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Seth Abramson

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11 Sep

BREAKING: "Grand Bargain" Revealed in Proof of Conspiracy Takes Next Step

{Nations at the secret pro-Israel, pro-Trump 2015 Red Sea Summit that have recognized Israel}:

🇪🇬 ✅ Egypt
🇦🇪 ✅ UAE
🇯🇴 ✅ Jordan
🇧🇭 ✅ Bahrain
🇸🇦 🅾️ Saudi Arabia*

*Open question. nbcnews.com/news/world/bah…

PS/ Understand that these announcements are coming now *not* because these detentes *just happened*—which the media will erroneously report, despite these nations having colluded with Trump and Israel since 2016—but because the aim here is to benefit Trump's re-election campaign.

PS2/ You can't even imagine the machinations that must be going on behind the scenes between Kushner and MBS to try to get the Saudis to recognize Israel right before the November election as an "October surprise" to push Trump to victory and get him a fake-ass Nobel Peace Prize.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

11 Sep

This article will blow your mind.

It's long and complex—it *has* to be read carefully. You can't just read the headline. But fair warning: when Christopher Steele gets a chance to speak back to the scurrilous criticism he's facing, it's astounding.

Link: spectator.co.uk/article/was-th…

PS/ One reads an article like this and wonders, frankly, what happened to journalism in America.

At *any time* U.S. media could have done a deep dive into the disinformation campaign that's been waged against a trusted FBI partner and former MI6 Russia desk chief—and no one did.

PS2/ Lindsey Graham took a Steele sub-source saying some of his information was gathered in meetings in bars—where people *do* meet, you know, in life, to talk—and *twisted* that into a claim that everything Steele got was "bar talk," which *isn't* what the Senate was told. Ever.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

10 Sep

(IMPORTANT) I have something I must say, but I must say it carefully and ethically because I teach journalism, believe in journalism, and believe journalists must respect their roles. What I have to say will take a few tweets, but at the end you'll see it's important. Nationally.

(1) I am a curatorial journalist—a metajournalist. I compile, curate, and connect reliable major-media investigative reporting from around the world and going back decades. I do that job ethically. I am not a reporter. I do not wish to be a reporter. I will not become a reporter.

(2) Since I began writing the Proof series, I have been inundated with leads. Requests to connect by encrypted messaging. 99% of these were clearly dead ends, but it didn't matter because—again—I'm a curatorial journalist, not a reporter. And I told those who contacted me that.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

10 Sep

As predicted, the net effect of reports on the Woodward tapes has been as much a boon to Trump as a detriment—as pieces like this one now *falsely* date Trump's knowledge of the virus' danger to when *Woodward* learned of it—not weeks or months *earlier*. cnn.com/2020/09/10/pol…

PS/ The same thing happened with FEAR, two years ago. Woodward—on the basis of his interviews and no other research—declared that there had been no collusion. The media ran with it, and it and Woodward were *wrong*. They're wrong now about when Trump learned of the virus' danger.

PS2/ As I detail based on major-media reporting in Proof of Corruption, the Trump White House learned all about the virus—*everything* it needed to know to take *immediate emergency action*—in November 2019, *three months* before CNN now reports Trump apprehended imminent danger.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

10 Sep

(AUDIOBOOK EXCLUSIVE) I've decided to make Chapter 1 of Proof of Corruption available on Twitter. My goal is for potential readers to understand how profoundly different from conventional nonfiction "curatorial journalism" is.

I hope you'll listen and RT.

(PS) All I ask of metajournalism skeptics is that you listen to one chapter—knowing that, while you can't see it (because you're listening to the audiobook) there's an endnote at the end of almost every sentence you're hearing that takes you to a major-media investigative report.

(PS2) If this audiobook exclusive garners enough interest, I'll keep releasing chapters here on Twitter, so that people can better understand how metajournalism works: how dense it is, how free of gossip or extraneous information, how focused *exclusively* on major breaking news.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

9 Sep

https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1303774363179724800

I'm angry.

On March 19—when journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Bob Woodward got a tape he had a moral obligation to share with America—we had only 3,351 COVID-19 cases and only 50 COVID-19 deaths.

Now we have 6,540,385 COVID-19 cases and 194,863 deaths.

*Fuck* Bob Woodward.

https://twitter.com/ZerlinaMaxwell/status/1303774363179724800

I'm an author who published a book on COVID-19 containing far more accurate and detailed info on the virus than Woodward, so I'll naturally be seen as jealous. No—it's that I *teach* journalism and ethics to university students and can't now unteach what Woodward has taught them.

What my students have been taught is that journalists don't owe moral obligations to their country in a time of crisis; they owe a duty to the publishers they publish with at great corporate/personal enrichment. They've been taught that winning an award guards you from criticism.

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