Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Spoke Directly to Stop the Steal Leader Alex Jones on Insurrection Day

This is the closest anyone has put Trump to the January 6 insurrectionists so far. Emerging evidence suggests that we'll get closer still. *RT widely*. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ There's so much more to say about this, but here's the main thing: major media made a big mistake by not watching every single second of film from Alex Jones, Roger Stone and Ali Alexander *after* the insurrection. I've done a deep dive into that archive and it's *incredible*.

2/ Jones, Stone, and Alexander had no idea how much investigators would learn about their activities when they started regularly filming themselves making statements about the insurrection literally the day after it happened. So they made countless "statements against interest."

3/ Essentially, they couldn't properly figure out which facts would be exculpatory or inculpatory—note: that's why one normally hires a criminal defense attorney, as I used to be—so they just started saying everything they could possibly think of about what happened on January 6.

4/ A small percentage of their attempts to exculpate themselves will turn out to be false—but it doesn't actually matter, as they've given the FBI a starting point for interrogation. For instance, Alexander *swears* he has *mid-insurrection* texts *from Team Trump* on his phone.

5/ If the FBI seizes his phone—they already should have—and there are texts, great, they knew to get the phone because of what he said. If the FBI seizes his phone and there are *no* texts, he's screwed, as *per his own statements* it would suggest that he destroyed the evidence.

6/ Just so, Jones now has put himself in conversation with the White House on January 3, Trump himself on January 6 (midday), and was with Alexander as Alexander says "they" (he/Jones) were getting texts from Team Trump. The FBI won't let Jones out of the trap he set for himself.

7/ If the FBI ever finds the gumption to interrogate Trump, they now have *multiple* statements from someone they *know* Trump has spoken to in the past saying that he spoke to Trump January 6. And if Trump lies to the FBI, it's a federal crime. If he clams up, he looks guilty.

8/ As Proof has always indicated, Jones did enough *on January 6* to protect himself from an incitement charge related to that day. Is he protected from incitement for what he said January 5? I don't know. The big concern for him is actually a conspiracy charge for acts pre-1/6.

9/ Trump is in a different spot. Per Jones, he told Trump *before Trump's Ellipse speech* that the crowd was *20 times larger* than Trump had anticipated and that it could not be managed—whatsoever—in the way Trump had (allegedly) planned. Trump then went out and gave his speech.

10/ In consequence, Jones's claims go to Trump's state of mind on January 6. If the man he *handpicked* to lead the march told him (in paraphrase) "it's far too big—this crowd can't be controlled"...and Trump went out and gave the speech he gave, it's evidence of criminal intent.

11/ Beyond this, if Trump was willing to speak to Jones on 1/6, it makes it more likely that the person Jones spoke to "from the White House" on 1/3 was Trump. And if Trump was speaking to Jones in early January, the chance he also spoke to Stone—who he's far closer with—is high.

12/ We *know* Stone went to Mar-a-Lago at the end of December to speak to Trump, which is what led to the now-infamous Jones-Stone interview from 1/1 in which Stone said that only a "major [government] action" could have compelled Trump to leave his New Year's Eve party early.

13/ We know, too—I can't tell you how many times I encountered this in writing the Proof trilogy—that Trump regularly speaks by cell to people he shouldn't, even people he's specifically been told not to speak to, and tries to *hide* the fact that he spoke to them from his aides.

14/ I know of no Trump biographer who doesn't think that Trump was speaking regularly to Jones and Stone in the 120 hours before the insurrection; the only question ever was getting the proof, which we now have. And Alexander may have been involved in these communications also.

15/ PROOF has already established that Alexander spoke to, in the 48 hours surrounding the insurrection:

🔺 two United States senators
🔺 Trump adviser/Don Jr. girlfriend Kimberly Guilfoyle
🔺 Arizona state rep. Mark Finchem
🔺 Roger Stone, Alex Jones, Mark Coudrey, Owen Shroyer

16/ We learned from AXIOS's coverage of the raucous December 18 meeting at the White House that almost no one there supported what Trump was doing besides Powell, Giuliani, Flynn, Byrne, Lindell, and the Stop the Steal folks. That ups the odds he was in regular contact with them.

17/ The next domino to fall is Trump's Willard Hotel "war room"—as we've now caught Roger Stone lying about what he was doing and who he was with there (this is the subject of PROOF's next report). Why lie about what you were doing in the hotel that hosted Trump's 1/6 ops center?

18/ We learned this week that the FBI is doing little to get to the insurrectionist kingpins. Instead, they're going to scoop up smaller fish and hope one gives them something tasty—even as the kingpins have all the time in the world to destroy evidence and synchronize stories.

19/ PROOF (and thankfully PROOF isn't alone in this) is squarely focused on the kingpins. What's been reported at PROOF over the last 120 days about the movements of these key individuals—about 20 of them—is significant. So I ask you all not to lose hope that there'll be justice.

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