Check out the video of Rep. Elaine Luria (D-VA02) – a member of the United States House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack, and a hero in general – speaking with Chris Hayes last night on MSNBC. Here are a few highlights:
- On whether the insurrection on 1/6/21 was something “ancillary” or “central” to the plot to overturn the 2020 election, Rep. Luria said, “I think it is truly central…I mean, there was a plan, the Eastman memo, there’s the receipts; you literally have these certificates sent from the seven states, you have voice mails sent and left by Trump campaign staffers. You have all of this evidence – Giuliani, you know, in a recording, saying this is the plan, this is how it’s going to work. And there was immense pressure…by the former president on the former Vice President Pence and that was publicly um put on the the Vice President…This is a coordinated effort…There’s no possible coincidence that each of these electors from the seven states…could have had these nearly identical certificates that they sent to Washington. The dots are just clearly connecting here.“
- “The question is…to what level were these people conspiring or were they being led by another group of people who were selling them a false story that they were doing something legitimate in order to support what was being sold as a legitimate process. But it’s clearly not. I mean, as you outlined in your intro, you know this was a plan, it was a plan for a coup and it’s very clear…All the evidence that we’re continuing to gather just corroborates what was very clearly put out in the public even well before January 6.“
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