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3/ I believe the House January 6 Committee will eventually take up this topic, but I don’t know when and candidly don’t know if it’ll have time to do so properly before it’s disbanded. Yet there may be no more important topic within the superstructure of January 6 investigations. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ This is a terrifying topic that has thus far received only scattered attention. Because most journalists covering this beat have largely taken quotes from Mark Milley—who wasn’t involved in any coup plotting at the Pentagon—they’ve missed the evidence that others there *were*. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ The premise of the book, supported across two dozen chapters and hundreds of major-media citations, is that the Pentagon was a key player in what was originally—and throughout—conceived as a highly unusual and idiosyncratic military coup that was to play out in January 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) PROOF OF COUP: HOW THE PENTAGON SHAPED AN INSURRECTION—a new book in the NYT-bestselling Proof series—drops Sunday. This 240-pg. Substack book ($5 subscription) holds breaking news. If you’ve considered subbing to PROOF, this is a great moment for it. https://t.co/npT4m0nrVU — PolitiTweet.org

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@burtgurney @Noneyabv IT. IS. A. THREAD. — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) What’s rather interesting about all this is that the DOJ action today effectively moved up the deadline for the resolution of this matter to 3PM tomorrow rather than 5PM four days from now. I don’t know that DOJ could have anticipated that, but that’s what happened here. — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) The one place I was off was the day—it was 5PM 96 hours from now, not 5PM today. “The document may be released anyhow, as Judge Reinhart—who issued the warrant—gave DOJ until 5PM Aug. 15 to respond to a request to unseal the records from conservative group Judicial Watch.” — PolitiTweet.org

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(MORE) Here’s the story on the 5 PM ET deadline DOJ was under when it made its decision today. https://t.co/wAeZZQC7y0 — PolitiTweet.org

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@VincentDehm @burtgurney Did you read the whole thread? — PolitiTweet.org

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Trust no one, Donald! I mean—look—the speculation is silly, but it’s not a bad thing when a career criminal, serial sexual assailant, traitor to his country and stochastic terrorist feels put upon enough to not trust anyone. It makes the rest of us safer. https://t.co/Ub2esvHrmK — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS5) I can’t underscore enough what a moron you have to be to think that in a case like this DOJ would deviate an iota from the most conservative possible approach to executing a run-of-the-mill warrant. Trump could overplay his hand here because he *knew* his fans *are* morons. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS4) The other thing to remember is that the political right in the U.S. loves to speak of the criminal justice system and loves to demagogue the system, but it understands absolutely nothing about it—and doesn’t care to understand anything. That’s being proven true again today. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS3) Either way, the important thing is that DOJ was on a court deadline. AG Garland *had* to make a decision today; this wasn’t a surprise DOJ maneuver to create drama. Once a warrant has been executed, there’s an initial presumption that it can (and should) now be made public. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS2) If DOJ chose to act like a moving party by filing a motion rather than a non-objection to JW’s motion, it’d be to a) stick it in the eye of JW by robbing it of a victory, b) performatively assert it has nothing to hide. Procedurally, it could just not object to JW’s motion. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) Trump doesn’t like to be seen as a loser/outmaneuvered. If he doesn’t object whatsoever to the Motion to Unseal, it’s an unqualified loss for him because he knows that the search warrant was perfectly legal and wholly in order. So I’d expect a qualified objection. We’ll see. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) Trump can now offer full-throated opposition to the Motion to Unseal; ask for more time to litigate what should be redacted from the search warrant first; or inform the court that he has no objection to the unsealing. Who knows what’ll happen. My money would be on Option #2. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) I believe those on cable saying that DOJ was the moving party here have it slightly wrong. DOJ actually was under a tight deadline to respond to a motion another party filed—and decided not to oppose it because the third party involved (Trump) already made the search public. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) To be clear, it was the far-right group Judicial Watch that moved to have the Trump search warrant unsealed, and the court gave DOJ until 5PM today to respond. It responded that it didn’t object to the motion, so the court set a deadline of 3PM tomorrow for Trump to object. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (UPDATE) The PROOF report on the coup plot at the Pentagon is now 200+ pages. While it won’t be marketed as such—you can… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: You did this, @GOPLeader and @GOPChairwoman and @GOP. And you did it with your eyes open. Stochastic terrorism is real, a… — PolitiTweet.org

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What I struggle with much *more* are the Americans who are planning to vote for these terrorists and terrorist-enablers in November. Are we supposed to forgive them? Are we supposed to pretend that it’s okay? Are we supposed to pretend that none of them know better? I don’t know. — PolitiTweet.org

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What we long ago lost is a common understanding of just how easy it’d be for the Republican Party to do the right thing. All they had to say after the search was, “No one is above the law, but we certainly look forward to evidence from DOJ as to why this search was appropriate.” — PolitiTweet.org

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I haven’t seen a single call for peace and calm from an elected Republican official since the entirely legal search of Mar-a-Lago conducted several days ago. Every message I’ve seen so far has intended to incite dangerous domestic extremists to violent and other illicit conduct. — PolitiTweet.org

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You did this, @GOPLeader and @GOPChairwoman and @GOP. And you did it with your eyes open. Stochastic terrorism is real, and you are complicit in it. https://t.co/0btkel9qOG — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: The main thing we’ve learned from this search already is that Trump was hiding 12 boxes of mixed classified/unclassified… — PolitiTweet.org

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If you’re wasting even one neuron focusing on how to convince Trump supporters to vote for someone else in 2024 you are doing thinking wrong — PolitiTweet.org

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I just love this idea that there’s anything DOJ could possibly say now or ever that would cause even a single Trump supporter to sit back and say OK well then I guess in light of that a court-ordered search warrant was understandable Trumpism is Lucy and America is Charlie Brown — PolitiTweet.org

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Understand that even if it turns out what Trump was illegally hiding in his Florida home were the nuclear launch codes, the key code to Fort Knox, the secrets of Area 51, and a signed-in-blood contract with Putin the Trumpists will call the FBI search of his house “pure politics” — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: The main thing we’ve learned from this search already is that Trump was hiding 12 boxes of mixed classified/unclassified… — PolitiTweet.org

Seth Abramson @SethAbramson

RT @SethAbramson: The main thing we’ve learned from this search already is that Trump was hiding 12 boxes of mixed classified/unclassified… — PolitiTweet.org