BREAKING NEWS: Far-Right Publication National Review Confirms Trump Has Taken Discrete Acts in Furtherance of a Seditious Conspiracy—Actively Recruiting Agents to Convince Americans He Can and Should Be Reinstalled as President in August, Which Would Be Illegal and Require a Coup pic.twitter.com/lI5Qxz3KaY
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 3, 2021
Anyone else think that domestic terror leaders who purposefully incite armed rebellion against the federal government and are even now stoking domestic insurrection—doing so without remorse or signs of self-correction—should be PERMANENTLY banned from ALL social media platforms?
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 4, 2021
Trump for years engaged in criminal conduct on social media—obstructing justice, inciting violence, tampering with witnesses, engaging in election fraud, and knowingly aiding and abetting Kremlin disinformation—and NONE of that deserves ANY protection from private media platforms
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 4, 2021
MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Donald Trump Is Now Privately Confirming His Support of a Summer Coup of the Biden Administration; If the Former President Has Engaged in Even a Single Act to Advance This Treacherous Plot He is Guilty of Seditious Conspiracy and Must Be Arrested Immediately https://t.co/L8sAyH0ozn
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
2/ There are efforts afoot now in GA, AZ, NV, and WI to delegitimize Biden's victories there. Meanwhile, Trump advisors Flynn and Powell are saying that once those victories are delegitimized, the military should move in. If Trump is in on the conversations, it's a coup attempt.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
4/ What Trump is privately doing, according to the NYT, is the *opposite* of what Lyndon Johnson famously did in saying that even if nominated he wouldn't run for president. Trump is telling the coup conspirators that he *will accept a re-installation* if they can make it happen.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
6/ To be clear, I have *consistently* said that I do *not* believe the military would ever participate in a coup. The point of this thread isn't to suggest a coup will happen, but that Donald Trump and his co-conspirators must be investigated for seditious conspiracy immediately.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
8/ We don't have a federal criminal justice system that says a crime is only a crime after it's successful. I suspect that even a child would be able to see why. If that were how the system worked, criminals would *succeed* before we could start trying to undo what they had done.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
10/ Those of us who've practiced criminal law and also written political histories of Donald Trump's career in American politics know that his consistent means of trying to avoid criminal conspiracy charges is to have his discrete acts only be *words*—and words he can/will deny.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
12/ As an attorney, I think law enforcement is likely to see this case incorrectly. A "meeting of the minds" occurred if Trump spoke approvingly with Flynn, Powell and Lindell—or any subset of these—about being reinstalled at the White House. The question is what happened *next*.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
14/ No one plotting to participate in the first attempted U.S. coup since the Civil War is going to accept Powell's word on what Trump is willing to do. Or Lindell's. Or perhaps even Flynn's. People in a position to aid the coup are *going to need to hear from Trump themselves*.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
16/ If you find this confusing, as clearly Haberman does, consider an alternative scenario: Trump learns that his top advisers are planning and advocating for a coup and he immediately goes to his blog and declares that he'll under no circumstances accept the presidency pre-2025.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
18/ Instead, Trump starts making phone calls saying he's game. Trump starts volunteering information in private conversations saying that he's game. Trump makes sure that his co-conspirators are authorized to tell people that he's game.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
Legally, these are "acts" in a conspiracy.
20/ And imagine this happens in the context of an ailing FBI establishment that's become terrified of its own shadow, unable to act against anyone rich, powerful, and/or famous who is in a position to hurt it, sadly willing only to arrest Trumpist *foot soldiers* by the hundreds.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
22/ This is why America is in such danger. This should be *major news* nationwide. The FBI should be launching a seditious conspiracy investigation. There should be agents walking the lawn at Mar-a-Lago right now. Instead, it's just indie journalists on Twitter waving their arms.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
24/ But it's worse than that, as when indie journalists and attorneys wave their arms and say "this is big" and then the NYT ignores it and Congress ignores it and the FBI ignores it people on social media say, "Hmm—I guess those indie journalists and attorneys were wrong, then?"
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(SOURCE) Please understand that the "August re-installation" plot comes from Team Kraken (which includes Powell, Flynn, Lindell, and others). Here's Lindell advocating this *specific plot* more than a month ago: https://t.co/6rV2SwMvzH
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(SOURCE) Here's Lindell, of Team Kraken, saying the same thing in March: https://t.co/wzpxGkXfdD
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(SOURCE) Here's Powell, of Team Kraken, saying the same thing this past weekend: https://t.co/3rYeSbpo0V
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(PS2) Trump *could* come out on his blog and say, "my references to being re-installed in the White House in August related to my anticipated success in future court cases I believe will be heard by SCOTUS, and I will not return to the White House under any other circumstances."
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(PS4) When Team Kraken convenes a conference in its home base—Dallas—to declare to a room of angry insurrectionists that a violent military coup "should" happen, it's crystal clear to FBI agents that Lindell's fake litigation isn't the only thing now afoot. But the FBI won't act.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(PS6) Key to Team Kraken's plot is the idea—per Wood—that Trump signed the Insurrection Act in secret (he didn't) and can trigger it as he likes. Guess what Trump soldiers say is going on, per a new indictment? If Trump says "insurrection," the coup is on. https://t.co/m98HCBVdyc
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(PS8) To my knowledge, the first/only media outlet to report that the Proud Boys—by their own admission—dressed up as antifa on January 6 was PROOF. Their plan (and per Vanity Fair, Trump's) was to call up 10,000 troops on 1/6 if "antifa" violence erupted. https://t.co/bxGaRDmA6h
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(PS10) I thought that, after January 6, we'd be done pussyfooting around Trump's sedition. Apparently we're not. Apparently we're going to watch as the pieces are put in place for another January 6—even as the FBI does no more than arrest foot soldiers and not coup plotters. /end
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
(NOTE) Don't tell me Trump's "plausible deniability" narrative is solid. He has no case before SCOTUS or headed to SCOTUS. He's 0-84 in election cases. There's no evidence of fraud. There's no legal mechanism to undo an election. Only a coup accomplishes what he says will happen.
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 1, 2021
Trump hints at White House run ahead of Saturday rally https://t.co/t3LZNYeI4R via @YahooNews
— Lorenza (@lorenza71319) June 4, 2021
The pleadings of Trump's inner circle to avoid the August coup reinstatement talk is pure black comedy https://t.co/7xkpupMSZX
— Jonathan Chait (@jonathanchait) June 4, 2021
Amazing stuff. Trump apparently spends all day channel surfing, looking for any news on the AZ Audit. At his first rally next week he'll be intro'd as the "real president". https://t.co/IljloPLo5j via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 3, 2021
Trump’s latest conspiracy theory, that he’ll be “reinstated” in August, isn’t delusional. It is working exactly as intended: To rally Republicans to his side and advance his anti-democratic agenda. https://t.co/ZZ3bLrzODk
— Amanda Marcotte (@AmandaMarcotte) June 4, 2021
Donald Trump obviously is not going to be reinstalled as president this summer. But the neo-insurrection is no joke. @jonathanchait writes https://t.co/ocP24jKsOv
— New York Magazine (@NYMag) June 4, 2021
Republican senators now opening referring to Trump's summer coup talk as the “August conspiracy”. https://t.co/iVkD2afJAU
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 4, 2021
I wonder if Mike Pence will be "hanging" around for the Trump reinstatement in August? #TrumpIsNotWell
— Turn Texas Blue (@Blue_Texas2022) June 3, 2021
— Melissa Burton (@Mam4music) June 3, 2021
Maybe he’ll just be a fly on the wall..
— Red Head Democrat- fair warning (@craftbeerlife18) June 4, 2021
In September they'll openly deny ever hearing anything about it.
— EZericZ (@EZericz) June 4, 2021
Trump's claim that he will be "reinstalled" this summer is a repeat of the same playbook that led to January 6. Give your followers false hope in a completely unattainable outcome, so that when it inevitably doesn't happen, you can channel their disappointment into rage
— Asha Rangappa (@AshaRangappa_) June 3, 2021
Michael Flynn is calling for a Myanmar style coup, and Trump thinks he’ll be reinstated as President in August. January 6th is looking more and more like a dry run with each passing day.
— Hamish Mitchell (@H_MitchellPhoto) June 1, 2021
One of the reasons you don't make elected officials immune from prosecution is that crooks will run for office in order to get immunity
— XLProfessor (@XLProfessor) June 4, 2021
Happens all the time in the corrupt governing systems Trump loveshttps://t.co/T890hm7jQ6 pic.twitter.com/kJgbSCtSH6
Or Twitter . . .
Or Instagram . . .
Or Snapchat . . .
Or Twitch . . .
Or Shopify
BREAKING: Facebook suspends Donald Trump for 2 yearshttps://t.co/gaX6c6b7uH
— TNGbreaking (@tngbreaking) June 4, 2021
Facebook has done more to hold Donald Trump accountable than congressional Republican.
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) June 4, 2021
In Opinion
— The New York Times (@nytimes) June 4, 2021
“Two Democratic senators, Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin, could save us by joining their colleagues in breaking the filibuster and passing new voting rights legislation,” writes Michelle Goldberg. “But they prefer not to.”https://t.co/rGWIOYhhVk
Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema apparently yearn to be remembered as the Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms of their generation. That's quite an ambition.
— digby (@digby56) June 4, 2021
ABC News: One of the most senior officials who helped manage finances at the Trump Org has testified to the special grand jury in New York, a signal of the seriousness and depth of the investigation into Donald Trump’s finances. https://t.co/pQvQhqdeay
— Robert J. DeNault (@robertjdenault) June 4, 2021
Hey, funny side note, Trump and Gaetz *share an attorney* and I'm sure that's totally a coincidence, not an opportunity for Trump to get a window into the proceedings of the House Judiciary Committee as he's under criminal investigation in multiple state and federal jurisdictions
— Seth Abramson (@SethAbramson) June 4, 2021
Congressman Matt Gaetz is facing a new problem—federal prosecutors are examining whether he obstructed justice during a phone call with a witness in the sex crimes investigation.https://t.co/Hko8ShsBj1
— All In with Chris Hayes (@allinwithchris) June 4, 2021
More on this story from the AP here: https://t.co/Q7X8rcepZZ
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) June 3, 2021
This issue gets collapsed into “voting rights,” but there are two tracks here. One is how you vote, the other is whether partisan officials can straight-up overturn the results after the fact as Trump demanded. https://t.co/EVvT3udhlC
PA state senator praises gonzo AZ "audit" in love meet up with Bannon https://t.co/pjWPsVl6pV via @TPM
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) June 3, 2021
Roger Stone said today that Steve Bannon blackmailed Trump into giving him a pardon, because he wouldn’t have done it otherwise after Bannon said Trump had Alzheimer’s, said he wasn’t a billionaire, and called him a scumbag. pic.twitter.com/ZMls1NIKxJ
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 3, 2021
Remember how Trump spent the final weeks of his campaign appealing to the "Suburban Housewives of America" by saying Biden would "destroy the suburbs"?
— Justin Baragona (@justinbaragona) June 4, 2021
Well, looks like Republicans and conservative media are going back to that well again. pic.twitter.com/M4HqbnjwGB
*Greenwood District, Tulsa enters chatroom* https://t.co/JGWSH4qXot
— Devin Nunes' Alt-Mom (@NunesAlt) June 4, 2021
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