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87/ So it’s important to understand that Donald Trump didn’t merely *maintain* the Pentagon plot after December 18, he *ramped it up*. And in many more ways than just mentioning the Navarro-Ziegler fake-news election-interference report in a tweet to tens of millions of his fans. — PolitiTweet.org

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86/ Peter Navarro was one of the principals on Team Kraken. The Navarro Report Trump crowed about in his December 19 tweet a) sought to prove foreign election interference, and b) was co-written by Garrett Ziegler... who’d *orchestrated* the December 18 Trump-Team Kraken meeting. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon This is the most important RETWEET… — PolitiTweet.org

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85/ Many people focus on the second part of this tweet—as you should; it was Trump’s first ever announcement that he endorsed January 6 as (in effect) a national day of rage—but the *first* part of the tweet is almost as important for understanding the coup plot at the Pentagon. — PolitiTweet.org

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84/ Here’s the tweet Donald Trump put out to tens of millions of his fans literal minutes—and I mean *literal minutes*—after Team Kraken left the White House in the wee hours of December 19, 2020: https://t.co/UfFINi1tc4 — PolitiTweet.org

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83/ But as Trump met with Team Kraken on the evening of December 18, 2020—for 6 hours—what possible “major national emergency” could be so big and so historic that it would justify the invocation of the Insurrection Act, martial law, and a 2020 “re-vote” overseen by the Pentagon? — PolitiTweet.org

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82/ Instead, there were, in Trump’s view in late 2020, two options: 1⃣ Proof of foreign election interference (no matter how manufactured) from foreign sources—just as he’d sought in the Trump-Ukraine scandal—rather than secret campaign sources; or 2⃣ a major national emergency. — PolitiTweet.org

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81/ Given how many moving pieces there are in the fully sourced narrative of Trump’s coup plot inside the Pentagon, it’d be easy to forget that so-called “clear-cut” evidence of foreign election interference wasn’t the only pathway to the Pentagon and martial law Trump perceived. — PolitiTweet.org

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80/ {Five-minute break. Then back to the story.} — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon This is the most important RETWEET… — PolitiTweet.org

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79/ For instance (returning to December) Trump and his inner circle, including members of Team Kraken, had devised a plot to install Kash Patel atop the CIA—moving him over from the Pentagon—in part to find/frame legit intel into something that could be a pretext for martial law. — PolitiTweet.org

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78/ This is where things get confusing, but suffice to say that this wasn’t the only angle being played at the time—nor was Trump in any sense disengaged from the effort. And I don’t say this only because Bolsonaro visited the White House *twice* during Insurrection Week in 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

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77/ Team Kraken—which included Trump lawyers, Trump advisers, Trump associates, even Trump *administration officials*—believed that if they could court China and Venezuela’s enemies they could get *something* credible-looking that Trump’s operatives inside the Pentagon could use. — PolitiTweet.org

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76/ If you’re wondering how Eduardo Bolsonaro of Brazil fits in, he’s a corrupt politician, career criminal and avid Trump supporter who happens to—along with his dad—both have access to Brazilian intelligence and have every reason to want conflict between the U.S. and Venezuela. — PolitiTweet.org

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75/ I mention January 5 because, of course, this was weeks after—per some in media—Trump gave up on using the Pentagon to impose martial law and seize voting machines. No—almost all the leaders of Team Kraken were in his home with Don Jr. and his top advisers on Insurrection Eve. — PolitiTweet.org

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74/ There’s a reason that, when Michael Lindell wasn’t in Trump’s *personal residence in DC* on Insurrection Eve (January 5, 2021)—the Trump Town House at Trump International Hotel—he was in Pentagon City with a leading Chinese dissident and the son of Brazil’s fascist president. — PolitiTweet.org

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73/ The two nations Team Kraken believed were most promising to develop fake but actually foreign-sourced intelligence from—sufficient, they hoped, to allow for the Pentagon to get involved—were China and Venezuela, which made sense for many reasons (e.g. they’re both Communist). — PolitiTweet.org

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72/ (Just want to reiterate here that we’re merely skimming the surface of the story. PROOF OF COUP is the book that unpacks, fully sources, explains, and connects these pieces far more than I can do in a single thread on Twitter. See the first tweet in the thread for the link.) — PolitiTweet.org

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@rjrjfp Oh, I know. He is a big part of the book. — PolitiTweet.org

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@CJgrill7 Will do — PolitiTweet.org

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@haysjr_9 @DMGrill Nope. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon This is the most important RETWEET… — PolitiTweet.org

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71/ And *that’s* when the *actual* foreign nationals started getting involved. — PolitiTweet.org

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70/ Even Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani—often now said (falsely) to have been open to DHS interference but having *drawn* the line at the Pentagon—*actually* only told Trump that he couldn’t use the Pentagon to seize machines until there was “clear-cut” evidence of foreign hacking. — PolitiTweet.org

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69/ The folks devising and/or editing such plans were Trump’s people. Trump lawyer Christina Bobb. Trump lawyer Sidney Powell. Trump lawyer Katherine Friess. Trump surrogate Michael Lindell. Trump even pardoned Flynn on December 8 in part as compensation for his work on all this. — PolitiTweet.org

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68/ And with all these things done, talk turned—as November 2020 flipped to December—to the notion that if there were a *big enough national emergency* Trump could just declare martial law via the Insurrection Act and use the *Pentagon* to seize voting machines across the nation. — PolitiTweet.org

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67/ But that wasn’t all. He sent his 2016 presidential campaign manager (Lewandowski) and 2016 deputy presidential campaign manager (Bossie) to the Defense Business Board (appointments later nixed by Biden). And he installed a well-known yes-man—Chris Miller—as Defense Secretary. — PolitiTweet.org

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66/ In a sign of just how *early* Trump understood he would end up turning to the Pentagon, consider the moves he made within *days* of losing the 2020 election: 🔺 Moved Kash Patel to the Pentagon 🔺 Promoted Ezra Cohen-Watnick in the Pentagon 🔺 Fired his Secretary of Defense — PolitiTweet.org

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65/ The problem was that Trump and Team Kraken were getting some *really* great intel about foreign election interference in 2020—and they *should* have been, as they were the ones creating it from whole cloth—and they didn’t want to waste it. Who else could they turn to, though? — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon This is the most important RETWEET… — PolitiTweet.org