Thread by @SethAbramson

(ANNOUNCEMENT) PROOF now features as comprehensive a readable-length report on the January 6 insurrection as you'll find. I've minimized links to past PROOF reporting to avoid running afoul of Substack's memory limits.

I hope you'll read this and RETWEET. sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-comprehens…

▪️ Everything in this PROOF report is documented—with major-media sources—elsewhere at PROOF. If you have a subscription, you've probably seen it.
▪️ However—critically—there's also BREAKING NEWS in this report.
▪️ It involves the Trump campaign's involvement in the insurrection.

▪️ A major insurrectionist group—Stop the Steal—has turned on Trump's campaign.
▪️ The group's leader, now in hiding, claims Trump's campaign sabotaged plans for January 6 to make it more likely a riot would occur.
▪️ This remarkable claim appears to be supported by the evidence.

▪️ A wealth of evidence confirms that—at the direction of Trump and his top advisers—alterations were made to grassroots orgs' pre-January 6 plans that all but ensured an attack on the Capitol. We *also* now know that the campaign was in regular contact with the insurrectionists.

▪️ The chief Stop the Steal organizer has now publicly offered to the FBI *and to the public* all of his texts from January 6, which he says include communications with the Trump campaign about Trump's plans for and movements on that day. We will see how or if he follows through.

▪️ These claims being made by multiple Stop the Steal organizers—unlike many of their other ones—are actually *confirmed* by other grassroots organizers with less past baggage. *All* of the organizers confirm a total Trump takeover of the planning and coordination for January 6.

▪️ Major media has so lightly reported the names of the key witnesses in the FBI investigation—focusing instead on just one class of insurrectionist (working- and middle-class paramilitaries) that we haven't heard much about Caroline Wren, Katrina Pierson, or even Kim Guilfoyle.

▪️ The lengthy PROOF article above gives a nearly *comprehensive* list of January 6 insurrection witnesses, itemizing the five classes of insurrectionists, and shows that four of the five classes have thus far been ignored—as well as many key events in the insurrection timeline.

▪️ I wish I could've linked to every existing PROOF report at each appropriate point in the article, but Substack's memory limits don't allow it—they make curatorial journalism harder than it should be sometimes. If you have full access to PROOF, you have seen all these reports.

▪️ My hope—in making this PROOF report public—is that it'll put into the public discourse names that have so far escaped serious, sustained coverage in major media besides the few (here curated) articles they appear in. Names like Anthony Ornato, Maggie Mulvaney, Justin Caporale.

▪️ America should be *astounded* that Alex Jones and Ali Alexander were VIPs at Trump's inciting January 6 speech. That arrested insurrectionist leader Jessica Watkins was *also* a VIP. That top Trump campaign officials texted insurrectionist leaders *during the Capitol attack*.

▪️ With this breaking news, we know why Stone stayed away from the Capitol on January 6. We know, now, about his December 28 summit with Trump at Mar-a-Lago—right before he committed the same crime as Proud Boy Ethan Nordean, publicly raising money for the January 6 insurrection.

▪️ The arrests of paramilitary operators is important. But it's now time for media to catch up to the story, rather than being months behind it, by reporting on the *scores* of other individuals whose names Americans haven't heard but who made the January 6 insurrection possible.

▪️ PROOF compiled this info over nearly 100 articles with 1,200+ major-media links. 60%+ of the articles on PROOF are free; the other 40% are part of the $5 a month subscription (the lowest rate Substack allows). All told, PROOF is now an archive of hundreds of hours of research.

▪️ I'm urging folks to RETWEET the first tweet in this thread because if we can get this free, public article to enough Americans, we can start having a national conversation about how all the reporting on the January 6 insurrection covers only 20% of the story. That must change.