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Seth Abramson

7 Jan, 12 tweets, 4 min read

(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…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "A Profile of January 5 Trump War Council Attendee Daniel Beck" sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-profile-of…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "U.S. Senators, Trump Family Members, and Top Trump Lieutenants Met in Trump's Private Residence on January 5 with Man Who Has Endorsed Violent Sedition" sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-us-…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "January 5 War Council at Trump International May Have Had More Attendees Than Previously Known"

{Note—I'm calling these articles "PROOF UNLOCKED" because they're free to the public. They've been free for many, many, many months now.} sethabramson.substack.com/p/january-5-wa…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "Major Update on January 5 Trump War Council Expands Its Potential Size Significantly" sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-maj…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "Michael Flynn, Through His Attorney, Denies Being Present at January 5 Trump International Hotel Meeting"

Read the article and judge for yourself. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-mic…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "Brazil's Murky Connection to Trump's Secretive January 5 War Council Is Getting Clearer—and It Raises New Questions"

The story goes from bad to much worse. sethabramson.substack.com/p/brazils-murk…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "Senator Tuberville Admits He Lied About Attending January 5 Pre-Insurrection Meeting at Trump International"

Tuberville lied about this. And Giuliani. And Navarro. They weren't lying about the Willard—they were lying about TIH.

Why? sethabramson.substack.com/p/us-senator-t…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "The Trump-Brazil Scandal: Did Donald Trump 'Attend' the January 5 War Council From the White House?"

To say "the plot thickens" here would be a disservice to both plots and the thickening process. Also clichés.
sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-trump-br…

(🔓) PROOF UNLOCKED: "Noted Insurrectionist to Seek Purple State Governorship"

Subhed: "Charles Herbster attended Team Trump's Insurrection Eve 'war council' at Trump International Hotel, then lied about it to the media. Now he seeks executive power." sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-not…

(🔐) PROOF: "Trump's Pre-Insurrection War Room Revealed"

The last article in the first series of PROOF articles on the Trump International war room took readers *inside* the war room. It turns out it was a war *house*.

Why isn't media talking about this?
sethabramson.substack.com/p/trumps-pre-i…

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

6 Jan

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.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

6 Jan

https://twitter.com/SoleGoose/status/1479151351422722055

You misread me, my intentions, how I see myself, and what I was trying to achieve.

My aim was to help and not hurt.

You should feel good about having ended this attempt by a journalist to draw attention to #nesdev.

I’ve removed the article and will end the project immediately.

https://twitter.com/SoleGoose/status/1479151351422722055

(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.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

6 Jan

(🔐) 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).

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

6 Jan

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

https://twitter.com/jaredpretender/status/1478888553287401478

(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

https://twitter.com/jaredpretender/status/1478888553287401478

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

5 Jan

(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.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

5 Jan

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

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