Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔒) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Evidence Mounts of Team Trump Plot to Occupy the Capitol on January 6

There's a reason Glenn Youngkin wouldn't let Trump set foot in Virginia. There's a reason Trump is fighting records disclosure. He aided a criminal conspiracy. sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…

(PS) In just the few hours since I first published this, I've received a tsunami of tips—from January 6 video of Alex Jones talking about "occupying" the Capitol to more quotes from Trump lawyers about occupation to documents that further corroborate the evidence we already have.

(PS2) Lost in the media focus on a single state-level race yesterday—to the exclusion of historic Democratic wins in Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Maine, and other potential battleground states—is the fact that Youngkin won in part by *avoiding* Trump.

(PS3) Let me state it plainly: Glenn Youngkin believes, and most Republicans across the Potomac River in D.C. believe, that Trump participated in a criminal conspiracy to launch a coup—and that he'll *eventually* face some kind of consequence for this, whether legal or political.

(PS4) What this new reporting at PROOF—an outlet cited by Congress and the Washington Post and AFP and Forbes and countless other outlets in just the last couple weeks—does is firmly establish the *named* January 6 plot in which Trump participated: "Operation Occupy the Capitol."

(PS5) Among the tsunami of tips I received yesterday was *audio* of Oath Keepers discussing—on a private channel—re-invading the Capitol on January 7 to "retake" and "hold" it long enough to ensure Trump would be reinstalled as President of the United States. It's stunning audio.

(PS6) Democrats mustn't fall into the trap of discussing nonsense issues the GOP made up out of whole cloth. Here's what matters—the GOP is a pro-sedition party that enables insurrectionist filth who are a clear and present danger to America because they plan to end US democracy.

(PS7) Was McAuliffe a bad candidate who'd lost a governor's race before—in addition to winning one after evading a primary—was seen as a DC insider and Clinton pal (at a time the Clintons animate the GOP more than anything), and should've talked about ending the grocery tax? Yes.

(PS8) But a single race in Virginia isn't a national trend, and in state/local races across America yesterday it was a mixed bag for Republicans. And even in Virginia—consider this—the GOP couldn't allow *the leader of the damn party* to *set foot* in the Commonwealth. Even once.

(PS9) Why was Trump deemed poison to Youngkin? Because so much of the nation—including Virginia—knows that Trump is a traitor to America. Trump sets foot in Virginia, Youngkin *loses*—period. So now journalists' job is to work as hard on *that* story as PROOF has since January 6.

(PS10) I understand Democrats are demoralized by the failure of the FBI or DOJ to act on the January 6 coup plotters—and I understand that corporate media has no interest in saying that one reason for insufficient Democratic voter enthusiasm is this very failure. But I'll say it.

(PS11) But what I won't do is give up. PROOF will keep offering the best reporting on January 6 of any media outlet—because America is at stake in this, not just a single state's governor's mansion. If you want hopelessness, this Twitter feed is not going to be the place for you.

(PS12) Many of you ask, "What can we do?" I'm a journalist, not an organizer; there are others who can answer that question better than me. But a very, very small start? Share articles like the one atop this thread that tell the fully sourced truth about Trump and January 6. /end