Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: Two U.S. Senators Were in Direct Telephone Contact with Now-in-Hiding Domestic Terror Leader Ali Alexander on Insurrection Eve

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1/ Before today, we knew domestic terror leader Ali Alexander—in hiding from federal authorities with no apparent effort ongoing to find him—conspired with at least three House members (Gosar, Biggs, Brooks) and Team Trump (Kim Guilfoyle and whoever he texted from the Capitol).

2/ Now we now, from his own texted confession, that he was also in direct telephonic contact with at least two still-sitting *United States senators*. And the timing of that contact gives us some indication of which senators he was likely speaking to. The contact happened on 1/5.

3/ PROOF reported exclusively that Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) was at Trump International on 1/5 as part of a war council plotting Trump's 1/6 moves (that is how insurrectionist and war council attendee Daniel Beck described it on Facebook, before he knew it'd be controversial).

4/ At first Sen. Tuberville denied being present. Then PROOF published an Instagram photo of him at Trump International on January 5, additional eyewitness accounts of his presence, and more. Confronted with these, he conceded to the ALABAMA POLITICAL REPORTER that he was there.

5/ Alexander's communications with at least two senators came during the period of time that Tuberville was at a Trump International war council focused *precisely* on the subject of the document (see the article at PROOF) that Alexander was trying to get to GOP senators "ASAP."

6/ PROOF has also—through a voluminous, three-article investigation that was absolutely exhausting to produce, I can tell you—presented a mountain of evidence as to who one of the two other senators at Trump International was, while ruling *out* at least one other likely suspect.

7/ I believe, based on all the evidence available, that the two senators in touch with a domestic terror leader on January 5 are the two senators the evidence indicates were at Trump's private residence in D.C. (the "Trump Townhouse" at Trump International Hotel) on January 5th.

8/ Some of you may wonder how PROOF came across this stunning information. An obscure Arizona report that was focused on a different subject entirely accidentally buried its lede, possibly because the reporters weren't doing OSINT at the time on *this* issue, but a different one.

9/ This happens more often than you'd think. If a story is headed in one direction because a reporter and editor have agreed on that direction and it seems the most relevant one for the readers of the publication, it goes in that direction—and so more important news can get lost.

10/ I considered breaking this story into multiple stories, as there's *additional* breaking news above: Trump's January 6 ops center was less than 250 feet from the insurrectionists' ops center—and we now know of *substantial* foot traffic between the two sites mid-insurrection.

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PS2/ I'm afraid I need to focus on my work—not on arguing over whether journalists should be paid for their labor every time I post something here that is "🆚." I love you all, but also value my time, expertise, and hard work just as all other journalists do. Please respect that.

PS3/ I was thrilled to offer my labor for free for five years, while Trump was president and the U.S. was in *imminent* danger daily. Most major outlets—NYT, WP, Daily Beast—kept paywalls up. Now I have the lowest paywall I can create for the hundreds of hours of work I'm doing.

PS4/ I've committed myself to do threads when I post "🆚" content, so everyone can have at least a sense of what the work I'm doing reveals. But the full content of the labor is massive—the number of links, sources, and details considerable—and too hard to tweet about short-form.

PS5/ If you subscribe to PROOF for $5/mo., you'll find there more content by volume than any Substack in the United States. I produce a *massive* amount of work weekly. That's why I'm honored and humbled that readers have made PROOF the top-ranked culture substack in the country.

NOTE/ The source of the information is Ali Alexander himself—and it's confirmed by major media. That said, you're not going to see it reported elsewhere. (If you've been following the development of curatorial journalism since 2015, you'll understand how and why this can happen.)