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My Pillow guy Mike Lindell briefed Trump -- about what he was missing on Twitter: report
January 15, 2021
On Friday, My Pillow CEO Mike Lindell was spotted heading into the West Wing of the White House.
Washington Post photographer Jabin Botsford captured a photo of the document Lindell brought with him. "Martial law if necessary" was part the document that was visible. There was also a section crossed out.
<p>Now more is coming out about the document from New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman.</p><p>"I got a bit more information about the Lindell meeting. It was a brief meeting, Trump sent him upstairs to the WH counsel's office to be escorted by an admin official sitting next to Lindell in the meeting. That official, according to another official, was [National Security Advisor] Robert O'Brien," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350249367605813250" target="_blank">reported</a>. </p><p>The crossed out section of the document referred to Pat Cipollene, the White House counsel who has reportedly told Trump he will not help during the second impeachment trial.</p><p>"Once up there, he insisted on meeting with Cipollone. It got contentious, in part bc supposedly on the blacked-out part of his notes was something about how Cipollone should be fired," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350249903101005824" target="_blank">explained</a>.</p><p>The briefing was necessary because of Trump's ban from Twitter?</p><p>"Lindell tells me that he was carrying the notes for an attorney he's been working with to prove the election was really won by Trump, wouldn't say who it was. Said some of it related to reports Trump is now unable to see because he doesn't have Twitter," she <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350250142029508609" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p><p>Lindell is apparently at odds with some in the administration.</p><p>"Lindell insists the papers he was holding, which were photographed and visible, didn't reference 'martial law.' An administration official says they definitely referenced martial law," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350250598998958080" target="_blank">noted</a>. "But an administration official says Trump wasn't really entertaining what Lindell was saying. Lindell also seemed frustrated he wasn't getting more of a hearing."</p>
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Capitol Police warned of attack on Congress: 12-page report came out 3 days before the riots
January 15, 2021
More reporting continues to come out about what law enforcement knew before the fatal insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
"Three days before thousands of rioters converged on the U.S. Capitol, an internal Capitol Police intelligence report warned of a violent scenario in which 'Congress itself' could be the target of angry supporters of President Trump on Jan. 6, laying out a stark alert that deepens questions about the security failures that day," The Washington Post's Carol Leonnig reported Friday evening.
<p>"In a 12-page report on Jan. 3, the intelligence unit for the congressional police force described how thousands of enraged protesters, egged on by Trump and flanked by white supremacists and extreme militia groups, were likely to stream into Washington armed for battle," Leonnig reported. "This time, the focus of their ire was members of Congress, the report said."</p><p>The report directly linked overturning the election results to the insurrection. </p><p><span></span>"Supporters of the current president see January 6, 2021, as the last opportunity to overturn the results of the presidential election," the memo read. "This sense of desperation and disappointment may lead to more of an incentive to become violent. Unlike previous post-election protests, the targets of the pro-Trump supporters are not necessarily the counter-protesters as they were previously, but rather Congress itself is the target on the 6th."</p><p>The news follows previous reporting that <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/trump-insurrection-2649915101/" target="_blank">the FBI issued a dire warning the day before the attack</a>. </p>
<div class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="71a5a0485e1de9c15f74fdff66e7d836" id="d94fc"><blockquote class="twitter-tweet twitter-custom-tweet" data-partner="rebelmouse" data-twitter-tweet-id="1350245290025086976"><div style="margin:1em 0">SCOOP O'Clock: In eerily-worded Jan 3 memo, Capitol Police's intel unit predicted every grim thing that happened in… https://t.co/3kUIZfqg0Q</div> — Carol Leonnig (@Carol Leonnig)<a href="https://twitter.com/CarolLeonnig/statuses/1350245290025086976">1610758538.0</a></blockquote></div>
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Donald Trump's trouble filling the role of White House press secretary will be highlighted during the final days of his administration as Kayleigh McEnany will reportedly be leaving early.
On the second day of his administration, Trump's first press secretary, Sean Spicer, was harshly criticized after falsely claiming that Trump's inauguration crowd size was "the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration -- period."
<p>Things did not improve after such a brazen lie at the first White House press briefing.</p><p>Spicer was followed by Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who was <a href="https://www.rawstory.com/2019/04/mueller-report-busts-sarah-sanders-telling-blatant-lies-america-defend-trump/" target="_blank">busted in the Mueller Report for lying to the press</a>.</p><p>Sanders was followed by Stephanie Grisham, who simply refused to brief the press.</p><p>After Grisham came McEnany, who made a bold promise during her first briefing.</p><p>"I will never lie to you. You have my word on that," McEnany argued in a clip that became more hilarious every time she briefed the White House press corps.</p><p>According to New York Times White House correspondent Maggie Haberman, McEnany won't stay around until the end.</p><p>"McEnany, while still on payroll, is finished at the White House, according to Trump advisers. She's not planning on staying around for next week," Haberman <a href="https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1350216001091235842" target="_blank">reported</a>.</p>
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