Thread by @SethAbramson

BREAKING: Author of RNC Resolution Censuring Kinzinger/Cheney for Investigating January 6 Conspiracy and Calling Capitol Riot “Legitimate Political Discourse” Is David Bossie—Who Insurrectionist Charles Herbster Places in Trump’s Insurrection Eve War Room cnn.com/2022/02/04/pol…

(PS) So a Trump agent who is a key witness in the January 6 federal criminal investigation and was appointed by Trump to the Defense Business Board alongside his business partner—former Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski—authored a document *suborning domestic terrorism*.

(PS2) This is a very big deal. This confirms that individuals who are witnesses in the January 6 investigation and may have legal liability were behind trying to *punish and intimidate* the very people investigating January 6—which sure sounds like a possible federal crime to me.

(PS3) As if the fact that he’s a former Trump deputy campaign manager isn’t enough, Bossie’s currently attempting a takeover of the RNC—which he’d only be able to achieve with Trump’s blessing. Which means Trump was behind today’s pro-terrorism resolution. google.com/amp/s/www.vani…

(PS4) The sad fact is that if major media had *lowered* itself to doing any of the legwork on the Trump International Hotel war room that independent journalists have done, it would know who was there and would have tried to interview them about their actions on Insurrection Eve.

(PS5) Instead, CNN a) put Bossie's name at the bottom of its article and called him just a Trump "ally" and RNC "committeeman," and b) is right now on air talking about "Can Mike Pence be president?" rather than "Will Trump be arrested for witness tampering? And if not, why not?"

(PS6) Every day I am asked here why the DOJ won't act. I'll give you one of many reasons: because *there is no pressure from media reportage* for them to do anything, and the DOJ (like our government, and even Trump) cares more about what major media says than what voters think.

(PS7) When I published the full list of Trumpist co-conspirators who had gathered at Trump International Hotel's Trump Town House on Insurrection Eve to plan for the next day, major media was reading. I did not need them to cite me; I just needed them to *interview those people*.

(PS8) Instead, major media never named them; never sent reporters to interview them; never established their whereabouts on Insurrection Eve; never wrote stories about closeness to the conspiracy; and consequently can now do nothing but drop their names at the bottom of articles.

(PS9) Why is David Bossie now in a position to take over the RNC—and write threatening pro-terrorism missives at Trump's command that quickly get publicly adopted by the Republican Party—when he should instead be in an FBI interrogation room? Because major media won't do its job.

(PS10) CNN didn't even have the decency to call Bossie Trump's ex-deputy campaign manager. It didn't note that Trump had rewarded him—during Ginni Thomas's government-wide purge—with an appointment to the Defense Business Board. No, he was just a Trump "ally." What? Like, *what*?

(PS11) Trump knows he's the subject of a federal investigation. He's using his longtime agent to try to punish and intimidate the people running the federal investigation of him. But of *course* DOJ won't charge him with Witness Tampering if media won't even *report* any of this.

(PS12) As a former on-air CNN analyst I will answer the silly question that CNN was asking on-air tonight instead of, you know...doing any journalism. No—Mike Pence *can't* be the GOP nominee. The GOP nominee will be whoever Trump wants. And how do I know this? Here's how I know:

(PS13) Because a man who has the power to get a pro–domestic terrorism statement adopted by one of the two major political parties in America just to punish and intimidate those investigating his crimes can do *whatever the hell he wants* in that party.

There's your answer, CNN.

(MORE) Here's more on David Bossie, who has at times been so close to Trump he was once considered a candidate to be then-President Trump's chief of staff. Today's Bossie-authored RNC statement—which supports terrorism—has Donald Trump written all over it. politico.com/story/2019/05/…