Thread by @SethAbramson

(🆚) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Far-Right Militants Were in Trump's Insurrection Week Command Center

With each day, PROOF gets closer—via images, videos, and transcripts—to putting Trump at the heart of the planning for the insurrection. I hope you'll RT this. sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…

1/ The information PROOF readers now know about the planning of the insurrection that goes beyond what's routinely available in major media is now as large in size and scope as either the Mueller Report or the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Report about Trump and Russia.

2/ In this second part of a 3-part epic exposé of events at the Willard Hotel on January 5, January 6, January 7, and January 8, PROOF identifies 3 more members of Trump's secretive war room and introduces 2 new key far-right orgs that had a *significant* presence at the Willard.

3/ For the entirety of the 6-month period that PROOF has been running the most comprehensive investigation into the January 6 insurrection "kingpins" now available, I've been noting how interconnected this surprisingly small group of people is. Under 100 people made this happen.

4/ We know the groups:

🔺 1st Amendment Praetorians
🔺 3 Percenters
🔺 2020 Trump campaign advisers
🔺 80 Percent Coalition
🔺 Groypers
🔺 InfoWars
🔺 March for Trump
🔺 Oath Keepers
🔺 Proud Boys
🔺 QAnon
🔺 Stop the Steal
🔺 Team Kraken
🔺 Team Trump
🔺 Women for America First

5/ We know where and when the meetings happened, where and when the war rooms were, where and when the key rallies where, who attended and spoke at nearly all of these—and how these meetings and war rooms and rallies interacted with one another and did so in very deliberate ways.

6/ It's hard to summarize the most sprawling criminal investigation in US history on Twitter—which is why PROOF is essential to the task. But I'll note a few of the many key items in this new article (again, just Part 2 of a three-part article series about events at the Willard).

7/ This article identifies two new people who illegally entered the Capitol who haven't been arrested. One was in Trump's war room during Insurrection Week; the other was the first "eyewitness" to January 6 ever put forward by Trump's legal team as a ploy to inculpate antifa/BLM.

8/ This latter individual was staying at the Willard, worked comms for the Trump campaign and Trump administration, and used a "golf cart" to get from the Willard to the Capitol in the late afternoon of January 6—confirming what we lately learned: he was a Stop the Steal agent.

9/ The former individual entered the Capitol using the guise of a reporter (exactly what Team Trump accuses John Earle Sullivan of doing) then filmed a propaganda reel she immediately delivered to the Trump war room. She was an Ellipse VIP—with tickets from Ali Alexander himself.

10/ But more importantly, this article looks at the role of the 1st Amendment Praetorians as the paramilitary arm of Team Kraken's Insurrection Week activities—which very quickly conjoined with Team Trump's (the Trump legal team and its adjuncts) at the Willard. That's essential.

11/ PROOF also continues to track all the lies told by individuals who stayed at the Willard and were key allies of Trump: lies they told about how they knew not to go to the Capitol; lies they told about where they did or didn't go and who they did or didn't meet with and why.

12/ If you understand the secretive events that were ongoing at Trump International Hotel and the Willard Hotel on January 5 and January 6, your capacity to imagine the insurrection as the spontaneous act of thousands of rank-and-file Trump supporters ends almost instantaneously.

13/ PROOF has transcripts, interviews, videos, and stills that place militants—individuals advocating violent revolution—in the midst of Team Trump spaces that were previously held to be merely loci for "administrative" revolution (using political maneuvers to end our democracy).

14/ I'd add that the massive, encompassing investigation that's been underway at PROOF since January—across scores of feature-length reports—became more critical with the news that Michael Wolff will publish an error-ridden Trump apologia on July 5 that's sure to be a bestseller.

15/ I've taken a deep dive into far-right crevices—last night it was the Christian militant FLASHPOINT interview series that featured insurrectionists Ali Alexander, Mike Lindell and Lance Wallnau on January 5 and January 6—that underline that there were insurrectionist kingpins.

16/ Alexander was telling far-right media on January 5 that the mob he made would be "very rowdy" on January 6; Lindell, speaking from a Trump International room on January 5, said Flynn had just left the room; Wallnau, at TIH, aimed to get fake data to Team Trump at the Willard.

17/ Excepting Alexander, Jones, and Shroyer—who showed up late to the Capitol and did so many things to underscore that that was deliberate and because they knew what was going to happen—all of these kingpins stayed the *hell* away from the Capitol. They all knew what was coming.

18/ If you've read PROOF and understand what it is—an ongoing, sprawling, professional-grade investigation by a former investigator in the federal system and criminal defense attorney, one that features hundreds of pieces of evidence—you understand why threading about it is hard.

19/ A 1000-page book could—and should—be written about events at the Capitol. But then *another* 1000-page book could—and should—be written on the events at Trump International, the Willard, the downtown Marriott and the White House that *determined* what happened at the Capitol.

20/ I hope you'll check out PROOF. It's only $5/month—the cost of a cup of coffee, and the lowest rate allowed by Substack (with an annual rate that's a further 16% discount)—and I think it's the most important work I've ever done. I know it's the hardest. sethabramson.substack.com

PS/ My thanks to the 40,000+ members of the under-6-month-old PROOF community. I now get so many tips from top OSINT researchers that—added to my own voluminous research—I have every confidence we can create a definitive account of January 6 even if Congress and the FBI never do.

NOTE/ Part 3 of this exposé is coming soon. It's written and almost entirely edited, but I found some amazing content last night that I want to add to it now. Like much at PROOF, some of it hasn't been reported anywhere else, let alone linked up to other reports in critical ways.

PREVIEW/ Here's a preview of Part 3 of my three-part series on the January 6 insurrection and the Willard InterContinental Hotel in Washington, coming soon to PROOF (subscribe at sethabramson.substack.com):