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The Washington Post Democracy Dies in Darkness Jan. 6 texts missing for Trump Homeland Security's Wolf and Cuccinelli Do By Carol D. Leonnig and Maria Sacchetti July 28, 2022 at 9:41 p.m. EDT 8 DHS watchdog was alerted in February to unavailable records of top officials, but did nothing to alert or investigate

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Done 3 of 3 Sean Hannity Redacted 3777> Me too. Eric and Lara were great. Also Jared. Key now. No more crazy people 1/7/2021 7:34:37 PM -05:00 Status: Read State: Intact FOIA CONFIDENTIAL TREATMENT REQUESTED ✰govinfo.gov Sean Hannity Redacted 8777> Status: Read State: Intact Kayleigh McEnany Redacted 1056> Loved " 1- No more stolen election talk. Kayleigh McEnany Redacted 1056> Turned out great. I'm so happy! Status: Sent State: Intact Status: Sent State: Intact 1- No more stolen election talk. 2- Yes, impeachment and 25 th amendment are real, and many people will quit. 3- He was intrigued by the Pardon idea!! (Hunter) 4- Resistant but listened to Pence thoughts, to make it right. 5- Seemed to like attending Inauguration talk. Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol Exhibit - 75 Kayleigh McEnany Redacted 1056> Yes. 100%. Status: Sent State: Intact 1/7/2021 7:33:59 PM -05:00 Status: Sent State: Intact 1/7/2021 7:36:06 PM -05:00 2- Yes, impeachment and 25 th amendment are real, and many people will quit. 3- He was intrigued by the Pardon idea!! (Hunter) 4- Resistant but listened to Pence thoughts, to make it right. 5- Seemed to like attending Inauguration talk. " 1/7/2021 7:37:43 PM -05:00 KMC_000000930 Kayleigh McEnany < Redacted 1056> Love that. Thank you. That is the playbook. I will help reinforce. 1/7/2021 7:43:09 PM 05:00 THANK YOU for your help. You are doing a great service for your country! 1/7/2021 7:43:57 PM 05:00

TRUMP V. BOOCKVAR "Charges require specific allegations and proof. We have neither here."

JANUARY 6 HANDWRITTEN NOTE CHIEF OF STAFF WHO ANYONE ENTERED THE CAPITOL ILLEGALL WITHOUT PROPER AUTHORITY Skould LEAVE IMMEDIATELY

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Summary of the first 8 hearings

What We Learned from the Hearings Now that the first batch of hearings from the Select Committee are done, we are starting to get "What did we learn?" stories. Slate has one and so does CNN. Slate looked at each hearing to point out the key things we learned from it, as follows: • Hearing 1: By December 2020, Trump knew he had lost. He had been told that by many people in his administration and even his own daughter Ivanka. His claim that there was fraud was shot down by his own attorney general, Bill Barr, who said he had investigated and there was no significant fraud. Nevertheless, Trump continued to say he won. Whether he actually believed that is unknowable, but he said it and acted on it. • Hearing 2: On Election Night, a drunk Rudy Giuliani told Trump to declare victory, which Trump did, despite having many of his own people tell him that millions of (largely Democratic) absentee ballots hadn't been counted yet. As Trump kept coming up with more crazy theories, Acting Deputy AG Richard Donoghue kept shooting them down but Trump kept insisting they were true. • Hearing 3: This one focused on John Eastman's plan to have Mike Pence throw out electoral votes for Joe Biden and declare Trump the winner. Eastman was told by many people that such a move would result in violence in the streets. Eastman didn't care and neither did Trump. When the true story leaked to The New York Times, Trump vigorously denied it, despite knowing that it was true. White House lawyer Eric Herschmann told Eastman to get the best criminal defense lawyer he could because he was going to need it. Eastman's response was to ask for a pardon (which he didn't get). Eastman might be the easiest of Trump's cronies to convict now because there is a paper trail (a letter he wrote asking state legislatures to appoint their own electors) and numerous witnesses to what he said and did. If he were to flip to save his own neck after being indicted, he could easily nail Trump to the wall. • Hearing 4: This one was about Trump's efforts to intimidate state and local officials, from the level of poll workers like Shaye Moss up to the level of Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) and Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger (R). A focus here was the phony (and illegal) slate of electors Giuliani and his helpers had put together in Arizona, Georgia, and other states. • Hearing 5: A last-ditch effort by Trump was to try to replace Acting Attorney General Jeffrey Rosen with environmental lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who was prepared to do anything Trump told him to do, like seizing all the voting machines. Rosen resisted with everything he had. Herschmann summarized this by telling Clark: "Good fu**ing a**hole, congratulations, you just admitted that the first step or act you would take as attorney general would be committing a felony." Donoghue was more concise: "We'll call you when there's an oil spill." • Hearing 6: This day belonged entirely to Cassidy Hutchinson, Mark Meadows' then chief-of-staff. She made it clear that the attack on the Capitol was not a spontaneous uprising. Trump and Giuliani had planned it days in advance. Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, White House Counsel Pat Cipollone, and everyone else in the White House knew about it. Cipollone, among others, knew the goal was illegal (e.g., was obstruction of justice and defrauding the electoral count) and tried to dissuade everyone from pulling it off. Hutchinson also said that in a December lunch meeting when Barr again told Trump that there was no fraud, Trump was so angry he threw his lunch at the wall, covering it with ketchup. Since removing ketchup from walls is apparently part of a chief of staff's job description, Hutchinson quickly performed the necessary act. • Hearing 7: This hearing focused to the "unhinged" White House meeting in December when Trump announced that he was going to appoint Sidney Powell special counsel and have her seize the voting machines. When all the lawyers, including Herschmann and Cipollone, told him that declaring martial law and seizing the machines was illegal, he called them a bunch of p*ssies. As this hearing ended, Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) casually mentioned that Trump may have engaged in witness tampering, a federal crime. • Hearing 8: Finally, the focus was on the actual coup attempt. The hearing showed beyond any doubt that while it was going on, Trump watched it happily on Fox News, despite entreaties from his staff, Republicans in Congress, and his family to tell the rioters to go home. The hearing made it clear that Trump wanted the coup to succeed and if Mike Pence got killed in the process, well, he deserved it. Anyone who watched the hearing learned that Trump was not befuddled or confused or paralyzed by what he saw on TV. He liked it and actively wanted it to continue and to succeed in stopping the electoral count. He even sent out a tweet encouraging the mob.

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Justice Dept. investigating Trump’s actions in Jan. 6 criminal probe

The Justice Department is investigat- ing President Donald Trump's actions as part of its criminal probe of efforts to overturn the 2020 election results, according to four people familiar with the matter. Prosecutors who are questioning wit- nesses before a grand jury — including two top aides to Vice President Mike Pence - have asked in recent days about conversations with Trump, his lawyers, and others in his inner circle who sought to substitute Trump allies for certified electors from some states Joe Biden won, according to two peo- ple familiar with the matter. Both spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

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Acknowledgement

TIM MURTAUGH TEXTS TO MATTHEW WOLKING JANUARY 9, 2021 TIM MURTAUGH You know what that is, of course. If he acknowledged the dead cop, he'd be implicitly faulting the mob. And he won't do that, because they're his people. And he would also be close to acknowledging that what he lit at the rally got out of control. No way he acknowledges something that could ultimately be called his fault. No way.

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Acknowledging the Death of the Capitol Police Officer

TIM MURTAUGH TEXTS TO MATTHEW WOLKING JANUARY 9, 2021 TIM MURTAUGH Also s----- not to have even acknowledged the death of the Capitol Police officer. MATTHEW WOLKING That is enraging to me Everything he said about supporting law enforcement was a lie

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Texts to Mark Meadows

TEXTS TO MARK MEADOWS MARJORIE TAYLOR GREENE JAN 6, 2021 2:28 PM Mark I was just told there is an active shooter on the first floor of the Capitol Please tell the President to calm people This isn't the way to solve anything MICK MULVANEY JAN 6, 2021 2:35 PM Mark: he needs to stop this, now. Can I do anything to help? REP. BARRY LOUDERMILK JAN 6, 2021 2:44 PM They have breached the Capitol. It's really bad up here on the hill. REP. JEFF DUNCAN JAN 6, 2021 3:04 PM POTUS needs to calm this s--- down ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN JAN 6, 2021 3:13 PM Potus has to come out firmly and tell protestors to dissipate. Someone is going to get killed. BRIAN KILMEADE JAN 6, 2021 3:58 PM Please get him on tv. Destroying every thing you guys have accomplished LAURA INGRAHAM JAN 6, 2021 2:32 PM Hey Mark, The president needs to tell people in the Capitol to go home. TOM CORS JAN 6, 2021 3:42 PM Pls have POTUS call this off at the Capitol. Urge rioters to disperse. I pray to you. REP. CHIP ROY JAN 6, 2021 3:15 PM Fix this now. REP. WILL TIMMONS JAN 6, 2021 2:46 PM They have breached the Capitol.

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Don Jr and Mark Meadows Texts

DONALD TRUMP, JR. TEXTS TO MARK MEADOWS DONALD TRUMP, JR. JAN 6, 2021 2:53 PM He's got to condem this s---. Asap. The captiol police tweet is not enough. MARK MEADOWS JAN 6, 2021 2:54 PM I am pushing it hard. I agree DONALD TRUMP, JR. JAN 6, 2021 2:58 PM This his one you go to the mattresses on. They will try to f--- his entire legacy on this if it gets worse.

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January 6 Cmte has subpoenaed the Secret Service for info about missing texts/emails

Select Committee to investigate the JANUARY 6TH Attack on the United States Capitol For Immediate Release July 15, 2022 Select Committee to Investigate the JANUARY 6TH Attack on the United States Capitol SELECT COMMITTEE SUBPOENAS SECRET SERVICE RECORDS Bolton, MS-Chairman Bennie Thompson (D-MS) today announced that the Select Committee has issued a subpoena for records from the United States Secret Service (USSS). In a letter to Secret Service Director James Murray, Chairman Thompson sought information about Secret Service text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 that were reportedly erased and reiterated three previous requests from congressional committees for information. Contact: Press Office Chairman Thompson wrote, "The Select Committee has been informed that the USSS erased text messages from January 5 and 6, 2021 as part of a 'device-replacement program.' In a statement issued July 14, 2022, the USSS stated that it 'began to reset its mobile phones to factory settings as part of a pre-planned, three-month system migration. In that process, data resident on some phones was lost.' However, according to that USSS statement, 'none of the texts it [DHS Office of Inspector General] was seeking had been lost in the migration.' "Accordingly, the Select Committee seeks the relevant text messages, as well as any after action reports that have been issued in any and all divisions of the USSS pertaining or relating in any way to the events of January 6, 2021." This week, Department of Homeland Security Inspector General Joseph V. Cuffari offered a briefing to the House Committee on Homeland Security and the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs about "ongoing access issues" with the Department of Homeland Security, specifically that "many U.S. Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program." Today, Inspector General Cuffari briefed the Select Committee on this and other matters. The letter to Director Murray can be found here. # # # View in Browser

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Inspector General Joseph Cuffari’s letter stating Secret Service text messages were erased from 1/5-1/6/21

SECURITY OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL Department of Homeland Security Washington, DC 20528 / www.oig.dhs.gov July 13, 2022 The Honorable Gary C. Peters, Chairman The Honorable Rob Portman, Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs United States Senate Washington, DC 20510 The Honorable Bennie G. Thompson, Chairman The Honorable John Katko, Ranking Member Committee on Homeland Security U.S. House of Representatives Washington, DC 20515 Dear Chairman Peters, Ranking Member Portman, Chairman Thompson, and Ranking Member Katko: The Inspector General Act provides that an Inspector General shall have timely access to all Department records and other materials related to Department programs overseen by the Inspector General. I am writing to offer a briefing regarding ongoing records access issues that we have been experiencing with the Department of Homeland Security. There are two specific issues that we would like to address with your respective committees. First, the Department notified us that many U.S. Secret Service (USSS) text messages, from January 5 and 6, 2021, were erased as part of a device-replacement program. The USSS erased those text messages after OIG requested records of electronic communications from the USSS, as part of our evaluation of events at the Capitol on January 6. Second, DHS personnel have repeatedly told OIG inspectors that they were not permitted to provide records directly to OIG and that such records had to first undergo review by DHS attorneys. This review led to weeks-long delays in OIG obtaining records and created confusion over whether all records had been produced. I will make myself and my staff available at your convenience. Please call me with questions, or your staff may contact Kristen Fredricks, Chief of Staff, at @e Sincerely, Joseph V. Cuffari, PhD. Inspector General

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Witness Tampering

= POLITICS CNBC Jan. 6 committee notifies DOJ that Trump tried tampering with one of its witnesses, Cheney says PUBLISHED TUE, JUL 12 2022 3:59 PM EDT UPDATED TUE, JUL 12 2022 8:51 PM EDT Brian Schwartz @SCHWARTZBCNBC WATCH LIVE KEY POINTS WATCH LIVE • The vice chair of the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack revealed that it had made the Department of Justice aware of a phone call it says was made by former President Donald Trump to one of its witnesses. Republican Liz Cheney said at the Tuesday hearing the witness alerted their lawyer of the call who then

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Stephen Ayres, who admitted to illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6, says it makes him angry that former Pres. Trump continues to push election lies.

Getty Images "IT MAKES ME MAD. BECAUSE I WAS HANGING ON EVERY WORD HE WAS SAYING... WHO KNOWS IF THE NEXT ELECTION COULD COME OUT, YOU KNOW, THEY COULD END UP BEING DOWN THE SAME PATH WE ARE RIGHT NOW." STEPHEN AYRES

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