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14/ But Trump had the votes in SCOTUS on January 2. So why did he need a call allegedly only for GOP state legislators? He had already created seven slates of fake electors which if (as Bannon predicted) SCOTUS “sent the election back to the states,” those legislators would pick. — PolitiTweet.org

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13/ The apex of the post-election/pre-insurrection plot to use ISL to reinstall Trump as president came on January 2, 2021, during a national conference call Trump held with hundreds and hundreds of insurrectionists. PROOF is one of the few media outlets to ever report this call. — PolitiTweet.org

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12/ Am I being clear enough? I hope so. — PolitiTweet.org

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11/ Roberts won’t vote for ISL. This is known. (Despite his hatred of voting rights.) So the vote now is 5-4; the votes are locked in from past public statements. Which means that if Clarence Thomas isn’t impeached for being an insurrectionist before next summer, America is over. — PolitiTweet.org

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10/ The only thing they didn’t have is time. It’s hard to get something scheduled to happen in mid-2023 to actually happen in early 2021—even if you have the votes. On the other hand, you can’t possibly imagine what Ginni and Clarence Thomas were willing to do to reinstall Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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9/ They were close in part because they had the votes. And they *knew* they did. Let me repeat: ISL could have given Trump the White House in 2021; all five (some would say six) of the coup teams he had operating pre-January 6 knew it; and they were *right*. They *had the votes*. — PolitiTweet.org

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8/ But what no one realizes is that Donald Trump and his lawyers wanted what we now know as Moore v. Harper (the 2023 case I mentioned, to be argued in December 2022) to be a different case entirely—one they brought in January 2021. And they were *so close* to getting their way. — PolitiTweet.org

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7/ America is over starting in Summer 2023. The Supreme Court will rule 5-4 for the North Carolina General Assembly in a case that makes voting purposeless—as state legislatures gerrymandered to within an inch of their lives can choose the next POTUS in 2024. Which will be Trump. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/ But as all of you know, PROOF primarily covers January 6—a major event from 2021—*not* events that are coming in 2023. So how am I writing about the greatest threat to democracy but *also* writing about an event that happened more than a year and a half ago? Well, here’s how. — PolitiTweet.org

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5/ Lest you think I’m somehow being coy here—trying to avoid revealing what this new PROOF article is about—I think you’ll now see how this anecdote ties into the best summary I can possibly offer of what this report covers. First, it’s *partly* about ISL. https://t.co/rihfHq7JgX — PolitiTweet.org

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4/ 72 hours ago, this man, who I haven’t spoken to for 25 years—and with whom I agree on nothing—called what I’ve just termed the greatest threat to our democracy a “slow-moving coup d’état” that’s likely to end our democracy in 2023. It is the first thing we have ever agreed on. — PolitiTweet.org

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3/ One of the people discussed in this novella is my former law school constitutional law professor—Ronald Reagan’s former Solicitor General. The man who gave me the lowest grade of my entire law school career. There’s not a single thing this very smart man and I ever agreed on. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/ There’s no summarizing this report—at least not accurately. But I’ll say (and no one who reads this will disagree, I promise) that it covers, as *one* of its topics, what is unquestionably the greatest and most immediate threat to the United States today. And I can prove it. — PolitiTweet.org

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1/ I am not really sure what to do, here, thread-wise. This is a novella-length work that probably takes a few hours to read and covers so many topics that there are individual parentheticals in the text that I think entire investigative reports could be written about. Seriously. — PolitiTweet.org

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(🔐) NEW: Trump Addressed Extremists Via Zoom 96 Hours Before the Capitol Attack—Some of Whom Thereafter Trespassed on Capitol Grounds This is by far the largest and most complex report ever published at PROOF. I hope you’ll subscribe, read, and RETWEET. https://t.co/mHsShhwaWB — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) Go big or go home. Tonight—July 10—PROOF will publish its largest and most complex report, timed to precede by 36 hou… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: The CDC in the past week has reported a little more than 100,000 new cases a day on average. But infectious-disease e… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: Antibodies from vaccines and previous covid infections offer limited protection against BA.5, which is “the worst versi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @washingtonpost: “It’s the wild west out there.” There is widespread agreement among infectious-disease experts that this remains a dan… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @kylegriffin1: Jan. 6 Committee on Pat Cipollone's 8.5 hour interview: "In our interview with Mr. Cipollone, the Committee received crit… — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS3) Fortunately, this gives the bipartisan House January 6 Committee all the leverage; the fact that it values Bannon’s testimony only very lightly puts it in the driver’s seat. It should issue an ultimatum on how he can testify that, if rejected, is not negotiated or repeated. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS2) If there’s one thing DOJ has made clear to the far right over the last seven years, it’s that it doesn’t prosecute powerful people for perjury. It did not prosecute Sessions or Trump Jr. or Prince or any other Trump adviser. So Bannon’s testimony will be largely perjurious. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) My view is that every action Bannon takes is designed to stall until (he assumes) Republicans take the House. If he’s going to testify, it should be in the next 7 days and privately—and shouldn’t stop his prosecution from going forward. No reason to cut deals with this liar. — PolitiTweet.org

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BREAKING NEWS: — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @SethAbramson: (📢) Go big or go home. Tonight—July 10—PROOF will publish its largest and most complex report, timed to precede by 36 hou… — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS3) That said, this report is not about 2023. It is about January 2, 2021. More soon; I will be furiously editing this beast throughout the day today, so I may be scarce on Twitter. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS2) If I had to pick a theme for the report coming tonight, it’s that Trump’s insurrection was so much closer to achieving its aim than anyone realizes. And the piece of the puzzle it was missing—by a hair—it’ll no longer be missing after the Summer of 2023. And Trump knows it. — PolitiTweet.org

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(PS) The fourth major report on Ginni Thomas and Clarence Thomas at PROOF is also coming very soon, but it will arrive just after this one, i.e. sometime this week—as it now acts (if you can believe it) as a mere adjunct to this larger and more complex PROOF investigative report. — PolitiTweet.org

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(📢) Go big or go home. Tonight—July 10—PROOF will publish its largest and most complex report, timed to precede by 36 hours what promises to be an explosive congressional hearing on Tuesday. There are parentheticals in this report that could be headlines. https://t.co/94g4fNJ989 — PolitiTweet.org

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Righteous https://t.co/AJbyFxPt4o — PolitiTweet.org