Brief Summary of the Executive Summary

[Pete F.]

Since reading 160 pages is not some people’s strong suit and it’s covered up by right wing media, here you go

Before the election, Trump knew that he was likely to lose, and planned to declare victory (a Big Lie) if he lost.
On and after election day, Trump knew that he did lose, and declared victory anyway.
Over and over again, Trump publicized specific claims of fraud immediately after being informed that they were false.
Knowing that his advisors knew his claims of fraud to be false, Trump promoted people, such as Rudolph Giuliani, who would lie for him in public.
Knowing that he had lost the election and that his claims of fraud were false, Trump made several deliberate efforts to overturn the electoral results and thus American democracy.
In states he had lost, Trump personally pressured state officials to alter the electoral outcome.
Knowing that the Department of Justice had investigated and found no evidence of fraud, Trump nevertheless sought to use it, via Jeffrey Clark, to pressure state officials to change electoral outcomes.
Knowing that he had lost the electoral college vote, Trump oversaw an effort to create fake slates of electors. These entirely bogus documents, based on nothing, were then sent to the vice-president.
Knowing that it was the vice-president's role only to count the electoral votes, Trump pressured the vice-president not to do so, on the theory that the vice-president could, in effect, choose the president.
Even the person who devised the plan regarding the vice-president, John Eastman, knew it to be illegal.
Knowing that all that remained was the formality of certifying Biden's victory, Trump encouraged supporters he knew to be armed and angry to violently overthrow our form of government, on the basis of lies.
Trump's urgings to violence were successful because his supporters believed his lies and understood what he wanted them to do: use violence to prevent a peaceful transition of power.
At a time when the Capitol was under attack, the vice-president was in flight, and the members of the vice-president's security detail feared for their lives, Trump urged his supporters on to further violence.
After the failed coup attempt, a number of Republican legislators sought personal or blanket presidential pardons, thereby acknowledging their fears that they had acted illegally.
Even if Trump thought that he had won, which he did not, his illegal attempt to remain in power would remain an illegal attempt to stay in power.

[PaulS]

In his testimony, Mr. McEntee recalled that Representative Matt Gaetz, Republican of Florida, told him he had sought a pardon through Mark Meadows, Mr. Trump’s chief of staff. Mr. McEntee told the committee he believed Mr. Gaetz was concerned about a federal sex trafficking investigation. Mr. Gaetz has denied wrongdoing in the matter.

Ms. Hutchinson told the panel that both Mr. Gaetz and Representative Mo Brooks of Alabama had pressed for “a blanket pardon for members involved in that meeting and a handful of other members that weren’t at the Dec. 21 meeting as the pre-emptive pardons.”

According to Ms. Hutchinson’s testimony, Representatives Louie Gohmert of Texas, Scott Perry of Pennsylvania and Andy Biggs of Arizona all expressed interest in receiving pardons. She also testified that Representative Jim Jordan of Ohio had “talked about” pardons but did not directly ask for one, and that she had heard that newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia had also expressed interest to the White House Counsel’s Office.

While in Georgia with Mr. Meadows, Ms. Hutchinson recalled a conversation in which Ms. Greene “began talking to us about QAnon and QAnon going to the rally, and she had a lot of constituents that are QAnon, and they’ll all be there. And she was showing him pictures of them traveling up to Washington, D.C., for the rally on the 6th.”

She said Ms. Greene later had a similar conversation with Mr. Trump, showing him a photo of her constituents, one of whom was wearing a “Q” shirt. “Those are all my people,” Ms. Hutchinson recalled her saying.

[wdmso]

This is far from just a few hundred bad actors

I’ve said it from day one this was a organized coordinated from Trump calling for the rally on the 6th
to the fake elector scam effort to try to obtain voting machines to the house members attempting to delay the certification to suggesting Pence had the authority to de certification the elections

But the usual suspects Hunters laptop is the real national security threat.. I don’t understand the logic
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[Got Stripers]

Hutchinson testifying that Meadows burned documents dozens of times, I would bet he is already flipping and cooperating with the DOJ to avoid jail time. How many on this forum originally scoffed at the suggestion this was an insurrection, love to know who among us still think it was just a riot gone bad.