(MUSIC) My dad passed away last year. This edition of "Lost Classics of the 1960s"—from PROOF's Music section—is dedicated to him, as is the note preceding it. I hope you enjoy the music; it has a slightly different scope than other entries in the series. sethabramson.substack.com/p/lost-classic…
(PS) Putting this 10-song playlist together also reminded me what a *great* song "Suspicious Minds" is. While I'm not a big Elvis Presley fan myself—I've always recognized his amazing talent, but it hasn't typically spoken to me personally—that performance, from 1969, is *legit*.
(PS2) For those who aren't big link-clickers, here you go. 😉
(PS3) Interesting fact I learned yesterday: by number of subscribers, PROOF's Music section—below—is the publication's most popular section, *not* the January 6 or Politics sections. And the PROOF community writes in about that section more than any other. sethabramson.substack.com/s/music
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(🆚) EXCLUSIVE: PROOF has been working for 5 months—facing lawsuit threats from Roger Stone, Michael Flynn, Joe Oltmann and the Proud Boys—to expose Trump's pre-insurrection war rooms. Here's a comprehensive report on what PROOF found. Please share widely. sethabramson.substack.com/p/exclusive-a-…
1/ When I briefly worked as a public defender investigator in the federal criminal justice system in D.C., I was trained to first determine all the relevant parties in the fact-pattern, which typically requires first determining all the key locations involved in the fact-pattern.
2/ That the United States Capitol is a key location in the January 6 investigation is clear. The FBI, major media, and some excellent citizen journalists have been using video and stills from that location to create a massive suspect list for January 6. This is all to the good.
Know what this is a photo of? Proud Boys and Proud Boy allies burning a Black Lives Matter flag outside the front of the Willard on Insurrection Eve. Staying at the Willard that night? Roger Stone, Rudy Giuliani, Joe Oltmann, George Papadopoulos. They knew where this was headed.
(PS) This burning was organized by Owen Shroyer of InfoWars—top lieutenant of Alex Jones, who Trump personally asked to lead the march on the Capitol. Also present? Tim Gionet ("Baked Alaska"), who has since been arrested. And Matt Colligan, who you may know from this old photo:
(PS2) There (in the foreground) is the ring-leader: Alex Jones lieutenant Owen Shroyer. The crowd is chanting "F*ck antifa!" as the flag burns. This—on January 5—is literally steps from the front of the Willard Hotel, where Trump's primary war room was on January 5 and January 6.
(PROOF) I've now organized the "Recently Unlocked Articles" sidebar at PROOF. If you click below, then click the phrase "Let Me Read It First," you can read 13 PROOF articles free before deciding if you want to subscribe (Substack's lowest rate: $5/month). Sethabramson.substack.com
(PS) For those viewing PROOF on a phone, just scroll down a little bit and you'll see a new section entitled "Recently Unlocked Articles." I hope you'll spread the word about PROOF! In just 5 months live, PROOF has gained 40,000 free subscribers and almost 8,000 full subscribers.
(PS2) For those unfamiliar with Substack, free subscribers get notice of all articles and access to free articles (~70% of the total), while full subscribers get access to everything. PROOF is the only U.S. Substack that keeps its number-of-subscriber figures public at all times.
(🆚) NEW: The Troubling Associations of Insurrection-Week Trump "Command Center" Participant Joe Oltmann—the Man Who Tried to Convince the State Department to Overturn Biden's Victory on Insurrection Day
1/ For some reason I still can't figure out, there's a tacit assumption among major media that while those who participated in the bloody assault on the Capitol on January 6 had extremist views, the rich and powerful Trumpists behind the scenes were oddballs but *not* militants.
2/ We've become so inured to what's euphemistically called "political rhetoric" that we have little reaction but a shrug or a roll of the eyes when Giuliani broadcasts a video on January 8 saying that the Democrat [sic] Party and media are indistinguishable, as in "Nazi Germany."
(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: The revelation, at PROOF, of the seventh participant in Trump's January 6 Willard Hotel "war room" has led to the discovery of a strange-but-critical narrative that will change how you see January 6. Please share widely; more in thread. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ This is the longest article ever published at PROOF; it'll probably forever be the longest article published at PROOF. It's the most complex article ever published at PROOF; it'll probably forever be the most complex article published at PROOF. You won't see where it's going.
2/ That last part is important: I need to promise you, in advance, that you do *not* know where this article is headed until you get to its fulcrum point—you'll know the one—which comes after you've already done a *lot* of reading. You'll say "WTF???" out loud, almost guaranteed.
The seventh member of Trump's January 6 Willard Hotel war room will be revealed later on today at PROOF. More importantly, discovering the identity of this person led me to what is undoubtedly the wildest true story ever told about the insurrection. Stay tuned to my pinned tweet.
(UPDATE) Still working on it. Still aiming to release it this PM. This is the wildest thing I've ever written. I'm hoping the comment fields will be active here/at PROOF. This story is so bizarre that I'm almost desperate to have as many people weigh in on it as humanly possible.
(PS) I'm not messing around. Anyone who reads this story will respond "WTF!" I've been saying those words to myself the whole time I've been trying to write this up. My current model to tell the story is "five-act play"—because I don't know what else to do. So no—I'm not playing.