Seth Abramson

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing from 1PM ET on. I’m an attorney, journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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50/ The Committee is now entering the room. — PolitiTweet.org

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49/ I’ll only add to the foregoing that I think the House January 6 Committee is *so eager* to get Cipollone’s testimony before America that I think it has shifted slightly even *today’s* hearing. We will hear more from Cipollone via video today, possibly, than many would expect. — PolitiTweet.org

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48/ MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS (CNN): The next House January 6 Committee hearing is expected to come next week—likely in primetime—and will focus on the 187 minutes that Trump was doing nothing on January 6 while the Capitol was under attack (featuring lots of Cipollone testimony). — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 3/ PROOF also now offers an expansive House January 6 Committee archive for subscribers (🔐). It includes all PROOF HJ6C l… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 2/ This live thread is of course free. If, as you follow along, you feel moved to use the tip jar in my bio (see the imag… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: 1/ At times I may make reference in this thread to evidence previously published in the 200+ reports on January 6 that ap… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing from 1PM ET on. I’m an attorney, journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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47/ I don’t know how well any pundit can predict what’s going to happen starting in seven minutes—let alone how the Committee might use future hearings in July and August and possibly September and beyond to build out this critical but almost unsummarizable part of the narrative. — PolitiTweet.org

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46/ If we *only* looked at Flynn we’d find a similar flurry of activity involving many groups. Indeed, one comparatively minor event in the timeline is that everyone—Flynn, Byrne, Lewis, Jones, Alexander, Stone—spoke to a Stop the Steal crowd at Freedom Plaza on Insurrection Eve. — PolitiTweet.org

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45/ But from that "hub" event so *many( different spokes can be looked at that we’ve no *idea* what the Committee will do. Again, if we *only* looked at Stone, we’d see him fundraising for the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, protected by them, meeting with Trump, and so much more. — PolitiTweet.org

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44/ So the focus today—we were told on Sunday shows; it’s of course subject to change—will be on how the December 18 meeting, which Cipollone saw a key part of, launched the component of Trump’s massive coup conspiracy that didn’t just involve but *required* dangerous extremists. — PolitiTweet.org

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43/ It is for this reason (among others) that so much focus lands on the "Kraken Conference": it took Trump from filing crappy lawsuit after crappy lawsuit via Giuliani—fruitlessly—to announcing that he wanted to activate his most militant, dangerous followers on January 6, 2021. — PolitiTweet.org

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42/ It’s not clear that Stop the Steal’s Alexander, Stone, and Jones—who spent November and December swarmed by Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who would later be indicted for Seditious Conspiracy—could have mounted a major event on January 6 without Trump agreeing to participate. — PolitiTweet.org

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41/ The second the Krakeners left—in the wee hours of December 19—Trump sent his tweet signing onto Ali Alexander’s planned January 6 event and saying it’d be "wild." *This* is the tweet that Stephen Ayres will testify under oath to day radicalized and militarized him and others. — PolitiTweet.org

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40/ ...be conducted under the watchful eye of an armed USAF and National Guard, seized voting machines, martial law—again, an end to our democracy. (Navarro *openly* said, on Fox News on January 2, that Trump could stay president past January 20 and choose to do so unilaterally.) — PolitiTweet.org

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39/ After the lawyers left, the Team Kraken-Trump conference moved to the Presidential Residence for 2 hours. We only know so much about what was said, but we know what the Krakeners were asking for: Powell as a White House Special Counsel, a national re-vote that would... — PolitiTweet.org

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38/ Once at the Oval, Team Kraken had Trump’s ear for 30 minutes. Then Cipollone and the lawyers came in, and things got *heated*. Team Kraken was advocating for an end to American democracy, and Cipollone was trying to keep the nation together. It was that intense and historic. — PolitiTweet.org

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37/ MID-THREAD BREAKING NEWS: The House January Committee will privately interview Patrick Byrne on Friday, per MSNBC. — PolitiTweet.org

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36/ Navarro aide Ziegler let Team Kraken (Powell, Flynn, Byrne) into the White House, which they’d been driven to by 1AP (Lewis). Through what Byrne has since described—in a video confession PROOF exclusively reported on—as a covert op, they slowly made their way toward the Oval. — PolitiTweet.org

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35/ Mark Meadows had banned Team Kraken from the White House; they weren’t allowed to see Trump. But after Trump adviser Peter Navarro released a post-election "report" ("The Immaculate Deception") on December 17, his fellows on Team Kraken sprang into action in the weirdest way. — PolitiTweet.org

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34/ As soon as Biden’s win was state-certified by 50 states and DC on December 14, 2020, many Trump coup plots sprung (e.g. the DOJ plot a whole HJ6C hearing covered). Team Kraken pushed Rudy to come to its side and he wouldn’t—he wanted to fight in the courts almost exclusively. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing from 1PM ET on. I’m an attorney, journ… — PolitiTweet.org

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33/ Team Kraken/Crazy used 1AP as its security (Lewis and Luelsdorf and other 1APers) and of course had many dealings with both Giuliani (as normal as Team Crazy got; you should view Team Kraken almost as a subset of Team Crazy) and Eastman, who—as it were—tended to lean Kraken. — PolitiTweet.org

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32/ Powell’s team is commonly called Team Kraken, but today they may be called Team Crazy because one Trump aide called them that. The team includes: Powell, Flynn, Byrne, Michael Lindell, Peter Navarro, Peter Navarro aide Garrett Ziegler, and several others. These are whackjobs. — PolitiTweet.org

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31/ Briefly: within Trump’s legal team there’s a divide between Rudy Giuliani and his people and Powell and her people. The latter are more radical than Giuliani. They want martial law, seized voting machines, insist the 2020 election was stolen by a 9-nation transnational cabal. — PolitiTweet.org

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30/ But one event we *know* will be focused on today is the craziest White House meeting of the Trump administration—and possibly the craziest White House meeting that did not occur during a national civil war. It happened on December 18, 2020, and is almost impossible to fathom — PolitiTweet.org

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29/ We still don’t know how deep down the well they’ll go. Stone’s visit to Mar-a-Lago in late December? Maybe. Stone recording a video raising funds for the Proud Boys’ and Oath Keepers’ war gear? I sure hope so. Ali Alexander and Alex Jones at the Georgia State Capitol? Maybe. — PolitiTweet.org

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28/ The easiest thing to do is what federal criminal investigators—and I briefly was one—always do: build a timeline via key events and associations between people. Needless to say, I can’t summarize all the key events in the subject area the HJ6C is focused on now. Nor can they. — PolitiTweet.org

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27/ Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) will be handling the questioning—and says he’s already rewritten his remarks and questions 5 times. This underscores both the stakes here *and* how hard it is to do hearings on *this* time-/subnarrative-spanning part of the vast January 6 narrative. — PolitiTweet.org