(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
(PS3) "convict for funsies" I mean
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(PROOF) Please RETWEET this major exposé of Trump and his advisers' involvement in the January 6 insurrection—particularly Roger Stone. This info is urgent and shocking and needs to be read by every American. If you agree, I hope you'll subscribe to PROOF. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-fingerpr…
(PS) As with all PROOF essays, full subscribers—it's only $5/month, the lowest amount Substack lets columnists charge—can also participate in the comment fields of each entry and ask questions during Q&As. I mention this in the event you want to join the discussion over at PROOF.
(PS2) This essay—and others I've posted on PROOF, all fully sourced from major media—should serve as a warning to the Republican Party: the evidence is mounting that Donald Trump didn't just incite but helped *plan* the January 6 insurrection.
The events of January 6 were more closely coordinated by the WH than we've been led to believe—from the Brian Jack-Mo Brooks call, to a dozen current/former Trump employees assisting the march, to Trump friend Jones saying the WH asked him to lead it and Roger Stone echoing that.
I'm honestly concerned that the Trump impeachment trial is happening too soon, not too late. I've become certain—based on the 800+ major-media stories I've compiled—that Trump didn't just incite the insurrection, but helped plan it. But investigators need more time to confirm it.
As ever, I'm only speaking on the basis of major-media reports—no nonsensical speculation. The picture that is coming together from such reports is that January 6 played out exactly as Trump and Giuliani intended it to, which is why the reports say Trump was so pleased about it.
(VIDEO) Alex Jones says the *White House coordinated the march on the Capitol*, including who'd lead it and where Trump would be during it. If true, Trump—who'd already been told by the Secret Service he couldn't go—lied to Jones to enhance the mob's size.
(NOTE) If you combine the above video with this one—in which Stone (a friend of Jones and a speaker, with Ali Alexander and Jones, at a January 5 rally) says "I was invited to lead a march to the Capitol [and] I declined"—it sounds like Trump was involved.
(NOTE2) I'm trying to think of who in the White House would be asking *Alex Jones and Roger Stone* to lead a march. The number of White House staffers who would consider that a good idea is *vanishingly* small—this had to have been a request either made by Trump or on his behalf.
Like Trump, Roger Stone promised the insurrectionists—before their attack on the Capitol—that he would be marching with them. In Stone's case, he made the promise the night of January 5. Does anyone have any info on where Stone was on *January 6*? Thanks in advance for your help.
NEW: Here is Stone (a) lying about what he said on January 5 (he did not explicitly insist on a peaceful protest), but also (b) making an *astonishing* claim that *mirrors* a claim made by Alex Jones: that he was "asked" to "lead" the march on the Capitol.
(PS) In the case of Jones, he implies the request came from the White House. We don't know where Stone's request came from. But we know Alex Jones—who isn't close to Trump—decided to *go*, and Stone (who *is* close to Trump) declined, as Trump did.
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.
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