(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.
(PS3) One thing folks who've read the Proof series will tell you is that the books hit hard with almost every sentence but *also*—it seems paradoxical—are sowing the seeds, in each sentence, for later, *connected* revelations in the books to provoke "Holy sh*t!" ("aha!") moments.
(PS4) An example: in Chapter 1, Trump spends the day with Manafort at the RNC in 1988. Manafort shows Trump that he knows how to run an RNC. 28 years later Manafort begs Trump for a job. What does he ask Trump to hire him as? His convention manager. Manafort played the long game.
(PS5) The book is 44 chapters. The curation in Chapter 1 obliterates Trump's lies about his relationship with Manafort; obliterates his lies about his past dealings in Ukraine; obliterates any sense Trump's campaign under Manafort was anything but a Kremlin op.

That's Chapter 1.

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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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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… Image
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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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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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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10 Sep
I'll bite.

✝️ You have this.
🔫 No one wants your small arms.
🇺🇸 Democrats are largely capitalists.
🚔 Weeding out bad cops isn't anti-police.
🇺🇸 Trump hates and endangers our troops.
🗣️ You have this.
🚧 Walls don't secure borders.
👶 OK.
🇺🇸 BS.
❤️ Trump is evil.
✝️ See above.
PS/ If a voter wants to throw away *every other issue*—like Trump killing 250,000 Americans in 6 months—because of the abortion question, there's nothing you can say to that voter. But every other "justification" for voting for Trump is a steaming turd pie of self-exonerating BS.
PS2/ None of us can stop our fellow Americans from knowingly voting for a monster who believes in *nothing* just to stop a moderate Democrat from occupying the White House. But what I can't stomach is such people pretending they don't hate what America stands for—because they do.
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9 Sep
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.
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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