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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
26/ Understand that part of the heterogeneous nature of this hearing comes from what I said atop of this thread: this part of the January 6 narrative is *huge* and *complex* and *unwieldy* and *littered* with major actors. I’ve written the equivalent of three books on it already. — PolitiTweet.org
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25/ All of this sets a sort of paradoxical theme for today’s hearing: while it’s focusing on nexuses between Trump’s circle and extremists, it *also* is going to be jumping around in time a lot—from December 18, 2020 to January 6, 2021—and using many different types of witnesses. — PolitiTweet.org
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24/ We are also expecting to see a number of clips from former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone’s recent deposition. Cipollone isn’t an insurrectionist at *all*—though he defended Trump at one of his impeachments, he consistently tried to stop Trump from executing his coup plot. — 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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23/ Meanwhile, Stephen Ayres was arrested for his actions at the Capitol on January 6—so he’s a mere foot-soldier (but the first to testify live). In a certain sense, that’s a risk for the HJ6C. He’ll talk about how Trump’s tweets inspired his conduct. https://t.co/a5hJWIvYkv — PolitiTweet.org
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22/ Interestingly, the *live* witnesses we hear from today were not part of the middle-man class. Jason van Tatenhove is a former Oath Keeper spokesman who’ll simply outline what that group is for America (as the Proud Boys, but not the Oath Keepers, were introduced previously). — PolitiTweet.org
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21/ ...is that the class of people we’re talking about now is incredibly diverse and includes lawyers (e.g., Powell), advisers (Byrne), pseudo-media (Jones), bodyguards (Lewis), would-be coup leaders/inciters (Flynn), paramilitary men (Rhodes), and others. Maybe 50 people in all. — PolitiTweet.org
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20/ To be sure, there was a great deal of discourse between these layers; heck, Stewart Rhodes used to *work for* Alex Jones, and was friends with Proud Boy leadership, and certainly Ali Alexander knew many of the top people at the Proud Boys. But the important thing to know... — PolitiTweet.org
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19/ So as you are already seeing, the middle-man class had several layers—as many as three. There were people Trump’s inner circle would deal with directly, like Alexander and Jones and Stone and Flynn; lieutenants who dealt with those four; and on-site commanders like Rhodes. — PolitiTweet.org
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18/ Just as 1AP leaders—now pleading the Fifth—protected Flynn, Alexander, Powell, and Byrne as the latter plotted a coup, the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys protected Stone, the Proud Boys protected Ali Alexander, and both groups repeatedly dealt with Stop the Steal’s Alex Jones. — PolitiTweet.org
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17/ Rhodes—leader of the Oath Keepers—is charged with Seditious Conspiracy along with about a dozen other Oath Keepers. Just so, about a dozen Proud Boys are charged with Seditious Conspiracy. Why do I mention them now? Because like 1AP, they acted as far-right security details. — PolitiTweet.org
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16/ Lewis also conferred several times (he called it “war-gaming”) with Trump lawyer John Eastman and others tied to Trump’s legal team; as you know, Eastman pleaded the Fifth Amendment 100+ times under questioning. Lewis also spoke to Stewart Rhodes before and after January 6. — PolitiTweet.org
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15/ Lewis and Luelsdorf worked security post-election—up to January 6—for Flynn, Trump lawyer Sidney Powell, Ali Alexander, and Patrick Byrne. Lewis drove Flynn, Powell, and Byrne to the White House on December 18, 2020 for a coup-plotting meeting I will discuss more in a moment. — PolitiTweet.org
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14/ But the number of people pleading the Fifth Amendment before Congress or fighting their subpoenas is much longer than this. For instance two Flynn bodyguards—Robert Patrick Lewis and Philip Luelsdorf of 1st Amendment Praetorians (1AP)—have also said they will plead the Fifth. — PolitiTweet.org
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13/ Just so, Michael Flynn has repeatedly pleaded the Fifth Amendment. I mention Flynn and Stone first in part because, on Insurrection Eve, hours before the attack on the Capitol, Trump asked his chief of staff Mark Meadows to call *these two men* to check in about the next day. — PolitiTweet.org
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12/ Roger Stone says he did nothing wrong—but refuses to answer questions on the grounds that his answers *to almost any January 6 query* may tend to incriminate him. As we’re not in a courtroom, we’re free to draw our own inferences from his invocations of the Fifth Amendment. — PolitiTweet.org
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11/ We are now, increasingly, going to be talking about people who (a) had direct contact with Trump and/or his family, (b) who are not in government, and (c) who have already (at a minimum) acknowledged they *may* have committed crimes by pleading the Fifth Amendment repeatedly. — PolitiTweet.org
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10/ This hearing starts the narrative’s movement toward some of those people, entities, and organizations, so you will be hearing certain names for the first time (and others simply for the first time in these hearings). But there’s another key difference for us to consider here. — PolitiTweet.org
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9/ Trump’s inner circle isn’t particularly sophisticated, but it takes little intelligence to know you don’t deal with your soldiers—if you’re plotting a coup—directly. You have people, entities, and organizations that act as go-betweens. And that’s what happened pre-January 6. — PolitiTweet.org
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8/ Whereas the NYT Visual Investigations Unit has worked with excellent indie researcher partners to catalogue the movements of every on-the-ground, recorded January 6 insurrectionist, PROOF has focused on what we might think of as the insurrectionist “middle men” (and women). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
7/ On a personal note, I’ll say that the hearings have finally reached the topics PROOF has published 200+ articles on since January 14, 2021. I am extremely humbled by the fact that Congress has cited PROOF, reads PROOF, and has reached out to me about my 18 months of research. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
6/ This is, in fact, the *biggest* piece of the January 6 narrative pie—it dwarfs everything else in size, scope and complexity. I realize that seems hard to believe—as the first 6 HJ6C hearings have been perhaps the most historic and startling congressional hearings in history. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
5/ Whereas the first hearing focused on the movements of the Proud Boys, and the next 5 on the actions of Trump and his agents, this seventh hearing begins drawing the line between paramilitaries on the one hand (not just the Proud Boys but the Oath Keepers and others) and Trump. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
4/ Today’s hearing marks more than just a shift from June to July, from the House January 6 Committee’s first 6 hearings to their next 2 to 10 more. It marks a shift from a bifurcated (dual) narrative track—one focusing on paramilitaries, one on plotters—to a “nexus” paradigm. — PolitiTweet.org
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3/ PROOF also now offers an expansive House January 6 Committee archive for subscribers (🔐). It includes all PROOF HJ6C live threads—hundreds and hundreds of tweets in total—and all House January 6 Committee hearing videos in full. You can find it here. https://t.co/4tPMhQl2Xn — PolitiTweet.org
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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 image below for its location) I appreciate it, even as I add that it is—as ever—100% optional. You can also donate by PayPal by going here: https://t.co/Lw88I2r1KP https://t.co/XjAvQMrV1R — PolitiTweet.org
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1/ At times I may make reference in this thread to evidence previously published in the 200+ reports on January 6 that appear at PROOF (link below). About half of these reports are free at PROOF, while the other half are for subscribers ($5/month). https://t.co/94g4fNJ989 — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(🧵) LIVE THREAD: I’m live-tweeting the House January 6 Committee primetime hearing from 1PM ET on. I’m an attorney, journalist and historian who has been contacted by the Committee and whose J6-focused substack, PROOF, the Committee has cited. I hope you will RETWEET and follow. https://t.co/qhZrqiAdV4 — PolitiTweet.org
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@gherrera0 Que barbaridad — PolitiTweet.org
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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) This feed will live-tweet Tuesday’s 1PM ET House January 6 Committee hearing—the first one in July—which will focus o… — PolitiTweet.org
