The text messages analyzed by authorities also reveal the key role of the Trump campaign’s main fundraisers in planning the rally that preceded the siege of the Capitol.
A small group of influential Trumpists, including the founder of the libertarian media Infowars, Alex Jones, contributed to the funding of the roughly half a million dollars the event cost the White House that led to the violent takeover of the Capitol on January 6, the newspaper reports today The Wall Street Journal.
According to testimonials collected by the newspaper, controversial Alex Jones, who was present during the marches that day, pledged more than $ 50,000 to the event, in which then-President Donald Trump harassed a mass of supporters and asked them to be heard on Capitol Hill, where Joe Biden’s election victory was formalized.
Jones’s payout, which has been suspended from the main social networks, guaranteed him the choice of a participant of his liking during the event.
Additionally, Infowars founder Julie Jenkins Fancelli, an influential Trump donor who donated nearly $ 1 million to his campaign in 2020, got to contribute approximately $ 300,000.
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Ali Alexander, promoter of the “Stop the Steal” movement, who argued without basis that the election had been a fraud to give Biden victory, with the help of organizer Caroline Wren, facilitated more money for the event that thousands of Trumpistas, some of which are openly in favor of killing lawmakers.
Alexander even tweeted an image assuring, “DC will become Fort Trump from tomorrow on my orders,” something that could serve as incriminating evidence in the investigation of those responsible for the attack on the Capitol, which resulted in four protesters and an agent. killed that day.
Although the event organized on January 6 was approved and legal, it served as the starting point for the attack on legislative headquarters and the organizers could be charged with instigating the uprising.
Propublica also found that Trump campaign fundraisers played an important role in organizing the event.
Text messages and an event planning memo obtained by ProPublica, along with an interview with Cindy Chafian (a conservative actvista), indicate that Caroline Wren, a Washington insider with a low public profile (and Trump’s VIP advisor), was instrumental in managing the event’s operations. Records show that Wren oversaw logistics, budget, funding and reporting for the Jan. 6 meeting with President Donald Trump, “the independent news agency said.
Following the violent attack, which forced the temporary suspension of certification of Biden’s election victory, federal authorities launched an operation to arrest some of the hundreds who took part in the attack.
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