We learned tonight that Trump, in the weeks before his insurrection, had a plan to install both a new Attorney General and a new CIA director who were political pawns, even as another story just published reveals the Pentagon was being controlled behind the scenes by a third pawn
Someone tell me why you would need, as an outgoing president who claims he's the rightful winner of the last election, to control the DOJ, the Pentagon, and the CIA as you're aggressively advertising a march on Congress and your top advisors are advising you to impose martial law
It should be abundantly clear that that last tweet was a rhetorical question
The odds that we won't uncover a massive seditious conspiracy with Trump at its heart in the coming weeks and months have dwindled to near zero, as just 16 days after the attack on the Capitol we already have dozens of reports linking the White House to the January 6 insurrection

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25 Jan
What we have to remember as we're subjected to hundreds of calls for "unity" from Republicans who've made disunity their business in Washington is that the Republican Party succeeds when the federal government fails.

Fracture and gridlock is a GOP strategy, not an inevitability.
The Republican party that Joe Biden negotiated with in the 1970s and 80s had a platform and an agenda. It had things it wanted to do that it was willing to negotiate with the Democrats in order to get done.

This GOP is a judge-confirmation machine with an elephant sticker on it.
The day that the Republican Party decided to forgo having a platform in favor of endorsing whatever Trump wanted to do was the day it revealed itself as singularly focused on the accrual of power, even as and when doing so makes actual progress for the American people impossible.
Read 4 tweets
24 Jan
If Biden also tries to start a civil war you can impeach him John
(PS) Also can I just say that a member of the Senate GOP leadership threatening to impeach former president Barack Obama in 2022 or 2023 is a weird flex
(PS2) I also love the implication in this Cornyn tweet that the Democrats just blindfolded Chuck Schumer and spun him around a few times with a dart in his hand to figure out which former Republican president to try to impeach for funsies
Read 4 tweets
22 Jan
WASHINGTON POST (1/19): Federal Law Enforcement Uncovers Massive Early-January Plot to Murder All of Congress; Plotters with Military Backgrounds, Who Had Trained to "Storm the Capitol," Planned to Gas Members of Congress in the Tunnels Beneath the Capitol washingtonpost.com/local/legal-is…
1/ While some members of the criminal conspiracy just uncovered wanted to execute "arrests" for "treason"—defined by the plotters as any meeting to certify Biden's victory—others clearly sought murder, planning to "seal" members of Congress underground and then "turn on the gas."
2/ "A ring of dozens coordinated their movements as they 'stormed the castle' to disrupt the confirmation of President-elect Joe Biden’s electoral college victory."

According to the Washington Post, as many as 30 or 40 plotters may have been involved in the January 6 operation.
Read 16 tweets
22 Jan
(PROOF) Yes—Trump had achievements. I enumerate them here.

If you find yourself agreeing, I hope you'll consider subscribing to PROOF.
sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-top-5-ac…
(PS) One achievement I didn't mention is that Trump's aloofness to certain threats—born of venality and graft—correspondingly forced us to awaken to them.

We see Saudi Arabia more clearly; apprehend the danger from Russia properly; will exercise more caution in our friendship...
(PS2) ...with Israel; understand the fragility of the EU and our importance to it with greater sharpness; can visualize the dangers of a war with Iran in a way that might have been impossible had we not come so perilously close to one; feel compelled to clarify our intentions...
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22 Jan
This must be fixed. Immediately. But the premise that it's the fault of both political parties is absurd. It's the fault of the one party—the Republican Party—that deliberately fomented an insurrection. That insurrection was what required the Guard to be in DC in the first place.
(PS) This said, the onus for fixing the problem is certainly on both parties. Part of the reason for that—besides the fact that the Democrats are now in their second day of running Washington—is that the GOP is presently a party of children who need Democratic adult supervision.
(UPDATE) The Democrats fixed it. As they fix every problem created by Republicans.
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22 Jan
Graham just told Hannity that if the Senate GOP has the votes to dismiss the new impeachment article, House managers shouldn't be allowed to make their case and the article should be dismissed. If they *don't* have the votes, he says Trump gets weeks to prepare. See how it works?
Graham also—though he's a former prosecutor—said it was astonishing that in America a man would be indicted before he has a lawyer.

Fun fact: almost everyone in America who gets indicted gets indicted before they have a lawyer.

So why is a lawyer lying to America about the law?
I normally wouldn't mention this because I don't really care, but I have to say that Graham looked manifestly unwell during his appearance on Hannity just now. He looked pale and withdrawn and honestly a little bit like a vampire. I just don't know what is going on with that man.
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