minimum is close to about 5,000 voters.

The bottom line is, when you add it all up and then you start adding, you know, 300,000 fake
ballots. Then the other thing they said is in Fulton County and other areas. And this may or
may not be true ... this just came up this morning, that they are burning their ballots, that
they are shredding, shredding ballots and removing equipment. They're changing the
equipment on the Dominion machines and, you know, that's not legal.

And they supposedly shredded I think they said 300 pounds of, 3,000 pounds of ballots. And
that just came to us as a report today. And it is a very sad situation.

But Brad, if you took the minimum numbers where many, many times above the 11,779, and
many of those numbers are certified, or they will be certified, but they are certified. And
those are numbers that are there, that exist. And that beat the margin of loss, they beat it, I
mean, by a lot, and people should be happy to have an accurate count instead of an election
where there's turmoil.

I mean there's turmoil in Georgia and other places. You're not the only one, I mean, we have
other states that I believe will be flipping to us very shortly. And this is something that - you
know, as an example, I think it in Detroit, I think there's a section, a good section of your
state actually, which we're not sure so we're not going to report it yet. But in Detroit, we had,
I think it was, 139 percent of the people voted. That's not too good.

In Pennsylvania, they had well over 200,000 more votes than they had people voting. And
that doesn't play too well, and the legislature there is, which is Republican, is extremely
activist and angry. I mean, there were other things also that were almost as bad as that. But
they had as an example, in Michigan, a tremendous number of dead people that voted. I
think it was, I think, Mark, it was 18,000. Some unbelievably high number, much higher than
yours, you were in the 4-5,000 category.

And that was checked out laboriously by going through, by going through the obituary
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So I guess with all of it being said, Brad, the bottom line, and provisional ballots, again, you
know, you'll have to tell me about the provisional ballots, but we have a lot of people that
were complaining that they weren't able to vote because they were already voted for. These
are great people.

And, you know, they were shellshocked. I don't know if you call that provisional ballots. In
some states, we had a lot of provisional ballot situations where people were given a
provisional ballot because when they walked in on November 3 and they were already voted
for.

So that's it. I mean, we have many, many times the number of votes necessary to win the
state. And we won the state, and we won it very substantially and easily, and we're getting, we
have, much of this is a very certified, far more certified than we need. But we 're getting
additional numbers certified, too. And we're getting pictures of dropboxes being delivered
and delivered late. Delivered three days later, in some cases, plus we have many affidavits to
that effect.

Meadows: So, Mr. President, if I might be able to jump in, and I'll give Brad a chance. Mr.
Secretary, obviously there is, there are allegations where we believe that not every vote or fair
vote and legal vote was counted, and that's at odds with the representation from the secretary
of state's office.

vVhat I'm hopeful for is there some way that we can, we can find some kind of agreement to
look at this a little bit more fully? You know the president mentioned Fulton County.

But in some of these areas where there seems to be a difference of where the facts seem to
lead, and so Mr. Secretary, I was hopeful that, you know, in the spirit of cooperation and
compromise, is there something that we can at least have a discussion to look at some of
these allegations to find a path forward that's less litigious?

Raffensperger: Well, I listened to what the president has just said. President Trump, we've
had several lawsuits, and we've had to respond in court to the lawsuits and the contentions.
We don't agree that you have won. And we don't - I didn't agree about the 200,000 number
that you'd mentioned. I'll go through that point by point.

\Vbat we have done is we gave our state Senate about one and a half hours of our time going
through the election issue by issue and then on the state House, the government affairs
committee, we gave them about two and a half hours of our time, going back point by point
on all the issues of contention. And then just a few days ago, we met with our U.S.
congressmen, Republican congressmen, and we gave them about two hours of our time
talking about this past election. Going back, primarily what you've talked about here focused
in on primarily, I believe, is the absentee ballot process. I don't believe that you're really
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all the ballots, and compared them to what the machines said and came up with virtually the
same result. Then we did the recount, and we got virtually the same result. So I guess we can
probably take that off the table.

I don't think there's an issue about that.

TrUillp: Well, Brad. Not that there's not an issue, because we have a big issue ·with
Dominion in other states and perhaps in yours. But we haven't felt we needed to go there.
And just to, you know, maybe put a little different spin on what Mark is saying, Mark
Meadows, yeah we'd like to go further, but we don't really need to. We have all the votes we
need.

You know, we won the state. If you took, these are the most minimal numbers, the numbers
that I gave you, those are numbers that are certified, your absentee ballots sent to vacant
addresses, your out-of-state voters, 4,925. You know when you add them up, it's many more
times, it's many times the 11,779 number. So we could go through, we have not gone through
your Dominion. So we can't give them blessing. I mean, in other states, we think we found
tremendous corruption with Dominion machines, but we'll have to see.

But we only lost the state by that number, 11,000 votes, and 779. So with that being said, with
just what we have, with just what we have, we're giving you minimal, minimal numbers.
We're doing the most conservative numbers possible; we're many times, many, many times
above the margin. And so we don't really have to, Mark, I don't think we have to go through


Meadows: Right

Trump: Because what's the difference between winning the election by two votes and
winning it by half a million votes. I think I probably did win it by half a million. You know,
one of the things that happened, Brad, is we have other people coming in now from Alabama
and from South Carolina and from other states, and they're saying it's impossible for you to
have lost Georgia. We won. You know in Alabama, we set a record, got the highest vote ever.
In Georgia, we set a record with a massive amount of votes. And they say it's not possible to
have lost Georgia.

And I could tell you by our rallies. I could tell you by the rally I'm having on Monday night,
the place, they already have lines of people standing out front waiting. It's just not possible to
have lost Georgia. It's not possible. When I heard it was close, I said there's no way. But they
dropped a lot of votes in there late at night. You know that, Brad. And that's what we are
working on very, very stringently. But regardless of those votes, with all of it being said, we
lost by essentially 11,000 votes, and we have many more votes already calculated and
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And so I just don't know, you know, Mark, I don't know what's the purpose. I won't give
Dominion a pass because we found too many bad things. But we don't need Dominion or
anything else. We have won this election in Georgia based on all of this. And there's nothing
wrong with saying that, Brad. You know, I mean, having the correct - the people of Georgia
are angry. And these numbers are going to be repeated on Monday night. Along with others
that we're going to have by that time, which are much more substantial even. And the people
of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry. And there's nothing wrong with
saying that, you know, that you've recalculated. Because the 2,236 in absentee ballots. I
mean, they're all exact numbers that were done by accounting firms, law firms, etc. And even
if you cut 'em in half, cut 'em in half and cut 'em in half again, it's more votes than we need.

Raffensperger: Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is
wrong. We talked to the congressmen, and they were surprised.

But they - I guess there was a person named Mr. Braynard who came to these meetings and
presented data, and he said that there was dead people, I believe it was upward of 5,000. The
actual number were two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted. So that's '\1ffong.

Trump: Well, Cleta, how do you respond to that? Maybe you tell me?

Mitchell: Well, I would say, Mr. Secretary, one of the things that we have requested and
what we said was, if you look, if you read our petition, it said that we took the names and
birth years, and we had certain information available to us. We have asked from your office
for records that only you have, and so we said there is a universe of people who have the
same name and same birth year and died.

But we don't have the records that you have. And one of the things that we have been
suggesting formally and informally for weeks now is for you to make available to us the
records that would be necessary

Trump: But, Cleta, even before you do that, and not even including that, that's why I hardly
even included that number, although in one state, we have a tremendous amount of dead
people. So I don't know - I'm sure we do in Georgia, too. I'm sure we do in Georgia, too.

But we're so far ahead. We're so far ahead of these numbers, even the phony ballots of
[name], known scammer. You know the Internet?Youknowwhatwas trending on the
Internet? "vVhere's [name]?" Because they thought she'd be in jail. "Where's [name]?" It's
crazy, it's crazy. That was. The minimum number is 18,000 for [name], but they think it's
probably about 56,000, but the minimum number is 18,000 on the [name] night where she
ran back in there when everybody was gone and stuffed, she stuffed the ballot boxes. Let's
face it, Brad, I mean. They did it in slow motion replay magnified, right? She stuffed the
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So there's a term for it when it's a machine instead of a ballot box, but she stuffed the
machine. She stuffed the ballot. Each ballot went three times, they were showing: Here's
ballot No 1. Here it is a second time, third time, next ballot.

I mean, look. Brad. We have a new tape that we're going to release. It's devastating. And by
the way, that one event, that one event is much more than the 11,000 votes that we're talking
about. It's, you know, that one event was a disaster. And it's just, you know, but it was, it was
something, it can't be disputed. And again, we have a version that you haven't seen, but it's
magnified. It's magnified, and you can see everything. For some reason, they put it in three
times, each ballot, and I don't know why. I don't know why three times. Why not five times,
right? Go ahead.

Raffensperger: You're talking about the State Farm video. And I think it's extremely
unfortunate that Rudy Giuliani or his people, they sliced and diced that video and took it out
of context. The next day, we brought in WSB-1V, and we let them show, see the full nm of
tape, and what you11 see, the events that transpired are nowhere near what was projected by,
you know

Trump: But where were the poll watchers, Brad? There were no poll watchers there. There
were no Democrats or Republicans. There was no security there.

It was late in the evening, late in the, early in the morning, and there was nobody else in the
room. vVhere were the poll watchers, and why did they say a water main broke, which they
did and which was reported in the newspapers? They said they left. They ran out because of a
water main break, and there was no water main. There was nothing. There was no break.
There was no water main break. But we're, if you take out everything, where were the
Republican poll watchers, even where were the Democrat pollwatchers, because there were
none.

And then you say, well, they left their station, you know, if you look at the tape, and this was,
this was reviewed by professional police and detectives and other people, when they left in a
rush, everybody left in a rush because of the water main, but everybody left in a rush. These
people left their station.

When they came back, they didn't go to their station. They went to the apron, ¼Tapped
around the table, under which were thousands and thousands of ballots in a box that was not
an official or a sealed box. And then they took those. They went back to a different station. So
if they would have come back, they would have walked to their station, and they would have
continued to work. But they couldn't do even that because that's illegal, because they had no
Republican pollwatchers. And remember, her reputation is - she's known all over the
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I'm telling you, "v\lhere's [name]" was one of the hot items ... [name] They knew her.
"Where's [name]?" So Brad, there can be no justification for that. And I, you know, I give
everybody the benefit of the doubt. But that was - and Brad, why did they put the votes in
three times? You know, they put 'em in three times.

Raffensperger: Mr. President, they did not put that. We did an audit of that, and we
proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times.

Trump: v\'here was everybody else at that late time in the morning? Where was everybody?
v\'here were the Republicans? Where were the security guards? Were the people that were
there just a little while before when everyone ran out of the room. How come we had no
security in the room. Why did they run to the bottom of the table? Why do they run there and
just open the skirt and rip out the votes. I mean, Brad. And they were sitting there, I think for
five hours or something like that, the votes.

Raffensperger: Mr. President, we'll send you the link from WSB.

Trump: I don't care about the link. I don't need it. Brad, I have a much better

Mitchell: I will tell you. I've seen the tape. The full tape. So has Alex. We've watched it. And
what we saw and what we've confirmed in the timing is that they made everybody leave - we
have sworn affidavits saying that. And then they began to process ballots. And our estimate is
that there were roughly 18,000 ballots. We don't know that. If you know that -

Trump: - it was 18,000 ballots, but they used each one three times.

Mitchell: Well, I don't know about that, but I know -

Trump:      well, I do, because we had ours magnified out

Mitchell: I've watched the entire tape.

Trump: but nobody can make a case for that, Brad. Nobody. I mean, look, that's, you'd
have to be a child to think anything other than that. Just a child. I mean you have your never-
Trumper U.S. attorney there -

Mitchell: - how many ballots, Mr. Secretary, are you saying were processed then?

Raffensperger: We had GBI ... investigate that.

Germany: We had our - this is Ryan Germany. We had our law enforcement officers talk to
eveiyone who was, who was there after that event came to light. GBI was with them as well as
FBI agents.

Trump: Well, there's no way they could - then they're incompetent. They're either
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Mitchell: Well, what did they find?

Trmnp: There's only two answers, dishonesty or incompetence. There's just no way. Look.
There's no way. And on the other thing, I said too, there is no way. I mean, there's no way
that these things could have been, you know, you have all these different people that voted,
but they don't live in Georgia anymore. What was that number, Cleta? That was a pretty good
number, too.

Mitchell: The number who have registered out of state after they moved from Georgia. And
so they had a date when they moved from Georgia, they registered to vote out of state, and
then it's like 4,500, I don't have that number right in front of me.

Trump: And then they came back in, and they voted.

Mitchell: And voted. Yeah.

Trmnp: I thought that was a large number, though. It was in the 20s.

Germany: We've been going through each of those as well, and those numbers that we got,
that Ms. Mitchell was just saying, they're not accurate. Every one we've been through are
people that lived in Georgia, moved to a different state, but then moved back to Georgia
legitimately. And in many cases

Trump: How may people do that? They moved out, and then they said, "Ah, to hell with it,
I'll move back." You know, it doesn't sound like a very normal ... you mean, they moved out,
and what, they missed it so much that they wanted to move back in? It's crazy.

Germany: They moved back in years ago. This was not like something just before the
election. So there's something about that data that, it's just not accurate.

Trmnp: Well, I don't know, all I know is that it is certified. And they moved out of Georgia,
and they voted. It didn't say they moved back in, Cleta, did it?

Mitchell: No, but I mean, we're looking at the voter registration. Again, if you have
additional records, we've been asking for that, but you haven't shared any of that with us. You
just keep saying you investigated the allegations.

Trmnp: Cleta, a lot of it you don't need to be shared. I mean, to be honest, they should share
it. They should share it because you want to get to an honest election.

I won this election by hundreds of thousands of votes. There's no way I lost Georgia. There's
no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes. I'm just going by small numbers, when
you add them up, they're many times the 11,000. But I won that state by hundreds of
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Do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because that's what
the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really moving
fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery.

Do you know anything about that? Because that's illegal, right?

Germany: This is Ryan Germany. No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of
Fulton County.

Trump: But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other
parts?

Germany: No.

Trump: Are you sure, Ryan?

Germany: I'm sure. I'm sure, Mr. President.

Trump: What about, what about the ballots. The shredding of the ballots. Have they been
shredding ballots?

Germany: The only investigation that we have into that they have not been shredding any
ballots. There was an issue in Cobb County where they were doing normal office shredding,
getting rid of old stuff, and we investigated that. But this stuff from, you know, from you
know past elections.

Trump: It doesn't pass the smell test because we hear they're shredding thousands and
thousands of ballots, and now what they're saying, "Oh, we're just cleaning up the office."
Youknow.

Raffensperger: Mr. President, the problem you have with social media, they           people can
say anything.

Trump: Oh this isn't social media. This is Trump media. It's not social media. It's really not;
it's not social media. I don't care about social media. I couldn't care less. Social media is Big
Tech. Big Tech is on your side, you know. I don't even know why you have a side because you
should want to have an accurate election. And you're a Republican.

Raffensperger: We believe that we do have an accurate election.

Trump: No, no you don't. No, no you don't. You don't have. Not even close. You're off by
hundreds of thousands of votes. And just on the small numbers, you're off on these numbers,
and these numbers can't be just well, why wont? Okay. So you sent us into Cobb County
for signature verification, right? You sent us into Cobb County, which we didn't want to go
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allowed into the room. But we didn't want Cobb County. We wanted Fulton County. And you
wouldn't give it to us. Now, why aren't we doing signature - and why can't it be open to the
public?

And why can't we have professionals do it instead of rank amateurs who will never find
anything and don't want to find anything? They don't want to find, you know they don't want
to find anything. Someday you'll tell me the reason why, because I don't understand your
reasoning, but somedayyou11 tell me the reason why. But why don't you want to find?

Germany: Mr. President, we chose Cobb County

Trump: \Vhy don't you want to find ... What?

Germany: Sorry, go ahead.

Trump: So why did you do Cobb County? We didn't even request - we requested Fulton
County, not Cobb County. Go ahead, please. Go ahead.

Germany: We chose Cobb County because that was the only county where there's been any
evidence submitted that the signature verification was not properly done.

Trump: No, but I told you. We're not, we're not saying that.

Mitchell: We did say that.

Trump: Fulton County. Look. Stacey, in my opinion, Stacey is as dishonest as they come.
She has outplayed you ... at everything. She got you to sign a totally unconstitutional
agreement, which is a disastrous agreement. You can't check signatures. I can't imagine
you're allowed to do harvesting, I guess, in that agreement. That agreement is a disaster for
this country. But she got you somehow to sign that thing, and she has outsmarted you at
every step.

And I hate to imagine what's going to happen on Monday or Tuesday, but it's very scary to
people. You know, when the ballots flow in out of nowhere. It's very scary to people. That
consent decree is a disaster. It's a disaster. A very good lawyer who examined it said they've
never seen anything like it.

Raffensperger: Harvesting is still illegal in the state of Georgia. And that settlement
agreement did not change that one iota.

Trump: It's not a settlement agreement, it's a consent decree. It even says consent decree on
it, doesn't it? It uses the term consent decree. It doesn't say settlement agreement. It's a
consent decree. It's a disaster.

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Trump: What's written on top of it?

Raffensperger:Ryan?

Germany: I don't have it in front of me, but it was not entered by the court, it's not a court
order.

Trump: But Ryan, it's called a consent decree, is that right? On the paper. Is that right?

Germany: I don't. I don't. I don't believe so, but I don't have it in front of me.

Trump: Okay, whatever, it's a disaster. It's a disaster. Look. Here's the problem. We can go
through signature verification, and we'll find hundreds of thousands of signatures, if you let
us do it. And the only way you can do it, as you know, is to go to the past. But you didn't do
that in Cobb County. You just looked at one page compared to another. The only way you can
do a signature verification is go from the one that signed it on November whatever. Recently.
And compare it to two years ago, four years ago, six years ago, you know, or even one. And
you'll find that you have many different signatures. But in Fulton, where they dumped
ballots, you will find that you have many that aren't even signed and you have many that are
forgeries.

Okay, you know that. You know that. You have no doubt about that. And you will find you
will be at 11,779 within minutes because Fulton County is totally corrupt, and so is she totally
corrupt.

And they're going around playing you and laughing at you behind your back, Brad, whether
you know it or not, they're laughing at you. And you've taken a state that's a Republican state,
and you've made it almost impossible for a Republican to win because of cheating, because
they cheated like nobody's ever cheated before. And I don't care how long it takes me, you
know, we're going to have other states coming forward pretty good.

But I won't ... this is never ... this is ... We have some incredible talent said they've never
seen anything ... Now the problem is they need more time for the big numbers. But they're
very substantial numbers. But I think you're going to find that they - by the way, a little
information - I think you're going to find that they are shredding ballots because they have
to get rid of the ballots because the ballots are unsigned. The ballots are corrupt, and they're
brand new, and they don't have seals, and there's a whole thing with the ballots. But the
ballots are corrupt.

And you are going to find that they are - which is totally illegal - it is more illegal for you
than it is for them because, you know, what they did and you're not reporting it. That's a
criminal, that's a criminal offense. And you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you and
to Ryan, your lawyer. And that's a big risk. But they are shredding ballots, in my opinion,
based on what I've heard. And they are removing machinery, and they're moving it as fast as
they can, both of which are criminal finds. And you can't let it happen, and you are letting it

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happen. You know, I mean, I'm notifying you that you're letting it happen. So look. All I want
to do is this. I just want to find 11,780 votes, which is one more than we have because we won
the state.

And flipping the state is a great testament to our country because, you know, this is it's a
testament that they can admit to a mistake or whatever you want to call it. If it was a mistake,
I don't know. A lot of people think it wasn't a mistake. It was much more criminal than that.
But it's a big problem in Georgia, and it's not a problem that's going away. I mean, you know,
it's not a problem that's going away.

Germany: This is Ryan. We're looking into every one of those things that you mentioned.

Trump: Good. But if you find it, you've got to say it, Ryan.

Germany: ... Let me tell you what we are seeing. What we're seeing is not at all what you're
describing. These are investigators from our office, these are investigators from GBI, and
they're looking, and they're good. And that's not what they're seeing. And we'll keep looking,
at all these things.

Trump: Well, you better check on the ballots because they are shredding ballots, Ryan. I'm
just telling you, Ryan. They're shredding ballots. And you should look at that very carefully.
Because that's so illegal. You know, you may not even believe it because it's so bad. But
they're shredding ballots because they think we're going to eventually get there ... because
we'll eventually get into Fulton. In my opinion, it's never too late .... So, that's the story.
Look, we need only 11,000 votes. We have are far more than that as it stands now. We'll have
more and more. And ... do you have provisional ballots at all, Brad? Provisional ballots?

Raffensperger: Provisional ballots are allowed by state law.

Trump: Sure, but I mean, are they counted, or did you just hold them back because they,
you know, in other words, how many provisional ballots do you have in the state?

Raffensperger: We'll get you that number.

Trump: Because most of them are made out to the name Trump. Because these are people
that were scammed when they came in. And we have thousands of people that have testified
or that want to testify. When they came in, they were proudly going to vote on November 3.
And they were told, 'Tm sorry, you've already been voted for, you've already voted." The
women, men started screaming, "No. I proudly voted till November 3." They said, 'Tm sorry,
but you've already been voted for, and you have a ballot." And these people are beside
themselves. So they went out, and they filled in a provisional ballot, putting the name Trump
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And what about that batch of military ballots that came in. And even though I won the
military by a lot, it was 100 percent Trump. I mean 100 percent Biden. Do you know about
that? A large group of ballots came in, I think it was to Fulton County, and they just
happened to be 100 percent for Trump - for Eiden - even though Trump won the military
by a lot, you know, a tremendous amount. But these ballots were 100 percent for Eiden. And
do you know about that? A very substantial number came in, all for Eiden. Does anybody
know about it?

Mitchell: I know about it, but

Trump: Okay, Cleta, I'm not asking you, Cleta, honestly. I'm asking Brad. Do you know
about the military ballots that we have confirmed now. Do you know about the military
ballots that came in that were 100 percent, I mean 100 percent, for Eiden. Do you know
about that?

Germany: I don't know about that. I do know that we have, when military ballots come in,
it's not just military, it's also military and overseas citizens. The military part of that does
generally go Republican. The overseas citizen part of it generally goes very Democrat. This
was a mix of 'em.

Trump: No, but this was. That's okay. But I got like 78 percent of the military. These ballots
were all for ... They didn't tell me overseas. Could be overseas, too, but I get votes overseas,
too, Ryan, in all fairness. No they came in, a large batch came in, and it was, quote, 100
percent for Eiden. And that is criminal. You know, that's criminal. Okay. That's another
criminal, that's another of the many criminal events, many criminal events here.

I don't know, look, Brad. I got to get ... I have to find 12,000 votes, and I have them times a
lot. And therefore, I won the state. That's before we go to the next step, which is in the
process of right now. You know, and I watched you this morning, and you said, well, there
was no criminality.

But I mean all of this stuff is very dangerous stuff. When you talk about no criminality, I
think it's very dangerous for you to say that.

I just, I just don't know why you don't want to have the votes counted as they are. Like even
you when you went and did that check. And I was surprised because, you know ... And we
found a few thousand votes that were against me. I was actually surprised because the way
that check was done, all you're doing, you know, recertifying existing votes and, you know,
and you were given votes and you just counted them up, and you still found 3,000 that were
bad. So that was sort of surprising that it came down to three or five, I don't know. Still a lot
of votes. But you have to go back to check from past years with respect to signatures. And if
you check ,vith Fulton County, you'll have hundreds of thousands because they dumped
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So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I need 11,000 votes.
Give me a break. You know, we have that in spades already. Or we can keep it going, but
that's not fair to the voters of Georgia because they're going to see what happened, and
they're going to see what happened. I mean, I'll, I'll take on anybody you want with regard to
[name] and her lovely daughter, a very lovely young lady, I'm sure. But, but [name] ... I will
take on anybody you want. And the minimum, there were 18,000 ballots, but they used them
three times. So that's, you know, a lot of votes. And they were all to Eiden, by the way, that's
the other thing we didn't say. You know, [name], the one thing I forgot to say, which was the
most important. You know that every single ballot she did went to Eiden. You know that,
right? Do you know that, by the way, Brad?

Every single ballot that she did through the machines at early, early in the morning went to
Eiden. Did you know that, Ryan?

Germany: That's not accurate, Mr. President.

TrUillp: Huh. What is accurate?

Germany: The numbers that we are showing are accurate.

Trump: No, about [name] . About early in the morning, Ryan. vVhere the woman took, you
know, when the whole gang took the stuff from under the table, right? Do you know, do you
know who those ballots, do you know who they were made out to, do you know who they
were voting for?

Germany: No, not specifically.

Trump: Did you ever check?

Germany: We did what I described to you earlier -

Trump: No no no - did you ever check the ballots that were scanned by [name] , a knmim
political operative, balloteer? Did ever check who those votes were for?

Germany: We looked into that situation that you described.

Trump: No, they were 100 percent for Bi den. 100 percent. There wasn't a Trump vote in the
whole group. Why don't you want to find this, Ryan? What's wrong with you? I heard your
lawyer is very difficult, actually, but I'm sure you're a good lawyer. You have a nice last name.

But, but I'm just curious, why wouldn't, why do you keep fighting this thing? It just doesn't
make sense. We're way over the 17,779, right? We're way over that number, and just if you
took just [name], we're over that number by five, five or six times when you multiply that
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And every single ballot went to Biden, and you didn't know that, but now you know it. So tell
me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it's not fair to take it away from
us like this. And it's going to be very costly in many ways. And I think you have to say that
you're going to reexamine it, and you can reexamine it, but reexamine it with people that
want to find answers, not people that don't want to find answers. For instance, I'm hearing
Ryan that he's probably, I'm sure a great lawyer and everything, but he's making statements
about those ballots that he doesn't know. But he's making them v-ith such - he did make
them with surety. But now I think he's less sure because the answer is, they all went to Biden,
and that alone wins us the election by a lot. You know, so.

Raffensperger: Mr. President, you have people that submit information, and we have our
people that submit information. And then it comes before the court, and the court then has to
make a determination. We have to stand by our numbers. We believe our numbers are right.

Trump: vVhy do you say that, though? I don't know. I mean, sure, we can play this game
with the courts, but why do you say that? First of all, they don't even assign us a judge. They
don't even assign us a judge. But why wouldn't you ... Hey Brad, why wouldn't you wantto
check out [name] ? And why wouldn't you want to say, hey, if in fact, President Trump is
right about that, then he wins the state of Georgia, just that one incident alone without going
through hundreds of thousands of dropped ballots. You just say, you stick by, I mean I've
been watching you, you know, you don't care about anything. "Your numbers are right." But
your numbers aren't right. They're really v-Tong, and they're really wrong, Brad. And I know
this phone call is going nowhere other than, other than ultimately, you know - Look,
ultimately, I win, okay? Because you guys are so wrong. And you treated this. You treated the
population of Georgia so badly. You, between you and your governor, who is down at 21, he
was down 21 points. And like a schmuck, I endorsed him, and he got elected, but Iv-ill tell
you, he is a disaster.

The people are so angry in Georgia, I can't imagine he's ever getting elected again, I'll tell you
that much right now. But why wouldn't you want to find the right answer, Brad, instead of
keep saying that the numbers are right? 'Cause those numbers are so wrong?

Mitchell: Mr. Secretary, Mr. President, one of the things that we have been, Alex can talk
about this, we talked about it, and I don't know whether the information has been conveyed
to your office, but I think what the president is saying, and what we've been trying to do is to
say, look, the court is not acting on our petition. They haven't even assigned a judge. But the
people of Georgia and the people of America have a right to know the answers. And you have
data and records that we don't have access to.

And you can keep telling us and making public statement that you investigated this and
nothing to see here. But we don't know about that. All we know is what you tell us. What I
don't understand is why wouldn't it be in everyone's best interest to try to get to the bottom,
compare the numbers, you know, if you say, because ... to try to be able to get to the truth
because we don't have any way of confirming what you're telling us. You tell us that you had

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an investigation at the State Farm Arena. I don't have any report. I've never seen a report of
investigation. I don't know that is. I've been pretty involved in this, and I don't know. And
that's just one of 25 categories. And it doesn't even. And as I, as the president said, we
haven't even gotten into the Dominion issue. That's not part of our case. It's not part of, we
just didn't feel as though we had any to be able to develop -

Trump: No, we do have a way, but I don't want to get into it. We found a way ... excuse me,
but we don't need it because we're only down 11,000 votes, so we don't even need it. I
personally think they're corrupt as hell. But we don't need that. All we have to do, Cleta, is
find 11,000-plus votes. So we don't need that. I'm not looking to shake up the whole world.
We won Georgia easily. We won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But if you go by basic,
simple numbers, we won it easily, easily. So we're not giving Dominion a pass on the record.
We don't need Dominion because we have so many other votes that we don't need to prove it
any more than we already have.

Hilbert: Mr. President and Cleta, this is Kurt Hilbert, if I might interject for a moment.
Ryan, I would like to suggest that just four categories that have already been mentioned by
the president that have actually hard numbers of 24,149 votes that were counted illegally.
That in and of itself is sufficient to change the results or place the outcome in doubt. We
would like to sit dovm with your office, and we can do it through purposes of compromise
and just like this phone call, just to deal with that limited category of votes. And if you are
able to establish that our numbers are not accurate, then fine. However, we believe that they
are accurate. We've had now three to four separate experts looking at these numbers.

Trump: Certified accountants looked at them.

Hilbert: Correct. And this is just based on USPS data and your own secretary of state data.
So that's what we would entreat and ask you to do, to sit down with us in a compromise and
settlements proceeding and actually go through the registered voter IDs and the
registrations. And if you can convince us that 24,149 is inaccurate, then fine. But we tend to
believe that is, you know, obviously more than 11,779. That's sufficient to change the results
entirely in and of itself. So what would you say to that, Mr. Germany?

Germany: I'm happy to get with our lawyers, and we'll set that up. That number is not
accurate. And I think we can show you, for all the ones we've looked at, why it's not. And so if
that would be helpful, I'm happy to get with our lawyers and set that up with you guys.

Trump: Well, let me ask you, Kurt, you think that is an accurate number. That was based on
the information given to you by the secretary of state's department, right?

Hilbert: That is correct. That information is the minimum, most conservative data based
upon the USPS data and the secretary of state's office data that has been made publicly
available. We do not have the internal numbers from the secretary of state. Yet we have asked



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for it six times. I sent a letter over to ... several times requesting this information, and it's
been rebuffed every single time. So it stands to reason that if the information is not
forthcoming, there's something to hide. That's the problem that we have.

Germany: Well, that's not the case, sir. There are things that you guys are entitled to get.
And there's things that under law, we are not allowed to give out.

Trump: Well, you have to. Well, under law, you're not allowed to give faulty election results,
okay? You're not allowed to do that. And that's what you done. This is a faulty election result.
And honestly, this should go very fast. You should meet tomorrow because you have a big
election coming up, and because of what you've done to the president - you know, the
people of Georgia know that this was a scam - and because of what you've done to the
president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote. And a lot of Republicans are going to vote
negative because they hate what you did to the president. Okay? They hate it. And they're
going to vote. And you would be respected. Really respected, if this thing could be
straightened out before the election. You have a big election coming up on Tuesday. And I
think that it is really is important that you meet tomorrow and work out on these numbers.
Because I know, Brad, that if you think we're right, I think you're going to say, and I'm not
looking to blame anybody, I'm just saying, you know, and, you know, under new counts, and
under new views, of the election results, we won the election. You know? It's very simple. We
won the election. As the governors of major states and the surrounding states said, there is
no way you lost Georgia. As the Georgia politicians say, there is no way you lost Georgia.
Nobody. Everyone knows I won it by hundreds of thousands of votes. But I'll tell you it's
going to have a big impact on Tuesday if you guys don't get this thing straightened out fast.

Meadows: Mr. President, this is Mark. It sounds like we've got two different sides agreeing
that we can look at those areas, and I assume that we can do that within the next 24 to 48
hours, to go ahead and get that reconciled so that we can look at the two claims and making
sure that we get the access to the secretary of state's data to either validate or invalidate the
claims that have been made. Is that correct?

Germany: No, that's not what I said. I'm happy to have our lawyers sit down with Kurt and
the lawyers on that side and explain to him, hey, here's, based on what we've looked at so far,
here's how we know this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong, this is wrong.

Meadows: So what you're saying, Ryan, let me let me make sure ... so what you're saying is
you really don't want to give access to the data. You just want to make another case on why
the lawsuit is wrong?

Germany: I don't think we can give access to data that's protected by law. But we can sit
down with them and say -

Trump: But you're allowed to have a phony election? You're allowed to have a phony
election, right?


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Germany: No, sir.

Trump: vVhen 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 ,vithout 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 okay. I don't need to know names. But on this stuff
that we're talking about, we got all that infonnation from the secretary of state.

Meadows: Yeah. So let me let me recommend, Ryan, if you and Kurt will get together, you
know, when we get off of this phone call, if you could get together and work out a plan to
address some of what we've got with your attorneys where we can we can actually look at the
data. For example, Mr. Secretary, I can you say they were only two dead people who would
vote. I can promise you there are more than that. And that may be what your investigation
shows, but I can promise you there are more than that. But at the same time, I think it's
important that we go ahead and move expeditiously to try to do this and resolve it as quickly
as we possibly can. And if that's the good next step. Hopefully we can, we can finish this
phone call and go ahead and agree that the two of you will get together immediately.

Trump: Well, why don't my lawyers show you where you got the information. It will show
the secretary of state, and you don't even have to look at any names. vVe don't want names.
We don't care. But we got that information from you. And Stacey Abrams is laughing about
you. She's going around saying these guys are dumber than a rock. What she's done to this
party is unbelievable, I tell you. And I only ran against her once. And that was with a guy
named Brian Kemp, and I beat her. And ifI didn't run, Brian wouldn't have had even a shot,
either in the general or in the primary. He was dead, dead as a doornail. He never thought he
had a shot at either one of them. vVhat a schmuck I was. But that's the way it is. That's the
way it is. I would like you ... for the attorneys ... I'd like you to perhaps meet with Ryan,
ideally tomorrow, because I think we should come to a resolution of this before the election.
Otherwise you're going to have people just not voting. They don't want to vote. They hate the
state, they hate the governor, and they hate the secretary of state. I will tell you that right
now. The only people that like you are people that will never vote for you. You know that,
Brad, right? They like you, you know, they like you. They can't believe what they found. They
want more people like you. So, look, can you get together tomorrow? And, Brad, we just want
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And everyone's going to look very good if the truth comes out. It's okay. It takes a little while,
but let the truth come out. And the real truth is, I won by 400,000 votes. At least. That's the
real truth. But we don't need 400,000 votes. We need less than 2,000 votes. And are you
guys able to meet tomorrow, Ryan?

Germany: I'll get with Chris, the lawyer who's representing us in the case, and see when he
can get together with Kurt.

Raffensperger: Ryan will be in touch with the other attorney on this call, Mr. Meadows.
Thank you, President Trump, for your time.

Trump: Okay, thank you, Brad. Thank you, Ryan. Thank you. Thank you, everybody. Thank
you very much. Bye.

An earlier version of the full audio of Trump's call inadvertently left in a reference to an
individual about whom he has made unsubstantiated claims. It has since been updated.

This transcript has been updated to clarify crosstalk in which Trump refers to a "never-
Trumper U.S. attorney."




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'I just want to find 11,780 votes': In extraordinary hour-
long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to
recalculate the vote in his favor


By Amy Gardner                                                                      January 3, 2021




President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger, the Georgia secretary of state,
to "find" enough votes to overturn his defeat in an extraordinary one-hour phone call
Saturday that legal scholars described as a flagrant abuse of power and a potential criminal
act.

The Washington Post obtained a recording of the conversation in which Trump alternately
berated Raffensperger, tried to flatter him, begged him to act and threatened him ½'ith vague
criminal consequences if the secretary of state refused to pursue his false claims, at one point
warning that Raffensperger was taking "a big risk."



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Throughout the call, Raffensperger and his office's general counsel rejected Trump's
assertions, explaining that the president is relying on debunked conspiracy theories and that
President-elect Joe Biden's 11,779-vote victory in Georgia was fair and accurate.

Trump dismissed their arguments.

"The people of Georgia are angry, the people of the country are angry," he said. "And there's
nothing wrong with saying, you know, that you've recalculated."

Raffensperger responded: "Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is, the data you
have is wrong."

At another point, Trump said: "So look. All I want to do is this. I just want to find 11,780
votes, which is one more than we have. Because we won the state."

He later added: "So what are we going to do here, folks? I only need 11,000 votes. Fellas, I
need 11,000 votes. Give me a break."

The rambling and at times incoherent conversation offered a remarkable glimpse of how
consumed and desperate the president remains about his loss, unwilling or unable to let the
matter go and still asserting he can reverse the results in enough battleground states to
remain in office.

"There's no way I lost Georgia," Trump said, a phrase he repeated again and again on the call.
"There's no way. We won by hundreds of thousands of votes."

Several of his allies were on the line as he spoke, including W'hite House Chief of Staff Mark
Meadows and conservative lavvyer Cleta Mitchell, a prominent GOP attorney whose
involvement with Trump's efforts had not been previously known.

In a statement, Mitchell said Raffensperger's office "has made many statements over the past
two months that are simply not correct and everyone involved with the efforts on behalf of
the President's election challenge has said the same thing: show us your records on which
you rely to make these statements that our numbers are wrong."

The White House, the Trump campaign and Meadows did not respond to a request for
comment.

Raffensperger's office declined to comment.

On Sunday, Trump tweeted that he had spoken to Raffensperger, saying the secretary of state
was "unwilling, or unable, to answer questions such as the 'ballots under table' scam, ballot
destruction, out of state 'voters', dead voters, and more. He has no clue!"

Raffensperger responded ½ith his own tweet: "Respectfully, President Trump: What you're
saying is not true."

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The details of the call drew demands from top Democrats for criminal investigations.
Campaigning in Georgia, Vice President-elect Kamala D. Harris called Trump's conversation
a "baldfaced, bold abuse of power by the president of the United States." Biden's top
campaign lawyer, Bob Bauer, said the recording "captures the whole, disgraceful story about
Donald Trump's assault on American democracy."

Republicans, however, were largely silent. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.), when asked about the call
while campaigning in Georgia on Sunday for the two GOP senators who face a runoff
Tuesday, dodged the question completely.

Trump's pressure campaign on Raffensperger is the latest example of his attempt to subvert
the outcome of the Nov. 3 election through personal outreach to state Republican officials.
He previously invited Michigan Republican state leaders to the vVhite House, pressured
Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) in a call to try to replace that state's electors and asked the
speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives to help reverse his loss in that state.

His call to Raffensperger came as scores of Republicans have pkdged to challenge the
electoral college's vote for Biden when Congress convenes for a joint session on Wednesday.
Republicans do not have the votes to successfully thwart Biden's victory, but Trump has
urged supporters to travel to Washington to protest the outcome, and state and federal
officials are already bracing for clashes outside the Capitol.

During their conversation, Trump issued a vague threat to both Raffensperger and Ryan
Germany, the secretary of state's general counsel, suggesting that if they don't find that
thousands of ballots in Fulton County have been illegally destroyed to block investigators
an allegation for which there is no evidence - they would be subject to criminal liability.

"That's a criminal offense," he said. "And you can't let that happen. That's a big risk to you
and to Ryan, your lawyer."

Trump also told Raffensperger that failure to act by Tuesday would jeopardize the political
fortunes of David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, Georgia's two Republican senators whose fate in
that day's runoff elections will determine control of the U.S. Senate.

Trump said he plans to talk about the alleged fraud Monday, when he is scheduled to lead an
election eve rally in Dalton, Ga. a message that could further muddle the efforts of
Republicans to draw their voters out.

"You have a big election coming up, and because of what you've done to the president you
know, the people of Georgia know that this was a scam," Trump said. "Because of what you've
done to the president, a lot of people aren't going out to vote, and a lot of Republicans are
going to vote negative because they hate what you did to the president. Okay? They hate it.
And they're going to vote. And you would be respected, really respected, if this can be
straightened out before the election."


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Trump's conversation ·with Raffensperger echoed his effort to persuade the Ukrainian
president to investigate Eiden on a call that led to his impeachment, and once again put him
in legally questionable territory, legal scholars said. By exhorting the secretary of state to
"find" votes and to deploy investigators who "want to find answers," the president appeared
to be encouraging him to doctor the election outcome in Georgia, which could violate both
state and federal law.

Additionally, Trump's apparent threat of criminal consequences if Raffensperger failed to act
could be seen as an attempt at extortion and a suggestion that he might deploy the Justice
Department to launch an investigation, they said.

"The president is either knowingly attempting to coerce state officials into corrupting the
integrity of the election or is so deluded that he believes what he's saying," said Richard H.
Pildes, a constitutional law professor at New York University, who noted that Trump's
actions may have violated several federal statutes.

But Pildes said Trump's clearer transgression is a moral one, and he emphasized that
focusing on whether he committed a crime could deflect attention from the "simple, stark,
horrific fact that we have a president trying to use the powers of his office to pressure state
officials into committing election fraud to keep him in office."

Prosecutors would likely exercise discretion in considering a case against an outgoing
president, experts said. Edward B. Foley, a law professor at Ohio State University, said the
legal questions are murky, and it could be difficult to prove that Trump knew he was
encouraging illegal behavior. But Foley also emphasized that the call was "inappropriate and
contemptible" and should prompt outrage.

"He was already tripping the emergency meter," Foley said. "So we were at 12 on a scale of 1
to 10, and now we're at 15."

Throughout the call, Trump detailed an exhaustive list of disinformation and conspiracy
theories to support his position. He claimed without evidence that he had won Georgia by at
least a half-million votes. He floated a barrage of assertions that have been investigated and
disP-roved: that thousands of dead people voted; that an Atlanta election worker scanned
18,000 forged ballots three times each and "100 percent" were for Eiden; that thousands
more voters living out of state came back to Georgia illegally just to vote in the election.

"So tell me, Brad, what are we going to do? We won the election, and it's not fair to take it
away from us like this," Trump said. "And it's going to be very costly in many ways. And I
think you have to say that you're going to reexamine it, and you can reexamine it, but
reexamine it with people that want to find answers, not people who don't want to find
answers."




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Trump did most of the talking. He was angry and impatient, calling Raffensperger a "child,"
and said law enforcement officials were "either dishonest or incompetent" for not finding
,videspread ballot fraud in Atlanta. He twice called himself a "schmuck" for endorsing Kemp,
whom Trump holds in particular contempt for not embracing his claims.

"I can't imagine he's ever getting elected again, I'll tell you that much right now," he said of
the governor.

He also took aim at Kemp's 2018 opponent, Democrat Stacey Abrams, trying to shame
Raffensperger with the idea that his refusal to embrace fraud has helped her and Democrats
generally. "Stacey Abrams is laughing about you," he said. "She's going around saying, 'These
guys are dumber than a rock.' What she's done to this party is unbelievable, I tell you."

The secretary of state repeatedly sought to correct Trump, saying at one point, "Mr.
President, the problem you have with social media, they people can say anything."

"Oh this isn't social media," Trump retorted. "This is Trump media. It's not social media. It's
really not. It's not social media. I don't care about social media. I couldn't care less."

At another point, Trump claimed that votes were scanned three times: "Brad, why did they
put the votes in three times? You know, they put 'em in three times."

Raffensperger responded: "Mr. President, they did not. We did an audit of that, and we
proved conclusively that they were not scanned three times."

Trump sounded at turns confused and meandering. At one point, he referred to Kemp as
"George.'' He tossed out several different figures for Biden's margin of victory in Georgia and
referred to the Senate runoff, which is Tuesday, as happening "tomorrow" and "Monday."

His desperation was perhaps most pronounced during an exchange with Germany,
Raffensperger's general counsel, in which he openly begged for validation.

Trump: "Do you think it's possible that they shredded ballots in Fulton County? Because
that's what the rumor is. And also that Dominion took out machines. That Dominion is really
moving fast to get rid of their, uh, machinery. Do you know anything about that? Because
that's illegal, right?"

Germany responded: "No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County."

Trump: "But have they moved the inner parts of the machines and replaced them with other
parts?"

Gennany: "No."

Trump: "Are you sure, Ryan?"



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Germany: "I'm sure. I'm sure, Mr. President."

It was clear from the call that Trump has surrounded himself with aides who have fed his
false perceptions that the election was stolen. When he claimed that more than 5,000 ballots
were cast in Georgia in the name of dead people, Raffensperger responded forcefully: "The
actual number was two. Two. Two people that were dead that voted."

But later, Meadows said, "I can promise you there are more than that."

Another Trump lawyer on the call, Kurt Hilbert, accused Raffensperger's office of refusing to
turn over data to assess evidence of fraud, and he claimed awareness of at least 24,000
illegally cast ballots that would flip the result to Trump.

"It stands to reason that if the information is not forthcoming, there's something to hide,"
Hilbert said. "That's the problem that we have."

Reached by phone Sunday, Hilbert declined to comment.

For her part, Mitchell contradicted Trump on several occasions on the call, saying, "Well, I
don't know about that," when the president alleged that a Fulton County election worker had
triple-counted 18,000 ballots for Biden. She claimed that the extent of the fraud is unclear
because Raffensperger's office has not shared all the data Trump's lawyers have sought.

"We never had the records that you have," she said. Germany noted that the office is barred
under law from sharing certain voter information.

In the end, Trump asked Germany to sit down with one of his attorneys to go over the
allegations. Germany agreed.

Yet Trump also recognized that he was failing to persuade Raffensperger or Germany of
anything, saying toward the end, "I know this phone call is going nowhere."

"v\lhy don't you want to find this, Ryan?" he asked of Germany. "v\lhat's wrong ,vith you? I
heard your lawyer is very difficult, actually, but I'm sure you're a good lawyer. You have a
nice last name."

But he continued to make his case in repetitive fashion, until finally, after roughly an hour,
Raffensperger put an end to the conversation: "Thank you, President Trump, for your time."

Alice Crites contributed to this report.




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Republican senator: White House aides say Trump was
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Sen. Ben Sasse became the first Republican senator to say that he would "consider" voting to
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How did President Donald Trump react to the chaotic scene in which his supporters stormed
the Canitol as Congress was preparing to formally approve President-elect Joe Biden·s win
a scene that eventually left five people dead?

One Republican senator who says he"s been in touch with senior White House aides about the
matter claims the president was "delighted."

"I don't have any idea what was in his heart about what he wanted to happen once they were
in the Capitol, but he wanted there to be chaos," Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said, during an
interview with conservative radio host Hugh Hewitt Friday morning.

"And I'm sure you've also had conversations vvith other senior White House officials, as I
have," Sasse continued. "As this was unfolding on television, Donald Trump was walking
around the vVhite House confused about why other people on his team weren't as excited as
he was as you had rioters pushing against Capitol Police trying to get into the building."



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Sasse added: "He was delighted."

This account generally coincides with illhIT ~PQI!ing, sourced to anonymous White House
aides, about how Trump responded to his supporters' actions, and why he took so long to tell
them to "go home." (Though an adviser who spoke to New York magazine's Olivia Nuzzi said
that Trump disliked the optics of the mob, viewing them as "low class.")

In a separate interview on CBS Friday, Sasse became the first Republican senator to say that
he would "consider" voting to remove President Trump from office if House Democrats
impeached him - though he didn't fully commit to doing so. (House Democrats seem
increasing)Y. likelY. to impeach Trump for a second time and may do so next week.)


     Impeachment, it's not just Democrats.

     Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) says if the House pursues impeachment he will
     "definitely consider whatever articles they might move because I believe the
     president has disregarded his oath of office ... What he did was wicked."
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When Hewitt asked about impeachment, Sasse said there was a very important issue he
wanted to get to the bottom of: why the National Guard wasn't de12loY.ed more QuiCklY. to help
restore order.

"That's what I've been working on last night and this morning. I want to understand more
about why the National Guard wasn't deployed when there had been clear calls for it, and
then why that delay happened. So there are more things that I need to understand before I
get to a conclusory judgment about that," Sasse said. "But I think that the question of, 'Was
the president derelict in his duty,' that's not an open question. He was."

Sasse, who criticized Trump frequently during the 2016 campaign, stayed mostly quiet about
the criticisms he had for most of Trump's presidency. But in recent months he's scathingly
rebutted Trump's efforts to overturn the results of the election, calling them a "loaded gun"
pointed "at the heart oflegitimate self-government." Those words proved prophetic as Trump
supporters egged on by the president's lies and conspiracy theories forced their way into the
Capitol Wednesday.

You can read a transcri12t of Sasse's full interview with Hewitt at this link.


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Facebook will block Trump from posting at least for the
remainder of his term

                                                                                  January 7, 2021




Key Points

   • Facebook and Instagram are blocking President Donald Trump's accotmts "indefinitely
     and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is complete,"
     CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced Thursday.
   • Shopify also closed e-commerce stores on its site that were affiliated with Trump.
   • Facebook, Twitter and YouTube began taking steps on Wednesday to limit Trump's
     posts on their platforms after he continued to make false claims about the results of the
     2020 U.S. presidential election.




Facebook and Instagram ban Trump indefinitely after supporters storm U.S. Capitol

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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Thursday said the company would block President
Donald Trump from posting to his Facebook and Instagram accounts for an indefinite
amount of time and at least until President-elect Joe Eiden assumes the Oval Office.

"We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this
period are simply too great," Zuckerberg wrote in a post on his Facebook page. "Therefore,
we are extending the block we have placed on his Facebook and Instagram accounts
indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the peaceful transition of power is
complete."

The suspension represents Facebook's most aggressive action yet against Trump during his
four-year term. Calls had been mounting for Twitter and other social media platforms to shut
down the president's account or take other extreme action.

Facebook, Twitter, Snap and Google's YouTube began taking steps on Wednesday to limit
Trump's posts on their platforms after he continued to make false claims about the results of
the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Facebook on Wednesday had said it would lock Trump's account for 24 hours, preventing
him from posting on the service. Facebook-owned Instagram also locked the president's
account on the service.

SEE ALSO: Trump_g~pass from Twitter and Facebook, and the result was a storming
of the Capitol

Twitter locked Trump's account on Wednesday evening for 12 hours and warned that it could
suspend him permanently if he continued to breach the company's civic integrity policy. A
spokesperson for Twitter told CNBC on Thursday that Trump has now removed the offending
tweets, "and the 12-hour clock is on." The lock could be removed around 3 p.m. ET.

Twitter declined to comment on whether it would also move to block Trump from posting to
his account.

E-commerce platform Shi2rillY. on Thursday also closed websites associated with Trump that
it said violated internal policies. The Trump Organization's official retail site,
Trumpstore.com, was among the sites taken offline.

Shopify told CNBC in a statement: "Shopify does not tolerate actions that incite violence.
Based on recent events, we have determined that the actions by President Donald J. Trump
violate our Acceptable Use Policy, which prohibits promotion or support of organizations,
platforms or people that threaten or condone violence to further a cause. As a result, we have
terminated stores affiliated vvith President Trump."

The White House and the Trump Organization didn't immediately respond to a request for
comment.


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Here's the full post from Zuckerberg, which was published to his personal Facebook account:

The shocking events of the last 24 hours clearly demonstrate that President Donald Trump
intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the peaceful and lawful transition
of power to his elected successor, Joe Eiden.

His decision to use his platform to condone rather than condemn the actions of his
supporters at the Capitol building has rightly disturbed people in the US and around the
world. We removed these statements yesterday because we judged that their effect -- and
likely their intent -- would be to provoke further violence.

Following the certification of the election results by Congress, the priority for the whole
country must now be to ensure that the remaining 13 days and the days after inauguration
pass peacefully and in accordance with established democratic norms.

Over the last several years, we have allowed President Trump to use our platform
consistent with our own rules, at times removing content or labeling his posts when they
violate our policies. We did this because we believe that the public has a right to the
broadest possible access to political speech, even controversial speech. But the current
context is now fundamentally dif.lerent, involving use of our platform to incite violent
insurrection against a democratically elected government.

We believe the risks of allowing the President to continue to use our service during this
period are simply too great. Therefore, we are extending the block we have placed on his
Facebook and Instagram accounts indefinitely and for at least the next two weeks until the
peaceful transition of power is complete.

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FBI warns of plans for nationwide armed protests next week
An internal FBT bulletin warned that, as of Sunday, the nationwide protests may start later this week and extend
through Biden's ,Jan. 20 inauguration.




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The FBI is warning of plans for armed protests at all 50 state capitals and in
Washington in the days leading up to President-election Joe Biden's
inauguration, stoking fears of more bloodshed after last week's deadly siege at
the U.S. Capitol.

An internal FBI bulletin warned that, as of Sunday, the nationwide protests
may start later this week and extend through Biden's Jan. 20 inauguration,
according to two law enforcement officials who read details of the memo to The
Associated Press. Investigators believe some of the people are members of
some extremist groups, the officials said. The bulletin was first reported by
ABC.

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"Armed protests are being planned at all 50 state capitols from 16 January
through at least 20 January, and at the U.S. Capitol from 17 January through
20 January," the bulletin said, according to one official. The officials were not

authorized to speak publicly and spoke to the AP on condition of anonymity.



The FBI issued at least one other bulletin - they go out to law enforcement
nationvvide on the topic - before the riots last week. On Dec. 29, it warned of
the potential for armed demonstrators targeting legislatures, the second official
said.

Army Gen. Daniel Hokanson, chief of the National Guard Bureau, told
reporters on Monday that the Guard is also looking at any issues across the
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    monitoring, and that our Guards in every state are in close coordination with
    their local law enforcement agencies to provide any support requested."

    The riots followed weeks of online calls for violence in Washington in the
    waning days of Donald Trump's presidency.

    A tweet in which Trump promised that last Wednesday's event "will be wild"
    fueled a "month-long frenzy of incitements, strategizing, and embrace of
    violence against lawmakers," according to a research group that tracks online
    extremism activity, In a report issued Saturday, the SITE Intelligence Group
    also warns that the Capitol attack has emboldened Trump-supporting
    extremists.

    "No matter how all this plays out, its only the beginning," posted a user on
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White House Forced Georgia U.S. Attorney to Resign

Biography                                                                           January 10, 2021




                   U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak spoke in Atlanta in 2019.

                  Photo: Bob Andres/Atlanta Jonrnal-Constitution/Associated Press

White House officials pushed Atlanta's top federal prosecutor to resign before Georgia's U.S.
Senate runoffs because President Trump was upset he wasn't doing enough to investigate the
president's unproven claims of election fraud, people familiar with the matter said.

A senior Justice Department official, at the behest of the White House, called the Trump-
appointed U.S. Attorney Byung J. Pak late on the night of Jan. 3. In that call the official said
Mr. Trump was furious there was no investigation related to election fraud and that the
president wanted to fire Mr. Pak, the people said.

Mr. Pak resigned abruptly on Monday-the day before the runoffs-saying in an early
morning email to colleagues that his departure was due to "unforeseen circumstances."

Mr. Pak, who had a job lined up in the private sector, planned to leave by the end of the
administration and had drafted a resignation letter, people familiar with his plans said.

Mr. Pak on Jan. 3 considered leaving early after the public release of a call from the day
before between Mr. Trump and Georgia's secretary of state Brad Raffensperger in which the
president pushed the official to overturn the November election results, one person said.



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When Mr. Pak communicated that on the Sunday call, the White House indicated he should
leave immediately, the person said.

Mr. Trump then called the prosecutor he wanted to replace Mr. Pak, Savannah's U.S.
Attorney Bobby Christine, and told him he was putting him in the job, the person said. In
doing so, Mr. Trump bypassed the traditional process in which the office's No. 2 official
would fill the vacancy, as well as longstanding protocol that discourages a president from
directly contacting Justice Department officials.

It put Mr. Christine in the unusual position of serving as top prosecutor in two districts.
Atlanta falls in the Northern District of Georgia, and there is a separate Middle District in the
state.

Mr. Christine declined to comment.

The pressure on Mr. Pak was part of Mr. Trump's weekslong push to try to alter presidential
election results favoring President-elect Joe Biden, which included his win in Georgia. Mr.
Trump this week, following the U.S. CapitQLriQ_t, said he would leave office on Jan. 20 when
Mr. Biden is inaugurated.

Senior Justice Department officials including recently departed Attorney General William
Barr have said the Justice Department hadn't found evidence of widespread voter fraud that
could reverse Mr. Biden's victory, including claims of fraud, ballot destruction and voting-
machine manipulation.

The officials have resisted overtures from Mr. Trump and his allies since November to pursue
unsubstantiated allegations of election fraud, and no Justice Department officials supported
Mr. Pak's dismissal, the people said.

Dozens of state and federal court decisions also have rejected efforts by Mr. Trump and his
supporters to challenge election results. And Congress formallY- certified Mr. Biden's
Electoral College victory on Thursday, after a violent pro-Trun1p mob stormed the Capitol
and forced a delay in the process.

The ½'bite House and the Justice Department didn't respond to requests for comment.

Mr. Pak's resignation came one day after the public release of the audio of the Jan. 2 call to
Georgia's secretary of state. Mr. Trump told Mr. Raffensperger in the roughlY- hourlong call
that the Georgia Republican could face legal action and said he should find nearly 12,000
votes of 5 million cast to reverse Mr. Biden's victory in the state.

Mr. Raffensperger rejected pressure to further investigate an election, telling the president,
"The challenge that you have is that the data you have is wrong."

The president also complained on the call that Mr. Pak was a "Never Trumper."


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Georgia conducted recounts that didn't change the outcome. Mr. Raffensperger and other
Georgia officials investigated various allegations and found no evidence of ,vi despread fraud.

Mr. Christine, who was appointed by Mr. Trump to the Savannah post in 2017, assumed his
additional role by a written order of the president on Jan. 4, the same day as Mr. Pak's
resignation. Mr. Christine brought with him two lawyers from his Savannah office who were
already monitoring for possible election irregularities, people familiar with the matter said.

Spokespeople for Mr. Christine and the U.S. attorney's office in Atlanta declined to comment.

Mr. Trump's call to Mr. Raffensperger came as the president and his supporters since
November had pushed to overturn the election results in Georgia, including through public
attacks on the state's Republican governor and other officials by Mr. Trump, his lawyer Rudy
Giuliani and others.

Mr. Trump personally called a staffer in the Georgia secretary of state's office, demanding
that it produce proof of election fraud, an official at that office said on Saturday. The
president made that call in December before separate outreach to Mr. Raffensperger.

The Georgia secretary of state's office official on Saturday said the White House called
officials and staff at the office for weeks demanding proof of election fraud-even before the
Jan. 2 call to Mr. Raffensperger.

"They were desperately trying to find evidence for lawsuits that were about to be thrown out
of court," the official said. "They kept telling us that, 'You need to give us the evidence,' and
the truth is there isn't any evidence to give."

The Georgia official said staffers were worried when they heard Mr. Pak had resigned, fearing
the White House would put in people to investigate those who remained. "Retaliation was
very much a concern," the official said.

The Washington Post earlier Saturday reported the phone call between Mr. Trump and the
secretary of state staffer.


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Federal Bureau of Investigation agents in Atlanta also found the allegations of election fraud
in the state lacking and didn't see a need to pursue them, people familiar with the matter
said. The FBI's Atlanta office declined to comment.


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On the call with Mr. Raffensperger, Ryan Germany, the secretary of state's general counsel,
told the president: "vVhat we are seeing is not at all what you are describing."

At one point on the weekend call with Mr. Raffensperger, in which Mr. Trump repeatedly
complained about supposed irregularities in Fulton County, which includes most of Atlanta,
Mr. Trump apparently referred to Mr. Pak, saying: "I mean, you have your Never Trumper
U.S. attorney there."

Colleagues and associates of Mr. Pak said they had viewed Mr. Pak as a proud and early
supporter of Mr. Trump, who nominated him to his post in July 2017. Mr. Pak thanked the
president by name at his swearing-in ceremony after the Senate confirmed him to the post
two months later, and again in the brief statement he released on his resignation. "I am
grateful to President Trump and the United States Senate for the opportunity to serve, and to
Attorneys General [Jeff] Sessions and [William] Barr for their leadership of the department,"
Mr. Pak said.

-Rebecca Ballhaus contributed to this article.

Write to l\runa Viswanatha at Aruna.Viswanatha@wsj.com, Sadie Gurman at
sadie.gurman@wsj.com and Cameron McWhirter at cameron.mcwhirter@wsj.com

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    Democracy l)ies in Darkness



Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump's failure to act
after a mob stormed the Capitol
By Ashley Parker, Josh Dawsey           Philip Rucker

Jan. 11, 2021 at 11:21 p.m. EST

Hiding from the rioters in a secret location away from the Capitol, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.)
appealed to Jared Kushner, President Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser. Sen. Lindsey 0. Graham (R-S.C.) phoned
Ivanka Trump, the president's daughter.

And Kellyanne Conway, a longtime Trump confidante and former White House senior adviser, called an aide who she
knew was standing at the president's side.

But as senators and House members trapped inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday begged for immediate help during
the siege, they struggled to get through to the president, who - safely ensconced in the West Wing         was too busy
watching fiery TV images of the crisis unfolding around them to act or even bother to hear their pleas.

"He was hard to reach, and you know why? Because it was live TV," said one close Trump adviser. "If it's TiVo, he just
hits pause and takes the calls. If it's live TV, he watches it, and he was just watching it all unfold."

Even as he did so, Trump did not move to act. And the message from those around him - that he needed to call off the
angry mob he had egged on just hours earlier, or lives could be lost - was one to which he was not initially receptive.

"It took him awhile to appreciate the gravity of the situation," Graham said in an interview. "The president saw these
people as allies in his journey and sympathetic to the idea that the election was stolen."

Trump ultimately- and begrudgingly          urged his supporters to "go home in peace." But the six hours between when
the Capitol was breached shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon and when it was finally declared secure around
8 p.m. that evening reveal a president paralyzed      more passive viewer than resolute leader, repeatedly failing to
perform even the basic duties of his job.

The man who vowed to be a president oflaw and order failed to enforce the law or restore order. The man who has
always seen himself as the protector of uniformed police sat idly by as Capitol Police officers were outnumbered,
outmaneuvered, trampled on - and in one case, killed. And the man who had long craved the power of the presidency
abdicated many of the responsibilities of the commander in chief.

The episode in which Trump supporters rose up against their o,,vn government, leaving five people dead, will be central
to any impeachment proceedings, critical to federal prosecutors considering incitement charges against him or his
family, and a dark cornerstone of his presidential legacy.

This portrait of the president as the Capitol was under attack on Jan. 6 is the result of interviews with 15 Trump
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ad,~sers, members of Congress, GOP officials and other Trump confidants, many of whom spoke on the condition of
anonymity to share candid details.




'Fight for Trump'

The day began ominonsly, with a "Save America March" on the Ellipse devoted to perpetuating Trump's baseless
claims that somehow the 2020 election was stolen from him.

Before the president's remarks around noon, several of his family members addressed the crowd with speeches that all
shared a central theme: Fight. Eric Trump, one of the president's sons, told the crowd that lawmakers needed to "show
some fight" and "stand up," before urging the angry mass to "march on the Capitol today." Donald Trump Jr., another
of the president's sons, exhorted all "red-blooded, patriotic Americans" to "fight for Trump."

Backstage, as the president prepared to speak, Laura Branigan's hit "Gloria" was blared to rev up the crowd, and
Trump Jr., in a video he recorded for social media, called the rallygoers "awesome patriots that are sick of the bull----."
His girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, danced to the song and, clenching her right fist, urged people to "fight."

The president, too, ended his speech with an exhortation, urging the crowd to give Republicans "the kind of pride and
boldness that they need to take back our country."

"So let's walk down Pennsylvania Avenue," he concluded.

Trump, however, did not join the angry crowd surging toward the Capitol. Instead, he returned to the White House,
where at 2:24 p.m. he tapped out a furious tweet railing against Vice President Pence, who in a letter earlier in the day
had made clear that he planned to fulfill his constitutional duties and certify President-elect Joe Bi den and Vice
President-elect Kamala D. Harris as the winners of the 2020 electoral college vote.

"Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,
giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to
previously certify," he wrote. "USA demands the truth!"

By then, West Wing staffers monitoring initial videos of the protesters on 1V and social media were already worried
that the situation was escalating and felt that Trump's tweet attacking Pence was unhelpful.

Press officials had begun discussing a statement from Trump around 2 p.m., when protesters first breached the
Capitol, an official familiar with the discussions said. But they were not authorized to speak on behalf of the president
and could only take the matter to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, this person said, adding that "the most infuriating
part" of the day was how long it took before Trump finally spoke out.

Around the same time, Trump Jr. headed to the airport for a shuttle flight home to New York. As he waited in an
airport lounge to board the plane, the president's namesake son saw that the rallygoers they had all urged to fight were
doing just that, breaching police barricades and laying siege to the Capitol.

An aide called Trump Jr. and suggested he immediately issue a statement urging the rioters to stop. At 2:17 p.m.,
Trump Jr. hit send on a tweet as he boarded the plane: "This is ,nong and not who we are," he wrote. "Be peaceful and
use your 1st Amendment rights, but don't start acting like the other side. We have a country to save and this doesn't
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But the president himself was busy enjoying the spectacle. Trump watched with interest, buoyed to see that his
supporters were fighting so hard on his behalf, one close adviser said.




But if the president didn't appear to understand the magnitude of the crisis, those in his orbit did. Conway
immediately called a close personal aide who she knew was with the president, and said she was adding her name to
the chorus of people urging Trump to speak to his supporters. He needed to tell them to stand down and leave the
Capitol, she told the aide.

Conway also told the aide that she had received calls from the D.C. mayor's office asking for help in getting Trump to
call up the National Guard.

Ivanka Trump had gone to the Oval Office as soon as the riot became clear, and Graham reached her on her cellphone
and implored her for help. "They were all tr,~ng to get him to speak out, to tell everyone to leave," said Graham,
referring to the small group of aides with Trump on Wednesday afternoon.

Several Republican members of Congress also called White House aides, begging them to get Trump's attention and
have him call for the violence to end. The lawmakers reiterated that they had been loyal Trump supporters and were
even willing to vote against the electoral college results - but were now scared for their lives, officials said.

When the mob first breached the Capitol, coming within mere seconds of entering the Senate chamber, Pence - who
was overseeing the electoral certification    was hustled away to a secure location, where he remained for the duration
of the siege, despite multiple suggestions from his Secret Service detail that he leave the Capitol, said an official
familiar with Pence's actions that day.

Instead, the vice president fielded calls from congressional leaders furious that the National Guard had not yet been
deployed, this official said. Pence, from his secret location in the Capitol, spoke with legislative and military leaders,
working to mobilize the soldiers and offering reassurance.

Even as his supporters at the Capitol chanted for Pence to be hanged, Trump never called the vice president to check
on him or his family. Marc Short, Pence's chief of staff, eventually called the White House to let them know that Pence
and his team were okay, after receiving no outreach from the president or anyone else in the White House.

Meanwhile, in the West Wing, a small group of aides        including Ivanka Trump, White House press secretary Kayleigh
McEnany and Meadows - was imploring Trump to speak out against the violence. Meadows's staff had prompted him
to go see the president, with one aide telling the chief of staff before he entered the Oval Office, "They are going to kill
people."

Shortly after 2:30 p.m., the group finally persuaded Trump to send a tweet: "Please support our Capitol Police and Law
Enforcement," he wrote. 'They are truly on the side of our Country. Stay peaceful!"

But the Twitter missive was insufficient, and the president had not wanted to include the final instruction to "stay
peaceful," according to one person familiar with the discussions.

Less than an hour later, aides persuaded Trump to send a second, slightly more forceful tweet: "I am asking for
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  respect the Law and our great men and women in Blue. Thank you!"




'You're very special'

McCarthy did eventually reach Trump, but later told allies that he found the president distracted. So McCarthy
repeatedly appeared on tele,~sion to describe the mayhem, an ad~ser said, in an effort to explain just how dire the
situation was.

McCarthy also called Kushner, who that afternoon was arriving back from a trip to the Middle East. The Secret Sef\ice
originally warned Kushner that it was unsafe to venture downtown to the White House. McCarthy pleaded with him to
persuade Trump to issue a statement for his supporters to leave the Capitol, sa)1ng he'd had no luck during his own
conversation with Trump, the adviser said. So Kushner headed to the White House.

At one point, Trump worried that the unruly group was frightening GOP lawmakers from doing his bidding and
objecting to the election results, an official said.

National security adviser Robert C. O'Brien also began calling members of Congress to ask how he could help. He
called Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) around 4 p.m., a Lee spokesman said. In an unlikely tv.~st, Lee had heard from the
president earlier - when he accidentally dialed the senator in a bid to reach Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) to discuss
overturning the election.

Others were still having trouble getting through to the White House. Speaking on ABC News shortly before 4 p.m.
Wednesday, Chris Christie, a GOP former governor of New Jersey, said he'd spent the last 25 minutes trying to reach
Trump directly to convey a simple, if urgent, message.

"The president caused this protest to occur; he's the only one who can make it stop," Christie said. "The president has
to come out and tell his supporters to leave the Capitol grounds and to allow the Congress to do their business
peacefully. And anything short of that is an abdication of his responsibility."

Around this time, the White Honse was preparing to put out a video address on behalf of the president. They had
begun discussing this option earlier but struggled to organize their effort. Biden, meanwhile, stepped forward with
remarks that seemed to rise to the occasion: "The scenes of chaos at the Capitol do not reflect the true America, do not
represent who we are."

Trump aides did three takes of the video and chose the most palatable option      despite some West Wing consternation
that the president had called the violent protesters "very special."

"This was a fraudulent election, but we can't play into the hands of these people," Trump said in the ~deo, released
shortly after 4 p.m. "We have to have peace. So go home. We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens.
You see the way others are treated that are so bad and so e~I. I know how you feel. But go home, and go home in
peace."

Amid the chaos, D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser (D) had implemented a 6 p.m. curfew for the city, and as darkness fell,
the Secret Sernce told West Wing staff that, save for an essential few, everyone had to leave the White House and go
home.
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At 6:01 p.m., Trump blasted out yet another tweet, which Twitter quickly deleted and which many in his orbit were
particularly furious about, fearing he was further inflaming the still-tense situation.

"These are the things and events that happen when a sacred landslide election ,~ctory is so unceremoniously &
viciously stripped away from great patriots who have been badly & unfairly treated for so long," Trump wrote. "Go
home with love & in peace. Remember this day forever!"


Thirteen minutes later, at 6:14 p.m., a perimeter was finally established around the Capitol. About 8 p.m., more than
six hours after the initial breach, the Capitol was declared secure.

The following evening, on Thursday, Trump released another video, the closest advisers say he is likely to come to a
concession speech.

"Congress has certified the results: A new administration will be inaugurated on January 20th," Trump said in the
video. "My focus now turns to ensuring a smooth, orderly, and seamless transition of power. This moment calls for
healing and reconciliation."

His calls for healing and reconciliation were more than a day too late, many aides said. Yet as Trump watched the
media coverage ofhis video, he grew angry.

The president said he wished he hadn't done it, a senior White House official said, because he feared that the calming
words made him look weak.




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       Exclusive: Dozens of people on FBI terrorist watch list came to D.C. the day of Capitol riot

      Attacked with bear spray and their own batons: D.C. police describe brutal and chaotic
       moments

       Six hours of paralysis: Inside Trump's failure to act after a mob stormed the Capitol

    Trump's second impeachment

       Unprecedented: House hands Trump a second impeachment, this time with GOP support
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Assistant Attorney General Eric Dreiband Announces
Departure from Civil Rights Division

                                                                                      January 7, 2021


Department of Justice

Office of Public Affairs




FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Thursday, January 7, 2021

Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband of the U.S. Department of Justice's Civil Rights
Division announced his departure from the department, effective Jan. 8, 2021. Dreiband has
served as Assistant Attorney General since Nov. 1, 2018.

"It has been the honor of a lifetime to serve as Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights
Division," said Assistant Attorney General Eric S. Dreiband. "The United States of America is
and must remain committed to the principle that all persons are created equal and should be
judged because of their character, conduct, talent, work, and skills. Our Constitution and
civil rights laws embody the ideals that all persons have worth, and are entitled to equal
justice, respect, decency, peace, and safety. It is the duty of government to secure these
rights, and it is the duty of the Civil Rights Division to protect all people in this nation against
any violation of these rights, including hate-motivated violence, exploitation, unlawful
discrimination and bigotry, and any other infringement of our Constitutional and federal civil
rights. The Civil Rights Division fulfills its duty by enforcing the federal civil rights laws and
seeking justice for victims. The Civil Rights Division's enforcement of our civil rights laws
also punishes lawbreakers, vindicates the rights of victims, and sends a message to the nation
and the world that the United States government and its people do not tolerate illegal
bigotry, discrimination, and exploitation of anyone."

Under Assistant Attorney General Dreiband's leadership, the career professionals of the Civil
Rights Division set enforcement records and ensured that no area of civil or constitutional
rights went unprotected. The division vigorously prosecuted hate crimes, including for the

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mass-murders at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; at an El Paso, Texas
Walmart where 23 innocent people were killed, and; Charlottesville, Virginia where a white
supremacist drove a car into a crowd of protesters. Under Assistant Attorney General
Dreiband, the Civil Rights Division filed more sexual harassment in housing lawsuits than
ever; protected and sought and obtained relief for victims of racial discrimination in
employment, housing, voting, lending, and other areas; held law enforcement accountable;
protected U.S. workers; protected free speech, religious exercise, and other rights under the
Constitution during the COVID-19 pandemic, and; filed more cases in 2020 on behalf of
servicemembers than in any prior year.

Assistant Attorney General Dreiband defended civil and constitutional rights newly under
threat or previously overlooked, in addition to aggressively enforcing traditional areas of civil
rights protections. That record of accomplishments by the Civil Rights Division includes:

Record Response to Instances ofLaw Enforcement Misconduct. The Civil Rights
Division prosecutes those law enforcement officers who betray the public trust by violating
constitutional or other federally-protected rights. In 2019, the division prosecuted more of
these criminal cases than ever in its history. These cases typically involved instances of
excessive force by police or corrections officers.

Highest Number ofHate Crimes Cases in Decades. Federal law prohibits hate crimes
involving physical harm and criminal threats motivated by the victims' protected traits, such
as religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, race, or disability. Under Dreiband's
leadership, federal prosecutors fully and fairly enforced these protections. In 2020, the
number of hate crime cases charged by the division was the highest in two decades.

Racial Justice. As to racial discrimination, the division has brought and successfully
resolved cases involving racial discrimination in employment by local governments,
including law enforcement agencies under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964; racial
discrimination in housing, including racial steering, under the Fair Housing Act; racially
discriminatory lending under the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Credit Opportunity Act;
race discrimination in voting under the Voting Rights Act; and to allow high school students
to apply to college without illegal discrimination under the Constitution and the Civil Rights
Act of 1964 based on the color of their skin.

Record Number ofSexual Harassment Cases. In 2020, the Civil Rights Division filed
more sexual harassment lawsuits against landlords than in any prior year. The division also
successfully prosecuted sexual harassment cases against state and local government
employers, including on behalf of female firefighters, and against public schools and
universities.

Protecting Religious Liberty.Under the Civil Rights Division's Place to Worship
Initiative, the division significantly increased the number of lawsuits and investigations
protecting the right of religious worship of Buddhists, Christians, Hindus, Jews, Muslims,


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Native Americans, and others. Combatting anti-Semitism, including in the form of hate
crimes, was also a priority. In the Supreme Court of the United States, the division
contributed to victories for religious liberty including the rights of religious employers, such
as Catholic schools, and the right to attend parochial schools free ofreligious discrimination
in scholarship programs.

Prison Reform. The Civil Rights Division during Dreiband's tenure investigated, litigated,
and successfully resolved cases that involve reforms of state and local prisons and jails.
These include cases involving alleged pattern or practice violations of the Constitution
against a state prison system for men for guard-on-prisoner excessive force, prisoner-on-
prisoner violence, and sexual abuse; state prisons for sexual abuse of female prisoners; state
prisons and local jails for excessive force against prisoners; the failure of juvenile justice
systems to keep youth reasonably safe from youth-on-youth violence, and; other violations of
the Constitution and other federal rights.

Protecting U.S. Workers.The division's Protecting U.S. Workers Initiative, which
combats employers who abuse temporary foreign visa programs (e.g., H-1 or H-2 visas) by
discriminating against U.S. Workers, secured back pay to affected U.S. workers and civil
penalties and recently filed a case against a major social media company for its alleged abuse
of the temporary visa program.

Increased Resources to Fight Human Trafficking. Under Dreiband's leadership, the
division significantly increased the number of prosecutors who are dedicated to prosecuting
the modern-day slavery of human trafficking - both in the commercial sex industry and as to
forced labor. The division and its U.S. Attorney partners brought over 700 human trafficking
cases in recent years.

Disability Rights. During Dreiband's tenure, the division successfully investigated,
litigated, and settled hundreds of disability-rights cases. A few examples illustrate this
important work. The division reached major settlements with West Virginia to reform its
children's mental health system; Amtrak to make its train stations accessible to individuals
with disabilities; North Dakota to end unnecessary segregation of individuals with physical
disabilities, and; Harris County, Texas to provide accessible voting to voters with disabilities.
The division also successfully tried to verdict a lawsuit against the State of Mississippi that
alleged that Mississippi violates the Americans with Disabilities Act by unnecessarily
segregating people with mental illness in its state hospitals and placing people ,vith mental
illness at serious risk of hospitalization as a result of insufficient community-based services.
The Civil Rights Division also defended in court protections against coercive abortions for
women and their unborn children who are diagnosed ¼ith Down's syndrome.

COVID-19 Restrictions.Because there is no pandemic exception to the Constitution and
our civil rights laws, the Civil Rights Division successfully fought unlawful pandemic-related
restrictions that infringe on individual liberties, including First Amendment rights to free
speech and free exercise of religion, in numerous jurisdictions across the nation.

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    -    Enrique Tarrio, center, a leader of the Proud Boys, joins Trump supporters in a march to declare the 2020
    Presidential election results a fraud in Washington on Nov. 14, 2020.
    Andrevv Lichtenstein / Corbis via Getty Images file




    Jan. 5,            5: 15 PM EST /                Associated Press

    By The Associated Press




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    WASHINGTON - Ajudge has banned the leader of the Proud Boys from the nation's capital after
    he was accused of vandalizing a Black Lives Matter banner at a historic black church and found
    with high-capacity firearm magazines when he was arrested.

    The order bans Henry "Enrique" Tarrio, 36, from entering the District of Columbia, with very
    limited exceptions to meet with his attorney or appear in court. It comes a day after he was
    arrested arriving in Washington ahead of protests planned by supporters of President Donald
    Trump to coincide with the congressional vote expected Wednesday to affirm Joe Biden's
    election victory.

    Tarrio was arrested Monday by the Metropolitan Police Department and accused of burning a
    Black Lives Matter banner that was torn down from a historic black church in downtown
    Washington last month. He was charged with destruction of property and is also facing a
    weapons charges after officers found him with the firearm magazines when he was arrested.

    According to the criminal complaint, when police pulled Tarrio over on the warrant for
    vandalizing the Black Lives Matter sign, officers found two unloaded magazines emblazoned with
    the Proud Boys logo in his bag that have a capacity of 30 rounds each for AR-15 or M4-style
    weapons.



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    Tarrio said, according to a police report, that he sells the clips and the ones he was carrying
    were purchased by a customer. "I had a customer that bought those two mags, and they got
    returned 'cause it was a wrong address;• Tarrio said, according to court papers. "And I contacted
    him, and he's like, 'I'm going to be in DC,' so I'm like, 'Okay, I'll take 'em to you.' So that l can
    show you proof .... I can give you, like my invoices and stuff like that from it, and, like, the USPS
    shipping label."
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    He was arrested in a tunnel near the Capitol, ahead of what is expected to be large far-right
    protests gathering in D.C. according to Tarrio's online postings: "The ProudBoys will turn out in
    record numbers on Jan 6th but this time with a twist," saying they'd spread out incognito.

    Tarrio's attorney did not immediately respond to an email seeking comment.




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Trump doesn't ask backers to disperse after storming
Capitol

Associated Press                                                                  January 6, 2021




WASHINGTON (AP) - President Donald Trump encouraged supporters who stormed the
Capitol on Wednesday in protest of his reelection defeat to "remain peaceful," but he did not
call for them to disperse.

The seat of democracy descended into chaos when protestors ove1whelmed police and bulled
their way into the Capitol, forcing a delay of the joint session of Congress where lawmakers
were counting electoral votes that v.,ill affirm Democrat Joe Biden's vVhite House victory two
weeks before Inauguration Day.

Trump offered only a muted response to the violence as loyalists brandishing his
paraphernalia clashed with police, occupied the Capitol and even stormed the Senate
chamber.

Under grov.ring pressure from allies to condemn the violence, Trump tweeted, "No violence!"
adding: "Remember, \VE are the Party of Law & Order - respect the Law and our great men
and women in Blue."

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TI1e commander in chief did not ask supporters to vacate the area as the unrest continued.

At a rally earlier, Trump had encouraged supporters to march on the Capitol and suggested at
one point that he would join them on Capitol Hill. In his remarks, he used incendiary
language with violent undertones.

Trump had urged his supporters to "get rid of the weak Congress people" - presumably
through primary challenges. He said "get the weak ones get out. This is the time for
strength."

Republican lawmakers pleaded with Trump to do more to stop the violence. House GOP
leader Kevin McCarthy of California said he told the president to "calm individuals down."

"I've already talked to the president," MCarthy told Fox News. "I called him. I think we need
to make a statement, make sure that we can calm individuals down."

A Senate ally, Republican Marco Rubio of Florida, appealed directly to the White House:
"Mr. President @realDonaldTrump the men & women of law enforcement are under assault.
It is crucial you help restore order by sending resources to assist the police and ask those
doing this to stand dovm."


    Mr. President@rea!DonaldTrumn the men & women of law
    enforcement are under assault. It is crucial you help restore order by
    sending resources to assist the police and ask those doing this to stand
    down.

        Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) January-2, 2021


Rep. Mike Gallagher, R-Wis., posted a video message urging Trump to "call it off."

"This is Banana Republic crap that we're watching right now," said Gallagher, who had
spoken out against objections from fellow Republicans to certifying the Electoral College vote
that Biden won.


    We are witnessing absolute banana republic crap in the United States
    Capitol right now. @realdonaldtrumJl, you need to call this off
    pictwittercom/0QGx2PlXFY

    -   Rep. Mike Gallagher (@RepGallagher) January-2, 2021


Vice President Mike Pence, who was ushered out of the Senate chamber to a secure location
as protesters breached the building, tweeted for protesters to disperse.



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