Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔒) 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

3/ All the talk of the Willard Hotel in the Washington Post and at PROOF—and the citation, by not only the Washington Post but the House January 6 Committee itself, of PROOF's research on the Willard Hotel—has focused on the question of what Trump's lawyers were doing January 6.

4/ That is the wrong question.

5/ The right question seems to be what Trump's attorneys were doing on *January 2*—and in the immediate run-up to January 2. And it appears that what they were doing was coordinating a two-part plan that had both a state-level and a federal component to it.

It was also illegal.

6/ As most of you know, many of the January 6 insurrectionists were investigated (and some arrested) for plotting to interrupt congressional proceedings. It is a conspiracy to do precisely this that is at issue in the lengthy PROOF article I've just published. I'll explain.

7/ Trump's legal team was set up to be the conduit between the two prongs of Trump's plan: state GOP legislators, who were to execute the *actual* coup intended for Insurrection Week—a legislative one—and Stop the Steal, which was to coordinate an occupation of the U.S. Capitol.

8/ The occupation of the Capitol was necessary—not optional—for state legislators to have enough time to launch special sessions to {"decertify" Biden's electors (and seat new Trump "electors") in battleground states Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

9/ How do we know that Stop the Steal's plan was to occupy the Capitol? Because CNN reported it on January 6 (see the article above). And CNN also reported that the White House was aware of this plan—and that the plan was communicated to the White House *by the insurrectionists*.

10/ The question was how to get Stop the Steal and state legislators on the same page—to ensure the lawless actions of Stop the Steal would actually buy sufficient time for state legislators to stage a legislative coup by (trying to) decertify Biden's 2020 win at the state level.

11/ On January 2, 2021, everyone got on the same page. How? By all being on the same phone call—a phone call was jointly arranged by Trump's legal team and Stop the Steal and was attended by Trump's legal team, political team, Stop the Steal, 290 legislators... and Trump himself.

12/ The article above reveals the Stop the Steal leader who coordinated the January 2 call, and who from Trump's camp—you won't believe it—revealed that he coordinated it. It also underscores that a man from Trump's legal team who no one talks about is the man who knows the most.

13/ As Insurrection Week began, Trump's legal team truly believed the joint session would last for *days*. These days would be necessary for Trump's legislative coup to work.

And the only way that his state-level allies would be granted that time was if the Capitol was occupied.

14/ I keep trying to explain to people that Team Trump was "violence-ambivalent" in the lead-up to January 6. It wasn't that the team, led by Trump's lawyers and "Team Kraken"—overlapping groups—wanted violence, it was that they wanted the joint session delayed by whatever means.

15/ That Trump's legal team believed the delay would *not* be caused by Ted Cruz's objections is now clear—see the article above.

That Trump's legal team believed the delay *would* be caused by Stop the Steal (and was indifferent to *how*) is clear from the January 2 phone call.

16/ The call ensured Stop the Steal's leaders would know just what was needed from them to get special sessions to decertify Biden's election called—and for new electors to issue from those sessions. At the center of the call? Trump himself.

Then Team Trump lied about all of it.

17/ That's right: Trump's legal team devised a cover story for why Trump was on the call, who organized it, and what it was for. But PROOF is now reporting the truth—with sourcing.

That Trump *personally* lied about the call—as did his team—confirms their consciousness of guilt.

18/ It's astounding that Trump spoke on a call—for 14 minutes, no less (and if you don't think that's a long time, take out a stopwatch and time it)—that involved his lawyers, advisers, domestic extremists, and legislators he was asking to stage a coup, then lied about all of it.

19/ Did I mention that the Stop the Steal leader who worked with Trump's legal team to orchestrate this January 2 pre-insurrection strategy session—which *coordinated the conduct of state legislators and domestic extremists*—is an Oath Keeper?

That's right.

He's an Oath Keeper.

20/ And did I mention that this Oath Keeper who worked with Trump's legal team to synchronize state legislators plotting a legislative coup and domestic extremists plotting to occupy the US Capitol—in aid of that legislative coup—spent January 6 with since-arrested Oath Keepers?

21/ Indeed, this Stop the Steal leader/Oath Keeper spent January 5/6 in regular contact—even face-to-face—with domestic terrorist Ali Alexander, that is when he wasn't whizzing around DC in golf carts linked to the White House. Where did the carts launch from?

The Willard Hotel.

22/ Where was Trump's legal team HQed?

The Willard Hotel.

Where was the war room of Stop the Steal organizer Roger Stone located on January 6?

The Willard Hotel.

Where was the war room of march leaders Alex Jones and Owen Shroyer—of InfoWars—on January 6?

The Willard Hotel.

23/ No wonder Stone *fled* the Willard—rushing off to the airport well before he was scheduled to do so—as the attack on the Capitol unfolded.

And no wonder Steve Bannon had one man he wanted to talk to on-air the day after the insurrection: the very Oath Keeper I'm speaking of.

24/ And I haven't even gotten to the OAN part—as it's bizarre, and summarized in the longest italicized parenthetical I think I've ever written at PROOF. Suffice to say that it's getting harder and harder to believe we don't know how the conspiracy that led to January 6 unfolded.

25/ I hope you'll read the article atop this thread. PROOF has been on top of this story for 10 months now, and this report connects to everything that's preceded it in ways any PROOF subscriber will tell you is blowing the top of their head off. Mine too. sethabramson.substack.com