Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔒) NEW at PROOF: The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 1: Alex Jones

You don't want to miss this new series at PROOF—I'm delving *deep* into evidence of the fraying of the 1/6 conspiracy. This report gets *wild* as it goes on. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…

1/ Writing about Alex Jones is incredibly hard, because—I say this advisedly—it is impossible to do without writing at some length about {ahem} aliens, Satan, pedophiles, and the "New World Order." Jones talks about these subjects incessantly; they're part of the InfoWars mythos.

2/ What is new—and I mean just within the last few weeks—is Alex Jones beginning to slot *Trump* into this mythos. And Jones is doing so *just* as he's debating whether or not to throw Trump under the bus by testifying honestly before Congress. It's quite a coincidence of events.

3/ This article launches a new series at PROOF, and it includes a doozy of a reveal: that Trump's allies are starting to coalesce around a *replacement* to Trump that they believe can be the Republican Party's presidential nominee in 2024.

Trump won't take this betrayal lightly.

4/ Included in the narrative at the link atop this thread are a slew of things you *never* see in far-right circles: aggressive, even *violent* criticisms of Trump; *open* planning to replace Trump atop the GOP; and what's quite clearly an ongoing rumination about betraying him.

5/ These things matter to the future of America for the obvious reasons, of course, but also for more subtle ones. There are indications—discussed above—that the House January 6 Committee doesn't believe DOJ is investigating the coup plotters. The implications of this are *huge*.

6/ We know that the HJ6C is contemplating a "criminal referral" of Trump to DOJ—but the simple fact is that if the HJ6C doesn't think DOJ is *already* conducting an investigation of the coup plotters, why would it respond favorably to a referral that comes 1 to 2 years after 1/6?

7/ This is another way of saying that Congress needs someone to betray Trump, in doing so making it impossible for Merrick Garland and DOJ to continue to *ignore* the 12 to 24 coup plotters that DOJ thus far appears loath to mess with (for inexcusably cowardly political reasons).

8/ It's for this reason that I decided to launch a new series looking at a growing body of evidence that no one seems to be talking about: the evidence—and there's a lot of it—that Trump's 1/6 conspiracy is on the verge of collapse.

Which—if it happens—may spell the end for him.

(ANNOUNCEMENT) Apparently this report has already drawn an enormous amount of interest in just the few minutes it's been available to PROOF's email list recipients and readers of this Twitter feed: PROOF is thrilled to announce that it's just surpassed *50,000* total subscribers!

(UPDATE) I can now announce what the second entry in PROOF's "Coming Collapse" series will be:

"The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 2: Roger Stone"

Stay tuned. sethabramson.substack.com

(UPDATE2) Info from the Jones police report referenced in my recent article is now available, and as I indicated might be the case (based on my past experience as a public defender), there is indeed an allegation that Jones’s wife struck a police officer. news.yahoo.com/alex-jones-cla…