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25 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: January 6 Organizers Say They Participated in "Dozens" of Planning Meetings With GOP Members of Congress and Trump White House Staff

As if there were ever any doubt, we can now be sure of why the GOP wants to kill the January 6 probe. rollingstone.com/politics/polit…
PS/ This new ROLLING STONE report dovetails with what I've been reporting at PROOF since late January: on January 4, 5 and 6 there were many Trump war rooms scattered around downtown DC. PROOF has detailed many of them—and the insurrectionists they hosted. sethabramson.substack.com
PS2/ ROLLING STONE confirms the reporting at PROOF since January with respect to the members of Congress *most* involved in January 6 planning.

PROOF—and now ROLLING STONE—identify these seven Republicans:

🔴 Biggs
🔴 Boebert
🔴 Brooks
🔴 Cawthorn
🔴 Gohmert
🔴 Gosar
🔴 Greene
PS3/ To be clear, you'll also hear—as PROOF has reported—much more about these Republican members of Congress:

🔴 Gaetz
🔴 Gooden
🔴 Hice
🔴 Jordan
🔴 McCarthy
🔴 Sessions (Pete)

And—as most of you already know—several key figures in the Senate:

🔴 Cruz
🔴 Hawley
🔴 Tuberville
PS4/ By the way, if you've been reading PROOF since January, you have a very good idea who the "organizer" and "planner" referenced by ROLLING STONE are, though the article won't name them.

I believe they're both on the list PROOF published on January 18: sethabramson.substack.com/p/trump-campai…
PS5/ One of the money quotes in the ROLLING STONE article:

"The breaking point for me [on January 6 was when] Trump start[ed] talking about walking to the Capitol [with the crowd]," the organizer says. "I was like, 'Let's get the fuck out of here.'"
PS6/ And kudos to ROLLING STONE for mentioning (albeit only in passing) the insurrectionist paramilitary extremist group 1st Amendment Praetorians. PROOF has reported that one of the leaders of the group was *in Trump's war room* during Insurrection Week: sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…

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26 Oct
(BREAKING VIDEO) Much of the raw intel Steele compiled—which he estimated to the FBI was 70% accurate—has been corroborated. Some was known at the time—and still—to be unconfirmable. Virtually none of it has been disproven. History will deem Steele a hero.
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Steele compiled has fared with fact-checkers. It’s looking like his 70% estimate was almost exactly correct. An infographic on this is below.

Link: emptylighthouse.com/steele-dossier… ImageImage
(PS) This is the tip of an iceberg. In PROOF OF COLLUSION (Simon & Schuster, 2018) I curated reams of major-media reports on one piece of intel—the Ritz Moscow allegation—and found only evidence of its accuracy. There was no contrary evidence, even if also no conclusive evidence.
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26 Oct
When will people understand that Trump isn’t endorsing men like Parnell, Walker, and Miller who have faced domestic violence allegations *despite* those allegations but *because* of them? Not only can Trump relate—as a known sexual predator—but he loves a “lying woman” narrative. Image
Trump’s 2016 campaign was little more than procedurally sanctioned misogyny—and after 2016 he found new women to abuse online: Pelosi, AOC, Ilhan Omar and countless others. Trump is a textbook monster whose fetish is hurting women. Maybe his endorsements should have that context?
I’m not kidding about this. As a Trump biographer I’m saying that if you put two candidates in front of him who were somehow equal in every way—but one of them had faced domestic violence charges—Trump would prefer him because he would see himself and his attitudes in such abuse.
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26 Oct
Rittenhouse’s victims, who are dead and can’t defend themselves, have been put on trial—without hearing—by a judge and deemed guilty of the crimes of (1) riot, (2) theft and (3) arson. Meanwhile Rittenhouse—who agrees he killed people—gets to pretend it was a “victim”-less crime.
PS/ Please file this news under “things that would never, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, ever, *ever* happen to a Black defendant charged with killing a white person.” And I bet not *one white person* supporting this development today would cheer if the races were reversed.
PS2/ As a former public defender, I *agree* there are instances in which the word “victim” is inappropriate at trial—namely any case where the combination of allegation and defense is such that the trial’s purpose is to determine if there *were* “victims” as to *this* defendant.
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26 Oct
NO.

This is unacceptable. Over a MILLION Americans have been infected in the last 14 DAYS, and 20,000 Americans have DIED of COVID-19 in the last 14 DAYS. And both those numbers are low because they're just what's confirmed so far.

No one—NO ONE—should be waving the white flag.
(PS) The "this is it" movement—such as there is one—is comprised of cowards who've decided that the United States can't act responsibly like almost every other country on Earth is. They've decided that the anti-vaxxers have won. They've decided that 50,000 dead a month is *fine*.
(PS2) No one disagrees that at the end of all this there'll be a "new normal." But the rush to declare that we've *arrived* at the "new normal" is a construction of corporate media—which wants to move on to other subjects—and a small number of cowards with (sadly) big megaphones.
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26 Oct
Frank, I agree much of this is thin cruel. But to be clear, there’s no claim that Trump or his inner circle *aimed* for violence in the Capitol. There’s *ample* evidence to suggest they wanted the Capitol *occupied* long enough for the joint session of Congress to be postponed.
I’ve been working on January 6 for over 10 months, and have encountered little evidence the specific aim of Trump or his team was violence. But there’s a mountain of evidence they wanted the Capitol stormed and occupied.

What that required or looked like was little contemplated.
Prior to the Russia investigation, the allegation made by critics of the former president was that the Kremlin had bribed Trump into formulating a pro-Russia foreign policy. Trump fans *miscast* the allegation so that they could say it had been disproven after the Mueller Report.
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24 Oct
(MAJOR FEED NOTE) This feed was cited in the House January 6 Committee's Report to Congress on holding Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress. I told folks PROOF was being followed by the Committee; I hope everyone will now accept that.

Link (see pg. 7): docs.house.gov/meetings/IJ/IJ…
(MORE) Here is the research from PROOF that Congress cited:
(PS) If you'd like to subscribe to PROOF and see the full range of evidence Congress is reviewing from my research and journalism on the events that led to the insurrection, the link is below. Some articles are free, some require subscription (just $5/mo). Sethabramson.substack.com
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