Thread by @SethAbramson

One day America will wake up and realize that if Donald Trump’s political plants inside the Secret Service get VP Pence into that car in the Capitol garage on January 6, 2021, events—and American democracy—turn out very differently.

That’s how close we came to losing everything.

The January 6 scandal inside the Secret Service that PROOF has reported on repeatedly should be a major topic of conversation in America. I’ve detailed a concerted effort by Trump to infiltrate the Secret Service in a way he aimed to exploit on January 6. sethabramson.substack.com/p/a-january-6-…

Remember, Trump’s backup plan was to have six state legislatures meet in special session the week of January 6 to issue declarations casting legal doubt on the slates of electors that had been sent to DC. Giuliani insisted he only needed 48 hours to get competing slates to DC.

If Trump’s political plants within the Secret Service take Pence out of state to Maryland, which was their plan, they would be in a position to decide when the Capitol had been made safe or not. It seems very likely that that would have delayed reconvening Congress much longer.

Because major media for some reason decided not to report it, almost no Americans know that the Secret Service issued a report to Trump’s inner circle days before January 6 indicating the Capitol would be unsafe for the president to be there. Think about the implications of that.

Not only does it underscore that Trump knew he was lying when he said he’d be going to the Capitol with the mob—he was just trying to legitimize anything/everything they might do there—it also means the White House knew it was sending Pence into a situation it had deemed unsafe.

But here’s the rub: there’s no evidence that Trump and his team shared that key Secret Service report with Pence. This suggests that they didn’t *want* him to be in a position to be well prepared for January 6. They likely hoped it would increase the chances he’d get in that car.

As PROOF has reported, Pence nevertheless figured out what was going on. When he held his own war room at the Naval Observatory on January 5, he invited a friend who was in DC to go to the January 6 rally—Bubba Saulsbury. After meeting with Pence, Bubba fled the city immediately.

MSNBC reported yesterday that Team Trump did far more than we realized to get fake electors to DC. While we knew in January '21 that fake slates of electors had convened in several states, we didn't realize until recently that they'd also filed fake documents with the government.

So if Pence gets whisked away to Maryland in that car, Team Trump probably buys itself around 24 hours to get those electors and/or their documents to the Capitol in a way that could have materially changed the facts on the ground by the time Pence returned to the Senate chamber.

PROOF will shortly issue an absolutely massive report on Ali Alexander establishing that he had informed the mob prior to January 6 that they were to wait for Trump’s signal to leave the Capitol.

It is now indisputable that they planned to occupy it at *least* through January 7.

So when Rep. Raskin of the House January 6 Committee says that America will be “shocked” when it learns of all the preparation and plotting that was done in the lead-up to January 6, he’s not exaggerating one iota.

There was *not a single spontaneous thing* about January 6. /end