Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔐) 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).

3/ As most of you reading this already know, the first entry in the "Coming Collapse" series focused on Alex Jones. I watched hours and hours of fringe recordings featuring Jones to put together a picture of what Jones is up to—which is incredibly telling. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…

4/ When you combine Jones's activities over the last 90 days with Stone's—and Ali Alexander's, the man PROOF will focus on next—and synchronize the timelines of these actions, the collapse of Trump's conspiracy becomes clear. (Stone, Jones and Alexander organized Stop the Steal.)

5/ This matters because, with Congress lacking prosecutorial powers and with DOJ lacking prosecutorial will, what the final destruction of the January 6 conspiracy may require is that it collapses under its own weight—because those involved in it are feckless, deceitful villains.

6/ The idea of Trump's January 6 conspiracy collapsing under its own weight isn't something I'd ever entertained until I started doing research on a bizarre series of statements, actions and political events connected to the three men now most in danger of prosecution by the DOJ.

7/ These 3 men are part of the "middle cadre" of the January 6 conspiracy—the interlocutors between the on-the-ground domestic terrorists and Trump's true inner circle (which is more or less his family only). As DOJ wraps up the first phase of its investigation, which will see...

8/ ...the arrest of nearly 1,000 foot soldiers and their captains before it's over, this "middle cadre" is getting terrified that it's bill is coming due. It's reacting in 3 ways: 1) cooperating (dozens of people); 2) contempt (2 people); and 3) "other" (Stone, Jones, Alexander).

9/ The "dozens" I reference here are among the 300+ fact witnesses we know the HJ6C has spoken with, some of whom ("multiple") the committee says have "firsthand" eyewitness testimony of Trump's actions on January 6 to offer up.

The "2 people" in contempt are Bannon and Meadows.

10/ It's true that we don't know yet which way certain others in the "middle cadre"—say, John Eastman and Seb Gorka—will go. Eastman may cooperate if he gets scared enough, while Seb Gorka is a good candidate to be in the "other" category with weirdos Stone, Jones, and Alexander.

11/ Quick note here: Kimberly Guilfoyle, as Don Jr.'s longtime girlfriend, is "inner circle." And she is as guilty as anyone in America when it comes to January 6. Congress and the DOJ already know it, but the question is whether their parallel investigations will ever reach her.

12/ In any case, as a former criminal defense attorney and (briefly) a federal criminal investigator, my interest as (now) a journalist is on this middle cadre, as if DOJ follows protocol—and I don't know that it will—these men are *right* to think their day in court is coming.

13/ The #SeditionHunters have done incredible—I'd argue historic—work on the homegrown, on-the-ground domestic terrorists who attacked our government on January 6, 2021. PROOF has been focused on the "middle cadre" and the "inner circle" and is now leaning hard toward the former.

14/ What I do in this new PROOF series is show how the leaders of this middle cadre are starting to act b*tshit crazy. Like cat-in-sack crazy. It's like a sudden heat has been applied to them—converting their actions to a state of chaos the likes of which we've never seen before.

15/ What I *want* to believe is that this chaos is a mere outward indicator of events happening inside the DOJ that these men have caught wind of. But I don't know if that's the case or not, so what the series does is simply follow the confirmed *facts*—which are stunning enough.