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2020 Presidential election The 2020 presidential election was not stolen. Anyone who claims it was  is spreading THE BIG LIE, turning their back on the rule of law, and poisoning our democratic system. Liz Cheney, 10:27 AM – May 3, 202 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Also at 2:24 p.m., knowing the riot was underway and that Vice President Pence was  at the Capitol, President Trump sent this tweet: Mike Pence didn't have 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. USA demands the truth! Evidence shows that the 2:24 p.m. tweet immediately precipitated further violence at the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The American psyche has not recognised we were one vice-president away from a coup. Jay Inslee © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election An honorable man receiving the information and advice that Mr.Trump received from his campaign experts and his staff — a man who loved his country more than himself — would have conceded this election. Indeed, we know that a number of President Trump's closest aides urged him to do so. Liz Cheney, June 16, 2022, during the third public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  3.  As an incumbent unbounded by norms, President Trump has a huge advantage. Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition, a report by the Transition Integrity Project © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election As we near the anniversary of January 6, investigators are still unearthing the roots of the insurrection that sacked the Capitol and sent members of Congress fleeing for their lives. What we know already, and could not have known then, is that the chaos wrought on that day was integral to a coherent plan. In retrospect, the insurrection takes on the aspect of rehearsal. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At first he feared Joe Biden, then he thought he was a joke, and then the joke was on him.  Olivia Nuzzi, New York, November 6, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At some point after 3:05 p.m. that afternoon, President Trump's Chief of Staff — and President Trump himself — were informed that someone was shot. That person was Ashli Babbitt, who was fatally shot at 2:44 p.m. as she and other rioters tried to gain access to the House chamber. There is no indication that this affected the President's state of mind that day, and we found no evidence that the President expressed any remorse that day. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  At some point, people at the Justice Department, perhaps that prosecutor in Atlanta, are going to have to make a determination about whether or not they want to indict Donald Trump [for his role in the January 6, 2021 insurection]. … Well, I think there's going to be sufficient factual information. And I think that there's going to be sufficient proof of intent. And then the question becomes, what's the impact of — of such an indictment? My initial thought was not to indict the the former president out of concern of what — how divisive it would be. But given what we have learned, I think that he probably has to be held accountable. Eric Holder, on “Face the Nation,” May 8, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election At 11:44 p.m. [on January 6, 2021, after the  Joint Session of Congress had resumed certi-  fying the election following the insurrection], Co-Conspirator 2 [John Eastman] emailed the Vice President's Counsel advocating that the Vice President violate the law and seek further delay of the certification. Co-Conspirator 2 wrote,  “I implore you to consider one more relatively minor violation [of the ECA] and adjourn for 10 days to allow the legislatures to finish their investigations, as well as to allow a full forensic audit of the massive amount of illegal activity that has occurred here.” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Because they promise to be an event, the Jan. 6 hearings give Biden a chance to take another approach: to fan emotion and use conflict, not conciliation, to make his case. There are no guarantees of success, but at the very least, both he and the Democratic Party have a chance to seize the initiative. They should take it. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Biden-voting counties in 2020 accounted for 70 percent of the national GDP. Stephen Marche, The Next Civil War  © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election But if we re-elect him, knowing what a norm-destroying, divisive, corrupt liar he is, then the world will not treat the last four years as an aberration. It will treat them as an affirmation that w've changed. The world will not just look at America differently, but at Americans  differently. And with good reason. Thomas L. Friedman, New York Times, October 29, 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Chance of a Biden Electoral college win if he wins the popular vote by X points: 0-1 points: just 6%! 1-2 points: 22% 2-3 points: 46% 3-4 points: 74% 4-5 points: 89% 5-6 points: 98% 6-7 points: 99% Nate Silver, 12:11 PM - Sep 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The committee understood that for people who care about January 6 — for people to take an interest in the  greatest coup attempt in American history — the violence and treason had to be translated into that universal American language: a good show. Megan Garber, The Atlantic, March 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Committee's principal concern was that the President actually intended to participate personally in the January 6th efforts at the Capitol, leading the attempt to overturn the election either from inside the House Chamber, from a stage outside the Capitol, or otherwise. The Committee regarded these facts as important because they are relevant to President Trump's intent on January 6th. There is no question from all the evidence assembled that President Trump did have that intent. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Defendant's conspiracy to impair, obstruct, and defeat the federal government function through dishonesty, fraud, and deceit included the following manner and means: … false claims of election fraud … fraudulent slates of electors in seven targeted states … attemted to use the power and authority of the Justice  Department to conduct sham election crime inves- tigations and to send a letter to the targeted states that falsely claimed that the Justice Department had identified significant concerns  that may have impacted the election outcome … attempted to enlist the Vice President to use his ceremonial role at the January 6 certification proceeding to fraudulently alter the election re-  sults … convince Members of Congress to further delay the certification based on those claims United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [Deputy Chief of Staff Anthony] Ornato had access to intelligence that suggested violence at the Capitol on January 6th, and it was his job to inform [Chief of Staff Mark] Meadows and Trump of that. Although Ornato told us that he did not recall doing so, the Select Committee found multiple parts of Ornato's testimony questionable.  The Select Committee finds it difficult to believe that neither Meadows nor Ornato told Trump,  as was their job, about the intelligence that was emerging as the January 6th rally approached. … By the time President Trump was preparing to give his speech, he and his advisors knew enough to cancel the rally. And he certainly knew enough to cancel any plans for a march to the Capitol. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Deputy White House Counsel reiterated to Co-Conspirator 4 [Jeffrey Clark] that there had not been outcome-determinative fraud in the election and that if the Defendant remained in office nonetheless, there would be “riots in every major city in the United States.” Co-Conspirator 4 responded, “Well, [Deputy White House Counsel], that’s why there’s an Insurrection Act [which Trump would use to deploy armed miiitary forces against civilian protesters].” United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Despite recognizing prior to the 2020 election that the Vice President had no power to refuse to count certain electoral votes, [John] Eastman nevertheless drafted memoranda 2 months later proposing that Pence could do exactly that on January 6th — refuse to count certified electoral votes from Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. … Even after Eastman proposed his theories in December and January memoranda he acknowledged in conversations with Vice President Pence's counsel Greg Jacobs that Pence could not lawfully do what his own memornda proposed [by telling Jacobs] “he would lose 9-0 at the Supreme Court.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not abuse its discretion in admitting portions of Congress's January 6 Report into evidence at trial. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The district court did not err in concluding that the events at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, constituted an “insurrection.” The district court did not err in concluding that President Trump “engaged in” that insurrection through his personal actions. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Fee-fi-fo-fum, Jack stalks Trump to see if he did something dumb. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, Novwember 19, 2022, on the appointment of Jack Smith as special counsel to investigate Trump's role in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and in taking classifed documents to Mar-a-Lago © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Get rid of the [mail-in] ballots and we'll have a very peaceful — there won't be a transfer, frankly. There'll be a continuation. Donald Trump © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Given my experience working for Mr. Trump, I fear that, if he loses the election in 2020, that there will never be a peaceful transition of power. Michael Cohen © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election How did President Trump continue to make false allegatons despite all this unequivocal information? Trump sought out those who were not scrupulous with the facts, and were willing to be dishonest. He found a new legal team to assert claims that  his existing advisors and the Justice Department had specifically informed him were false. President Trump's new legal team, headed by Rudolph Giuliani, and their allies ultimately lost  dozens of lawsuits in Federal and state courts. … Indeed, eleven of the judges who ruled against  Donald Trump and his supporters were appointed  by Donald Trump himself. … Not a single witness — nor any combination of witnesses — provided  the Committee with evidence demonstrating that fraud occurred on a scale even remotely close to changing the outcome in any state. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away. Donald Trump, on January 6, 2021, in the tent before going on stage to speak at his rally in the Ellipse park between the White House and Constitution Avenue, angry at learning the park was half empty because many supporters refused to enter it after learning that Secret Service agents were scanning for weapons using magnetometers and confiscating those they found © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I hope he comes. I want to punch him out. This is my moment. I’ve been waiting for this. For trespassing on the Capitol grounds. I want to punch him out, and I’m going to go to jail, and I’m going to be happy. Nancy Pelosi, January 6, 2021, while sequestered underground and after being told the Secret Service dissuaded Trump from going to the Capitol to personally lead the insurrection © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I said, “Mike, you have a chance to be Thomas Jefferson or you can be Mike Pence.” He chose to be Mike Pence.  Donald Trump © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election I was somewhat demoralized because I thought, boy, if he really believes this stuff, he has, you know, lost contact with — detached from reality. … There was never an indication of interest in what the actual facts were. William Barr, testimony presented to the Select Committee to Investigate the Attack on the United States Capitol concerning Trump's professed belief in allegations of widespread voter fraud and vote flipping by machines from Dominion Voting Systems, which Barr called “bullshit”  © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election If the Republicans don't win in this election, I think we are officially at the end of the country as we know it. We may not survive even if we win, but we definitely don't if the Republicans lose with Donald Trump. Glenn Beck © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In addition to this plan to create and transmit fake electoral slates, Donald trump as also personally and substantially involved in multiple efforts to pressure State election officias and State legislatures to alter official lawful election results. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In perhaps the most chilling moment of the hearing, Cheney spoke of former White House officials' testimony about Trump's bloodthirstiness toward his own vice president. “Aware of the rioters' chants to hang Mike Pence, the president responded with this sentiment, quote, ‘Maybe our supporters have the right idea.’ Mike Pence, quote, ‘deserves it.’” Dana Milbank, Washington Post, June 9 2022, on the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In short, you were at the center of the first and only effort by any U.S. President to overturnn an election and obstruct the peaceful transfer of power, ultimately culminating in a bloody attack on our own Capitol and on Congress itself. The evidence demonstrates that you knew this activity was illegal and unconstitutional, and also knew that your assertions of fraud were false. But to be clear, even if you now claim that you actually believed your own false election claims, that is not a defense; your subjective belief could not render this conduct justified, execusable, or legal. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election In the committee's hearings, we presented evidence of what ultimately became a multi-part plan to overturn the 2020 Presidential election. That evidence has led to an overriding and straight-forward conclusion: the central cause of January 6th was one man, former President Donald Trump, who many others followed. None of the events of January 6th would have happened without him. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The insurrection may be over, but the plot to steal the presidency is intact. Jamelle Bouie, New York Times, June 10, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Intelligence gathered in advance of January 6th did not suggest a conclusion that Antifa or other left-wing groups would likely engage in violent counter-demonstrations or attack Trump supporters on January 6th. Indeed, intelligence from January 5th indicated that some left-wing groups were instructing their members to “stay at home” and not attend on January 6th. Ultimately, none of these groups were involved in any material extent with the attack on the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, 14th of 17 “specific findings” © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It is almost impossible for Mr Trump to disappoint people. They never had hopes to dash. … Many others never believed that he or anyone else could, in that tellingly vague aspiration, make America great again. Their vote was more a howl against perceived national decline than a calculated attempt to arrest it. They are not standing over his shoulder with key performance indicators. That would imply some hope in the first place. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It'll end up being a rigged election or  they will never come out with an outcome. They'll have to do it again and nobody wants that and I don’t want that. Donald Trump bullshitting about mail-in voting to discredit the election in case he loses © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It may be beyond the imagination of Americans to accept that their system is in jeopardy.  Countries with radically different histories, such as South Korea, find it much easier. But the facts are staring the US in the face. What happened on January 6 has so far gone unpunished, which means it is likely to be tried again. Edward Luce, Financial Times, December 16, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election It's time to put away the harsh rhetoric. To lower the temperature. To see each other again. To listen to each other again. To make progress, we must stop treating our opponents as our enemy. We are not enemies. We are Americans. Joe Biden, acceptance speech, November 7, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election A joint statement [Sen. Ted] Cruz issued about the senators' challenge to the vote nicely captured the post-truth aspect of the whole: It never alleged that there was fraud, only that there were allegations of fraud. Allegations of allegations, allegations all the way down. Timothy Snyder, New York Times, January 9, 2021 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Just say we won. Rudy Giuliani's advice to Donald Trump, long before votes had been counted or winners announced in swing states like Michigan and Pennsylvania © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Let's have a trial by combat. Rudy Giuliani, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election MAGA LESS MEGA Drudge Report headline for an article about Trump's June 19, 2020, rally in Tulsa to re-launch his reelection bid that attracted a mere 6,200 supporters instead of the million Trump announced © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Martha, come up just fast! Fast! Fast! Come on. Quick! You got one minute! One minute, Martha! They don't want to hear this, Martha. Come on. Let's go. Quick, quick, quick, quick. Come on. Let's go! Donald Trump, commanding hitherto sycophantic Arizona Republican Senator Martha McSally, behind in the polls and a woman, to join him on the stage at his October 28, 2020, rally in Goodyear, Arizona, to laughing rally goers  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Mr Trump has been backed by 15 CEOs of companies in the S&P 500 index, including Jeffrey Sprecher of Intercontinental Exchange, Steven Roth of the property group Vornado and Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas Sands casino magnate who has poured $180m into the Republicans' 2020 war chest. Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Financial Times, October 30. 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Next time we'll come back with rifles. And that’s not an idle threat. A Trump supporter carrying a wooden bat who was barricaded by DC police away from the Capitol building near the Reflecting Pool, quoted in Washington Post, January 7, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The night was so Borgia. Maureen Dowd, New York Times, August 29, 2020, summarizing Trump's acceptance speech to a superspreader crowd sitting cheek by jowl on the South Lawn of the White House, followed by fireworks spelling out  T R U M P   2 0 2 0 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all Jim Jordan to Mark Meadows, Trump's chief of staff, suggesting that vice presidents have the authority to simply refuse to count electoral votes from states his party lost © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Only one meaningful correlation emerged [from the Chicago Project on Security & Threats' study of January 6 insurgents]. Other things being equal, insurgents were much more likely to come from a county where the white share of the population was in decline. For every one point drop in a county's percentage of non-Hispanic whites from 2015 to 2019, the likelihood of an insurgent hailing from that county increased by 25 percent. This was a strong link, and it held up in every state. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only thing worse would be not charging him. Barbara McQuade, "United States v. Donald Trump," on the failure to criminally charge Trump with conspiracy to defraud the United States and obstruction of an official proceeding for pressuring Pence to overturn the election due to fears about potential negative consequences for the country, such as violent protests, civil unrest, loss of life, or an acquittal, which would embolden other domestic wannabe autocrats © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The only way we're going to lose this election is if the election is rigged. Remember that. It's the only way we're going to lose. Donald Trump, at a rally in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, delegitimizing a Biden presidency, should Biden win in 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election No intelligence collection was apparently performed on President Trump's plans for January 6th, nor was there any analysis performed on what he might do to exacerbate potential violence. … And, on January 4, 2021, another rally organizer texted Mike Lindell, the MyPillow CEO, that President Trump would “unexpectedly” call on his supporters to march on the Capitol: This stays only between us … it can not get out about the march because I will be in trouble with the national park service and all the agencies but POTUS is going to just call for it “unexpectedly.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  No intelligence community advance analysis predicted exacty how President Trump  would behave; no such analysis recognized the full scoope and extent of the threat to the Capitol on January 6th. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, from the 15th of 17 “specific findings” © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Now do you see why I feel like I've just been tied up by a German dominatrix who doesn't understand my safe word. Bill Maher, Real Time with Bill Maher, Oct. 9, 2020, after reviewing how the Republicans in states with a Republican-controlled legislature and a Republican governor can and are planning to use their power to select the state's members of the Electoral College to appoint electors committed to voting for Trump even if Biden won the state's popular vote © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Polls from mid-October showed that about 44 percent of voters approved of Trump’s job performance – and this was after he’d concealed aspects of his coronavirus infection from the public, shrugged off the larger meaning of it, established the White House as its own superspreader environment and cavalierly marched on. Forty-four  percent. Who in God’s name are we? Frank Bruni, NeW York Times, October 29, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump is wrong: I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone. And, frankly, there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person can choose the American president. Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of the election. Mike Pence, February 4, 2022 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump did not contact a single  top national security official during the day.  Not at the Pentagon, not at the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Justice, the F.B.I., the Capitol Police Department, or the D.C. Mayor's office. As Vice President Pence has confirmed, President Trump didn't even try to reach his own Vice President to make sure that Pence was safe. President Trump did not order any of his staff to facilitate a law enforcement response of any sort. … Some have suggested that President Trump gave an order to have 10,000 troops ready for January 6th. The Select Committee found no evidence of this. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election President Trump'a speech inciting the crowd that breached the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, was not protected by the First Amendment. Anderson v. Griswold, majority decision, Supreme Court of the State of Colorado  © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The problem … is not Mr Biden's failure to kindle passion in people. It is our psychic need for such a person in the first place. His election might reacquaint the US with politics as it should be and has been: a machine for the arbitration of conflicting claims, and not as the basis of one's whole identity. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, September 16, 2020 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The purpose of the conspiracy was to  overturn the legitimate results of the 2020 presidential election by using knowingly false claims of election fraud to obstruct the federal government function by which those results are collected, counted, and certified. United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Right now, Russia's security services and their proxies have geared up to repeat their interference in the 2020 election. We are running out of time to stop them. In the course of this investigation, I would ask that you please not promote politically driven falsehoods that so clearly advance Russian interests. Fiona Hill, opening statement before the House Intelligence Committee impeachment inquiry hearing, November 21, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Running as a universe-saving Luke Skywalker against his [Trump's] Darth Vader could work at the ballot box. But it would be a vapid basis for governing. Edward Luce, Financial Times, January 4, 2019 © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Shortly after election day, the Defendant also pursued unlawful means of discounting legitimate votes and subverting the election results. In so doing, the Defendant perpetrated three criminal conspiracies: a. A conspiracy to defraud the United States … b. A conspiracy to corruptly obstruct and impede the January 6 congressional proceeding at which the collected result of the presidential election are counted and certified … c. A conspiracy against the right to vote and to have one's vote counted … United States of America v. Donald J. Trump © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Soliciting opinions on the eve of 2020, I find that people who least desire a second term for the US president are the quickest to predict it. Janan Ganesh, Financial Times, January 1, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Some readers will wonder how we could possibly eliminate a candidate so far before an election, and before knowing the identity of his opponent. Because there's no point pretending we would ever recommend that readers vote for Trump. The Orlando Sentinel, June 18, 2019, the day of Trump's official 2020 reelection campaign kickoff rally in Orlando, FLorida © 2019 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The subpoenaed House Member's willful failure to comply with a congressional subpoena reflects discredit on Congress. If left unpunished, such behavior undermines Congress's longstanding power to investigate in support of its lawmaking authority and suggests that Members of Congress may disregard legal obligations that apply to ordinary citizens. January 6 Commitee Report - Summary, referral of members Kevin McCarthy, Jim Jordan, Scott Perry and Andy Biggs to the House Ethics Committee for failure to comply with subpoenas © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  Suburban women, will you please like me? I saved your damn neighborhood, OK? Donald Trump, Johnstown, PA, rally, October 13, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Taking all these facts into account, and based on the breadth of the evidence it has accumulated,  the Committee makes the following criminal refer-  rals to the Department of Justice Special Counsel: I. Obstruction of an Official Proceeding  (18 U.S.C. § 1512(c)) … [Trump, Eastman, others] II. Conspiracy to Defraud the United States (18 U.S.C. § 371) … [Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, Giuliani, Meadows, others] III. Conspiracy to make a False Statement (18 U.S.C. §§ 371, 1001) … [witness tampering; Trump, Eastman, Chesebro, fake electors] IV. "Incite," "Assist" or "Aid and Comfort" an Insurrection (18 U.S.C. § 2382) … [Trump] V. Other Conspiracy Statutes (18 U.S.C. §§ 372, 2384) … [individual insurrectionists] VI. Possible violators (18 U.S.C. §§ 1505, 1512)  [Lawyers who may have advised witnesses to lie] January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Testimony obtained by the Committee indicates that President Trump knew about the rioters' anger at Vice President Mike Pence, and indicated something to the effect that “Mike [Pence] deserves it.” January 6 Commitee Report - Summary © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  There is no perceptible platform or even a ghost of a second term agenda for Donald Trump's party. There is thus no possibility of dissent. His chief surrogates are his own family members. The message is Mr Trump, the whole Mr Trump and nothing but Mr Trump. Edward Luce, Financial Times, August 26, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election  This was a coup organized by the President against the Vice President and against the Congress in order to overturn the 2020 presidential election. It was what political scientists call a “self-coup” because it's not the military or  some other faction attacking the president. It's the president, fearful of defeat, overthrowing the constitutional process. Trump was prepared to seize the presidency and likely to invoke the Insurracion Act and to declare martial law. … There was a violent insurrection and an attempted coup and we were saved by Mike Pence's refusal to go along with that plan and by the valor and bravery of our officers who stood strong against the attempt to just overrun the process. Jamie Raskin, April 18, 2022, on Jan. 6, 2021 © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election This was their [Republicans'] moment to stand for something, and they chose to stand for reelection. Let us remember.  Stuart Stevens, It Was All a Lie © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election To understand the threat today, you have to see with clear eyes what happened, what is still happening after the 2020 election. The charlatans and cranks who filed lawsuits and led public spectacles on Trump's behalf were sideshows. They distracted from the main event: a systematic effort to nullify the election results and then reverse them. As milestones passed — individual certification by states, the meeting of the Electoral College on December 14 — Trump’s hand grew weaker. But he played it strategically throughout. The more we learn about January 6, the clearer the conclusion becomes that it was the last gambit in a soundly conceived campaign — one that provides a blueprint for 2024. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass! Mo Brooks, speaking at the Save America rally, January 6, 2021 © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election The Trump campaign plan for 2020 is all culture war, all the time. David Frum, Trumpocalypse  © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Trump oversaw and coordinated a sophisticated, seven-part plan to overturn the presidential election and prevent the transfer of presidential power. Liz Cheney, June 9, 2022, during the opening public hearing of the  Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Turnout projections are running at around 150 million this year (137 million voted in 2016), which would mean that if [Nate] Silver is right, Biden could win by 3 million to 4.5 million votes and still have less than a 50 percent chance of becoming president.  If Biden won by 4 percent to 5 percent, or 6 million to 7.5 million votes, Trump would still have a one-in-ten shot of prevailing. Paul Waldman, Washington Post, September 2, 2020 © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election United States House of Representatives Reso- lution 503 instructs the Select Committee to  Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol ("Select Committee") to investi- gate the facts, circumstances, and causes of the January 6th attack and issues relating to the peaceful transfer of power. Pursuant to that directive, we have interviewed thousands of wit- nesses, reviewed over a million documents, con- ducted public hearings, and vindicated our right in court against those who have tried to keep relevant information from the Select Committee. As demonstrated in our hearings, we have assembled overwhelming evidence, including from dozens of your former appointees and staff, that you personally orchestrated and oversaw a multi-part effort to overturn the 2020 presidential election and to obstruct the peaceful transfer of power. Subpoena to Trump from the Select Committee © 2022 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election A Washington Post investigation found that more than a year would pass before prose- cutors and FBI agents jointly embarked on a formal probe of actions directed from the White House to try to steal the election. Even then, the FBI stopped short of identifying the former president as a focus of that investigation. … The Justice Department's painstaking approach to investigating Trump can be traced to [Attorney General Merrick] Garland’s desire to turn the page from missteps, bruising attacks and allegations of partisanship in the depart- ment’s recent investigations of both Russia's interference in the 2016 presidential election  and Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server. Carol D. Leonnig and Aaron C. Davis, Washington Post, June 20, 2023 © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Well, that happened.  Let me remind you that what you just saw was a production of NBC News. We are MSNBC. We did not produce that event, We simulcast that here along with CNBC. But that was a strange replacement for what was otherwise supposed to be the second presidential debate of this general election season. Rachel Maddow, October 15, 2020, host of MSNBC's The Rachel Maddow Show, coming on air immediately after Trump ended his hour-long festival of lies and conspiracy theories © 2020 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What I'm asking you to do is just say that the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressmen. Donald Trump, to acting attorney general Richard Donoghue © 2023 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election What Pape was seeing in these results did not fit the government model of  lone wolfs and small groups of extremists. “This really is a new, politically violent mass movement,” he told me. “This is collective political violence.”  Pape drew an analogy to Northern Ireland in the late 1960s, at the dawn of the Troubles. Barton Gellman, The Atlantic, January/February 2022 [Robert A. Pape, the leader of a study of the insurrectionists by Chicago Project on Security & Threats called them “committed insurrectionists” and estimated there are 21 million in the US] © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election [W]hile it's true that we snatched democracy from the jaws of autocracy, there is still a gun pointed at democracy's head. Mary Trump, The Reckoning  © 2021 Kwiple.com
2020 Presidential election Why aren't you guys fighting harder? Where's my Roy Cohn? Donald Trump, dissatisfied with his campaign managers and lawyers for failing to convince courts he lost because the election was stolen from him © 2021 Kwiple.com
 
2020 Presidential election You have the hostages, the J6 hostages, I call them. Nobody has been treated ever in history so badly as those people. [Not even John McCain?] You know what they ought to do? They ought to release the J6 hostages; they've suffered enough. Donald Trump © 2024 Kwiple.com