(📢) If you read the 3 reports on Ginni Thomas at PROOF—particularly the one below (🔐)—you expected the breaking news that Thomas has tossed her past statements and is now stonewalling Congress. RETWEET if you agree Congress must #SubpoenaGinniThomas now. sethabramson.substack.com/p/breaking-new…
PS/ Six months of researching and reporting on Ginni Thomas’ role in the January 6 coup plot has made clear to this journalist that not only is Mrs. Thomas a liar and insurrectionist but she will *never* testify before Congress—even under subpoena—unless it is to plead the Fifth.
PS2/ Ginni Thomas isn’t just a key player in the January 6 timeline, she’s one of *the* most significant players. She’s desperate to stall Congress for seven months—affer which she anticipates the House January 6 Committee will be disbanded by Rep. McCarthy. Subpoena her *today*.
PS3/ Only by issuing a subpoena to Ginni Thomas *now* does Congress have a chance of being able to work through her inevitable legal challenges and refer her to DOJ for a Criminal Contempt indictment *before* a possible handover of Congress to the insurrectionists in early 2023.
PS4/ There’s no more time for Congress to play around with witnesses. We have an active insurrection that the whole superstructure of the Republican Party has made perfectly clear to America it will do nothing but aid and support and encourage and advance.

No more mollycoddling.
PS5/ If you’ve read the reporting on what Thomas did before January 6, you knew exactly what she and her lawyers would do today—despite her weeks of claims that she “couldn’t wait” to talk to Congress. Every day closer to January 2023 she gets without testifying is a win for her.

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Jun 30
I may be as angry about this as I’ve ever been about anything in politics. We were told to be patient and trust DOJ—despite it soiling itself repeatedly in the Russia and Ukraine investigations. When we said no investigation seemed to be happening, we were shouted down. Now this.
For f*ck’s sake, how bad at your job do you have to be to work at the FBI or DOJ and *not know* that Cassidy Hutchinson was a witness to key events on and before January 6 *18 months after the crime*? Then you blame *Congress* for your ignorance?

I’m serious: fire these losers.
When will DOJ get tired of sh*tting the bed? Ever?
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Jun 30
BREAKING NEWS (CNN, on-air): House January 6 Committee “Concerned” Trump May Be Using the Hundreds of Millions He Raised to Overturn the Election to Pay for Lawyers for Those He Doesn’t Want to Testify Before Congress, “Coercing” Them Not to Do So in What May Be Witness Tampering Image
1/ I think I know what the Committee is referring to—as Trump engaged in the same illegal witness-tampering scheme in the Russia investigation and the Ukraine investigation. What he does is create joint defense agreements with witnesses whose legal interests don’t align with his.
2/ Normally a joint defense agreement only exists between individuals who share a common legal interest, and normally there is no particular association between the lawyers representing the two JDA’d individuals—only between the individuals themselves as to their legal interests.
Read 27 tweets
Jun 29
BREAKING NEWS: Singer R. Kelly Gets Sentence 50% Longer Than Child Sex Trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, a Rich White Woman; in Other News, Rich Whites Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr., Kim Guilfoyle, Mike Flynn, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Jeff Clark and Ginni Thomas Remain Uncharged Image
I hope everyone understands that I’ve no issue with the R. Kelly sentence—and that I *do* understand the cases are different.

The cases are different in the sense that Maxwell should have gotten *more time* than Kelly—and the people I named should at *least* have been indicted.
Maxwell was atop an international child sex trafficking and commercial bribery ring for years and years and years and when arrested she offered no cooperation and when convicted she showed no remorse.

So no, twenty years is *not* enough. She orchestrated *countless* child rapes.
Read 12 tweets
Jun 29
If you read PROOF OF CORRUPTION (Macmillan, 2020) you know how deranged it is that Rudy Giuliani is a free man happily filing false reports to law enforcement from a Shop Rite in Staten Island while his stooge Lev is doing a 20-month bid in federal prison.

Get off your ass, DOJ.
Parnas’ case is further evidence that when it’s a flunkie under the microscope the FBI and DOJ are the goddamn Pinkertons, but when anyone of any political significance is in the crosshairs of an investigation the same folks mysteriously become The Gang That Can’t Shoot Straight.
It’s almost like the FBI and DOJ have no understanding of how crime works: the way to reduce major crimes is to indict and incarcerate those who orchestrate them, not the dime-a-dozen henchmen who’ll always be hanging around waiting for a capo to pull them into a criminal scheme.
Read 5 tweets
Jun 29
Do we know the dispute is coming from Ornato? Alexander used anonymous sources for his report, so we actually have no on-the-record confirmation that I know of it is Ornato. If he’s the source, we must recall he’s now part of Trump’s political apparatus—an “on the team” loyalist.
(PS) I feel like we’re moving too swiftly from anonymous sources say two men who previously spoke to the Committee will now change their testimony under oath—zero actual evidence of either fact—to Anthony Ornato has on the record rejected what Cassidy Hutchinson said under oath.
(PS2) Ornato broke USSS tradition by moving from head of Trump’s detail to top Trump political agent. He’s under suspicion for actions pre-January 6. The only reason I believe what he said happened *happened* is that it was an excited utterance against the interest of his patron.
Read 7 tweets
Jun 29
I hear the source is “David Dennison,” who was very close to the Secret Service on January 6, within throttling distance
(PS) But seriously, both of those men already testified before the Committee behind closed doors, are almost certainly being criminally tampered with based on what we learned today, have reason to fear for their lives, and so I question releasing this story with anonymous sources
(PS2) All the reporting regarding the Secret Service on January 6 suggests that components of the Secret Service were compromised by Trump’s political operation, which is why Pence would not get in the car on January 6 *and* why a rebuttal like this *can’t* be anonymously sourced
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