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  • 2022-06-16 (xsd:date)
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  • Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • Pete Sessions’ Deleted Tweet Claim In early January 2021, Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) tweeted and deleted: Had a great meeting today with folks from 'Stop the Steal at our nation’s Capitol. I encouraged them to keep fighting and assured them I look forward to doing MY duty on January 6th. #StopTheSteal #legalvotescount Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On June 16 2022, hearings about the January 6th 2021 coup attempt hearings continued ; meanwhile, a screenshot of a tweet by an elected about Capitol visitors went viral — purportedly tweeted by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas) before the insurrection and deleted the day after: Text on the screenshot read: Deleted Tweet from Pete Sessions PeteSessions (R-Texas) @PeteSessions Had a great meeting today with folks from Stop the Steal at our nation’s Capitol. I encouraged them to keep fighting and assured them I look forward to doing MY duty on January 6th. #StopTheSteal #legalvotescount https://t.co/E6jcMzoB5s Deleted after 4 days at 2:22 PM on 07 Jan 21. At the time the posts appeared, many Americans were tuned into the third hearing with the U.S. House committee investigating the events around what took place on January 6 2021. As the hearings moved forward, articles about lawmakers providing tours to people who later attacked the Capitol were concurrently published . Consequently, Sessions’ purportedly deleted tweet attracted attention in the context of new or newly revisited details about the events leading up to the Capitol insurrection. Elements of the screenshot matched the user interface of ProPublica’s Politwoops, an archive of lawmakers’ deleted tweets. Politwoops indeed maintained a record of the tweet, which Sessions deleted on January 7 2021. Underneath Deleted after 4 days at 2:22 PM on 07 Jan 21, a link indicated the deleted tweet was replaced by the next tweet from @PeteSessions. The link led to the following January 4 2021 tweet thread , which said: On January 6th, when the 117th Congress convenes for the Joint Session, I will support an objection to the certification of the Electoral College. This nation was founded upon free and fair elections. Our nation’s integrity, security, and international presence rely on it. Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die It is imperative for America’s future that we stand strong for truth and transparency. We must uphold American exceptionalism. America needs to be one of rule of law and of instant replay with a close call. If we neglect to challenge the states in question, whomever gets the presidency will be seen in a different light. It is in everyone’s best interest to constitutionally verify the result. #StopTheSteal #ObjectElectoralCollegeVote #DoNotCertify Separately, Sessions’ tweet was archived on web.archive.org . Politwoops’ archived version included a link, which appeared to represent photographic evidence attached to Sessions’ deleted tweet: Four individuals appeared in the photograph. Sessions was second to the left in the image, standing alongside two men and a woman (with two Stop the Steal flags). A popular June 16 2022 Imgur post showed a screengrab of a January 2 2021 tweet by Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Texas), deleted on the afternoon of January 7 2021. Although the screenshot accurately represented an authentic, deleted tweet by Sessions, it lacked the photograph Sessions originally uploaded. In it, Sessions posed with three individuals outside the Capitol building on January 2 2021. Article Sources + Jan. 6 committee holds third hearing Pete Sessions Capitol Tour Deleted Tweet | Imgur January 6 committee has footage that challenges Capitol Police findings over alleged role of GOP congressman Had a great meeting today with folks from Stop the Steal at our nation’s Capitol. I encouraged them to keep fighting and assured them I look forward to doing MY duty on January 6th. | Pete Sessions/Twitter/Politwoops On January 6th, when the 117th Congress convenes for the Joint Session, I will support an objection to the certification of the Electoral College. This nation was founded upon free and fair elections. Our nation’s integrity, security, and international presence rely on it. | Pete Sessions/Twitter Had a great meeting today with folks from Stop the Steal at our nation’s Capitol. I encouraged them to keep fighting and assured them I look forward to doing MY duty on January 6th. | Pete Sessions/Twitter Posted in Fact Checks , Politics Tagged deleted tweets , imgur , jan 6 hearings , jan 6 tours , pete sessions , pete sessions capitol tour , pete sessions deleted tweet , politwoops , viral tweets (en)
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