Thread by @SethAbramson

(🔐) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Eyewitness Says He Was Present As Coup Plotter Patrick Byrne Privately Confessed to Federal Crimes on January 6—and Insists There’s Video of Him Doing It

The evidence that’s just come out is stunning. I hope you’ll RETWEET this. sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…

1/ I think the most important thing to say here—right off the bat—is that these two men need to be subpoenaed by Congress immediately, and the FBI and DOJ need to subpoena the B-roll of Byrne's film if they haven't done so already (and if they haven't, it's a *massive* failure).

2/ I’ve long said that most of the coup plotters are unsophisticated and arrogant (candidly, like many criminals I encountered in my former professional work); they routinely confess their crimes in ill-considered, little-seen videos; and investigators *must* track these videos.

3/ When you combine an awareness of what is said in these videos with “curatorial journalism”—the curation and connection of major-media reporting and first-hand accounts to create a network of information—the result is much like the federal criminal investigations I used to run.

4/ Joe Oltmann is one of those (along with Mike Flynn, Roger Stone and Gavin McInnes) who threatened to sue PROOF because PROOF published open-record info about them—in the case of Oltmann, *his own words*.

The article atop this thread is likewise drawn from Oltmann's own words.

5/ But the article is also a direct outgrowth of my first viral report on Patrick Byrne, below (🔐): sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…

6/ Byrne, who is vain and not as smart as he thinks he is, has been recording relatively little-seen videos in which he *thinks* he exculpates himself from responsibility in the January 6 coup plot but—in the eyes of a lawyer or criminal investigator—is actually dooming himself.

7/ The problem for Byrne, beyond this, is that he’s now so in love with the sound of his own voice that he’s posting videos in which he attacks one-time compatriots—in so doing giving unstable men like Joe Oltmann every reason to reveal secrets about what Bryne has done and said.

8/ One of those one-time compatriots—Lin Wood, the South Carolina lawyer who lent the use of his SC plantation to the coup plotters in November 2020—has gotten so angry at things Byrne has said and done (or not said and not done) that he secretly recorded a phone call with Byrne.

9/ Now you see how curatorial journalism works. Networking these three data-sets—(1) the secretly recorded Byrne-Wood call; (2) the now *two* Byrne "confessions," which Byrne thought were successful self-exculpations; and (3) the "tea" Oltmann spilled on Byrne—you get bombshells.

10/ A coup plotter confession on video. On January 6. With multiple witnesses.

And wait until you read the language of the confession.

(PS) This article includes information about Patrick Byrne desperately trying to get in touch with me less than four weeks before the 2020 presidential election—I did not respond—and the full secretly recorded Byrne-Wood phone call, which is the craziest sh*t you have ever heard.