Thread by @SethAbramson

This is what happens when a bestselling book comprehensively documenting how what's happening is a Russian disinformation campaign using 5,000 major-media sources comes *this* close to getting reviewed by the NEW YORK TIMES but is finally ignored—we pay the price on the back end.

https://twitter.com/JonathanTurley/status/1318178020620967936

(PS) If Turley cared to read the proof that this is a Russian plot —detailed in Proof of Corruption via 5,000 major-media sources—he'd have his answer. The NYT would. All America would. But no—no—let"s pretend the book doesn't exist. Let's run around covering tweets in real time.

(PS2) There are *hundreds* of journalists who could be reviewing or unpacking Proof of Corruption right now—and *thousands* of social media accounts with many followers that know what's in the book and can recommend it. Instead we're watching a Kremlin plot unfold in slow motion.

(PS3) The key period in the two-year Trump-Kremlin plot against Biden and America was March 15 to April 25, 2019, when pro-Kremlin forces in Ukraine were seeking a pre-election Trump endorsement for Petro Poroshenko.

When did the "Hunter laptop" magically appear? Mid-April 2019.

(PS4) I'm sorry to be so angry about this. But I spent *months* curating major-media sources to establish that Trump and the Kremlin would run a disinformation campaign this October—and now that it's happening, our media is wrong-footed because it chose to ignore a critical text.

(PS5) As I've said, if Proof of Corruption were a memoir on back acne or peanut allergies or whatever I'd have no right to be angry at it being ignored. But it answers the very questions media says it *desperately* needs answers to and it's *still* ignored. *That* makes me angry.

(PS6) The NYT *saw* that this book would be the only one to address a burgeoning Trump-Kremlin plot—and wouldn't review it. But when the plot began, who was the first person spreading uncritically the allegations Trump/his co-conspirators were making? Maggie Haberman of the NYT.

(PS7) So I'm sorry, I'm pissed for the book and for our country and I won't pretend otherwise. Trump survives and thrives and sometimes even wins *precisely* because our systems know how to review books by Pulitzer Prize winners and celebrities and that's about it. It's pathetic.

(PS8) I get that my anger seems incomprehensible and self-indulgent to those who haven't read the books. But it's not a coincidence that the one group of people who understand why I'm so angry are those who actually know what's in the books—and the methodology used to write them.