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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
64/ And in another 2020 miracle I still can’t believe, Cuccinelli *also* turned him down—which if such a thing is possible likely made him angrier than getting turned down by GOP legislators in Michigan and Pennsylvania (he could still use them—after all—for a fake-elector plot). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
63/ So early on (still November 2020) Trump went to political appointee Ken Cuccinelli, the sort-of-but-not-really acting DHS head—long story—and, convinced Cuccinelli would say yes because he’s one of the most rabid GOP partisans in America, asked him to seize voting machines. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
62/ ...the 2020 Trump presidential campaign! Surprise! — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
61/ But that’s *not* the best part. It turns out that the anonymous source Team Kraken used for all this supposed intelligence was a Dallas-area IT consultant and former Army mechanic who’d washed out of basic intel courses and worked—through a subsidiary—*for* (wait for it)... — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
60/ Here’s a list of nations Team Kraken thereafter told Trump, courts and voters had hacked into the 2020 election (I’m not making this up): 🇨🇳 China 🇮🇷 Iran 🇮🇹 Italy 🇵🇰 Pakistan 🇷🇺 Russia 🇪🇸 Spain 🇬🇧 The United Kingdom 🇻🇪 Venezuela The claim was that they all worked together. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
59/ Trump advisers associated with Team Kraken floated to him a wild—bad faith—reading of a federal regulation which, they said, would allow DHS to seize state voting machines if there was clear-cut evidence of foreign interference in the 2020 election (note: this is all false). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
58/ If you guessed that Trump went *international*, you are correct. Mind you, we’re still talking about November 2020 here. We haven’t even gotten to the month in which the meeting at the Oval Office with Team Kraken occurred (December). We’re around Thanksgiving at this point. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
57/ Keep in mind that this is a desperate man—and a career criminal—who believes in nothing, doesn’t care about America, and apprehended (correctly) that if he lost the DOJ-OLC protections of being the sitting President of the United States he could be indicted on *many* grounds. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
56/ So Trump had struck out with the only federal agency even *arguably* able to seize voting machines (though it’d require the FBI either planting or manufacturing evidence): DOJ. And he had struck out with local police repped by state pols. So can you guess where he went next? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
55/ And by *god* if this isn’t where things get *really* interesting. (Incidentally, we’ve barely gotten to anything in PROOF OF COUP yet. I’m serious; this is all mostly *backdrop* to the 250-page, fully sourced book about the Pentagon I just published.) https://t.co/dQigVf2wjO — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
54/ What I still can’t believe—truly—is that the Michigan and Pennsylvania legislators, who needless to say Trump has no respect for because they’re just state pols, turned him down flat. Can you imagine how angry he was? You can be certain in 2024 there’d be a different result. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
53/ Like, do I even need to explain the *nationwide insanity* that would’ve resulted in? If the guy who gave you a speeding ticket at a speed trap yesterday could interfere in federal elections because he loves Trump and believes that John F. Kennedy Jr. has risen from the dead? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
52/ Worrying that federal agents like Barr would refuse to do his bidding—though was working on a DOJ coup to fix that—Trump sniffed out the level of government he deemed *most* corrupt: *local* government. That’s right—Trump wanted *local cops* to start seizing voting machines. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
51/ Trump went to the GOP state legislators of at least two battleground states—Michigan and Pennsylvania—and, in the presence of members of Team Kraken (including the man who’d ultimately coauthor the Pentagon coup plot, Flynn associate Phil Waldron) Trump made a *crazy* demand. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
50/ *Before* the “fake elector” plot media (rightly) has reported on regularly—and which federal judge David Carter says more likely than not was a criminal conspiracy involving (at least) Trump and Team Kraken member John Eastman—Trump had a *different* ask for GOP legislators. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
49/ But if you think Trump would stop at one illegal plot—or, spoiler alert, *2* or even *3* such plots—to get the voting machines he was so obsessed with getting, you really don’t understand Trump or how dangerous he is to the continuation of democratic life in America even now. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
48/ If I delve into the coup plot inside *DOJ* here—it is covered in PROOF OF COUP, but is not the focus of the book—this thread will be 500 tweets long, so suffice to say that the *entire* failed DOJ coup plot had as its aim the eventual seizure of voting machines by DOJ agents. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
47/ Trump was *so angry* that Barr would not enter this massive criminal conspiracy with him—one that, on its own, would *dwarf* Watergate—that, *because he didn’t know at the time when or if Barr would resign*, he began plotting a literal coup *inside* the Department of Justice. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
46/ But as most of you well know, Barr didn’t quit *right away* (he was hoping, and certainly his innate corruption had something to do with this, that he could continue to serve as a stooge to a man who would propose something to him like this). He stayed on until *December 23*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
45/ This first scheme was *so illegal*—{big breath here}—it led *William Barr* to resign. Barr may well have been the most corrupt Attorney General in U.S. history—and Trump’s first (most legal, if you can believe it! and still wildly illegal!) voting-machine plot made him quit. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
44/ Trump’s first plot was to get DOJ to seize the machines, which—to be very clear here—Trump well understood would mean manufacturing an entirely fraudulent federal criminal investigation for political ends (think about how *ironic* that sounds now, given events at Mar-a-Lago). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (📢) MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump’s January 6 Coup Plot Infiltrated the Pentagon This is the most important RETWEET… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
43/ In Michigan, Trump agents tried outright theft—they illegally tried to access voting machines. In court, they lied to judges and passed false data. But Trump also worked with Team Kraken to pursue even more unconventional and controversial means to get the machines he wanted. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
42/ The problem was the trigger. Trump and the entities I just mentioned understood that there needed to be *a highly public event* that enabled Trump to declare martial law and thereby get the voting machines he wanted. He hoped it’d be a lawsuit but knew it likely wouldn’t be. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
41/ How do we know this? Because the invocation of the Insurrection Act was *everywhere* in the Stop the Steal movement in November/December 2020. It was, in fact, I dare say, *commonly* understood that Trump could not remain in power without declaring martial law pre-January 20. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
40/ Roger Stone understood it. Michael Flynn understood it. Trump lawyers like Sidney Powell understood it. Bizarre characters like Team Kraken funder Patrick Byrne (present in the Oval Office on December 18, 2020) understood it, as did Team Kraken loose cannon Michael Lindell. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
39/ The Proud Boys understood it. The Oath Keepers understood it. The Three Percenters understood it. The 1st Amendment Praetorians understood it. The Eighty Percent Coalition understood it. The Boogaloo Bois understood it. Stop the Steal understood it. And so did Trump advisers. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
38/ But Team Kraken was not the only entity that understood this implicitly. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
37/ It’s for this reason Team Kraken began discussing the imposition of martial law and the invocation of the Insurrection Act in November 2020. They fully understood that if Trump was going to get what he craved—those machines—America would have to enter a period of darkness. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
36/ The members of “Team Kraken”—all of whom are listed in PROOF OF COUP but the list is so long I can’t name them all here (and many of them are names you’ve never heard before in major media)—also understood this. Especially former Trump National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. — PolitiTweet.org
