Thread by @QOrigins

“The pdf that’s floating around” is, of course, the coup PowerPoint.

.pps is an ooooold PowerPoint format, and someone we consulted last night suggested that it may not have been saved that way for compatibility on an archaeo-machine — some *printers* need old formats, too.

https://twitter.com/get_innocuous/status/1469364276586446849

But it’s pretty unusual to encounter that format in 2021, which could be a clue to whose hands the PowerPoint passed through.

*However*, the pdf version of this file was MUCH more widely distributed than the PowerPoint. (Big ups to @z3dster for also finding the pps, by the way.)

The pdf was out in the wild on January 12, 2021, when it was released on at least the Telegram channels for:

* Lin Wood, an attorney who was heavily involved in trying to overturn the election, and

* Arizona “audit” figure Jovan Hutton Pulitzer.

What does this mean?

Well, the pdf didn’t spring forth fully-formed out of the ether.

Someone with access to the original PowerPoint *made* that bad boy and gave it, at a minimum, to Pulitzer (who published it first by a few minutes) — but I would *guess* they also gave it to Wood.

So that’s how we, the general public, could first have seen this document.

The question is how and when *Trump’s White House chief of staff* came to possess the document — and what, if anything, the Trump administration intended to do with it.

Bc here’s the thing:

There are telltale signs that this document *was not created* by someone in the White House — but it was obviously made by someone w/enough connections to get it to the WH Chief of Staff.

Before I go deeper on that, what ARE these “telltale signs” I mentioned?

For instance, consider the “Kraken intelligence” logo that @get_innocuous found on the PowerPoint, but which is (mostly) obscured on the pdf. You can find that in the OP of this thread.

This suggests the document came out of the Sidney Powell/Lin Wood “Kraken” lawsuit factory—

@get_innocuous they had a whole team of support personnel putting together presentations of their definitely-real, not-totally-misunderstood "evidence."

Antrim, Michigan, which features heavily in the powerpoint (and pdf -- they're basically the same doc) was a particular focus for them.

@get_innocuous But I'm not just relying on THAT; that's nothing. That isn't PROOF.

What IS proof that it came out of the Michael Flynn/Sidney Powell "overthrow the election" camp is that, on December 18, 2020, Flynn, Powell, and an associate met with Trump at the White House and proposed...

@get_innocuous well, they proposed basically EXACTLY WHAT THE DOCUMENT CALLS FOR.

They proposed that Trump should have the military "re-run" the election.

We have several sources on this meeting. The longest is from Patrick Byrne, who was Flynn and Powell's third wheel in the meeting.

@get_innocuous Byrne's lengthy and biased account is here, but it outlines what they wanted to accomplish.

deepcapture.com/2021/02/how-dj…

It's very, VERY similar to the powerpoint.

And we have plenty of other sources to verify that this meeting happened -- including a next-day report in the New York Times.

From here and in the next few tweets, you'll get a sampler.

https://twitter.com/QOrigins/status/1468977970064723968?s=20

So here's my current hypothesis:

The powerpoint (and PDF) share a filename that includes "JAN4."

And the "election re-run" proposed by the powerpoint is subtly different from the Dec 18 plan -- Byrne's account talks about "re-running" the election basically in blue strongholds.

The powerpoint seems to suggest a nationwide "re-do," which, of course, is not a thing -- hopefully I don't have to say this out loud, but uh, what they are describing is a coup aimed at overthrowing an election, DUH, & the WH Chief of Staff having the doc is alarming!

Anyhow:

I submit that this document came out of the "let's re-do the election" camp -- we'll call them the Kraken gang for short -- sometime between December 18 and January 4.

This is because it reflects a slightly updated strategy from the one they pitched on December 18.

And they wanted to get their document to the upper levels of the White House (including the same Chief of Staff who, in Byrne's telling, had just... politely but firmly frozen Powell out of *using* any of the powers Trump orally granted her in the December 18 meeting).

So...🤔

How could they do that? A significant chunk of the White House, they knew, was very much opposed to them and their whole deal.

If they wanted this document to be taken seriously -- because we know Meadows WAS taking election conspiracies seriously, including "Italygate"--

they might want to purge it of the most obvious signs that it came from Krakenworld.

Like the "Kraken Intelligence" logo.

But they did it a little TOO quickly and left part of it visible.

*That's* why the stuff @get_innocuous found is important.

Anyway, while I was doing this thread I realized there were about 5,000 better ways to organize it and get the core info out in fewer tweets, with less confusion.

I may take another stab at this at lunch.

If so: sorry for the spam, and feel free to mute my Thread-Of-Doom-v2.0.

UPDATE:

While I was writing this billion-post thread to go "I'm pretty sure the coup presentation came out of Krakenland bc X, Y, & Z," @kskoglund found proof that several items in the Powerpoint were *posted on Twitter* by a Krakenland figure in 11/2020

https://twitter.com/kskoglund/status/1469378563111538692?s=20

So yes, that is hard confirmation that the coup powerpoint came from Krakenville.

I hope that nugget is useful to journalists who are trying to track how the document circulated and how it got into Meadows' hands.