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President Trump speaking momentarily.

 The purpose of this thread will be to transcribe his remarks live to the extent possible.
View of the crowd.
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God be with you all.
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More photos. My screenshots. Public domain, please use freely.
Photos.
Flickr album. I'll add more. Public domain. These screenshots make pretty good photos. Watching RSBN.

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POTUS is on the move. "Less than 5 minutes" we are hearing. (RSBN)
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This is happening simultaneously. POTUS is not here yet. Drama anyone?

"WATCH LIVE: Congress holds joint session to count Electoral College vote"
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Pres. Trump statement 1/5/2021 (not 2020 - that looks like a typo)
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He’s here.
Where is the audio?
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“You don’t concede when there is theft involved.” - POTUS
"And I hope that Mike is gonna do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so. Because if Mike does the right thing, we win the election. This is from one of the top Constitutional lawyers in the country."
"States want to re-vote. The states got defrauded. They were given false information....all VP Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become President and you are the happiest people."
"I just spoke to Mike. That doesn't take courage."
Crowd is chanting "We love Trump."
"Crowd goes all the way past the Washington Monument."
"They say Sir, we'll never let it happen again. But I say, what about 8 weeks ago?"
"We're gonna have somebody in there who should not be there. And our country will be destroyed. We're not going to stand for that."
"The weak Republicans, they're pathetic Republicans. If something like this happened to the Democrats, there'd be hell all over the country."
"You're the people who built this Nation. You're not the people who tore down our Nation."
"They turned a blind eye as Democrats enacted policies that...put America last."
"How do you say I want to get rid of America First? Unbelievable what we have to go through."
"Boom in the morning, these explosions of bulls**t, and all of a sudden it started to happen [Biden won]."
"I hope Mitt [Romney] enjoyed his flight last night" [he was confronted/ridiculed]
"You know what the world says about us now? We don't have free and fair elections. We don't have free [fair?] press....it's become the enemy of the people."
"Republicans are constantly fighting like a boxer with his hands tied behind his back. We want to be so nice, so respectful of everybody, including bad people. We're gonna have to fight much harder."
"Mike Pence will have to come through for us. And if he doesn't, that will be a sad day for our country. Because you're sworn to uphold our Constitution."
"We're gonna walk down, and I'll be with you, to the Capitol, and we're gonna cheer on our brave Congressmen and Congresswomen...you'll never take back our country with weakness. You have to show strength."
"Do the right thing and only count the electors who have been lawfully slated."
"Peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard."
"Our country has been under siege for a long time. Far longer than this four year period."
"We've done things that nobody thought possible. And that's part of the reason why people don't like us."
"If they do the wrong thing, we should never ever forget."
The President is still speaking, but I have to go.
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It’s amazing how the President actually gets his enemies to do the work of burying themselves.


In this audio, which of course the President knew was being taped (after years of leaks), the President gets the Georgia Secretary of State to own the faulty data. Raffensperger cannot claim he made a mistake.


It’s a sting. “Shredded ballots” and “took out machines” - “do you know anything about that? ‘Cause that’s illegal, right?”


How can the fake news claim that this audio is false? The answer is that they can’t. It comes from one of their own, The Washington Post.

Ryan Germany, General Counsel for Georgia’s Secretary of State, jumps in. “No, Dominion has not moved any machinery out of Fulton County.”

“But have they moved the inner parts?”

“Are you sure, Ryan?”
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Freedom of assembly is a Constitutional right, Mayor Bowser.

9/12/2018 President Trump declared election interference a national emergency and authorized the use of government resources to address and intercept the threat.

11/28/1861 President Lincoln “ordered government departments closed for a local day of thanksgiving.”

11/26/1789 “As President of the United States, George Washington proclaimed the first nationwide thanksgiving celebration in America ....”to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many and signal favours of Almighty God".

Today is 1/2/2021. I propose that President Trump make January 6 into a National holiday, proclaiming it “National Liberation Day” or similar.

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“We have been reduced to a community of paranoid hypochondriacs, afraid that every breath will kill us” - Rabbi Chananya Weissman

“that the most basic human contact is an unreasonable roll of the dice, that everything we once considered normal and even obligatory must be off limits indefinitely – in some cases even forever.

This is insane. This is against everything the Torah teaches us.”

“not denying that covid is real & should be taken seriously. At the same time, I am denying...the angel of death is roaming among us, felling people left & right like Biblical plagues. This is not a Biblical plague. There are a million ways we can die...covid is just another 1.”

“I don't want to get it, and I don't want to give it to anyone else, but the terror that we have been living with for the last year is unjustified. Because of this terror, one third of Israel is currently living in poverty, with many others barely hanging on.”

“Drug and alcohol abuse are up; domestic abuse is up; suicides are up; social workers are overwhelmed; elderly people are dying from loneliness; children are traumatized; parents are falling apart; thousands of businesses have closed forever; and so much more.”
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If Trump sat in a SCIF and watched them steal the election, release the tape.
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Good morning, electoral lunacy followers. Welcome to what I suspect will be the 2020 equivalent of the Orly Taitz litigation: Sidney Powell Sues Everoyen For LAL Of Teh ThInGs

This is the first of what will (hopefully) be a limited number of #Kraken-related threads.

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And I doubt I've acquired enough maturity since my younger birther-watching days to ignore these. So, yes, at least for cases with public dockets, I'm here.

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Honestly, Twitter misunderstanding what Bruce Castor is doing right now is like Twitter misunderstanding how Brexit & Trump won back then

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