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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
7/ In case you didn’t know, the current government of Venezuela is in cahoots with the Kremlin up to its eyeballs. Trump’s clandestine outreach to Venezuela sought to appease the Kremlin. Now he seems to have hired a man who worked for Venezuela as it was a Russian vassal state. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
6/ The fact that the case Kise has been asked to come aboard involves highly classified government records (that could harm national security) pertaining to foreign countries—the exact nature of which records we don’t yet know—is deeply unsettling given who Ballard and Kise are. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
5/ Understand also that there’s no lawyer in Donald Trump’s employ who he won’t at some point ask to break the law—with his historical preference being to hire lawyers he’s already become convinced are *willing* to break the law. We must read about his new hire with this in mind. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
4/ The man who seems to have led Trump to his newest lawyer—Brian Ballard, Trump’s biggest 2016 fundraiser—appears in the bestselling Proof trilogy as a key figure connected to what Trump was secretly up to in Venezuela. And the lawyer he sets Trump up with worked for Venezuela? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
3/ But what you also must understand—and what anyone who’s read the shocking Trump-Venezuela chapter in the national bestseller Proof of Corruption (Macmillan, 2020) already knows—is that Trump has been obsessed with exploiting Venezuela for political gain in the U.S. for years. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
2/ The inner circle of Trump associates at the heart of January 6 were *obsessed* with using the political divisions in Venezuela and the pro-Trump Brazilian government’s hostility to the Venezuelan government to extract manufactured disinformation about Biden *and* the election. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
1/ Remember, the Pentagon coup plot depended on Trump getting “evidence” from shady Venezuelan and Brazilian nationals falsely suggesting the 2020 presidential election was hacked by Venezuela and a consortium of communist nations. Now Trump hires a lawyer with this background? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Kise is a *very* good friend of Brian Ballard and used to represent Venezuela. We’re getting closer and closer to the Trump-Venezuela scandal finally becoming breaking news. Just so, the Trump-Brazil connection to January 6 just got closer to the surface. https://t.co/ATe1XavbTA — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (📢) Now that Republicans are promising mass violence if DOJ does its job and prosecutes the federal criminal Donald Trump… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: There’s no obvious reason for the FBI to believe Trump stored classified records at Mar-a-Lago but at none of his other p… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @washingtonpost: A third of Pakistan is now underwater amid an unprecedented amount of rainfall since June. The growing number of extre… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: There’s no obvious reason for the FBI to believe Trump stored classified records at Mar-a-Lago but at none of his other p… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Trump also mysteriously named two new official recordkeepers to his team—Kash Patel and John Solomon, men who have helped him commit crimes in the past—on the very day the FBI subpoenaed video footage of who was going into the storage area. This suggests *additional* asportation. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Trump has a history of unnecessarily moving about with classified records, is known to be highly paranoid, and in addition to him having foreknowledge of the August search the FBI has seen foot traffic in the hall outside the storage area—i.e. opportunities for items to be moved. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
The reason Trump wouldn’t have moved *all* the contraband from Mar-a-Lago is that he knew *federal officials knew* that *some* of it was there. But as he moved between properties over the last 18 months, why wouldn’t he have taken at least 1 or 2 extremely valuable docs with him? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(🧵) Click below for a THREAD on possible future FBI searches of other Trump properties. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
There’s no obvious reason for the FBI to believe Trump stored classified records at Mar-a-Lago but at none of his o… https://t.co/962JnwhXgB
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
I’m not saying I know. (How could I? How could anyone?) But we can say this: even the stupidest criminal would move contraband if they knew 6 months in advance that the space they were storing it in was going to be searched. And the FBI isn’t stupider than the stupidest criminal. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
One of the most successful components of the lawless GOP pushback to a court-ordered warrant that successfully retrieved the contraband it was looking for is that it made the FBI gunshy about conducting *any other searches of Trump properties*. What if that was part of the point? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
As a lawyer and former criminal investigator—but also a Trump biographer who’s been researching his engagements with law enforcement for years—I’m always on the lookout for new signs of the special treatment Trump gets from law enforcement. This seems like a clear instance to me. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Yet despite this we see nothing in media about the obvious need for the FBI to expand its search of Trump properties. In fact, despite the clear investigative exigencies of searching those properties, all we read about is how maybe the FBI shouldn’t even have searched Mar-a-Lago. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
You may say, well, if NARA thinks it has everything back, what work is left for the FBI to do? The answer: if you were Trump and knew a search of one of your properties was coming 6 months before it did, wouldn’t you make copies of the contraband and put them in another location? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
What FBI investigators found pre-August is that Trump intended to remove contraband from a public facility to a personal dwelling, and did so as part of a carefully orchestrated scheme to exert personal dominion over that contraband. Mar-a-Lago *specifically* is not the *point*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
With warrants, the emphasis is on contraband and intent and modus operandi and opportunity and personal dominion. Yes, of *course* every warrant must particularly describe the place to be searched, but if you think “Mar-a-Lago” has some special magical property, you are mistaken. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Remember that Trump first became aware that a search of Mar-a-Lago might happen half a year before it did. Is he so stupid that he wouldn’t have moved *even a single valuable classified record* to a new location, for instance another property? Why is the FBI so confident of this? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
We recently learned that Trump brought classified records with him whenever he traveled during his presidency—including to hostile foreign nations. So why exactly would he not have done the same as he traveled to his several properties in the year and a half after he left office? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
The records Trump stole threaten national security—and he had over a year and a half to do whatever he liked with them, including transfer them between properties or sell them or destroy them or copy them. The idea that Mar-a-Lago held *everything* as of August 2022 is...suspect. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
...seek a warrant to search his several other private dwellings or, at a bare minimum, urgently seek to develop new sources inside those other dwellings to determine whether government records may have been brought to them or transferred to them at any point in the last ~2 years. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
To be clear, prior to finding thousands and thousands of stolen records at Mar-a-Lago the FBI wouldn’t have had probable cause to search other Trump properties. But having discovered that Trump hides government records in his private dwellings, there would be a basis to either... — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
If the FBI’s sources are only familiar with what’s happening at Mar-a-Lago,—and the FBI found thousands and thousands of pages of stolen records there but opted not to search other Trump properties despite having no visibility into what’s at those other properties—it’s a problem. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
And here’s an interesting corollary to that: either the FBI sources inside Trump’s inner circle are *equally familiar* with conditions on the ground at Bedminster and Trump Tower as Mar-a-Lago—and therefore know what is there or not—or again, the FBI isn’t doing its job properly. — PolitiTweet.org
