America needs to understand what Flynn's December negotiations with the Russians *were*:
Flynn—Trump's top national security advisor—was negotiating whether the Kremlin would be REWARDED or PUNISHED for violating U.S. national security by trying to steal the election for Trump.
2/ The reason Flynn, and Pence, and Trump, and the whole Presidential Transition Team, and Trump Jr., and Priebus, and McFarland, and countless other Trump allies LIED about what Flynn was doing in December is Trump's plan was to REWARD Russia for interfering in our elections.
• • •
Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to
force a refresh
(🧵) THREAD: Should journalists publish hacked materials?
Different journalists have different understandings of the profession. Mine is admittedly idiosyncratic. But after 30 years as a journalist and six as a journalism prof, I can say that I wouldn’t publish hacked materials.
1/ Today I saw an article from one of the heads of Substack—where Ken Klippenstein, now banned from Twitter, published the Vance dossier Team Trump built pre-selection—and the claim Hamish McKenzie made was that publishing criminally acquired materials is not just fine but good.
2/ His argument was that journalism is about the public interest, so journalists should publish anything that is in the public interest.
But that’s actually not what journalism is, not how journalism is taught to future journalists, and not how we should think of the profession.
Trying to figure out why I would obsess over the foreign convictions of a demographic of people in the U.S. who provably according to every study ever done on the subject commit markedly fewer crimes than U.S. citizens
Make that make sense to me beyond straight-up fear-mongering
I'd also say as a criminal justice expert that watching MAGAs try to break down crime data they lack the capacity to understand or speak of coherently (did you know homicide and murder aren't interchangeable terms?) is like watching someone try to make a pizza out of dry cleaning
For that matter, if you take one of the countries America receives undocumented migrants from, El Salvador—which is fun by a far-right dictator MAGAs love—convictions there mean nothing now, because there is no due process and arrests are just used to sweep people off the streets
(📢) PROOF EXCLUSIVE: The Real Reason Iran Wants to Kill Trump Is Not What He Says or What You May Think
🔗:
If America is about to end up in another war of Trump’s making, it’s reasonable for us to ask why. The short version—*he* created this nightmare. sethabramson.substack.com/p/the-real-rea…
1/ We have come to a time in American history when even recent American history is treated as ancient history.
The events discussed in this report were confirmed true in 2020, and this report is fully sourced.
They are not even seriously contested anymore by anyone who matters.
2/ A threat now being mislabeled as being against Trump exclusively (it is not) and as part of an Iranian desire to sow chaos/destabilize America (it is not) and as related to the election (it is not) was *widely discussed on U.S. major media in January 2020*. We know what it is.
I’ve now watched 6 January 6 films in the last 3 days. A couple made me cry. I’ve seen things I never thought I’d see and learned things I didn’t know. As a historian, one thing eats at me: my successors 100 years on will be stunned that the man who caused all this wasn’t jailed.
PHOTO CREDIT: Mel D. Cole, who I’ve now learned took the most incredible photographs from January 6 of anyone there that day. You can find him at @meldcole.
@meldcole (PS) I hope—if you watch any January 6 films in preparation for Election Day—you think to yourself as you see the blood, gore, tears, bear gas, people having heart attacks... *Donald Trump caused this.*
1/ This series—now four parts long, with a fifth coming very soon; the whole thing is multiple books of material, with hundreds and hundreds of citations—has become its own organism. It has become the most important thing PROOF has published. And it has a very long way to go yet.
2/ But nevertheless, I can summarize it: it is an attempt to circumscribe *exactly* the threat America faces and *exactly* how we can expect America to end, if it indeed ends (in a meaningful sense) sometime in 2025.
And it gives a sober assessment of the odds of that happening.