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Mar 4 6 tweets 2 min read
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.”
MORE: “In a social media post soon after their December 27, 2020 meeting, Stone wrote that he had advised Trump [at that private meeting] on ‘exactly how’ he could remain in power and prosecute Democrats for stealing the election. The post was erased on December 28.”
MORE: “Stone appeared to change his plans [to go to the Ellipse on January 6] after an encounter in the Willard lobby around 10AM with Bernard Kerik, a former NYC police commissioner working in Giuliani’s command center at the hotel.”

What did Kerik know re: the coming violence?
MORE: After the insurrection failed to stop certification of Biden’s landslide election victory, Stone—the Post reports—was most focused on two men getting presidential pardons: himself...

...and Kerik.

What did Kerik know, when did he know it, and when did he tell it to Stone?

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Mar 5
🚨: If not for the war in Europe, the story below might’ve been one of world’s biggest today. The largest-ever study comparing those who got COVID-19 and recovered and those who never got infected reveals major lasting health problems for the former group. cnn.com/2022/03/04/opi…
1/ Many of us have been saying since March 2020—2 years ago—that until we have years of data on the effect of getting sick with COVID-19, the proper attitude is to presume there could be unforeseen long-term effects even if one doesn’t get hospitalized. Our view was marginalized.
2/ To be clear, our view was marginalized by Republicans and Democrats alike, by anti-vaxxers and the CDC alike. All those who saw the pandemic as political had something to gain by focusing almost exclusively on hospitalizations and deaths and writing policy based on that data.
Read 14 tweets
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.
Read 4 tweets
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.
Read 5 tweets
Mar 3
(🔐) This PROOF article underscores that the other person who should be terrified about Joshua James’s plea today is Arizona state rep Mark Finchem—an ally of Ali Alexander, an Oath Keeper like James, and one of those Trump spoke to by phone on January 2. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
(🔐) Joshua James also makes an appearance in this 2021 PROOF article: sethabramson.substack.com/p/major-breaki…
(🔐) Joshua James shows up in PROOF reporting here as well: sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
Read 4 tweets
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.
Read 5 tweets
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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