Thread by @SethAbramson

*SHIPS TODAY*

Please RETWEET if you want the truth about the 2016 election.

✅ Sequel to NYT bestseller Proof of Collusion
✅ Amazon Top 100 New Release
✅ "A richly documented indictment of power and corruption bearing urgent discussion" —Kirkus Reviews amazon.com/Proof-Conspira…

1/ With Congress about to return from its summer recess, America is about to have a national conversation about impeachment. Many will wrongly say the only matter at issue is obstruction. Wrong: the chief issue in the impeachment inquiry is national security and always will be.

2/ We've become numb to daily signs that this president is a national security risk, and worse, as many haven't read—and media ignored—Vol. 1 of the Mueller Report, most Americans don't realize Trump has been a national security risk since the day he announced a presidential run.

3/ There have been a handful of really great books written about the 2016 election, but to the extent that any of them focused on Trump's international collusion, they (a) restricted their focus to Russia, and (b) told a story that ran up until a few months before Election Day.

4/ The reason Proof of Conspiracy is 970 pages (592 in print, 378 online); the reason it incorporates in its Author's Note yet another book (the 450-pg. Proof of Collusion); the reason it has 3,250 endnotes and 4,330 citations—is that it tells a story that *hasn't yet been told*.

5/ Anyone who thinks they know what's in Proof of Conspiracy is wrong. The first person to read the book—who was in his own right an expert on the Trump-Russia case—said he had to stop after each chapter to drink because the book was so full of upsetting details he hadn't known.

6/ The Mueller Report—as any expert on the Trump-Russia case will tell you—was a *beginning*, not an ending. It spawned 20 new federal investigations *and* it sent hundreds of thousands of pages of evidence to the FBI Counterintelligence Division that have yet to be reported out.

7/ Proof of Conspiracy takes Americans inside a harrowing story of pre- and post-election collusion by Trump and his aides, allies and associates that isn't even *hinted* at in the Mueller Report—because it was outside its scope. No other book goes where Proof of Conspiracy goes.

8/ I say none of this as a boast; as an author, I really did set out to aggregate and record a story that was being told across investigative reports in 25 countries but that had remained *invisible* to Americans because its complexity made it impossible for cable news to report.

9/ The cast of characters in Proof of Conspiracy numbers in the *hundreds*; the number of key figures whose names don't show up even once in the Mueller Report is in the dozens. The book takes place in locations that aren't even whispered about in the whole of the Mueller Report.

10/ Some have wrongly assumed that I'd speak this way of any book I've written. But the facts are clear: I've published 15 books and I've never spoken this way about any of them. And that's because it's a fact—not a claim—that Proof of Conspiracy tells a story not told elsewhere.

11/ When I say I want this book in the hands of every American, it's because there's info in this book about our president, our government, and our democracy that's vital for every member of Congress considering impeachment and each voter preparing for that and the 2020 election.

12/ I know my obsessive research on these NatSec issues is easy to mock. But there's a reason this feed's nearly 700,000 followers include hundreds of members of Congress, presidential campaign staffers, White House correspondents, and seasoned journalists from around the world.

13/ Among the many things that Trump has cost America is hope. We've been told so many times that this president will never face responsibility for anything—indeed that he didn't do anything wrong—that though 150 million of us know that's false, we still feel a creeping malaise.

14/ I'm here to tell you I've researched, sourced, and fully documented the scope of the Trump-Russia scandal for over 3 years—and the fetid tendrils it began extending into the Middle East back in 2014—and the simple fact is this: *you're not crazy*. It *is* as bad as you think.

15/ That bears repeating, as America is being intentionally gaslit by the far-right fringe of Trump cultists and unintentionally gaslit by a media that has simply given up trying to understand the most important story in American political history in 50 years: *you're not crazy*.

16/ If you think Trump is corrupt, you're correct—the facts confirm it. If you think Trump colluded, you're correct—the facts confirm it. If you think Trump allies committed crimes, you're correct—the facts confirm it. If you think Trump knew, you're correct—the facts confirm it.

17/ Volume 1 of the Mueller Report looked at *two* crimes involving *one* foreign country and came to the following conclusion: in part because Trump allies lied, withheld evidence, and stonewalled, we don't *yet* have evidence *beyond a reasonable doubt* of those *two* offenses.

18/ The Special Counsel's Office cut deals with Michael Flynn and Paul Manafort before it believed proof beyond a reasonable doubt of those two crimes *did* exist, and that Trump was involved in them. Mueller did what you do: he flipped defendants to get to their shared superior.

19/ Vol. 2 of the Mueller Report details how Trump and his allies obstructed justice to ensure the witnesses Mueller flipped wouldn't tell Mueller the truth—or in some cases anything. So Mueller seeded 20 new federal investigations to complete a task he knew his office could not.

20/ If you read the Mueller Report and Proof of Conspiracy and come away thinking this *isn't* the gravest national security scandal in the history of US presidential politics—which you won't—you'll have all the license you need to turn away from all of this. But again—you won't.

21/ The misconception about me that bothers me the *most* is that I want to be doing this. No—I want to be doing anything *but* this. I wrote this book because we're in a national emergency and the facts confirm that, not because this is how I or any of us want to spend our time.

22/ In the year ahead, things will happen in the Iran crisis in the Middle East, and in Russia, and in Israel, that will endanger America and make no obvious sense unless you understand the assurances that Trump has made to certain parties—and that he hasn't told Americans about.

23/ No matter how hopeless you may feel about Trump being ever held to account for his actions, in your heart you know this is the most corrupt administration in U.S. history—and you're right. And the facts confirm it. You'll want to be armed with those facts for what comes next.

24/ Based on all the research I compiled for Proof of Collusion and Proof of Conspiracy, I call for the impeachment of the President of the United States on national security grounds—and I'll hold that position until Congress takes action consistent with the threat America faces.

25/ As Congress returns from recess, America arrives at a crossroads: we can convince ourselves that all the handwringing about Trump is just "politics" and do nothing until November 2020, *or* we can accept that this is a national emergency—a *crisis*—and Congress must act. /end

PS/ If you read Proof of Conspiracy, I ask you to let folks know what you found in it. If you're a reader of this feed who's found it valuable for years *because* it's given you a preview of the harrowing content in Proof of Conspiracy, *please do spread the word* about the book.

OTHER PURCHASE LINKS/ Barnes & Noble: barnesandnoble.com/w/proof-of-con…

OTHER PURCHASE LINKS 2/ Indiebound: indiebound.org/book/978125025…

OTHER PURCHASE LINKS 3/ BAM! booksamillion.com/product/978125…

NOTE/ With a 970-page book that has 4,330 citations, people are sometimes curious about how fact-checking was handled. I'm happy to answer: we had a team of *five* professional fact-checkers working on this book for weeks. Ask around and anyone will tell you that's a *huge* team.

EXCERPT/ Six excerpts from Proof of Conspiracy—covering ~30 pages of the book's 592-page text proper—are now available on my website, where you can also click through to my bio via the menu bar (if you're interested in my background) and preorder the book. sethabramson.net

BOTS/ For a month, every tweet about this book has faced *massive* foreign-bot attacks. You can guess as easily as I can why this might be, and where they come from—if recent nationwide attacks are any guide, Russia and Saudi Arabia. I'm doing what I can to keep the thread clean.