Now that everyone is talking about Peter Navarro, how about we discuss the fact that he was in the war room at *Trump International* on January 5—as confirmed by multiple men who were there—and thereafter lied to the AP about it
Why did he lie
What happened in that room at THI
Did I mention that the room (in fact a town house) Peter Navarro was in on Insurrection Eve is Donald Trump’s personal residence in DC, and that that’s where the war room at THI was held? Did I mention that PROOF published a list of *everyone in that war room* almost a year ago?
Navarro is willing to talk about the “Green Bay Sweep” on MSNBC because he’s confident that nothing in the document describing that coup attempt was technically illegal
By comparison, he lied about even *being in the war room* at THI
As a former investigator that tells me a lot
The “Green Bay Sweep” is news and I’m not saying it isn’t—but the reason it interests me less than the THI war room is I think Navarro may be right that a *political* strategy for January 6 wasn’t *necessarily* illegal
I think he fears what was said and done in THI *was* illegal
And I personally suspect—though I also feel more evidence on this is needed—that the reason Navarro has repeatedly lied about the Trump International war room (as opposed to the Willard war room) is that Trump was in *regular* contact with the former war room on Insurrection Eve
So strange that I kept writing "THI" when it's "TIH"
For some reason the second one just looks/feels wrong to me even though I know it's right
Sorry for the typos, all
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(TRUMP INTERNATIONAL HOTEL WAR ROOM THREAD) The most widely read report in PROOF history relates to what may have been the most influential war room Trump had on Insurrection Eve—and it was at Trump International, not the Willard. I hope you'll read/share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/january-5-me…
(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "More Revelations About Secretive January 5 War Council at Trump International Hotel"
I hope you'll share this thread widely—the harrowing story of Trump's TIH war room remains largely unreported almost a year after I wrote about it. sethabramson.substack.com/p/more-revelat…
I’m starting to think 1/6 is more emotional for me than I realized. At the time, it prompted me to make a number of big life decisions—the most public of which was starting PROOF and dedicating myself to chronicling the insurrection when I thought I’d stop my writing on politics.
That day was a turning point for so many of us. We had felt such joy at the election of a man who promised to bring some dignity and integrity back to our government, and it felt like before we could even settle in it was *scratched* out of our hands by Trump—an actual monster.
It was easy to respond to January 6—as it came in mid-pandemic—with a sudden fear that nothing will ever get better. That sort of hopelessness in the face of a monster is just what Trump wanted. It’s what he *still* wants. He wants submission—he wants the nation to submit to him.
(PS) The methodology article preceding the rankings—which everyone skipped—made clear that I'm not perfect and that mistakes would be made and that I would try to continually improve the work. I made countless edits in response to suggestions.
All of that good faith was ignored.
(PS2) I really hope the NES homebrew scene thrives. That the first time a journalist with a large audience tried to take an expansive view of it—with an explicit statement that all rankings are *subjective*—he was met with claims that it was “dangerous.” That does not auger well.
(🔐) NEW at PROOF: The Coming Collapse of Donald Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 2: Roger Stone
This exposé on the dirtiest man in U.S. politics reveals more signs that the January 6 conspiracy is collapsing. I hope you will subscribe, read, and share. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…
1/ We can all be forgiven for not following the life and times of Roger Stone closely. It's a bizarre, exhausting, thoroughly despicable spectacle that makes one feel dirty just in being exposed to it. But we can't ignore what Stone's been up to over the last 90 days. It matters.
2/ This ongoing PROOF series is looking at the signs—largely unreported in national media—that Trump's top allies are abandoning him because they believe the House January 6 Committee or DOJ or both will get to them before the GOP takes over Congress in early 2023 (if they do).
I love Jon Stewart; I love the Harry Potter films; I don't think Rowling is anti-Semitic, or that the Harry Potter movies are anti-Semitic; and I know—as Stewart and every Jew in America knows—that the appearance of these goblin bankers is *1000%* drawn from an anti-Semitic trope
(PS) Believe me, when we Jews get together in our secret enclaves (/s) there is no fuzz on this question whatsoever
(PS2) Yes, *exactly* like the Ferengi, which is also something every Jew knows even as many of us like Star Trek and don't believe it to be anti-Semitic
(THREAD) AG Merrick Garland said all correct things today—as we knew he would. The question was whether he'd go beyond being correct and be *illuminating*. As an attorney and former criminal investigator, here's my assessment of how he did on that score. I hope you'll read/share.
1/ First, it's important to understand that—separate from criticisms DOJ has received from lay members of the public—the criticism Garland has received from attorneys and legal analysts like me *isn't* that he hasn't charged any high-level coup plotters yet. That's not the issue.
2/ Attorneys, legal analysts, and criminal investigators know that the federal criminal justice system moves much slower than state criminal justice systems—and the more complex and historic the case, the *slower* it moves. This was always a given in the January 6 investigation.