Thread by @SethAbramson

(THREAD) This person has hate-read my feed via a dummy account for a year-plus. She has 100,000 YouTube followers and uses my name to raise cash. Real-time test: to see if I can find 100 lies in her 23-minute video to make a point about far-right grifters.

1/ I don't care about this person; I assume her name is fake and for the purposes of this real-time test I watched 60 seconds of this video to gauge if a random big number I came up with (100) was a reasonable test of how many lies she tells. The purpose of this exercise is this:

2/ I want media to see how badly misinformed the Right has become about the Mueller probe and take at least a little responsibility for it—as people like "Tracey Beanz" do claim to read major media. I also want to show how when major-media misreports, these people are emboldened.

3/ I'm going to try to find these 100 lies in real time—like, *fast*—to show how easy it is and how little time this video or *any video like it* is deserving of (and remember the stakes: 100,000+ people subscribe to this liar on YouTube). Let's move fast and have some fun here.

4/ 1. I didn't "put a narrative out there"—my sources are major media and the narrative is theirs. 2. I'm not teaching a course on Russian collusion and never have and never would. 3. I've explicitly said Trump isn't guilty of treason. 4. The Mueller probe hasn't gone on "years."

5/ 5. The Mueller probe has turned a profit. 6. 199 indictments isn't "nothing." 6. I didn't just "turn to Israel"; anyone can use Twitter's search function to see how long I've been discussing Trump-Israeli collusion. 7. The reporters for NBC and CBS did not themselves say...

6/ 7 (cont.) ...there's no proof of collusion; she's attributing a Burr quote to journalists. 8. I've in no sense moved away from Trump-Saudi collusion; I'm writing a book on it right now. 9. The people she claims say Congressional committees have no power have never said that.

7/ 10. Dems aren't cherrypicking transcripts—they're releasing full ones. 11. Anyone can watch my YouTube interviews—;my steady temperament/unemotional voice are no mystery and only a demagogue pretends otherwise. 12. I never have/never would call media "the enemy of the people."

8/ 13. The "Senate" has not "come out and said there's no evidence of Russian collusion." 14. Mueller *already charged* Trump's Campaign Manager with colluding with a Russian agent in an act of Obstruction, so he would/could hardly "come out and say there's no Russian collusion."

9/ 15. She hasn't "been thinking" about how I'll react if there's "no collusion" because she reads my feed and I've repeatedly said there that if there's "no collusion" (which would be impossible given what we already know) it'd be a *great day for America* and I'd be *thrilled*.

10/ 16. I haven't alleged a "grand conspiracy" but a "grand bargain" with a small number of conspirators and I've explained the difference repeatedly on my feed (which she avidly reads). 17. I didn't "chastise NBC"; I focused quite clearly on Ken Dilanian, a single journo there.

11/ 18. Congressional committees have much power: they can find people in contempt, refer people for prosecution, hold hearings where lies are felonies; subpoena documents and people; get sworn testimony that contradicts other testimony (illuminating new felonies); and on and on.

12/ I know this is ridiculous, but I'm treating it like an AMA where there's one questioner and she knows nothing of the law, Trump-Russia, or me and my feed—despite following it for years. The broader point is important—if you engage these people their lies fall apart instantly.

13/ 19. "The media as a whole creates domestic disinformation on a daily basis" is such a broad and fabulous lie as to be meaningless. 20. There is no new "implosion" on "the left"; there has been real anger about this lawless man since he called Mexicans rapists in June of 2015.

14/ 21. I tried murder cases in my 20s—you can't do that if you "get emotional" under pressure. I'm not your snowflake, Tracy. 22. I'm not sad at all—I'm determined. 23. Trump isn't "telling the truth" to say there's "no evidence" of collusion—even Burr said there was *evidence*.

15/ Look—everyone, I think, has to do this one time: show how easy it is to discredit your haters. I chose 100 as a *random number of lies* to try to find. I assume at least a few folks are at least *curious* (even if morbidly so) to see if I can make it. Spoiler: I probably can.

16/ 24. Zamel's proposed media campaign was illegal because it would have involved foreign nationals (thus, foreign in-kind donations). This person gets livid at the word "illegal"... but somehow never gets around to explaining why that word is wrong. (She has no legal training.)

17/ 25. I get "properly criticized" (improperly, too) often. The idea I avoid criticism is, uh... pretty "meta-" given the forum—the video—in which it's being claimed. 26. There was indeed a pre-election Zamel media campaign for Trump—Zamel admitted it in the *story I linked to*.

18/ 27. Lying is indeed a right/wrong, not "partisan" thing, but as this person is lying about me to gain a partisan audience (and cash), it does seem pretty partisan. 28. The idea that only "ridiculously intelligent people" are comfortable with the word "incumbent" is hilarious.

19/ 29. Anyone can *call* my use of asterisks (not "stars") elitist, but it's a common form of bolding on platforms without that function—it has nothing to do with education or erudition. 30. "The Senate has no power whatsoever"—see my prior correction of this *ridiculous* claim.

20/ 31. Oddly, I think it's *also* false to say "Mueller has *tons* of power"—as it deliberately implies there's no check on him. His appointment letter is a check; the update to the letter is a check; needing DOJ approval for indictments and funds is a check; juries are a check.

21/ 32. Her saying she's going to "report" the second tweet in my thread counts as a lie because either (a) she's not going to, or (b) her proposed "report" is a lie because the tweet doesn't violate any ToS. 33. No, I wrote a book on this, I don't think "Tracy Beanz" knows more.

22/ 34. She says an embedded thread of mine "lies to your face" but won't read/discuss it—won't even click on it—which I think is lie-adjacent or worse because she won't or can't explain her provocative claim. 35. It's a lie to say the NYE IG report had "no wrongdoing" because...

23/ ...Horowitz said it's going to be supplemented (as to Giuliani and illegal FBI leaks). Any claim there was a "final conclusion" is false. 36. When a proven liar says "truth is not a consideration for [other] people anymore" it counts as a lie; it excludes the self improperly.

24/ Again, this person has 100,000+ YouTube followers. Her videos get tens of thousands of views. People watch this person's videos—which actually have no content, just emotion and fake voices—instead of watching the news. Is it wrong to do one takedown in four years on Twitter?

25/ 37. I don't think "I'm better than everybody" because I wrote a Trump-Russia book and much of a second one. I *do* think I know more about the Trump-Russia case—because I wrote a Trump-Russia book and much of a second one—than someone who can't lay out *specific* critiques.

26/ OK, I'm getting worried about getting to 100 lies. I didn't realize how much sighing she does, and pregnant pauses intended to suggest thoughtfulness, and fake voices that deliberately slow things down (and re-read things the viewer can already see) to fluff the video length.

27/ 38. Wow... no one who's been stalking me and my feed for over a year would scream "Collusion with who!" when I write that there is proof of collusion. Every reader of my feed knows who and what I'm talking about. If she doesn't, there's a reading *and* credibility issue here.

28/ 39. No one is, uh... "running on banning cow farts and stopping planes." 40. Nothing is "over" and no one has "lost" when the Senate says it has "10 years" of investigation left and we have no timeline for a Mueller report. 41/ Kamala Harris didn't lie about smoking weed.

29/ 42. "Infanticide" is a legal term—so pro-choice voters aren't "OK with infanticide" (which is illegal), they're "OK" (or something similar) with a legal medical procedure. 43. The Democratic platform isn't "socialism" if you actually know what socialism is, which she doesn't.

30/ I should've realized how much of this video billed as being about me would be an embarrassing juvenile rant. I tried to listen to a Dan Bongino show "about me," but he just yelled my name a few times and then tried to sell sanitary napkins or something. Not sure—it was an ad.

31/ 44. I'm kind of annoyed, actually, that I can't get to 100 because this video wasn't as advertised. 45. She pretends she doesn't know how to pronounce Kamala Harris's name—she knows just fine. She's just being a jerk (liar)—it's the sort of childish stuff Rush Limbaugh does.

32/ 46. She says that she has a lot of "liberal friends" who she "put her arm around" and "took them on a journey [to enlightenment]. I can't imagine a progressive hanging out with this person. Can you? Willingly? Let alone being magically convinced to a new worldview by... this?

33/ 47. I think it's racist to pretend not to be able to pronounce an African-American politician's name you can easily pronounce? Yes—it's racist. Not a lie per se, but I guess pretending not to be racist when you're racist is a lie. 48. We're 18 minutes in and she just said...

34/ ..."moving right along." Is this Beckettesque? I don't even know what this "Tracy Beanz" video is about anymore. What are we "moving right along" to, Tracy? An Existentialist cloud? Purgatory? I think this feels like purgatory. She's ranting about "there are two genders"?

35/ Maybe everyone in America should watch this? 48. I'm coming around to that view, as this is some bananas right here. She just said "proverbial"—how is "incumbent" elitist but not "proverbial"? 49. OK. 50. Done. Last time I try this experiment. I only got to 50—her fault. /end

PS/ She just called "Ilhan Omar" "this one here" and pretended she couldn't pronounce *her* name, either. I get nervous that people can be this proudly racist and have 100,000+ followers on YouTube. It's the Trump era—I shouldn't be surprised—but somehow, I always am. #optimist

NOTE/ As I never want to spread a video with libel in it, I should note that "Tracy Beanz"—who isn't above libel—comes close to doing so here, saying of Omar (in a video decrying disinformation!) "didn't she marry her brother or something?" No, she didn't: fox9.com/news/dlf-candi…