Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) BREAKING NEWS: A Fire Set on January 5 Outside the Willard Hotel May Have Helped Spark the Bloody Events of January 6

Given who was behind it—and why—I can't believe this January 5 event hasn't gotten more coverage. I hope you will share this widely. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ This is just Part 1 of a 2-part PROOF exclusive, but already it has everything: a federal crime, a clash with police, plotting by InfoWars and the Proud Boys—two of the chief groups behind the insurrection—white supremacists, a mob. It's insane—and hasn't been reported before.

2/ The mystery of Roger Stone's January 6 actions is solved with this report (both parts). The degree of Team Trump's knowledge of what was going to happen on January 6 becomes clear. And Part 2 has a new piece of video that changes the insurrection narrative and *significantly*.

3/ I underscore the significance of these events because I'm excited to have written about them and done so exclusively, yes, sure, but also because I want to underscore to major media that if it isn't reading PROOF (no outlet can't afford $5/mo.) it isn't doing its job, frankly.

4/ That seems brash to say—but no one who's watched the near-riot at BLM Plaza on January 5 would think so. No one who's seen multiple streams of that event (as I have) can understand why major media hasn't reported on it. January 6 was even more foreseeable than we've been told.

5/ Timeline:

1⃣ In the last 72 hours of 2020, Trump meets privately at his home in Florida with one of the 3 Stop the Steal co-organizers (Stone). They discuss January 6 (Stone admits it).
2⃣ Within 72 more hours, Trump has asked Stone and Jones to lead the march on the Capitol.

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3⃣ Jones's top man is Owen Shroyer. All three of Stone, Jones, and Shroyer have *massive* Proud Boy contacts. Stone's "aide" is the leader of the Proud Boys (Tarrio), and both Jones and Shroyer are long-time good friends of Tarrio and the Proud Boy organization broadly writ.

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4⃣ The day after Trump asks Stone, Jones and Shroyer to lead the march on the Capitol, Tarrio is arrested and now can't lead the Proud Boys to battle (WSJ confirms the Proud Boys led the assault on the Capitol).
5⃣ On January 5, Stone vacates the Willard and minutes later...

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5⃣{cont} Shroyer appears outside the Willard to stage a crime outside the hotel where Team Trump is headquartered—and whose legal team Stone has been "advising," per Ali Alexander, the third Stop the Steal head honcho—dubbed a "tribute" to Proud Boy leader/Stone aide Tarrio.

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6⃣With a seamlessness and fluidity that's almost like the movement of a living organism, that deliberately set (and liquid-accelerated) fire leads to a march of Proud Boys to Black Lives Matter Plaza, where what can only be described as an Insurrection Eve near-riot unfolds.

10/ We've been told—falsely—that while Trump activated the Proud Boys and InfoWars, that that activation had no consequence. Instead, what we're discovering is that the activations *Trump personally set in motion* had real and *immediate* effects. And those involved now admit it.

11/ In a speech an hour before the fire, Shroyer says he "knows" Donald Trump is watching the January 5 events in the Freedom Plaza/Willard area and is "very excited" by them. So Shroyer orchestrated that fire *aware* of his role/status in events post-Trump-Jones/-Stone contacts.

12/ Post-fire, Proud Boy Tim Gionet, who filmed the fire at Shroyer's request, becomes a key instigator of the near-riot at BLM Plaza, and storms the Capitol the next day (he was later arrested). Meanwhile, Jones, Alexander, and Shroyer *mysteriously* "fail" to lead the march...

CONCLUSION/ ...despite having told the President of the United States they would do so. Do we have any evidence that they knew what was coming? Yes, we do. PROOF does. And it's coming in Part 2 of this exposé on the January 5 Willard Hotel fire. I hope major media pays attention.

PS/ I assumed everyone knows—but don't know why I assumed everyone knows—that what is being burned via an accelerant-aided public fire in the image atop this thread is a "Black Lives Matter" flag. Pre-burning it was stepped on amidst riotous "F*ck antifa!" and "F*ck BLM!" chants.