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Feb 24, 2022, 14 tweets

(🔐) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: New Revelations Indicate Ginni Thomas Was Key Author of Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot

This is an explosive but extremely well-sourced report. I hope you’ll subscribe to PROOF, RETWEET this news widely, and follow the thread below. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ As regular PROOF readers know, PROOF articles are both long and deliberately slow burns; they build a journalistic case through numerous sources and links and callbacks to significant past reporting. This article is no exception—some of its most explosive components come late.

2/ The most significant work the article does, and I consider this only the tip of a very large iceberg, is it dispels the false notion that *either* Peter Navarro *or* John Eastman were the authors of what is now known as Trump's coup plot: the vile, seditious "Green Bay Sweep."

3/ All the evidence we have confirms the core concepts behind the "Green Bay Sweep" originated from two secretive far-right orgs run by—you guessed it—Ginni Thomas. Trump's legal ops, as to both lawyers *and* so-called "experts," was staffed by Thomas's friends and subordinates.

4/ But this *isn't* an article that merely positions Ginni Thomas as leading the January 6 effort from a lofty perch—though at times it's clear she did so, and that her lofty perch included unprecedented direct access to the President of the United States across a 2-year period.

5/ Ginni Thomas, this article reveals in extensive detail, was a leader of the January 6 scheme in a *literal* and *on-the-ground* fashion, directly intervening to form the coalition that made the chaos of January 6 possible. Indeed, the evidence now suggests that Ginni Thomas...

6/ ...may have been *more* involved in January 6 than any other plotter. How? As a key figure in more *spheres* than *anyone* I've encountered thus far:

🟥 White House
🟧 Trump Legal
🟨 Team Kraken
🟩 Women for America First
🟦 Groundswell
🟪 CNP Action
🟫 Congressional Outreach

7/ Even that's not all, as unlike any other plotter Ginni Thomas had an in-road to two other components of the "Green Bay Sweep":

⬛️ The Supreme Court
⬜️ The White House Personnel Office

It can rightly be said that Ginni Thomas *shaped* the government that sought a self-coup...

8/ ...on the front end, and then on the *back end* had unprecedented access to the thinking of the man that a key CNP member has called the "real Chief Justice [of the United States]" and Mitch McConnell has dubbed the "north star" of the MAGA GOP and one of its key "leaders."

9/ I have now spent well over a year writing nearly 200 articles—all of them long and exhaustively sourced—about the January 6 insurrection. And I can find no figure more connected to every component of the event than Ginni Thomas. Yet Congress and the FBI won't go near her. Why?

10/ Name a person involved in the coup plotting and they're likely tied to Ginni Thomas—who'd be at the *center* of the web of coup-plotter interrelationships if one were to draw one. Steve Bannon. Ali Alexander. Cleta Mitchell. John Eastman. Barbara Ledeen. Russell Ramsland, Jr.

11/ The list goes on and on. Trump. John McEntee. Don Berlin. Rich Higgins. Mark Meadows. It is—as I said—hard to find *any* sphere inside the January 6 investigation that Ginni Thomas wouldn't be one of the *first* people you'd want to talk to about.

But that's not surprising.

12/ It's not surprising because Ginni Thomas has been a radical on a self-described "mission" for decades—and ethics of any kind have never been a block on her advances. Which is why the other thing this article does is present a portrait of Thomas that's accurate and horrifying.

CONCLUSION/ Ginni Thomas is still involved in the insurrection, just less publicly. This article ends with an interaction between Thomas and the camp of a likely 2024 GOP POTUS candidate—DeSantis—that'll scare you. She's dangerous, and must be subpoenaed/interrogated immediately.

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