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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
35/ So when we say—as would be accurate—that as soon as he knew he’d lost the popular vote and Electoral College in a landslide in early November 2020 Trump *lusted* for voting machines, understand that he *also* fully understood what historic chaos such a power-grab would cause. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
34/ And that was, beyond any doubt, Trump’s plan: to get his hands on voting machines and lie about what was in and on them. And we know this was the plan because *even without the machines* Team Trump *ruthlessly* lied to America about supposed machine-based 2020 election fraud. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
33/ But in Trump’s view, it would be worth it. As we saw when Trump and his lawyers secretly funded and staffed the fraudulent 2020 “audit” in Arizona—a whole different story—once you have ballots or machines in your hands you can lie about the evidence you have all day long. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
32/ Specifically, Trump expected that he would have to declare martial law in the United States—likely through the invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807—for him to get his hands on the voting machines he so desperately wanted. *That’s* how hard they were going to be to get. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
31/ Donald Trump wanted to seize state property with federal agents; he wanted to do so despite knowing that force might be required; he wanted to do so in order to steal a presidential election and illegally remain in power; and he knew he’d have to lie—and worse—to do all this. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
30/ You may recall that one (of several) bases for the American Civil War was a long-simmering battle over states’ rights (particularly on the matter of slavery). If you understand that basic fact, you understand what a state-federal showdown over voting machines would look like. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
29/ Voting machines are state—not federal—property. They’re among the most categorically “secure” objects on American soil. Messing with them in any way is a felony that usually puts you in prison. They’re under such tight restriction because they *shape the course of democracy*. — 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
28/ I should pause here to underscore how absolutely paltry and insufficient the phrase “seize voting machines” is to describe what we are actually talking about here What we’re talking about is the *instant* end of American democracy. I mean *over*. And I’ll explain to you why. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
27/ The first plan to seize 2020 voting machines was presented to Trump *under a week* after the 2020 election. And he loved it. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
26/ If you can imagine such an event and compare it to the already distressing reality—a national insurrection that we’re facing because Trump and his lawyers simply *alluded* to such hacking at pressers without ever offering any proof—you can see why Trump wanted those machines. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
25/ Now imagine the abject chaos that would have resulted if Trump had held a press conference—sort of like the one he held in 2016 with a table full of empty folders that he claimed were full of data—in which he displayed a voting machine he claimed had been proven to be hacked. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
24/ Consider the fact that Trump never got his hands on any voting machine—though, and this is covered in PROOF OF COUP, some of his agents in Michigan may have committed felonies by semi-successfully trying to do so—and we’re in many respects on the brink of mass civil conflict. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
23/ Trump was convinced that if he could get his hands on enough voting machines and find even one glitch that affected a single vote—or for that matter, if he could use fuzzy math and a team of hack mathematicians to falsely *claim* such a glitch existed—he could change history. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
22/ The first absolutely essentially thing to understand the coup plot at the Pentagon that PROOF OF COUP details with impeccable sourcing is that from the moment he knew for sure he’d lost the 2020 election—this was in early November—Trump *wanted access to the voting machines*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
21/ (And to be clear, PROOF OF COUP *is* a political thriller—you’ll learn so many things you didn’t previously know about January 6 that your head will spin. This is a dense, complex book that tackles the most under-reported element of one of the worst days in American history.) — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
20/ So let’s do it: let’s talk about the January 6 coup plot at the Pentagon, a plot that was almost successful. And let’s talk about it at a level of granularity worthy of major media—understanding here that I can’t unpack a dense, 250-page political thriller in a single thread. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
19/ Just because the infamous December 18, 2020 White House meeting would be an absolutely jaw-dropping central scene in an imagined movie version of PROOF OF COUP does *not* mean that the story of the January 6 coup plot at the Pentagon began *or* ended on that day. Far from it. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
18/ And yes—it’s true—it was at the moment that that six-hour meeting concluded that Donald Trump sent out the most infamous tweet of his life and maybe the most infamous tweet ever sent, calling domestic extremists to DC for January 6 and promising that it “Will be wild!” But. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
17/ Yes, it’s true, the six-hour December 18, 2020 Trump-Team Kraken meeting in the Oval Office and Presidential Residence was one of the craziest things *ever* to happen in the White House. It was a seditious-conspiracy strategy session that almost became an all-out brawl. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
16/ Just as we’d ultimately learn—sadly, far too late—that contrary to the evidence in Trump’s first impeachment trial the now-infamous Trump-Zelensky phone call in July 2019 was the tip of the iceberg of the Trump-Ukraine scandal, the December 18 meeting is just one data-point. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
15/ As PROOF OF COUP painstakingly details across 25 chapters, 250 pages, and hundreds and hundreds of major-media citations, the Pentagon plot began *within hours* of the end of Election Day and it extended until the final 120 hours of Trump’s presidency. https://t.co/dQigVf2wjO — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
14/ The claim made by those in media who’ve done almost no research on the coup plot at the Pentagon—which is almost everyone—is that Trump first became aware of such a plot on December 18, 2020 and discarded it *immediately*. That night. Nothing could be farther from the truth. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
13/ In fact, Trump had engineered the entire day—January 6—as an event that would transform what it was possible to do with and through the Pentagon, and he prepared for that eventuality by arranging all the pieces at the Pentagon he needed immediately after he lost the election. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
12/ One of the things you quickly discover as you read this book is that we’ve misconstrued the role for the Pentagon that Trump orchestrated—quite carefully—in advance of January 6. It wasn’t some Hollywood-style military coup with American troops in the streets of U.S. cities. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
11/ The narrative that unfolds in Proof of Coup: How the Pentagon Shaped An Insurrection is *vast*. There are chapters on Kash Patel, Ginni Thomas, Michael Flynn, Christina Bobb, Alex Jones, Mark Meadows, Trump, and a host of people less well-known but *just* as key to the story. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
10/ Who was lying? Kash Patel was lying. Michael Flynn was lying. Ezra Cohen-Watnick was lying. Charles Flynn was lying. The Pentagon was lying. Ryan McCarthy was lying. Chris Miller was lying. Walter Piatt was lying. These lies pointed to a coverup—which it turn revealed a plot. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
9/ One reason we needed more data on the coup plot at the Pentagon than we had when the House January 6 Committee held its very brief hearings touching on the Pentagon is that with more reports and more witness testimony and more major-media reporting we could see who was lying. — 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
8/ It seems impossible to believe the following until you understand that there was a coup plot inside the Pentagon on January 6: General Milley was on the outside looking in that day. And as you read more and more of his words about January 6, you can see that he now knows that. — PolitiTweet.org
