(🔐) NEW: The Coming Collapse of Trump’s January 6 Conspiracy, Part 3: Corey Lewandowski
You don't want to miss this—it's a wild ride that ends with maybe the most useful witness the House January 6 Committee could subpoena now. I hope you'll read and RT. sethabramson.substack.com/p/new-the-comi…
1/ I think this is about a 30-minute read or so. It's one of those slow boilers that simultaneously has individual sentences within it—including early on—that are absolutely critical and shocking but also easy to miss. This happens when one is curating *many* major-media sources.
2/ This article is on a forgotten man in Trumpworld, who may in fact have hit a "trifecta" on Insurrection Eve. On that day he did something I think no other Trumpist—including Giuliani—did. He seems to have been in all three of the White House, the Capitol, and a Trump war room.
3/ The reason you don't hear about Corey Lewandowski much anymore is outlined in full in the article—and it creates a sense that Congress and perhaps even DOJ are wrongfully using where people are positioned *now* in Trumpworld as a guide to where they were positioned a year ago.
4/ This report also connects to the most widely read article ever published by PROOF (or should I say "a series of articles"): on the biggest, most influential "war room" the Trumpists were operating on January 5, which media *will not report on*. It's not the one at the Willard.
5/ That's right, Lewandowski is getting ignored for the same reason Charles Herbster is, Peter Navarro is, Donald Trump Jr. is, Mike Flynn is, Eduardo Bolsonaro is, and on and on and on: because they weren't in the war room Bob Woodward reported on, they were in the *other* one.
6/ It's time for America to talk about Trump International Hotel. No—not just talk about it, obsess over it to a degree exponentially greater than even the obsession the media has with the Willard Hotel Insurrection Eve war room (which was actually a network of onsite war rooms).
7/ Here is my recent "thread of threads" on the Trump International Hotel room, which I posted on Twitter on January 6 (2022).
8/ In short, all the big names central to the plotting of the "Green Bay Sweep" were at Trump International—not the Willard—on January 5. And that includes (via phone) Ali Alexander, who I will argue in Part 4 of the ongoing "Coming Collapse" series is the linchpin to everything.
PS/ Thanks in advance to those who retweet the first tweet in this thread. Because the thread contains my "Trump International Hotel War Room Thread"—which is almost all free articles—I'd love for as many folks as possible to see it. TIH *has* to become a topic of discussion now.
NOTE/ One of the reasons the PROOF community is so amazing is that beneath many an article they’ve contributed new info that was jaw-dropping and required additional text be added to what I'd written. A reader has just sent a *key* photo that I will write about (in situ) shortly.
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(🚨) I’ve never—in 30 years in journalism—published a report like this: one that could really bring *hope*. I spent 15 hours curating/labeling photos from hundreds of No Kings Day protests. It’s the largest archive of its kind (+ lots of Easter eggs).
1/ I almost don’t know where to start in talking about the last 15 hours. They were emotional. I have renewed hope for my country. I also feel renewed awe at its size and scope.
2/ This archive is truly massive. It takes viewers all over the United States—including to some way-off-the-beaten-path corners.
(🧵) THREAD: Selected comments from the (highly conservative) NEW YORK POST chat during the 2025 Trump Micropenis Parade:
🔻 "I've seen more people at a kindergarten parade"
🔻 "What an epic fail"
🔻 "The UFC is sponsoring federal events now?"
🔻 "Okay this is getting sad now"
More:
🔻 "Criiiiiinge"
🔻 "There is no one there"
🔻 "This is such a boring parade"
🔻 "This parade blows"
🔻 "Live band would've been better"
🔻 "Where are the people?"
🔻 "This is a national embarrassment"
🔻 "Chat is more entertaining than the parade"
More (and yes, these are all real comments):
🔻 "This is kinda boring"
🔻 "SO boring I'm out"
🔻 "This is a hot mess"
🔻 "They're not even marching in sync"
🔻 "This music is horrible"
🔻 "The crowd is so small"
🔻 "They playing the Kidz Bop versions of famous songs"
Stephen Miller—who's from the area and knows better—calls LA an "occupied city" as part of a ploy to justify a violent, fascist crackdown. Courtesy of Matt Snyder, this map of LA features a to-scale red dot indicating where the protests are.
You'll have to zoom in and look hard.
When the truth of this moment is rewritten by MAGA fascists via some screeching refrain—"Remember when they burned LA to the ground??"—think of this map. Remember how most of LA just went about its daily life. Remember how the images and videos were deliberate misrepresentations.
For those still searching (the dot really is red, but it is so small that it can be tough to even see its color):
Dallas is America’s most conservative big city. It’s the Citadel of the Far Right. It’s where QAnon holds conventions. It’s where Flynn hinted at a coup of the Biden administration. It’s where Trump’s most radical megadonors are.
It’s where I’d most fear a pretextual Kent State.
I’m unnerved that suddenly Dallas—of all places!—is on my TV with cops acting aggressively. This makes little sense, especially given the tiny size and comparative somnambulance of the protest there.
I worry quite a bit about a rogue QAnonist cop deliberately inciting something.
Put another way, if you’re the Dallas police chief and if you’re acting in good faith—not on a partisan Trumpist basis—you’re *floored* that it’s *your* city on a split-screen on CNN and you’re determined to make that stop. Because Dallas should *not* be where anything goes down.
Okay, I found the video. Here is Elon Musk unambiguously flashing the White Power sign on SNL to see if he could get away with it, exactly like he did with his Nazi salute this January.
You can see Musk delivers a line not on the prompter—"Call me the DOGE-father"—which generates laughs from those in his audience part of his 4chan fanbase, and it’s then he 1) flashes the OK symbol—a 4chan game—after which he 2) _reverses his hands_ to flash the White Power sign.
This is 100% a PoS who thinks he can get away with anything using a national stage to send neo-Nazi code to fans under circumstances in which he planned in advance to deny the obvious. Just like in January, he’s such an arrogant bigot he does his gesture _twice_ to make it clear.
As Donald Trump leads America down the path to becoming a failed state, we have lost 24/7 weather services in parts of the country. Along with massive deterioration in Social Security services caused by Musk, American decline at the hands of billionaires couldn't be more stark.
Some of us have understood a long time that billionaires are weird, venal, antisocial, detached, often sociopathic creatures who can't be trusted to care about the nations that made them, let alone average citizens.
And some of us blindly worship these creatures.
Which are you?
Even in an ardently capitalistic market, no one becomes a billionaire without gaming the system in ways anyone with a conscience deems disgusting.
It's not a sign of a healthy free market when billionaires are created, it's a sign of a broken system.