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Mar 4

BREAKING NEWS: Convicted Seditious Conspirator Was in Hotel Suite of Trump Adviser Roger Stone Mere Hours Before the January 6 Attack on the U.S. Capitol, Bringing Trump a Step Closer to a Known Seditious Conspiracy; Stone Was in Regular Contact with Trump washingtonpost.com/investigations…

MORE: Stone Had Clandestine Contact with Alleged Seditious Conspirator Stewart Rhodes, Criminal Leader of the Proud Boys Enrique Tarrio, and Domestic Terrorist Ali Alexander—All While in Regular Contact with His 40-Year Friend Donald Trump, Sitting President of the United States

MORE: “Stone did not permit the filmmakers to record him for a 90-minute period covering the height of the violence on January 6. A Stone aide blocked a cameraman from entering his suite, claiming Stone was napping. When he eventually got inside, Stone was speaking on his phone.”

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Mar 3

I just saw the editor of a publication describe Proof of Corruption as “a book on Trump’s impeachments” and therefore irrelevant to the Russia-Ukraine crisis. It was published 6 months before the second impeachment and *2* of its 44 chapters address the first impeachment trial.

Proof of Corruption is a book about Russia, Ukraine, and Trump that takes single-chapter diversions—9 of 44 chapters—into other Trump scandals with similar themes. It’s because it’s an urgent Russia-Ukraine book that I gave away so much of it for free pre- *and* post-publication.

We don’t realize how often publications lie in the belief their lies won’t be noticed. I *certainly* know these outlets don’t correct their lies when caught, even when they’ve insisted—to make a false point—a book is about something it isn’t and was published a year after it was.

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Mar 3

(🔐) Hey! As we’re now discussing how John Eastman committed crimes—and advised Trump to commit crimes (crimes Trump had already been advised by other attorneys were crimes)—can we also note that John Eastman got his ideas from “close friend” Ginni Thomas? sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…

(PS) Eastman was *not* a rogue lawyer operating in a vacuum. He was brought aboard Trump’s legal team by Cleta Mitchell, who is a top official in *both* of the secretive organizations Ginni Thomas runs *and*—like Eastman—is a close friend and associate of Thomas going *way* back.

(PS2) I want Eastman and Trump held accountable, but I also want those who wound up Eastman like a toy soldier and pointed him at Trump held accountable. Eastman appears to have committed crimes here, but he’s no criminal mastermind. Ginni Thomas is *above* him on the food chain.

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Seth Abramson

@SethAbramson

Mar 3

MAJOR BREAKING NEWS (CNN): Oath Keeper Joshua James Pleads Guilty to Seditious Conspiracy, Meaning That We Can Now Say with Certainty That January 6 Was a Seditious Conspiracy

(PS) This also means that if the Republicans take the House and shutter the House January 6 Committee, the Republican Party is declaring that it has no interest in investigating a *confirmed* and *admitted-to* seditious conspiracy to overturn the government of the United States.

(PS2) Also hard-hit by this: Trump friend and adviser Roger Stone. As PROOF and many other media outlets have reported over the last year, Stone had significant contact with the now-convicted seditious conspirator James during the 24-hour period in which the Capitol was attacked.

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Seth Abramson

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Mar 2

Trump is still a blight on America—rather than a federal inmate—because Mueller wouldn’t do what had to be done. Or Garland. Or Alvin Bragg. Or the Fulton County DA. Or the GOP. Or decades of prosecutors. The man remains a danger to us all because our public servants are cowards.

The federal justice system can’t find even *one* man or woman to do the sort of prosecutorial work that state prosecutors gleefully do to incarcerate impoverished Black people many thousands of times a day. And as to Trump—a *career criminal*—this reluctance extends back decades.

I’d have to say that if there’s one thing I’m angry about every day of my life, it’s that as a former public defender I spent *years* watching poorer but better men than Trump—who’d committed fewer and less serious crimes than him—get incarcerated by the State. But Trump is free.

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Mar 1

The biggest news of today—without question—is three European countries that had planned to send jets to Ukraine backtracking and now refusing to do so.

The reason there’s a 40-mile-long Russian convoy on the way to Kyiv is that Ukraine lacks sufficient air presence to strike it.

I don’t think anyone in the world can explain why European nations will send small arms to Ukraine but not planes. If the line of giving offensive military weapons to Ukraine has already been crossed—and apparently it has—why not send the weapons that are most desperately needed?

And before you say that military aircraft are considerably more expensive than small arms—which of course they are—European nations are sending such an enormous amount of money to Ukraine to ensure that it doesn’t fall that an argument about expense simply makes no sense anymore.

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