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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
66/ For this reason, today’s hearing is both the last summary of the January 6–related case against Republican leadership—and Trump—we will get before the midterm elections *and* possibly the last pseudo-comprehensive account we will *ever* get (the HJ6C Report notwithstanding). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: This thread is a live-tweet of today’s House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m an attorney, journalist, a… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
65/ Just so, no one doubts the FBI and DOJ investigation is far behind the HJ6C investigation—maybe even hopelessly so. Both investigations require far more time than (once again) the political calendar is likely to give them. The FBI and DOJ essentially must move by next spring. — PolitiTweet.org
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64/ No one doubts that the House January 6 Committee’s work has been both powerful and compelling; no lawyers of any good faith whatsoever any longer doubt that Donald Trump can be charged for crimes—which does seem to have been the general thrust of the HJ6C hearings thus far. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
63/ There’s some thought that we’ll hear via video from recent interviewees Mike Pompeo (Trump Secretary of State) and Steve Mnuchin (Trump Treasury Secretary). There have been competing reports on whether we’ll hear any information emanating from a recent Ginni Thomas interview. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
62/ The theme of today’s hearing—as reported by the Committee and media—is that (in paraphrase) “Donald Trump remains a clear and present danger to America, having led an effort to illegally overturn the 2020 presidential election.” There will be 9 speakers but no live witnesses. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
61/ Instead, we have what is going to happen today. So let’s take a look at that in particular. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
60/ In short, I don’t care what the ratings are for any one HJ6C hearing; I don’t care whether they directly influence any Election Day; I don’t care whether media gets bored of them. Neither should anyone else. There could/should be one such hearing a month for the next 4 years. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
59/ Just so, how can we judge if the HJ6C Report will be anything like complete or effective if we’ve seen only a pittance of what the Committee has? How can we have confidence that the report isn’t degraded by an artificial political calendar when we know in advance it has been? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
58/ But as we saw with the Mueller Report, crimes can be found by FBI and DOJ (e.g. 12 Obstruction crimes by Trump) and not be charged. Evidence can be destroyed because the FBI and DOJ took too long to get to it (e.g., Bannon and Prince’s texts) and there’s *no remedy* for that. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
57/ To some extent, the final HJ6C Report—which is already, pre-release, an Amazon bestseller—may offer this. If the FBI and DOJ had begun a proper investigation of the January 6 coup plotters a year and a half ago, which they didn’t, that investigation might’ve offered this too. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: This thread is a live-tweet of today’s House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m an attorney, journalist, a… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
56/ In fact, America and the world need and deserve a comprehensive *historical* accounting of what happened on, before, and immediately after January 6—and a careful *illumination* of how all these leaders, tactics, strategies, and ambitions remain a threat to democracy *today*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
55/ Journalists and politicians think in political and entertainment terms—not a full accounting of the truth. I’m watching journalists saying the HJ6C can’t get into minute details of January 6 because they’ll “lose their audience.” As though this is all about ratings and votes. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
54/ To understand what Trump did before and on and after January 6, you *must* understand what Stone did, and Jones, and Alexander... and Mark Finchem, and Kim Guilfoyle, and Caroline Wren, and Enrique Tarrio, and Stewart Rhodes, and scores and scores of other insurrectionists. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
53/ Despite this, we’ll be told this is a proper closing argument—a summary of a completed case-in-chief. In service of this, we’ll hear otherwise perceptive political analysts telling us that “this all comes down to Trump” and that today’s “closing argument” is a textbook one. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
52/ Today we’ll hear from nine elected officials—two Republicans and seven Democrats—who’ll take turns directing us through evidence (without live witnesses) relating to a tiny component of a historically complex fact-pattern. And only a brief overview of that component, at that. — PolitiTweet.org
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51/ As a practicing criminal defense attorney, I made many closing arguments. A good closing argument offers a totalizing narrative of a complex case, undergirded by reliable evidence that is both sprawling and minute, conspicuous and esoteric. That’s not what we will get today. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
50/ Just so, we have leading insurrectionists like Mark Finchem running for positions in November from which they could stage another coup in 2024—but how much have you heard of Finchem’s offenses? Virtually nothing, because it’d make things “too complex” and not focus on Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
49/ The Stop the Steal coordinators Trump personally interfaced with—Stone, Jones and Alexander—produced hours and hours (and hours) of video and audio about their crimes, but the Committee has shown virtually none of it. Why? Because it makes the narrative—allegedly—too complex. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
48/ But we’ve seen no video of the January 5—that’s right, January 5—Black Lives Matter Plaza riot that was organized by Trumpist paramilitaries, and gave the Pentagon and other units in the Trump administration all the evidence it needed of what was going to happen on January 6. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
47/ At times, the House January 6 Committee has given a sense of the scope of January 6. For instance, today it will show never-before-seen video of House and Senate leaders *after* they were evacuated from the House and Senate chambers on January 6. I’m sure it will be stunning. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
46/ The problem—as PROOF and other media outlets have exhaustively detailed over thousands of fully sourced reports—is that Trump is just one figure in a scheme that at various points pulled into its ambit 200+ individuals. Trump’s at the heart of parts of this but not all of it. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
45/ This is by no means an attack on the House January 6 Committee—which is doing historic, courageous work. The problem is that the HJ6C has known from the start that it’s brutally time-limited, so it’s had to tell a streamlined story that is almost exclusively focused on Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is free, but if, as you follow along over its 5 hours, you feel moved to use the Venmo tip jar in my… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (📢) LIVE THREAD: This thread is a live-tweet of today’s House January 6 Committee hearing. I’m an attorney, journalist, a… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
44/ In short, leading January 6 researchers know we’re seeing but a pittance of the January 6 evidence available—and while in some cases we’re seeing the best of it, in many *more* cases we’re seeing mid-level evidence from a stock of evidence significantly *more* incriminating. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
43/ And there’s multimedia from Stone’s Stop the Steal co-organizers—Alex Jones and Ali Alexander—that they too were asked by Trump to lead a march Trump knew would be dangerous, at a time he knew they were coordinating with domestic terrorists in the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
42/ Those who’ve been reading PROOF know that there is *also* video of Roger Stone fundraising for the equipment the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers used to storm the Capitol on January 6. There is *also* audio of him saying Trump asked him to lead the January 6 march on the Capitol. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
41/ By the same token, evidence we see today will implicitly scream of its incompleteness. We’ll get videotape from a Danish documentary on Roger Stone that reveals that Stone anticipated and desired violence and a coup attempt *before* the 2020 election—which *is* shocking. But. — PolitiTweet.org
