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After Senator Mike Lee's outburst, I hope to high heaven witnesses are called. Can I call him a dufus?

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That was high drama nonsense

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Thank you for putting this together, as usual a masterful assembly. Twitter was always too small a platform for your vast wealth of information but that said, hope to see you back there some day soon, and glad to find you here!

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So grateful to find you this morning!

Always both calmed and enlightened by your work.

Love and hugs.

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Holy shittlestix is that really YOU? Don’t toy with me. You were one of my very 1st followers four{ years ago Omore like 79 Trump dog years, but I digress. /snort ), infallibly & nearly every time you always find your way back to me. Sending you a virtual hug & happy dance

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Of course I'd find you. I fucking love you!

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Is it at all possible for the Senate to vote by secret ballot? And do you think this would change outcome of vote?

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That’s such a good question. Based on the Senate Resolution 47, see footnote 6 in yesterday’s article - that was not contemplated. It’s possible that the Senate could vote on a new resolution for a vote by secret ballot but that is really unlikely. To answer your second question - YES I genuinely believe if the vote was done via a secret ballot that would absolutely change the vote but again before that wasn’t agreed upon at the commencement of the trial, I’m 95% positive that a secret ballot can not occur because Trump would immediately move to challenge it https://file411.substack.com/p/trumps-second-impeachment-day-1-summary

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So where is the revised permit that allowed for a March. Non-existent? Or just because Trump tells them to do it, the permit restrictions are void?

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There were two permits that I could find, the Women for America First is embedded

The Silent Majority Permit can be found here

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KdPZSkLWIMMNHH4JRWAm6YjOhRszQV0d/view?usp=drivesdk

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looks like both were non marching or static.. hhmmm

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Indeed - I genuinely expected that the House Managers would bring it up and they did. I expect that more details will come out tomorrow because there are text messages and other communications obtained by the House Managers about the Trump White House’s involvement in the Rally permits.

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