The lack of an answer to this question is the most significant cause of burnout among leading January 6 researchers and journalists.
DOJ has given us nothing—nothing—to sustain us as we find ourselves fearing we care about rule of law and the future of America more than it does.
If AG Garland doesn’t pursue the coup *plotters*, he’ll rightly go down as one of the worst AGs in US history. And if Biden presides over a de facto amnesty for insurrectionist kingpins that leads to the end of our democracy in 2024, he will have been one of our worst presidents.
There’s more at stake in the question Miller is asking on MSNBC and that I and PROOF have been asking since January 7 than perhaps any other question in the American public sphere right now. America will not survive—it will *wither* and *die*—if the coup plotters aren’t punished.
Trump and his agents were given a pass on Russia. They were given a pass on Ukraine. They were given a pass on the pandemic. They were given a pass on Khashoggi. They were given a pass on colluding with the UAE, Israel, and Saudi Arabia in 2016. This is the last line in the sand.
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Joe Manchin, who represents one of the poorest states in America, says he can’t vote for Build Back Better—a historic piece of legislation aimed at bolstering the social safety net—because he can’t “explain” it in West Virginia.
If he’s that *thick*, he shouldn’t be in politics.
I’ll tell you one place Manchin *actually* can’t explain Build Back Better: at his 4-figure lunches with energy industry lobbyists and other fat cats.
He’s provided no evidence that West Virginia citizens—the ones who voted him into office—wouldn’t benefit from this legislation.
The notion that the hundreds of thousands of desperately poor West Virginians are clamoring for their chief elected representative to *block* paid family medical leave and *block* countless provisions that would change their lives for the better isn’t just farcical but *obscene*.
The Trump-Ukraine scandal we were told not to focus on beyond a single call—and which I wrote a bestseller on—had as its aim the theft of the election. Guess who PROOF OF CORRUPTION said was at the plot’s heart?
Most Americans will have no idea of the significance of this Rick Perry text, because major media did nothing to inform them of the sprawling Trump-Ukraine scandal aimed at the heart of the 2020 election. Media deemed the story too complex to report—now we’ll all suffer for that.
Perry’s job was to help Trump bribe foreign officials into publishing info about Biden they knew was false—thereby helping Trump steal the election. Here, Perry is aiding a foreign national-supported coup by embracing disinformation and implying Trump is above the law.
Many non-lawyers don’t know you can’t claim your answers to questions would tend to incriminate you to avoid a subpoena then give a press conference declaring you did nothing wrong
Stone’s actions won’t stand, and he will end up being charged with Contempt of Congress
What supervillain Roger Stone needed to do if he wanted to take this approach was answer as many questions as possible, assert the Fifth Amendment to any questions he/his lawyer felt may tend to incriminate him, then for the first time in his sad life not give a press conference
Normally it’s difficult to assess if an invocation of the Fifth Amendment has been made in good faith, but it’s not difficult when immediately after the invocation the witness gives a televised presser saying he couldn’t possibly incriminate himself because he "did nothing wrong"
(THREAD) With the BREAKING NEWS that Trump adviser Roger Stone told Congress his testimony about January 6 would tend to incriminate him and subject him to prosecution, PROOF is posting this thread of its reporting on Stone—for which Stone threatened to sue PROOF. Please RETWEET.
(NOTE) This thread will lengthy and chronological—ranging from the first PROOF report on Stone's January 6 actions to the most recent. Many of the articles in this thread are free, some are only for subscribers ($5/month). You can subscribe to PROOF below: sethabramson.substack.com
(🔒) RETRO: The Top 100 Unreleased Nintendo Entertainment System Games—All of Which You Can Play Right Now
Most who follow this feed are politicos, not gamers, so the significance of this report may be unclear. Gamers know—and I hope will share it widely. retrostack.substack.com/p/the-top-100-…
1/ The gaming world is facing the loss of some of its most important artworks: unreleased NES prototypes (the NES being the most important video game console in history, and gaming being the top entertainment industry in the world) that are bought by investors and *hidden away*.
2/ There's been a massive effort by preservations like @FrankCifaldi to rescue these artifacts before they disappear forever. And I mean *forever*: in many cases only one prototype cart of an unreleased NES game exists. This effort is advocated for by experts like @PatTheNESpunk.