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The usually uneventful counting of Electoral College votes devolved into a bloody and chaotic scene on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon as pro-Trump protesters broke into the hallways and chambers of Congress.
Capitol Police officers evacuated lawmakers, reporters, and congressional staffers as the violent protesters disrupted the vote tally. Vice President Mike Pence was swiftly whisked away.
Sen. Tammy Duckworth of Illinois told CBS that a quick-thinking Senate aide grabbed the Electoral College vote certificates before they fled.
Hill staffers, lawmakers, and reporters recounted the scary experience of the evacuation and the close brush with danger that the rest of the US and the world followed via C-SPAN and social media.
3 Jan 2021
President Trump spoke to 300 state legislators from the battleground states of Arizona, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, and Georgia on Saturday in a Zoom conference call hosted by Got Freedom? in which the 501 (c) (4) non-profit election integrity watchdog group urged those lawmakers to review evidence that the election process in their states was unlawful and consider decertifying the results of the November 3 presidential election.
President Trump addressed the call for 15 minutes at the invitation of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who now serves as the president’s personal attorney, and was one of the featured speakers on the call.
A Delaware computer repairman who went public with the sordid contents of Hunter Biden’s hard drive is now suing Twitter for defamation claiming its content moderation unfairly branded him a “hacker.”
Dominion Voting lawyers warn Trump attorney Giuliani of litigation over alleged smear campaign, report says
CNBC 12/23/2020 Dan Mangan
President Donald Trump s lawyer Rudy Giuliani and White House counsel Pat Cipollone have reportedly been sent letters by defamation attorneys.
The letters direct them to save all records related to claims that Dominion Voting Systems played a key role allegedly swindling Trump out of an election win.
Giuliani also has been warned by Dominion s lawyers that litigation regarding these issues is imminent, according to a new report by CNN, which was shown a copy of the letter.
The letters to Cipollone and Giuliani reportedly demanded that Giuliani stop making defamatory claims against Dominion, which makes voting machines.