Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: A Secretive Meeting That Trump Attended in December of 2020 May Explain Both Trump's Role in the January 6 Insurrection and Why General Milley and China Feared Trump Would Start a War

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1/ Donald Trump's domestic insurgency has changed *profoundly* in the last 48 hours. The reason that "Treason" keeps trending on Twitter is because the Trumpists now believe that they have proof of a "deep state" anti-Trump conspiracy *and* collusion with China by Trump critics.

2/ There's no limit to what the Trumpists think this new information will allow them to do. They plan to use General Mark Milley as a scapegoat for almost everything that happened following the November 2020 presidential election. His testimony on September 28 will be a sh*tshow.

3/ The problem, of course, is that everyone forgets *why* China and the Pentagon feared Trump would try to stay in office by launching a military strike against Beijing.

And the reason everyone forgets this is that media never informed news consumers about what the "Kraken" was.

4/ Trump's legal team, Team Kraken, Stop the Steal, Trump's "war room" participants (and their domestic-extremist guards) and Trump's QAnon-influenced outside advisory corps had all—by late December 2020—adopted the "Kraken" conspiracy theory, and were advising Trump based on it.

5/ The "Kraken" theory held that four communist/former communist governments—China, Russia, North Korea, and Venezuela—had, with Trump enemy Iran, conspired with the Democratic Party to stage a coup of the Trump administration and overthrow American democracy.

*Read that twice*.

6/ Chinese intelligence spent December 2020 and early January 2021—it now appears based on major-media reporting—looking for *every possible indication* that those who believed China had declared cyberwar on the U.S. in November 2020 had Trump's ear. Of particular significance...

7/ ...was any indication that the domestic militants looking to overturn the (supposedly Chinese Communist Party–enabled) 2020 presidential election had access to then-President Trump's thinking and strategics.

So Michael Lindell and Stop the Steal would have been a major focus.

8/ As PROOF previously reported (🔐), Lindell, who funded much of the Stop the Steal movement, spent the days before January 6 not just with Team Kraken (the driver behind Trump's anti-China conspiracy-theorizing) but a Chinese dissident named Joseph Lam. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

9/ Meanwhile Stop the Steal's Ali Alexander—who was getting funding from Lindell—kept doing interviews with NTD, a channel run by Falun Gong, which the Chinese government considers an existential threat. Falun Gong and its operations are closely monitored by Chinese intelligence.

10/ So this article describes a December 27 meeting that Ali Alexander was either present at—with Trump—or was able to learn about, despite it being secretive, almost immediately after it occurred. That would've sent off alarm bells in Beijing...when Alexander revealed it to NTD.

11/ Many Americans who recognize that Trump is a clear and present danger to the United States—and *was* in January 2021—nevertheless find General Milley's actions inexplicable because they simply *do not understand* how worried the Pentagon was about a war with China in January.

12/ Just so, there's been almost no clear reporting, until now, on why *Beijing* would have reasonably apprehended that Trump might try to stay in office by launching a military strike against China and claiming that it and the Democrats had colluded to steal the 2020 election.

13/ Why was Michael Lindell meeting with Chinese dissidents? Why was Ali Alexander giving interviews to Falun Gong? Why was Powell accusing China of declaring war on America and then storming into the Oval Office on December 18 to try to get special presidentially granted powers?

14/ In short, tracing the activities of a small group of men and women looking to pin Trump's election loss on China underscores precisely *why* a military strike on China in January 2021—which could have led to a nuclear war—seemed possible to *both* China *and* the Pentagon.

15/ Any strike by Trump against China would've been part of a *Trumpist coup*—meaning, the attack itself would be illegal not merely on the basis of being a war crime, but literally being *part of* a refusal by Trump to vacate the White House. Every American must understand this.

16/ But it's more than this: Stone, Alexander, Jones, and Lindell—four of the people focused on in the article above, the first three of whom led the Stop the Steal "movement"—*specifically* couched their post-election activities as a lead-up to a religious war against communism.

17/ They made clear that the religious "war" they sought was "global"—they used that word over and over again. They made clear that the fight between "good and evil, light and darkness" (a repeated refrain) would *not* be limited to the United States.

It would envelop the world.

18/ Not just Chinese intelligence but *any* intel agency—anywhere in the world—would've spent December 2020 and January 2021 trying to understand *how close* to Trump these maniacs were. Was he more swayed by them than his generals, with whom he had long had a testy relationship?

19/ The December 27 event I describe in this article helped establish that those around Trump claiming they wanted to wage a "global" "war" on communism—men meeting with Chinese dissidents in public—indeed had access to Trump's strategies and thinking. It created a danger of war.

20/ Hopefully this gives folks enough background for the article above, which is long and complex. But we need to understand this *before* September 28. The insurrectionists will try to use Milley as a cause célèbre. But it's a lie—and they mustn't be allowed to get away with it.