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.
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.
So while I think CNN was doing its best here to acknowledge both Trump’s own history and his current predilection for domestic abusers, to properly report the story one really needs to see the full scope of both Trump’s own predation *and* his long history of *promoting* abusers.
In assessing men, Trump values aggression, ruthlessness, unchecked ambition, power-hungriness, an unstoppable id, possessiveness, unscrupulousness, cruelty, deception, toxic masculinity and obsessive persistence bordering on mania. Of *course* he deems domestic abusers “winners.”
You don’t have to take my word for it. Ask any other Trump biographer and they’ll tell you the same thing. This is who the man has been for a very long time—and the fact that in 2016 our country came within 3 million votes of wanting him to be the president is a stain on America.
One final point: in my years of research and writing on Trump, I discovered that he fundamentally prefers to be surrounded by men he knows are *already* morally compromised. He considers people of virtue to be an abiding threat to his activities. Again, I’m being totally serious.

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28 Oct
I’m retweeting this because every American *must* understand how dangerous Tucker Carlson is, how dangerous his lies are, and how responsible he is for any violence his scheme to stoke civil war generates. He’s deifying domestic terrorist Ali Alexander. This is bloodthirsty work.
PS/ Until any far-right person or far-right media outlet is indicted for criminal incitement of violence, North Korean–style propaganda of this sort will proliferate because it’s fabulously lucrative for the soulless ghouls who fund and produce it.

This is not going to end well.
PS2/ I don’t even think I could do a thread long enough to cover everything disgusting about that video. Calling the insurrection a “false flag” operation, playing “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” (the marching song of the Union during the Civil War), platforming Alexander. JFC.
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28 Oct
(🔒) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: The Secret Behind Trump’s January 2 Phone Call Revealed

This is a very long, complex, damning article about what may have been the most important moment in the pre-insurrection timeline.

I hope you'll subscribe, read, and share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…
1/ I apologize this is coming out 30 minutes late. I know many of you have been waiting for it. Understand that I've been working on this a long time—and that it's incredibly complex. It also intersects with other research I and others are doing that PROOF hasn't reported on yet.
2/ This article takes about a half hour to read, and it includes dozens of links and pull-quotes and videos, so it can't be summarized in any appropriate way here. But I will do my best to at least outline its general topic. A subscription to PROOF is $5. sethabramson.substack.com
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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.
(INFOGRAPHIC) Anyone uninterested in Trumpist propaganda can easily find summaries of how the raw intel s
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…
(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
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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