@ThelmaLou, I think the most explosive and dangerous testimony presented so far is that Sidney Powell, Mike Flynn and Giuliani (possibly others) brought with them an Executive Order for Trump’s signature, appointing Powell as a Special Counsel authorized to seize voting machines via the Department of Defense. That’s… jaw dropping and terrifying.
Trump did apparently utter the words that Powell was appointed as a Special Counsel, but no follow through occurred, so she was not treated as one. She thought she was, though.
A tweet from a Trump supporter, in the buildup to January 6. Paraphrased, “We need volunteers for the firing squad.” Not sure how serious it was, but given other tweets that were exhibited, some would have taken it seriously.
I’m not sure if this would be in the Committee’s purview - I rather think it would be - but I would love to see an expert in mob (as opposed to Mob) psychology talk about how this kind of rhetoric helps prime people to perform norm-destroying actions, and how actions like the Proud Boys breaking those norms by attacking police helps those primed people to do things they normally might think twice about.
Bonus points if the expert is a right-winger, though in the field of psychology that might be a tough ask.
We’re now going to hear from the very people who stormed the Capitol that day. I assume they’re going to tell us, in their own words, exactly who directed and inspired them to commit illegal acts.
Raskin shows examples of encrypted messages calling for violence. Did “Security Intelligence” (whoever that was) have this intelligence before Jan.6 (and thus had warning it was going down) or is this stuff the Committee has uncovered only after the fact?
I’d guess that someone on the inside had cleartext copies of those messages (or was able to access them afterwards and copied them) so the investigators didn’t have to decrypt anything.
Whether that inside person was on the inside before or after the attack is another question.