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Seth Abramson

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29 Sep

If Americans understood what a run-of-the-mill misdemeanor trespassing case looks like, they'd be *scandalized* by the notion that federal defendants who breached the Capitol during what they fully understood was a violent insurrection are getting misdemeanor trespassing charges.

(PS) By way of analogy, federal prosecutors are taking individuals who committed a felony home invasion in which they hung out in the kitchen in which a bound-and-gagged family was being threatened with a knife by their co-conspirator and charging them with attempted shoplifting.

(PS2) Please understand this: the violent attack on the Capitol on January 6 isn't being taken seriously by federal prosecutors. It's not being treated as a historic assault on America. And the plotters are getting away with it. And that's why something similar will happen again.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

28 Sep

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1442849000143695883

A note to aspiring journalists: never do what Haberman does here. A known liar has written a book for cash in which she gives an account of events that makes no sense in medicine, logistics or the personal history of anyone involved. Never be a mere stenographer for BS like this.

https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1442849000143695883

(PS) As she does in her own writing, Haberman uses the self-aggrandizing words of a known liar—though they make not even superficial sense—as a cudgel with which to batter journalists, political analysts and Trump critics who have responsibly cast a harsh light on his presidency.

(PS2) See my thread from earlier today—written as the author of the longest account of Trump's 2019 Walter Reed trip in print—for details on just a few ways Grisham's story appears to be impossible. Then consider that Haberman won a Pulitzer for credulously repeating liars' lies.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

28 Sep

On Trump's 2019 trip to Walter Reed: it may indeed have been a colonoscopy, but if it was, it was an emergency one. Proof of Corruption (Macmillan, 2020) has the longest account of the incident in print—and it confirms, via multiple sources, that the hospital trip was unexpected.

The only other possibility is that the nature of the procedure was deemed so embarrassing by the ex-president that—in a historically unprecedented way—all operational details of the hospital trip were hidden not merely from his own team but even from medical staff at Walter Reed.

What does *not* make sense is that Grisham is now claiming to have known at the time what the procedure was, when every indication operationally was that no one knew, and that it was an emergency. She may be pretending to have had at the time knowledge she only gained much later.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

28 Sep

I've been interviewed by Russell Brand. I think Brand is generally smart and well-intended. I’m also certain that the sum total of his knowledge about the Trump-Russia scandal is dogshit.

All that’s happened here is that Glenn Greenwald found another mark for his disinformation.

I’m proud to be one of the top Trump-Russia experts out there, having written three bestsellers on the subject. I haven’t seen Glenn Greenwald type an accurate sentence about the Trump-Russia scandal in over 4 years—but he can sound very convincing to Brits who don’t know better.

I want to reassure those of you startled by the disinformation campaign intended to transform our understanding of the Trump-Russia scandal just 48 months after the federal investigation of it concluded that history will get it right. Those lying now will be forgotten by history.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

27 Sep

(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: A January Lawsuit in Texas Appears to Be the Focus of a Seditious Conspiracy Involving Trump, His Lawyers and Political Aides, Texas Politicians, Stop the Steal, and the Capitol Attack

I hope you'll subscribe, read and RT. This is big. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ It's difficult for me to write a comprehensive thread about this article because it pulls together so much major-media reporting—dozens of articles—as well as the BREAKING NEWS from yesterday reported by PROOF and now a subject of discussion on MSNBC. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

2/ It's also difficult because everything that's come out over the last 24 hours—as complex as it is—essentially confirms the reporting PROOF did in March 2021 indicating that the January 6 attack was designed to be a stalling tactic, not a perfected coup. sethabramson.substack.com/p/here-is-the-…

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Seth Abramson

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26 Sep

(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Lawyer Admits Trump's Legal Team Was Seeking An Emergency Injunction Against Certification of Biden's Win As Trump Incited a Riot to Delay the Joint Session of Congress sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

1/ Many of you read, at the time it was published, PROOF's comprehensive analysis of what Trump's game plan was for January 6. It was published in early March; now, over 6 months later, nearly all its details have been confirmed. You can read it here (🔓): sethabramson.substack.com/p/here-is-the-…

2/ PROOF reported—based on reliable public evidence—that Trump's January 6 plan was simply to *delay* the certification of Biden's win, and that his purpose in aiming for this was to execute a "public" stratagem (involving legislatures) and a "private" one (involving lawyers).

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