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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
28/ Team Kraken knew it didn’t have White House access. But it needed it. So on the night of December 18, 2020, it sprung its plan. It was driven by the head of the First Amendment Praetorians—Robert Patrick Lewis, now under federal subpoena—or an agent of his to the White House. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
27/ And when I say "dire," let us be clear: they wanted Sidney Powell to become a special prosecutor for the White House; they wanted martial law; they wanted a literal takeover of our government by radicals who would effectively end our democracy—not over a year but *overnight*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
26/ Imagine how disturbed—I use the word colloquially, not clinically—one must be to have two men who are fighting congressional subpoenas and/or facing federal indictment trying to *hide* the President of the United States from you because you will get him to do something dire. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
25/ The plot to get a direct audience with Trump began immediately after the nationwide vote certification deadline. Why was a plot needed? Because Mark Meadows and even Giuliani deemed Team Kraken *so crazy* that they weren’t to be allowed an audience with the President himself. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: (🧵) THREAD: Today the House January 6 Committee made the most direct appeal it’s ever made to a prospective witness: Rep.… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
24/ Once every state and D.C. certified their electoral votes on December 14, 2020—locking in Biden’s landslide win—Team Kraken went *bananas*. Or, *more* bananas. They decided Giuliani was a traitor to Trump and they had to go around him to get an audience with Trump himself. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
23/ I hope it goes without saying that the "rules" of this re-vote would be just as Trump wanted: no absentee ballots, no early voting, no extended hours, IDs required. Essentially it would’ve been a *literally* rigged election at gunpoint that no nation on Earth would recognize. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
22/ And maybe this is a good point to note that the *main thing* Team Kraken wanted Trump to do was invoke the Insurrection Act, declare martial law, seize voting machines, and re-run the whole 2020 national election essentially at gunpoint (with the Guard monitoring all sites). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
21/ All these folks were based in an office inside a hotel in Virginia; this hotel was about a mile, if I have my math right, from the hotel in Virginia where the Oath Keepers ultimately stored their weapons on January 6 for the possibility of Trump invoking the Insurrection Act. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
20/ Throughout, Team Kraken was in regular contact with John Eastman and his ring of dodgy lawyers and cyber-intel "experts", and liaisoned with those who’ve aided Trump with election ratfuckery in the past, e.g. Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing (who the FBI has since raided). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
19/ Some team members met with dangerous foreign nationals (Lindell); others spun theories they’ve since been sued for for billions (Powell); others called for a coup at a QAnon event in Dallas (Flynn); others wanted to offer a coup plot to Trump (all these but especially Byrne). — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
18/ Those on Team Kraken included Sidney Powell, Michael Flynn, Patrick Byrne, Michael Lindell, a few people working for Powell and a group of unnamed intel experts Byrne called "whisperers." Security for the team was given by the First Amendment Praetorians—a paramilitary group. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
17/ So a *new* team arose *within* the Trump (quote-unquote) legal team: Team Kraken. Team Kraken was willing to *make up* deranged international conspiracies and use paramilitary radicals to help them strategize bizarre "intelligence" operations that were just... 100% bonkers. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
16/ There was a feeling that Giuliani was willing to file bogus lawsuits, but he was OK with *losing* them, too; he just wanted Trump to feel like he was doing *something* so that Trump would keep granting him the access that Giuliani and his agents were selling around the world. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
15/ So in the sprawling offices in Virginia of Trump’s quote-unquote legal team—the team that was essentially tasked with stealing the 2020 election for Trump using largely illicit means—Giuliani came to be known as a defeatist who was *not radical enough* for Trump’s purposes. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
14/ And when I say this, I mean of course Giuliani *always* was all about manufactured evidence used for political purposes to steal an election—that’s what the whole Trump-Ukraine scandal was—but after the 2020 election Giuliani didn’t even have that. He had *literally* nothing. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
13/ But Joe Biden so thoroughly *cleaned Trump’s clock* in the 2020 election—he beat Trump by *such a landslide*—that even Giuliani was stumped. He started filing cases without any evidence whatsoever, and saying things he knew he would never *ever* be able to prove to *anyone*. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
12/ In all that time, there was no crime Giuliani wouldn’t commit for Trump, and I mean to the point of acting as a foreign agent, fraud, election fraud, witness tampering, the list goes on and on. There is a *reason* Giuliani is about to be disbarred everywhere he was licensed. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
11/ But the easiest summary I can give—after the 2500 pages of the bestselling Proof Trilogy I wrote between 2018 and 2020—is this: Giuliani helps Trump steal elections. That’s what Giuliani did in 2016; it’s what he was doing in Ukraine in 2019; it’s what he did for all of 2020. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
10/ ...throughout the Trump-Ukraine scandal—as Giuliani went around the world committing crimes (detailed in Proof of Corruption, Macmillan, 2020)—he couldn’t even explain what *case* he was working on or what *legal* tasks he was executing in doing Trump’s political dirty work. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
9/ Giuliani often admits that his relationship with Trump as Trump’s "personal attorney" is an odd one. Trump rarely pays him (Giuliani just profits off selling access to Trump) and Giuliani often struggles to describe *any* legal component to what he does for Trump. Indeed... — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
8/ Throughout his presidency, Trump wanted his White House Counsel to act as a personal lawyer (he often used the example of the late criminal Roy Cohn, one of his mentors) rather than the attorney for the Office of the President. It was so that he could get him to commit crimes. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
7/ Trump believes that if your lawyers commit crimes for you, you get off scot-free because your lawyers can’t testify against you (note that this is false, due to the "crime-fraud exception" to attorney-client privilege). That’s one reason he wanted Cipollone to be "his" lawyer. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
6/ We sometimes refer to Trump’s legal team like it was an actual legal team—in fact, as we saw in *both* the Trump-Russia scandal *and* the Trump-Ukraine scandal *and* every major pre- and post-politics scandal Trump has ever been in—he usually asks his lawyers to commit crimes. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
5/ This is the story of how “Team Kraken” infiltrated the White House with the help of a paramilitary unit and an aide to Green Bay Sweep coup co-author Peter Navarro. Almost everyone in this story has been subpoenaed by Congress—and some have pleaded the Fifth under questioning. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
4/ What I *can* do here is offer a brief summary of this deranged December 2020 meeting, why it matters, and who was a witness to it. I can also write about how it came about. And then if you want to know more, you can read a whole tome about it at PROOF. https://t.co/UgAGqfjwA3 — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
3/ PROOF reported on this December 18, 2020 meeting at length—and with exclusive video evidence—in two major reports. Both are for PROOF subscribers, and are far too long to be summarized here. So I will simply link to them in this thread and then move on. https://t.co/uLRERk3IxH — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
2/ But one thing in *particular* Cipollone saw hasn’t yet been testified to in any way before the House January 6 Committee—a 3-hour late 2020 meeting that began in the Oval Office. Many journalists and historians deem it the craziest meeting ever to occur in the Oval in history. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
1/ Two things to note before I offer this narrative—a sequence of events uncovered in 16 months of research at PROOF. First, let’s be clear: there are *many* things Cipollone can testify to; there’s a reason he repeatedly threatened to resign. Cipollone saw a *lot* of misconduct. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(🧵) THREAD: Today the House January 6 Committee made the most direct appeal it’s ever made to a prospective witness: Rep. Cheney (R-WY) called for former White House Counsel Pat Cipollone to agree to testify live. I know why and explain it here. I hope you’ll RETWEET and follow. https://t.co/npI1Ezyljv — PolitiTweet.org
