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Aug 16, 2019 17 tweets 8 min read Read on X
This is how terrified the Kremlin is of PROOF OF CONSPIRACY. They're using a Sputnik blogger, Angus Gallagher, who the BBC found (link: bbc.com/news/blogs-tre…) to be part of a Kremlin "misinformation machine," to spread lies about it.

I've never even *met* a person from Qatar.
1/ As we approach the release of PROOF OF CONSPIRACY, this Sputnik writer tied to the Kremlin "misinformation machine" has been furiously tweeting out bizarre conspiracy theories about me that would be hilarious if they weren't—as I said—part of a Kremlin misinformation campaign.
2/ RT—the Kremlin's multimedia organ—has been obsessed with me a *long* time, ever since I published PROOF OF COLLUSION. In the last year (I signed on to write PROOF OF COLLUSION a year ago) they've written about me at least 5 times. So I'm on their radar: rt.com/search?q=seth+…
3/ The hope—as ever—is to get purely fantastical misinformation into the conservative jetstream just as conservatives are realizing how damaging PROOF OF CONSPIRACY is to Trump. This is just the start. "Angus Gallagher" is as near to a bot as an feed can be without yet being one:
4/ But let's be clear: the nations most aligned against Qatar are the ones now blockading it—Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Egypt, which are established in the book as the three primary actors in the "Red Sea Conspiracy." These nations are also known for having their own troll armies.
5/ The book discuss in detail the operations of THE LORD OF THE FLIES, the nickname (yes, really!) for the right-hand man of Trump and Kushner's friend MBS (who Trump calls "our man," and who himself claims he has Kushner "in his pocket"). THE LORD OF THE FLIES is called that...
6/ ...because he has a "digital army" of "virtual flies"—what we'd call trolls, bots, or trollbots in America, though there are also some actual human fanatics in the bunch—who spread propaganda for MBS, which propaganda is increasingly (and the book explains why) tied to Russia.
7/ Beginning a few weeks ago, I started to be followed by key figures—with large followings—in the Middle East. One new follower (who actually has far fewer followers than the others) is @Ams_qatar, who was CEO for the Qatar Investment Authority (discussed in detail in the book).
@Ams_qatar 8/ It's clear the book's content—which Qatar will be no happier about than Trump, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Hungary, the UAE, or Russia—has begun making the rounds in the Middle East. It was at that moment "Angus Gallagher" showed up spinning wild conspiracy theories.
@Ams_qatar 9/ But "Angus Gallagher" is likely just the start. THE LORD OF THE FLIES is still out there, and (as I said) Qatar won't like the book, either. Nor the Kremlin. Nor anyone who participated in the Red Sea Conspiracy to illegally aid Trump's election. Just wanted everyone to know.
@Ams_qatar 10/ There's certainly a chance the book comes out and these folks realize the truth—this is a story that can't be put back in its bottle, and making up insane conspiracy theories about a professor in New Hampshire won't cut the mustard. But if things get strange—now you know why.
@Ams_qatar PS/ Just for fun, here's *my* trollbot rating. If and when you see people going insane about me or PROOF OF CONSPIRACY, if you use the @BotSentinel extension on Chrome or Firefox I encourage you to look them up. 40% is about the *lowest* rating you'll see—most will be far higher.
@Ams_qatar @BotSentinel PS2/ Apropos of my references to the Saudis, Emiratis, and Egyptians here and in the book—three-fourths of what's called (with the Bahrainis) the "Saudi Quartet"—notice how quickly "Gallagher" turns to focusing on "America's Arab allies" when called out.
@Ams_qatar @BotSentinel PS3/ America's chief *Arab* ally in the Middle East has long been Qatar, inasmuch as we've located our largest base in the region there (which *deeply* angered Saudi Arabia). And now Saudi Arabia is *blockading* America's chief ally in the region—so of course they demonize Qatar.
@Ams_qatar @BotSentinel PS4/ That said, as I noted, Qatari officials won't like this book either. My point is that ex-SoS Rex Tillerson prevented MBS from a *ground invasion* of Qatar—the tiny nation our largest Middle East base is in!—and that intervention is what got him fired. theintercept.com/2018/08/01/rex…
@Ams_qatar @BotSentinel PS5/ So if/when you see Saudi, Egyptian, Emirati, or Russin bloggers/trolls attacking me or PROOF OF CONSPIRACY—a book that significantly takes to task Russia, Israel, and Qatar, too—remember that the first three are *essentially making war on* our *top ally* in the Middle East.
@Ams_qatar @BotSentinel (NOTE: There was a time other nations might have been considered our "top ally" in the Middle East. Pre-MBS, a case could've been made for Saudi Arabia; pre-Sisi, a case could've been made for Egypt; obviously Jordan is a *major* ally; but we chose to put our *troops* in Qatar.)

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(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: Proof of Consequences, Vol. 1: Where America Goes Now

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This one is nearly book-length, but it’s a barnburner. It’s FREE with a one-week trial of PROOF, a Top 25 U.S. Politics substack.

Please RETWEET this so everyone can see it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/proof-of-con…Image
1/ A lot of people are asking me whether the lengthy report above—like I said, it is probably nearly book-length (and surely novella-length)—will address the allegations now floating around social media that the 2024 presidential election was stolen.
2/ Many of you probably do not know that I got my start in so-called bigtime national political journalism in 2004—bigtime, at least, in the sense that major media outlets (e.g. ROLLING STONE) covered my political journalism. At the time I was mostly focused on the 2004 election.
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Just a quick note here in advance of Trump and Musk crashing the economy in 2025: Trump voters are going to blame Democrats for that too.

Read up on fascism and cults and stop assuming we have a rational electorate that’s actually looking at economic indicators. It simply isn’t.
If anyone is looking ahead to 2025 and thinking that when Donald Trump breaks things, kills people, ends alliances and treaties, and endangers all of us he’ll be blamed for it, think again. You can’t *imagine* the degree of pain he’ll need to cause people before they turn on him.
Trump is a proxy for issues in people and culture Democrats can’t resolve via politics. He is a fever that will either kill this country dead or bring it so close to death—and I mean spectacularly, painfully close to death—that the fever breaks. Democrats better learn that quick.
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(🧵) ELECTION THREAD: I’ve been waiting all night to say anything substantive about what’s happened, as I felt—I still do—that I might say something I’d regret.

I hope you’ll consider following along as I try to process this with you all, and try to do it responsibly. Please RT. Image
1/ The New York Times gives Trump more a 90% chance of winning the election. Barring a miracle—and none is on the horizon at present—he will win.

And if by some miracle Harris won, it would be such a shock that it would almost certainly cause widespread Trumpist violence anyway.
2/ He isn’t just winning. At present this is shaping up to be a landslide. This is not Harris doing as Biden did. This is not Harris doing as Clinton did. This is Harris losing Texas by 15, Florida by 13, Iowa by 14, Ohio by 11...

This is Trump *wildly* outperforming all polls.
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MORE/ Retweet this widely so that all Americans can understand that the Kremlin and Trump have exactly the same political agenda—to stoke not just figurative but actual chaos and mayhem across the United States. MAGA is an anti-American political movement. wsj.com/world/russia-p…
PS/ Here's what you *won't* see in light of the news of coming 9/11-style terror attacks committed by Putin, the Kremlin, and Russia: you won't see Trump distance himself from Putin, the Kremlin or Russia. You won't see MAGAs distance themselves from Putin, the Kremlin or Russia.
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This is... maybe the most horrifying political ad I have ever seen.

Partly because of the content, partly because it's a reasonable portrayal of the world we are in and will be heading deeper into if we men don't vote in massive numbers for Kamala Harris.
I hesitated to post this, because it is so deeply upsetting.

But then I asked myself a simple question: is it accurate? Are women dying because of the decisions of Republican congressmen? And the answer is yes.

The answer is yes.

And *men* need to help put a stop to this evil.
F*ck—this ad made me cry.

As a husband, all I can think about is my wife. I can't imagine being in a situation like this and being utterly helpless. But there are now many men like me nationwide who are going through this.

My heart breaks for their wives. And for them.

My God.
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(🧵) I don’t pretend to be an expert on women voters. I can only say what I see them saying on my social media feeds (1.2M+ followers): they don’t like that he’s a serial adulterer, serial sexual predator, and adjudicated rapist who wants to control their bodies and healthcare. Image
(🧵) They don’t like that he serially sexually harassed women on TV. They don’t like that he repeatedly cheated on Melania—Steve Bannon says with at least 100 women, including while Melania was pregnant—and hasn’t been faithful to any woman he’s been with. theweek.com/donald-trump/6…
(🧵) They don’t like how he said in 2016 that he thought women should be “punished” for getting an abortion. They don’t find him miming multiple sex acts with a microphone—this was yesterday—funny or charming. They don’t like the 28 Sexual Assault or Rape allegations against him.
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