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11 Oct, 12 tweets, 3 min read
(🔐) BREAKING NEWS: Trump Lawyer John Eastman Speaks Out About January 6—and Makes Everything Worse for Trump

You'll want to read/RT this. Because it's shocking, and because it's a prelude to news PROOF will break in the next 72 hours (working on it now). sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
1/ With the aid of PROOF readers and others, PROOF has been working on a series of articles that put in the clearest relief yet *exactly* what happened in the lead-up to January 6. This article, which draws from a stunning op-ed just published by a Trump lawyer, is part of that.
2/ Those who say we already know exactly what happened on January 6 are wrong. Those who say we know exactly what happened in the run-up to January 6 are wrong. But these PROOF articles—using public (but still little-seen) evidence—aim to change that. The Eastman oped is a start.
3/ What Americans must understand is the coordination and communication that occurred between these pro-Trump entities:

🟥 The Trump campaign
🟧 Stop the Steal
🟨 Paramilitary groups
🟩 Trump administration agents
🟦 Trump's legal team
🟪 Grassroots agitators
🟫 The Trump family
4/ It's only by understanding what each of these coup conspiracy participants wanted, believed, and expected—which *didn't* always perfectly overlap—that one can understand how January 6 came to unfold the way it did. I am not suggesting it's a neat or simple story, as it is not.
5/ As January 6 approached, for instance, the original (non-violent) plan favored by Trump's legal team (🟦), which had received aid from Stop the Steal (🟧), became an *impossibility*. But paramilitary groups (🟨) were in a position to put that plan back on track post-January 6.
6/ The Trump campaign (🟥), Trump administration agents (🟩), grassroots agitators (🟪), and Trump family members (🟫) were essential to coordinating the legal team, Stop the Steal, and domestic extremists—though in some instances Trump became directly part of this coordination.
7/ The stunning Eastman op-ed discussed in the PROOF article atop this thread picks up the story at a key point: as Trump's legal team (🟦) informs Trump and his inner circle (🟥🟩🟫) the legal strategy has failed.

This was January 4. Trump was by no means surprised to hear it.
8/ Indeed, Trump had spent the prior weekend preparing for the inevitable (final) collapse of his legal strategy by issuing directives to a group I haven't mentioned yet—his allies in statehouses and Congress (⬛️)—and Stop the Steal agents (🟧) in touch with paramilitaries (🟨).
9/ This is both as confusing as it sounds *and* much less confusing. If you read the article above—all the way up to its final bolded sentence—and the articles coming out in PROOF shortly, you will see how simultaneously simple and convoluted Team Trump's January 6 coup plot was.
10/ In case you're wondering, I spent all day writing this article and *then*—just as I was editing it—"Eastman" began trending on Twitter.

That's how on top of things I'm proud to say PROOF (and especially some of its sharpest readers and researchers) have been since January 6.
(PS) No, it hasn't been.

(Screenshot of Twitter "trending" topics.)

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13 Oct
I hope people understand what these terrorists—and they are, by definition, terrorists, i.e. criminals using threats of violence to achieve political ends—aim to achieve: they want to drive decent people from government so that they can take control of government.

Remember that.
It's increasingly hard to argue against the premise that Trumpism is terrorism. If you look at the rhetoric of Trump's "movement"; if you look at its threats and violence; if you look at how its violent rhetoric, threats, and actions serve political ends...it's increasingly hard.
Trumpists no longer speak of a battle of ideas and ideals settled peaceably at the voting booth. They talk of war. They talk of violence. They describe themselves as having no faith in any of the institutions Americans have turned to to achieve political ends *besides* terrorism.
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13 Oct
Every single one of you should be *ashamed* of yourselves, @ClaremontInst. John is a disgrace to the law—and for you to be defending what he did is almost as disgraceful. I'm not going to get into all the ways your thread is misleading but it is, you know it is, and shame on you.
(PS) For those curious, I outlined all the ways in which even Eastman's current version of events is disgusting in the article below. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
(PS2) Suffice to say, regarding the Claremont thread, that there was *no* "acknowledged" illegal conduct by elections officials, that *no* legislatures were calling for a delay, and that Pence doesn't have a British queen's power to prorogue parliament.

That's just for starters.
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10 Oct
(🔐) NEW: If You Know Who Steve Bannon's Lawyer Is, You Understand How Closely Trump Is Linked to the Cover-Up of His Own Role in the January 6 Conspiracy

Sharing a lawyer with your co-conspirator is what career criminals do.

I hope you'll read and RT. sethabramson.substack.com/p/if-you-know-…
1/ It's astounded me—for 5 years now—how little work the media does on Trump's penchant for acting like a career criminal, especially in his use of lawyers, promises and threats, and obstruction plots, and in the myriad ways he exhibits *comically obvious* consciousness of guilt.
2/ The law wasn't invented yesterday. The ways of career criminals aren't unknown. The three books I wrote on Trump detailed the ways in which he uses lawyers to commit crimes—based on a reading of the attorney-client privilege that he has, in public and private, made explicit.
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10 Oct
When, instead of investigating and indicting and incarcerating a career criminal and traitor to this country, you make him president and then give him endless free media, you get the disgusting spectacle happening at the Iowa fairgrounds tonight

Rule of law is asleep in America
(PS) I'm watching this Trump rally because as the author of PROOF I feel I must, but I'll tell you that it is *poison to the soul*

No two fascist parties are exactly alike—but I'll say again that what Trump has birthed is what 1930s fascism looks like translated to 2020s America
(PS2) Everything the man is saying is dangerous to the health of individual Americans, the survival of our democracy, the potential for productive political discourse, the maintenance of our rule of law, the preservation of our voting rights and the reestablishment of our dignity
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8 Oct
It's times like these I like to remind people that the leader of the GOP is a serial adulterer, sexual harasser, sexual assailant, and rapist who has analogized his sexual career to Vietnam—a war he dodged with fake bone spurs and whose soldiers he later called losers and suckers
(PS) "Sexual Anarchy" is a discarded Trump autobiography title; I'm pretty sure Chuck Schumer is profoundly confused by both words.
(PS2) Every time I see Charlie Kirk I think to myself that America must truly be a great country if you can have a sprawling media empire at the age of 14
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8 Oct
God—I hope this isn't true.

Trump's insurgency is a clear and present danger to America, and if those folks in the Capitol didn't get the message on January 6, I suspect none of us will miss it when the next attack comes.

You don't play with domestic terrorism—you *defeat it*.
The thing no one in DC seems to understand that I would've thought someone in intel would've explained to them by now: DOMESTIC INSURGENCIES DON'T TAKE BREAKS.

They're don't merely "go live" when attacks happen—and they're not always about violence. They *daily* erode democracy.
Bannon defying Congress is part of the insurgency. The "Big Lie" is part of the insurgency. Bannon's recent "shock troops" speech is part of the insurgency. The Oath Keepers seeing record membership gains is part of the insurgency. And Trump's likely 2024 bid is part of it, too.
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