Welcome to the beat, everyone.

And here is what we learned at this Pact

insurrection hearing today.

Explosive evidence that Donald Trump planned to lead the march to the Capitol in advance.

That's bad for Trump because it undercuts the defense of a rally getting just out of hand.

And this was revealed by furtive texts from Trump's own aides.

POTUS is going to have us march there slash the Capitol.

But Potus is going to just call for it, quote, unexpectedly.

Now, it was planned, so it was expected.

That text shows exactly how Donald Trump was cooking up a lie to make it look spontaneous.

That's also bad because it shows some of Trump's illicit intent by hiding the plan in advance

and that the whole march was what Trump turned to after a grave meeting that was plotting a military role in a coup in the United States to take over

your country, democracy, and government. This is heavy stuff. And this was also part of what

was documented today, where Trump's most extreme plotters were pushing for him to abuse power

with an illegal order for the military to seize voting machines.

On Friday, December 18th, his team of outside advisors paid him a surprise visit.

They proposed the immediate mass seizure of state election machines by the U.S. military.

It got to the point where the screaming was completely, completely out there.

Ms. Hutchinson reported that the meeting in the West Wing was unhinged.

This was not just talk. There was an actual written draft order to carry this out.

And then to promote one of the Trump lawyers who frankly makes Rudy Giuliani look restrained, Sidney Powell. And I mean that literally.

She does make Giuliani look restrained. The idea was to take her and put her in some new

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