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4 Feb, 5 tweets, 1 min read
BREAKING NEWS (CNN): Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) Removed From All House Committees (Budget, Education and Labor)
(PS) The vote was bipartisan, as three Republicans crossed the aisle to vote to remove Greene from both her House committees. Technically there are a few Republicans who have not voted yet (less than 20), so that number (3) could increase.
(UPDATE) The number of Republican votes in favor of removing Greene from her House committees has just risen to five (5).
(UPDATE2) Eleven (11) Republicans have now voted to remove Greene from her House committee assignments.
(UPDATE3) CNN had been told only a "handful" of Republicans would vote against Greene, but it turned out to be far more. CNN is reporting this as a genuine surprise.

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6 Feb
I just saw a CNN analyst say—speaking of the insurrection—that "there isn't much here we don't already know."

As the author of a 2,500-page trilogy on Trump's scandals that draws on 12,000 major-media citations to tell just a piece of that story, can I promise you this is false?
The analyst's followup comment was that for the trial to go differently than he expects, we'd need some sort of big surprise about what was going on at the Pentagon on January 6. That's a topic I've been researching, and I have no doubt whatsoever there are many surprises coming.
What's needed is a definitive curation of where the information about January 6 at the Pentagon stands at this very early moment in the investigation of the insurrection. If I weren't working on a hundred things at once, I'd have done it by now. But I'd *rather* CNN had done so.
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5 Feb
1⃣ Other ex-presidents have used the Great Seal. Trump altered it to make it look more like the presidential seal.
2⃣ Ex-presidents have—but don't commonly—sign their correspondence "President."
3⃣ Trump did both while on trial for falsely claiming he's the legitimate president. Image
4⃣ Trump did the above after causing a stir for fraudulently devising an "Office of the Former President"—note the definite article—he later had to retreat from.
5⃣ Trump is currently in a fight to break a contract so that what he calls the "Southern White House" can be his home.
▶️ One reason I'm a curatorial journalist is because this genre of journalism presents a clearer picture of events *and* their context. Simply saying Trump *can* use the Great Seal, or Trump *can* call himself "President," misses every piece of critical context for these actions.
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3 Feb
BREAKING: Here's a rundown of the latest developments in the Marjorie Taylor Greene scandal—which threats to permanently associate the Republican Party with QAnon, a domestic terror threat. I hope you'll read on, RETWEET, and consider subscribing to PROOF. sethabramson.substack.com/p/gop-on-verge…
(PS) If the GOP doesn't act sometime today, I'd be surprised if #GQP isn't trending by tomorrow. The GOP now faces *two* existential crisis: whether it permanently becomes the party of QAnon *this* week and whether it permanently becomes the party of insurrectionists *next* week.
(UPDATE) I've now updated the article above with the breaking news that House Republicans will attempt to remove Rep. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota from her committee assignments as retaliation for Democratic efforts to hold Greene responsible for supporting a domestic terror movement.
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3 Feb
I wrote weeks ago that House managers would have to be prepared to establish links between Trump's team and the Proud Boys, Oath Keepers, and Three Percenters or else lines of argument like these by Trump would go unresponded to

Mind you, his argument fails for other reasons too
(PS) People have to remember that it's not just the *facts* included in a defense, but what picture you are painting with that defense. What Trump is implying here is that the insurrection would have happened even if he had never spoken. That's outrageously false and he knows it.
(PS2) Unfortunately, many don't understand what a complete defense looks or sounds like because they've never watched a trial start to finish. So some will think that evidence certain Trump supporters wanted to breach the Capitol before Trump spoke is an actual defense. It's not.
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1 Feb
No.

Let's speak with clarity about what Trump wants, from a trial-strategy standpoint.

He wants his attorneys to argue that the insurrection was justified because the election was stolen from him. He wants to argue to Congress that the Biden administration should be overthrown.
(MORE) I understand the readership for the article below is necessarily going to be smaller because it's only for full subscribers to PROOF, but my recent essay is one example of a trial attorney outlining not just potential defenses but what they *mean*. sethabramson.substack.com/p/donald-trump…
(PS) My worry is that when we frame what Trump wants to do as a silly lark that's unserious, we gloss over the fact that he wants his lawyers to lie to Congress, that he wants to justify sedition, and that he wants to use his trial to foment insurrection. It's dangerous and sick.
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31 Jan
Yesterday I deliberately rented an action movie that is the second in a series and whose tagline includes "this time it's personal"

I'm not kidding
In other news, The Equalizer is actually a surprisingly decent movie

I love Denzel
The thing I don't understand is why it's never personal the *first* time

Also, why does it *always* seem personal to me, but then the filmmakers inform me after the fact that it actually wasn't

I *love* Keanu, but will say The Equalizer was what I *wanted* the Wick series to be
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