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25 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
Folks, I need some crowdsourcing. I'm asking as many of you as possible to—as carefully as possible—confirm or deny my suspicion that the man over Donald Trump Jr.'s shoulder in the video still below, standing beside Kim Guilfoyle and looking at Trump, may be Charles W. Herbster.
(PS) I feel uncertain because of the hair and because I am struggling to find a picture of Herbster in which he is not smiling.
(PS2) Alternately, if it's not Herbster and you know who it is, let me know in the comments. This is part of a larger thing I'm working on, but I figured having a bunch of eyes on this couldn't hurt.
(MORE IMAGES) For comparison. Top left could be the most helpful because the angle is right.
(CONCLUSION) This better shot makes me think it is *not* him. And yet this face is so familiar to me. Is it because he looks like Bloomberg? Does anyone recognize this man?
(NOTE) I can't ask Herbster—as he's no longer speaking to media re: January 6 due to the reporting at PROOF. Everyone else in Trump's 1/6 "party tent" is fanatically loyal to the president. There's really no way to get a list of VIP-area attendees. You'll see soon why I'm asking.

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26 Mar
(THREAD) Jair Bolsonaro—the so-called "Trump of the Tropics"—has killed hundreds of thousands with a COVID-19 denialism identical to Trump's. And his family appears to have conspired with Trump's in the insurrection. I'm making all PROOF articles on Brazil free. Read on for more. Image
(1) This was the first article at PROOF on Eduardo Bolsonaro's secret meetings with insurrectionists during a fake DC "vacation" from January 4 to January 8. Not only is the article free, I've made comments open to all for the first time in PROOF history. sethabramson.substack.com/p/brazils-murk…
(2) I want Brazilians to be able to tell their stories in the comments of the posts I'm making free with this thread. I'm hearing backchannel that the Senate inquiry PROOF helped launch in Brazil is news across Brazil, and that all this is happening at a time thousands are dying.
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20 Mar
Our three-year-old rescue hound Scout is scheduling press availabilities to discuss her bracket selection process after picking—yesterday—all four of the Oral Roberts (#15 v. #2), North Texas (#13 v. #4), Oregon State (#12 v. #5) and Wisconsin (#9 v. UNC) upsets 😜 #MarchMadness ImageImage
For those whose missed the explanation earlier, Scout—a hound who was on her own in Alabama for a while before being rescued, and is therefore still a little feral—selected NCAA tournament winners by deciding which team mascot, in each head-to-head matchup, she would rather hunt.
(PS) Stay tuned: Scout picked {gulp} *both* Winthrop and Morehead State to win tonight. If she gets either one of those, I'm taking her to Vegas.
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16 Mar
Just heard Juliette Kayyam say on CNN that so far the Capitol conspiracy cases have been weak, involved 1 to 3 people, and established only that some people conspired to meet "at the Trump rally."

Uh, no.

WSJ reports that 30 to 40 Oath Keepers plotted to murder all of Congress.
I think CNN doesn't understand how many hours of research one has to put into the events of January 6 to speak competently about them on-air. Kayyem is very smart and also very qualified. Those facts have nothing to do with whether she knows much about the January 6 insurrection.
One of the many problems we have with cable news today is that analysts are selected for their credentials and their general expertise rather than their research and their specific expertise.

So we end up with very smart people saying very stupid things on very important topics.
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12 Mar
BREAKING NEWS: Cy Vance, the Manhattan DA leading the criminal investigation of Donald Trump in New York City, will not seek another term and will instead dump the case on his successor—a very bad sign. It's also (sadly) one I called a month ago, at PROOF. sethabramson.substack.com/p/some-say-the…
(MORE INFORMATION) We don't know who Vance's successor will be yet; what their commitment to this investigation will be; how long this will set the investigation back; or what threats—et cetera—occurred behind the scenes to provoke this. It's all bad news.
PS/ I continue to say that America has no mechanism to check the criminality of Donald Trump *unless* it's a whole-of-government commitment by federal law enforcement. Even then, it'd be the hardest and riskiest thing the FBI has ever done. They appear to have no appetite for it.
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11 Mar
I want to be transparent with everyone about what the reporting at PROOF is building toward—and will continue to build toward for the next year and beyond: that Donald Trump committed the gravest crime since the U.S. Civil War by orchestrating a rebellion. Sethabramson.substack.com
(PS) So if folks wonder why PROOF is one of the only outlets in the U.S. focusing on the events of January 4 and 5 as well as January 6, it's because there must be now—and will *eventually* be widely—an effort to expose Trump as one of the most notorious criminals in our history.
(PS2) There's a reason that in its first 45 days of publication, PROOF was threatened with a lawsuit by both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn. There's a reason the Trump campaign is an email subscriber to the site. Trumpworld understands the importance of what is happening at PROOF.
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10 Mar
🆚: (MAJOR REPORT): For the first time in U.S. media, Donald Trump's plan for the January 6 insurrection has been itemized, fully sourced, and annotated. The 12-part strategy, never before outlined, is terrifying—and involves elements not widely discussed. sethabramson.substack.com/p/here-is-the-…
PS/ As most of you here know, the "🆚" symbol means content accessible "via subscription." I use this icon both for certain PROOF content and content from sites like the Washington Post and the WSJ. You can find dozens of free articles at PROOF to decide if you want to subscribe.
PS2/ There are *47* free articles at PROOF—all published in the last 60 days, and the product of hundreds of hours of research/writing. I know not everyone subscribes to the many outlets that are 🆚—WP, WSJ, NYT, Daily Beast, &c—so I offer scores of reading-hours of free content.
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