(🆚) NEW: PROOF's exclusive investigation of Trump's Insurrection Day comms center continues below. Its revelations about who was at the Willard are significant—and place the DC hotel at the center of the January 6 investigation. I hope you'll share this.
sethabramson.substack.com/p/inside-the-w…
1/ I'm finding the same thing in investigating the "war room" at the Willard that I found in investigating the war room at Trump International: it's very hard to find any significant coverage of it. That said, PROOF is curating every major-media source on the subject that exists.
2/ Two articles into this exclusive series, a) we have a list of key people we know were in the comms center, b) we have a good list of people who i) stayed at the Willard and ii) would've been authorized to enter the center (whether they did nor not remains under investigation).
3/ One big takeaway (of a number of them) is that Stop the Steal was *inside Trump's comms center* on Insurrection Day, which eliminates any potential claim—not that we've had one yet, as no one but Eastman has even *acknowledged* the war room—that the room's purpose was...
4/ ...exclusively related to comms with Congress (e.g., Giuliani's call to Tuberville). I'd note—I didn't even put this in the article—that Trump called Tuberville shortly after Giuliani failed to get him, which suggests Rudy was in touch with Trump *from the Willard ops center*.

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10 Jun
My takeaway from the Wray hearing is that a January 6-style attack will happen again. The FBI has no interest in determining how its actions let it happen the first time. That Wray can identify *no emergency followup* the FBI did after passing on dire intel on 1/5 is terrifying.
Over and over a Democratic representative said to Wray, in paraphrase, "OK, you had intel that the Capitol was a matter of hours away from being under armed attack; you passed on the intel; what did you do *next*?" And Wray had...no response. Because the FBI did *nothing* "next."
The takeaway here is that the FBI has *no* role in preventing incipient national violence that is only discovered—if we take the farcical claim of the FBI at face value—hours before it's going to happen. The FBI *emails* people. *That's all*. It...emails people.

Jesus F. Christ.
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10 Jun
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: In reply to the false claim by Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) that USCP told him antifa planned to dress as Trumpists on January 6, I'm unlocking the PROOF exclusive proving the opposite: the Proud Boys *confessed* to dressing as *antifa*. sethabramson.substack.com/p/videos-point…
(PS) Eddie Block is a Proud Boy leader—he travels with bodyguards at Proud Boy events, including January 6, as he handles all livestreaming and social media for the organization (which is why the FBI raided his house)—and here's what he had to say about what the Proud Boys did: Image
(PS2) It was actually a master stroke by the Proud Boys: they *didn't* have reliable intelligence that antifa would show up—and antifa *didn't* show up—but they *wanted* them to, so they dressed as antifa in order to be able to claim antifa had showed up no matter what happened.
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10 Jun
(THREAD) I'm posting the entirety of the statement by Rep. Steve Cohen (D-TN)—because it's important.

COHEN: "You [the FBI] have done an admirable job so far of [inaudible] foot soldiers in the January 6 insurrection. It's kind of like going after Al Capone and getting all of...
"...the lottery sales tickets—the people that do the bootlegging in the streets. But you, to the best of my knowledge, haven't done anything to go after the people who incited the riot. The big bosses. The leaders. Which was [for instance] Donald Trump. Do you have any...
"...investigation, or have you done anything to look into, Trump's activities on the day of the insurrection, the records of the White House['s] phone calls in and out, and of meetings that he and Roger Stone and others may have had with leaders of the [insurrectionist] groups?"
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10 Jun
PROOF has always taken the position that even if it'd benefit PROOF to be the publication-of-record on the insurrection, what I really want is for *every* media outlet to be covering the insurrectionist kingpins as PROOF is. Director Wray's testimony confirms the FBI won't do it. Image
(PS) After the late-2000s financial crisis, no one rich, powerful or famous who'd been behind the nation's economic collapse went to prison. Why? America doesn't know how to prosecute the rich, powerful or famous. Now we're seeing it with 1/6—the worst criminals are getting away.
(PS2) The biggest criticism I ever had for Jim Comey was that he put the FBI over America—protecting the institution by not angering the powerful over holding powerful criminals to account. The fact that Wray is now doing the same thing suggests the problem is endemic to the FBI.
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10 Jun
My take:

1⃣ People who didn't breach Capitol grounds
2⃣ Trespassers who breached grounds but not Capitol
3⃣ Trespassers who breached grounds and Capitol
4⃣ Violent rioters who didn't breach Capitol
5⃣ Violent rioters who breached Capitol
6⃣ Rioters committing crimes in Capitol
(PS) In other words, GROUP 1 as identified by the FBI actually *all* committed lower-level criminal conduct but are being let off by DOJ deliberately (as has been reported); GROUP 2 trespassed *twice* and in many cases committed violence to do it; GROUP 3 committed *many* crimes.
(PS2) And of course this leaves out another group of January 6 criminals:

7⃣ Inciters whose actions on January 6 caused the attack

And also *another* group of key criminals:

8⃣ Coup plotters who made sure they were off-site on January 6 but conspired to make January 6 happen
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10 Jun
I get that the House Judiciary Committee is trying to get folks to pay attention to the allegations in Vol. 2 of the Mueller Report by implying they're new revelations we just got from McGahn, but the truth is that we knew basically all of this years ago and *no one did anything*
My feeling—seeing people post tidbits from McGahn's testimony—is that some of them either a) didn't read the Mueller Report, b) are with the best of intentions but not entirely transparently pretending old news is new news to try to get traction we should've gotten the first time
When the Report came out, many of us said all America needs to read this, as it details many federal crimes; media wrongly treated the Report as a bust—leaving those of us who read it in the cold—so this re-reporting of things not properly reported the first time feels cynical
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