Thread by @SethAbramson

(BOOK) As Putin prepares to invade Ukraine, Trump prepares to run for POTUS again, and the GOP prepares to launch a probe of Hunter Biden if they take the House, people are realizing that the Trump-Ukraine scandal *never ended*. I wrote a bestseller on it: amazon.com/gp/aw/d/125027…

I recommend this book to anyone who wants to be prepared for what’s coming: Russia invading Europe for the second time in a decade, and Russia working to get Trump back in the White House—so he can continue aiding Russian aggression—even as the GOP parrots Kremlin talking points.

No one who read this book when it was a national bestseller is at all confused about what’s happening in Ukraine right now, because they understand what Putin is doing and—as importantly—they understand that the Republican Party (especially Trump) will *aid* Putin as he does it.

As Putin masses troops on the border of the largest nation in Europe, the GOP has announced that in under a year—if it takes the House—it will launch a public investigation falsely claiming that Biden is secretly biased in *favor* of the very nation Putin is now aiming to invade.

Republicans—Trump especially—are hoping for and banking on Russian aid in the 2024 presidential election, and they’re doing so *openly*: by announcing that their 2024 presidential candidate, if he wants the spot, is a man who has *already said* Putin can take Ukraine if he likes.

Every book I wrote on Trump was both of its moment and an attempt to provide info that would remain of emergency relevance to voters in the event Trump remained on the American political scene.

PROOF OF CORRUPTION (Macmillan, 2020) is as relevant now as the day it was published.

If Trump worms his way back into power, the survival of NATO is threatened—and Putin has a clear path to continue to attempt to reconstruct the Soviet Union (albeit now as an autocracy) starting with Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan. It is what Putin wants. It’s his whole endgame.

Two weeks ago, Tucker Carlson—one of the most popular MAGA figures in America—went on his primetime show to declare that America has no interest in what happens in Ukraine. The media can cite the one sane Republican all it likes (McFaul), but the GOP position on Ukraine is clear.

We’ve consistently underestimated how dangerous Putin is, and now we have one of our two political parties effectively doing his bidding because it believes (correctly!) Putin will aid it in any way he can as it seeks a return to power. It’s a rolling national security emergency.

After Putin invaded Ukraine the first time, he learned that GOP corruption would make it impossible for the US to issue a coherent response. Now he seeks to invade again—as American media assures us that the Republicans are about to take over Congress again. 1 + 1 *does* equal 2.