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+ "And I don't know if the president is capable of doing it, but he has to resign. He has to tell his supporters that he lied to them, that this was all his own fraud. He has to come out. We have to set an example for the rest of the free world that attempted coups, which is what this was, will not be tolerated." ... +

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+ The research firm Zignal Labs reported that discourse around election fraud dropped from 2.5 million mentions across social media platforms to close to 688,000, following the president's permanent suspension from Twitter, according to The Washington Post. + Twitter first banned Tr*mp's account shortly after a violent mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol building on Jan. 6. The platform said it was concerned that Tr*mp's future posts could incite more violence after the Capitol riots left five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. + Twitter announced after Trump's ban that it had also banned over 70,000 accounts linked to the QAnon conspiracy theory. + Facebook has indefinitely suspended Trump's account until at least President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, and YouTube also suspended his account temporarily.

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+ The FBI has concluded that Iran was behind online efforts earlier this month to incite lethal violence against the bureau’s director, a former top U.S. cyber expert and multiple state elections officials who have refuted claims of widespread voter fraud promoted by Pres-ident Tr*mp and his allies, federal and state officials said Tuesday. +  FBI Director Christopher A. Wray and ousted Homeland Security Department official Christopher Krebs were among more than a dozen people whose ­images, home addresses and other personal information were posted on a website titled “Enemies of the People.” Crosshairs were superimposed over the photos. + Many of these officials in one way or another have attested to the security of November’s election, saying they had not seen evidence of widespread fraud — a conclusion at odds with Tr*mp’s baseless claims that the election was rigged. 

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+  "It has all gone too far," said Gabriel Sterling, Georgia's voting system implementation manager, raising his voice. "All of it." +  Visibly angry, Sterling spent several minutes of an afternoon news conference describing threats targeting state election officials and workers. He said a 20-year-old tech employee in Gwinnett County received death threats and was made the subject of a noose image disseminated online Tuesday that read he should be "hung for treason." ... +  "It has to stop. Mr. Presi-dent, you have not condemned these actions or this language," Sterling said. "Senators, you have not condemned this language or these actions. This has to stop. We need you to step up. And if you're going to take a position of leadership, show some." +  The senators Sterling referenced are Georgia's two Republican U.S. senators, David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler, who are running in runoff elections on Jan. 5 that could decide control of the Senate.

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+ Their denialism — which has intensified for weeks and was on vivid display this week (10 to 13 May 2021) at a pair of congressional hearings — is one reason that lawmakers have been unable to agree on forming an independent commission to scrutinize the assault on the Capitol. + Republicans have insisted that any inquiry include an examination of violence by antifa, a loose collective of antifascist activists, and Black Lives Matter. It also reflects an embrace of misinformation that has become a hallmark of the Republican Party in the age of Mr. Tr*mp. + “A denial of finding the truth is what we have to deal with,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Wednesday. “We have to find the truth, and we are hoping to do

so in the most bipartisan way possible.” + She drew a direct link between Republicans’ ouster of Representative Liz Cheney of Wyoming as their No. 3 leader — a move that stemmed from Ms. Cheney’s vocal repudiations of Mr. Tr*mp’s election lies, which inspired the riot — and their refusal to acknowledge the reality of what happened on Jan. 6. + A House Oversight and Reform Committee hearing on the riot on Wednesday underlined the Republican strategy. Representative Andy Biggs of Arizona, the chairman of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, used his time to show video of mob violence purportedly by antifa that had unfolded 2,800 miles away in Portland, Ore. + His fellow Freedom Caucus member, Representative Ralph Norman of South Carolina, used his turn to question whether rioters involved in the Capitol attack had actually been Tr*mp supporters — despite their Tr*mp shirts, hats and flags, “Make America Great Again” paraphernalia, and pro-Tr*mp chants and social media posts. ... + Another Republican, Representative Andrew Clyde of Georgia, described the scene during the assault — nearly 140 were injured and at least five people died in connection with the riot — as appearing like a “normal tourist visit” to the Capitol. + “Let’s be honest with the American people: It was not an insurrection,” Mr. Clyde said, adding that the House floor was never breached and that no firearms had been confiscated.  “There was an undisciplined mob. There were some rioters, and some who committed acts of vandalism.” + He then asked Jeffrey A. Rosen, who was the acting attorney general at the time of the attack, whether he considered it “an insurrection, or a riot with vandalism, similar to what we saw last summer,” apparently referring to racial justice protests that swept across the country. + Immediately after the attack, many Republicans joined Democrats in condemning the violent takeover of the building known as the citadel of American democracy.  But in the weeks that followed, Mr. Tr*mp, abetted by right-wing news outlets and a few members of Congress, pushed the fiction that it had been carried out by antifa and Black Lives Matter, a claim that the federal authorities have repeatedly debunked.  Now, a much broader group of Republican lawmakers have settled on a more subtle effort to cloud and distort what happened. + The approach has hampered the creation of an independent commission, modeled after the one that delved into the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, to look into the Capitol riot, its roots and the government’s response.  Ms. Pelosi said discussions had stalled given Republicans’ insistence on including unrelated groups and events, and that Democrats might be forced to undertake their own inquiry through existing House committees if the G.O.P. would not drop the demand.

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+ Overall, the report released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence provides the most comprehensive assessment of foreign threats to the 2020 elections to date, detailing extensive influence operations by US adversaries, including Russia and Iran, that sought to undermine confidence in the democratic process, in addition to targeting specific presidential candidates. + It also confirms what was largely assumed, and barely hidden, last year: Tr*mp and his closest allies publicly embraced Russia's disinformation campaign against Biden, met with Kremlin-linked figures who were part of the effort, and promoted their conspiracy theories.The report said the most

aggressive foreign attempt to "undercut" Tr*mp came from Iran, but Iran didn't "actively" promote Biden, and their efforts were smaller than the Russian operation. + But while the report concludes that multiple foreign adversaries did attempt to interfere, it also notes there are "no indications that any foreign actor attempted to alter any technical aspect of the voting process in the 2020 US elections, including voter registration, casting ballots, vote tabulation, or reporting results." + That echoes what the Department of Homeland Security's cyber arm said the day after the 2020 presidential election. "We have no evidence any foreign adversary was capable of preventing Americans from voting or changing vote tallies," CISA said at the time. 

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