You read about it at PROOF. Now it's in the New York Times. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
PS/ Remember—as discussed at PROOF first—that Roger Stone suddenly decided not to lead the march and indeed to flee the area not long after corresponding with these men. He abandoned a speech he was going to give. He knew what was coming. What we don't know is if he warned Trump.
PS2/ We *do* know his fellow Stop the Steal organizer and paramilitary aficionado Ali Alexander was in touch with Donald Trump Jr's girlfriend Kim Guilfoyle the night before. We do know his fellow Stop the Steal organizer Alex Jones was in touch with Michael Flynn the day before.
PS3/ We do know that Stone and Trump speak by phone regularly on topics illicit enough that Stone has been willing to go to prison to hide them. We do know that Stone could also easily have gotten to Trump via Bannon, who regularly advised him in the lead-up to the insurrection.
PS4/ My opinion—merely an opinion—is in the totality of the circumstances we are aware of so far, it's impossible that Stone didn't somehow get a message to Trump that paramilitary operators intended January 6 to become violent. I think it's clear Trump knew this fact in advance.
PS5/ Remember—as discussed by PROOF days ago—Stone spent the days before the insurrection publicly raising money for war gear for his paramilitary pals. The idea that he wouldn't have been in touch with anyone at the White House directly or indirectly during this period is silly.
PS6/ You can read more about all of this in the many articles I wrote about Stone over the last two weeks at PROOF: sethabramson.substack.com
PS7/ As a former criminal investigator, I'd say the most intriguing fact here is that Stone repeatedly promised to make a speech on January 6 and participate in the events of that day—until suddenly he abandoned that plan altogether. Something had changed. He'd learned something.

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(THREAD) On February 11, CJR published a piece on me by Lyz Lenz (@lyzl). It had been informed in writing months earlier—before Lenz began her work—that Lenz felt malice toward me. I requested a different interviewer. The request was ignored. This is the story of what came next. Image
1/ I tell this story not just because it's shocking, but for three other reasons. Columbia University wishes for me to itemize my complaints with the piece—having already declared it will make no changes to it—and I see no reason why I should do so privately rather than publicly.
2/ Second, what happened to me at the hands of CJR—defamation—has happened to many other independent journalists at the hands of other media outlets. Right now there is a needless war between Old Media and New Media, and Old Media is fighting dirty. It has to stop, and right now.
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Today I learned Lenz (@lyzl) approached CJR to write a hitpiece on me—now proven to have 25+ lies in it—a matter of *days* after getting fired by the CEDAR RAPIDS GAZETTE (I don't know if her infamous racist questioning of VP Harris played a role). Now we know what motivated her.
I learned a lot about myself and media and what I want for my future over the last week, though the work to get accountability for what CJR and Lenz did to try to rescue Lenz's career continues. Still, knowing I was maliciously lied about to distract from a firing helps me heal.
I had no idea the person who lied to me and about me for 2 months has a documented history of racism. Nor did I know she'd lost her job as a journalist and started a Substack at the moment she tried to destroy my life as a journalist and *my* Substack. Really, really scary stuff.
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(MORE) When you write very publicly on controversial topics, much gets written about you. The same outlets whose employees laud you have other employees who attack you. So it goes. If you want the truth about me, it's *always* public, 24/7/365. Right here: sethabramson.net/bio
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(1 of 2) For those confused by some of the horrific legal takes out there tonight: a bill of attainder is a punishment without trial. A resolution regarding insurrection includes no punishment and follows a trial in which a super-majority declared an act of insurrection occurred.
(2 of 2) A resolution of the sort many are suggesting, which could even take the form of Congressional censure, would not include a punishment. If Trump were to try to run for office again, a state could refuse to put him on the ballot. A suit would ensue. That's how it'd work.
(PS) Trump is famous for using the courts to delay an issue until there's no remedy. Any state that kept him off the ballot on the basis of an insurrection censure might tie up the courts for so long Trump could miss his ballot deadlines. But it's even more complicated than this.
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People wonder how Sect. 3 of the 14th Am. is executed. It wouldn't, of course, be via a bill of attainder. That'd be illegal. It'd be via a resolution of Congress identifying Trump as having engaged in an act of insurrection. The resolution would bar him if he tried to run again.
If Trump tried to run again, he'd sue to attempt to overcome the impediment of the resolution of Congress—claiming that only a *criminal conviction* works. He would be hindered in the fact that insurrection is not a criminal statute and beyond a reasonable doubt not the standard.
In other words, Congress's argument in that case would be that the plain language of the 14th Am. says nothing about the requirement of a *criminal conviction* (for an offense that isn't even the subject of a named federal statute). A constitutional act by Congress would suffice.
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