Jan. 6 PowerPoint reveals many more Republicans were in on Trump's coup plot

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Jan. 6 PowerPoint reveals many more Republicans were in on Trump's coup plot
A newly released PowerPoint emphasizes just how desperate Trump and his team were

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED DECEMBER 13, 2021 10:02AM


(Salon) Last week a federal court agreed to schedule Steve Bannon's contempt of Congress criminal trial for July of next year — just as the fall campaigns go into full swing. He must be very pleased. Bannon would like nothing more than to have a big show trial at that moment and be carted off to jail where he can write his Great Replacement manifesto.

With the news that there was a PowerPoint presentation called "Election Fraud, Foreign Interference & Options for JAN 6", reported here by Brett Bachman, Bannon's revolutionary proclamations in his podcast on January 5th have become clearer. Recall what he said:

"Mitch McConnell's got to start taking care and focusing on these senators — because this is going to be very controversial. We are going into uncharted waters. We're going into something that's never happened before in American history. Tomorrow it's going — we're pulling the trigger on something that's going to be, it's going to be minute by minute, hour by hour, what happens. The stakes couldn't be higher right now."

"It's not going to happen like you think it's going to happen ...Okay, it's going to be quite extraordinarily different. All I can say is, strap in. … You made this happen and tomorrow it's game day. So strap in. Let's get ready...It's all converging, and now we're on the point of attack tomorrow."

It's understandable that people would suspect that he was talking about the violence that took place when Trump incited his crowd to converge on the Capitol and he may very well have been. He and the others who were plotting at the Willard Hotel in the days before the insurrection were very close to groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, who had an outsized role in the attack.

But it's clear now that Bannon was also talking about the plans laid out in that PowerPoint presentation which included some of what we knew but also reveals some rather chilling recommendations that add more detail to what was undeniably a coup attempt. When he said, "We are going into uncharted waters. We're going into something that's never happened before in American history," he wasn't kidding. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/12/13/jan-6-powerpoint-reveals-many-more-were-in-on-coup-plot/

[empedocles]

1. Ah, yes. The plot continues to 'thicken'

[calimary]

15. No kidding!

[lindysalsagal]

2. Of course they were. No one does this alone, and it was no coincidence

That they all came prepared, and knew the building's vulnerabilities. Those secret visits were done by those in power and should have been locked up months ago.

[Irish_Dem]

5. Bingo. Exactly.

[spanone]

3. ...K&R...

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Yes, and remember how GOP Senators were all 'mumbles' during the first Impeachment

This plot has been hatched for years if not decades. They were all in on it.

[2naSalit]

6. Yup.

[Baitball Blogger]

7. They knew they were fomenting a coup.

"...this is going to be very controversial. We are going into uncharted waters. We're going into something that's never happened before in American history."

[diane in sf]

8. George Bush's grandfather and a bunch of his fascist friends plotted to overthrow the government

In the 30s because they didn’t like what Roosevelt was doing. If they’d been hung for treason, we might have been spared a lot grief since then

[SharonAnn]

9. See Gen. Smedley Butler's free book "War Is a Racket"

[LastDemocratInSC]

12. It's an excellent book.

[Codifer]

18. Bad crew.

Prescott and the rest. Same folks who were hitler's financial backers. They skated on that one too.

I sometimes think that two volleys of well aimed gunfire would have stopped the insurrection cold in its tracks and on the steps. One hell of a reality call.

Edit to add: mike flynn is certainly no Smedley Butler.

[KS Toronado]

10. I hope we discover every R in congress

who watched/received the "pro-coup PowerPoint" and said nothing to warn the American citizens that
a coup was underway to replace Democracy with Fascism. Use this against them in the midterms.

[ChazInAz]

11. Sleazeball.

Would it be possible for the Justice Dept. to issue a gag order to this traitor, just to get him to shut up about the upcoming trial?

[fwvinson]

13. Pretty sure a judge can do whatever he wants in his courtroom.

So, the judge can gag him, literally. Can put him in solitary confinement if he won't obey or causes trouble. A judge can put him in Guantanamo and make him disappear till the judge is ready to hear him.

[Alexander Of Assyria]

14. Impeachment Fraud! Same Senators voted not to have any evidence called at either impeachment.

In the second one they would have been witness to the very sedition they were part of.

Yet they voted…all those votes should be annulled… Impeachments confirmed and TFG banned from political office forever.

[JustAnotherGen]

16. Phil Waldron

Seems to be a Fox 'expert'


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Lara Logan, the Fox News personality who recently compared Dr. Anthony Fauci to infamous Nazi doctor Joseph Mengele. She tweeted out a version of the PowerPoint on January 5th but nobody paid any attention because she has no credibility. And yes, it was reported in Bob Woodward and Robert Costa's book "Peril" that Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina "vetted" the fraud claims and determined that it wouldn't be prudent to overturn the election.

Link to tweet

?s=20

I'm not good with posting twitter links - I don't go there for news - but I hope to God the House Committee has this. . . I would like to see them haul her ass in for questioning. Like - how did SHE get it and NOT warn the country?

Lara Logan @laralogan Jan 5 Replying to @laralogan
The document was prepared by the forensic teams investigating election fraud. It is not sourced because it is not a news report - it is their assessment/evidence, compiled based on the data the teams say they found without having full access to the servers or voting machines.
Lara Logan

@laralogan Jan 5
This is a small number of people working 24/7 with remarkably little support. They knew where to look for fraud because they investigated/tracked problems in previous elections. They tried to warn people ahead of this one but were effectively ignored.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

17. For this thread

Link to tweet