Transcripts- House Select Committee -

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12-27-2022

House Select Committee Transcripts-

Brad Raffensperger told Jan. 6 Committee Trump's
phone call to 'find' votes was a 'threat'.

Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger told the Jan. 6 Committee that he viewed a telephone call from then-President Donald Trump as a "threat."

On Tuesday, the House Select Committee on Jan. 6 released a transcript of Raffensperger's interview about the infamous phone call following the 2020 presidential election.

"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,"
Trump said, according to previously-released audio of the call.

Raffensperger said he viewed the president's remarks as a
"hollow threat."

According to the transcript, Raffensperger said Trump made a "veiled" suggestion that the secretary of state had broken the law.

"And did you take it as a veiled threat, coming from the head of the executive branch, who oversees the Department of Justice?" the interviewer asked.

"I understood the positional power that the President of the
United States of America has, and I heard what he was saying," Raffensperger explained.

"And he was alleging, really, accusing us of doing something illegal, something criminal, but I knew we followed the law.
It was a hollow threat, but it was, I feel, a threat."

The Georgia official speculated Trump could have
"people knock on your door and make your life miserable"
with investigations and Justice Department actions.

"And I'm sorry he's disappointed, but he lost the election in Georgia," he added.

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12-27-2022

Cassidy Hutchinson saw Mark Meadows burning documents
in his fireplace 'once or twice a week'

On CNN Tuesday, reporter Jessica Schneider reported that former White House staffer and blockbuster House January 6 Committee witness Cassidy Hutchinson alleged she saw former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows routinely burning documents in a fireplace.

This comes from a new series of transcripts dropped by House investigators as the committee wraps up its work.

"We have all the transcripts from Cassidy Hutchinson," said Schneider. "We're learning more details, particularly how she told the committee how she saw Chief of Staff Mark Meadows burning documents in his office fireplace around a dozen times, which she says amounted to once or twice a week between December 2020 and January 2021.
She says at least twice she saw Meadows burning documents after he had meetings with Republican Congressman Scott Perry, who, in fact, was subpoenaed by the committee but never complied."

Furthermore, Schneider said, her testimony also reveals how "discussions about QAnon conspiracies really permeated the
White House."

"She said in particular, Mark Meadows brought up the conspiracy theories," said Schneider.
"Cassidy Hutchinson said she had this exchange with White House trade adviser Peter Navarro.
She said, at one point,
'I had sarcastically said, is this from your QAnon friends, Peter?
He said, have you looked into it yet, Cass? I think they point out a lot of good ideas. Make sure that you read this.'
When she was asked by Liz Cheney if Navarro was being sarcastic, Hutchinson said, 'I did not take it as sarcasm.'"

"Of course, Peter Navarro has been indicted for refusing to comply with a subpoena from the committee," said Schneider.
"Those are just some of the details we're getting from this voluminous testimony from Cassidy Hutchinson."

Some legal experts suspect that the Justice Department
might have flipped Meadows.

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January 6th 'fake elector scheme' offers a clear 'path to prosecuting Trump.

No one can accuse the January 6 Select Committee’s final report of not being comprehensive; the report, which National Public Radio (NPR) has published in its entirety on its website, is 845 pages long. One of the many things the Committee covers in the report is the fake electors plot of late 2020, which found MAGA Republicans in swing states circulating bogus Electoral College documents in an effort to give electoral votes that now-President Joe Biden legitimately won to Donald Trump.

In an article published by the conservative website The Bulwark the morning after Christmas 2022, attorney/columnist Philip Rotner examines what the January 6 Committee’s final report has to say about that plot and lays out some reasons why it makes a strong argument for criminally prosecuting Trump.

“On December 14, 2020,” Rotner explains, “Republican operatives in at least five states — each of which had already officially certified Joe Biden as the winner — forged and submitted to Congress and the National Archives fake Electoral College certificates purporting to certify Donald Trump, not Biden, as the ‘duly elected’ winner. The left-leaning watchdog group American Oversight first blew the whistle on the fake elector scheme in March 2021, but it wasn’t until Rachel Maddow devoted a series of shows to it in January 2022 that it really captured public attention.”

The attorney/columnist continues, “The fake electors were hardly the worst of what Trump visited on us. For sheer journalistic sex appeal, a scheme by a bunch of unknown, bumbling state functionaries to phony up some documents just can’t compete with a president siccing an armed mob on the Capitol. But the fake elector scandal, while not the most shocking of Trump’s predations, has long looked like the straightest route to cracking open the entire 2020 election scheme, and to getting Donald Trump indicted and convicted of a crime — at least until the Mar-a-Lago stolen documents scandal was revealed, but that’s another story.”

Rotner stresses that if Trump was a “knowing participant” in the “fake elector scheme,” that would be damning whether or not he honestly believed that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

“Even if he really, truly believed the election was stolen, it would not be a defense to criminal charges for participating in a fraudulent scheme to submit forged documents as the official results of state presidential elections,” Rotner argues. “To the contrary, his belief that he was stealing back a stolen election would be highly incriminating proof of his motive, not a defense…. If it can be proved that Trump intentionally participated in the scheme to try to pass off forged documents as official state documents, and then use the phony documents to overturn an election, it wouldn’t make any difference why he did so. The act of participating in the scheme, in and of itself, regardless of his purported reasons for doing so, would still run afoul of all kinds of state and federal criminal laws.”

Rotner continues, “The path to prosecuting Trump for the fake elector scheme — either as a standalone crime or as a crucial element of a larger conspiracy to overturn the results of a presidential election —became much clearer last week with the publication of the final report of the House January 6 Committee.”

The January 6 Committee’s final report, according to Rotner, shows that “the scheme went all the way to the top, right up to Trump himself” and that “while some of the lower-level participants in the scheme — most likely some of the state-level GOP operatives who actually signed the phony certificates — may have been duped into believing that that it was a contingency plan, the higher ups who created and executed the scheme knew better."

“According to the report, by December 8, 2020 — less than three weeks after (attorney Kenneth) Chesebro first laid the groundwork for the scheme in a November 18 memo — ‘President Trump had decided to pursue the fake elector plan and was driving it,’” Rotner notes.

“By mid-December, Trump had enlisted the assistance of RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel in the scheme, worked with Rudy Giuliani on its implementation, and been informed that litigation would be filed in four states ‘to create a pretext to claim that it was still possible for the fake electors to be authorized retroactively.’

So, it appears that the previously missing link —
the link between the fake elector scheme and Trump himself — is no longer missing. Trump not only ‘participated’ in the fake elector scheme, he orchestrated it.”

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Lindsey Graham wanted to use credit card company 'technology' to throw out absentee ballots in Georgia.

In testimony given to the Jan. 6 committee this Tuesday, Georgia's secretary of state.

Brad Raffensperger was questioned over Sen. Lindsey Graham's phone call to him back in November of 2020, where he suggested rejecting mail-in votes
in the presidential election from counties with high rates of questionable signatures.

Graham’s phone calls to Raffensperger were followed weeks later by Donald Trump, who asked Raffensperger to “find” 11,780 votes to secure the 2020 election for him.

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12-28-2022

Former WH aide says Trump allies helped deliver a
‘dolly of boxes’ full of what may have been classified intelligence documents to the Situation Room in the
final days of Trump’s presidency.

A former Trump White House official said that she observed a revolving door of Trump allies and intelligence staff visiting the Situation Room in the last weeks of Trump's presidency, delivering boxes full of potentially classified documents days before the violent insurrection.

Cassidy Hutchinson, who served as an aide for former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, told the January 6 committee that she helped coordinate the delivery of documents from the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence to the White House.

In a transcript released Tuesday by the January 6 committee, Hutchinson said she liaised with former Rep. Devin Nunes and that the documents were delivered in the final weeks of December 2020, in a dolly of boxes.

"On December 31st — or December 30th — we got all the documents, Hutchinson told the committee in a May 17, 2022 interview. "They came up on a dolly in a few boxes and I had to sign for them. And then he called White House counsel down."

Hutchinson had previously testified that she witnessed Meadows burning documents in a fireplace after meeting with Rep. Scott Perry. She told the committee in May that Meadows also made multiple copies of documents.

She added that HPSCI staffers met with former Trump lawyer Pat Cipollone, Meadows, and Nunes and that she did not personally review the content of the documents. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy was also involved in the conversations around the documents, she testified.

"I don't know if it was the Situation Room that brought them or if it was somebody, a staffer from --
I don't know -- because they came from the Hill, I don't know how, like what the protocol is for releasing them," Hutchinson said, per the transcript, adding that a member of the Situation Room staff delivered the boxes.

"I don't know if they have to go through the FBI or the CIA, or if it was something they could have sent to the Situation Room to print and bind there."

In the interview with the committee, Hutchinson said she didn't know why the documents were being lugged from the Hill to the White House.

"HPSCI had seen these documents at some point and had these documents at some point and were aware of the contents of these documents," she said.
"I am not sure if it's something that the Republican HPSCI staffers had deeply looked into or if it was more the intention to bring them to the White House to look into them."

"And why would they need to bring them to the White House to look into them?"
Rep. Liz Cheney asked Hutchinson in the interview.

"I don't know," she answered, maintaining that she never took part in the meetings between the White House officials and Republican allies, despite her top security clearance.

Meadows did not respond to Insider's request for comment.

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12-29-2022

J6 deposition reveals why Trump started pushing bogus conspiracy claims about Morning Joe committing murder

A newly released deposition taken by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Capitol riots reveals the origins of a longstanding mystery:

Namely, why former President Donald Trump started pushing bogus claims about "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough murdering an staffer.

As flagged by attorney George Conway, former Trump press official Alyssa Farah Griffin told the committee that Trump first heard of the conspiracy theories surrounding Scarborough during a White House visit from Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL).

As Farah tells it, she and Gaetz struck up a conversation while the Florida congressman was waiting to see Trump, and she quizzed him on what documents he had in a folder that he had brought with him.

"And he pulls it out: It's conspiracies about Joe Scarborough murdering his intern," said Farah.
"And I said, 'Please do not bring that into the West Wing -- or to the Oval Office... you cannot put that in front of the president."

However, Gaetz didn't heed Farah's pleas and brought the papers in with him to show to the president.

Less than a day later, Trump sent out an infamous tweet in which he urged law enforcement officials in Florida to start investigating Scarborough.

"When will they open a Cold Case on the Psycho Joe Scarborough matter in Florida," Trump tweeted.
"Did he get away with murder?
Some people think so. Why did he leave Congress so quietly and quickly?
Isn’t it obvious? What’s happening now?
A total nut job!"

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12-30-2022

Trump was 'loving the fact' that his 'trashy' looking supporters were fighting for him on Jan. 6

According to new Jan. 6 Committee interview;
former President Donald Trump was proud of the actions of his supporters during the insurrection,
but highly critical of their look, exhibiting classism in his comments.

The insight was provided by former White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham during her interview with the Jan. 6 Committee, in which she placed herself in critical conversations in the West Wing of the White House throughout the insurrection.

In the released transcript of the interview, Grisham said;

"Some of his comments were that these people looked very trashy, but also look at what fighters they were...
he did feel they looked trashy, but he loved how they were fighting him."
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And this--bwaa
Trump was angry at Capitol mob only because they looked ‘cheap and poor’: report
White House source says US president initially enjoyed storming of building, but then became furious at how ‘white trash’ would tarnish his image, according to UK newspaper.

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