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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

But, for Donald Trump, these witnesses and others like them were another roadblock to his attempt to cling to power.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

Threats to people's livelihood and lives. Threats of violence that Donald Trump knew about and amplified.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

Pressuring public servants into betraying their oath was a fundamental part of the playbook.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

The American people have not yet heard from Mr. Trump's former White House Counsel, Pat Cipollone.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

If the most powerful person in the world can bring the full weight of the Presidency down on an ordinary citizen, who was merely doing her job, with a lie as big and heavy as a mountain, who among us is safe? None of us is. None of us.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

President Trump's pressure campaign against State officials existed in all the key battleground States that he lost, but the former President had a particular obsession with Georgia.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

When the pressure campaign failed and Mike Pence fulfilled his Constitutional obligation, Donald Trump turned a violent mob loose on him.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

When Donald Trump tried to overturn the election results, he focused on just a few States.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

They represent the backbone of our democracy at its most important moments: When the citizens cast their votes and when those votes are counted.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

The President said, 'Suppose I do this. Suppose I replace him,' Jeff Rosen, 'with him,' Jeff Clark.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 20, 2022

We must reject violence. We must embrace our Constitution with the reverence it deserves, take our oath of office and duties as citizens seriously, informed by the knowledge of right and wrong, and armed with no more than the power of our…

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 19, 2022

The select committee to investigate the January 6 attack on the United States Capitol will be in order.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 19, 2022

He lost. But he betrayed the trust of American people. The people had voted him out. And the courts upheld the will of the people.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 18, 2022

Our democracy came dangerously close to catastrophe.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 17, 2022

We are not going to stop what we`re doing to share the information that we`ve gotten so far with the Department of Justice.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 17, 2022

I`m from a part of the country where people justify the actions of slavery, the Klu Klux Klan and Lynching and reminded of that dark history, as I hear voices today, try and justify the actions of the insurrectionists on January 6, 2021.

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Bennie Thompson
@benniethompson· Democratic · MS· Jun 16, 2022

He lost. But he betrayed the trust of American people. The people had voted him out. And the courts upheld the will of the people.

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