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highplainsdem

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Sat Jan 30, 2021, 12:15 PM Jan 2021

ProPublica: Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser's Key Role Planning the Jan. 6 Rally

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-campaign-fundraiser-ellipse-rally


In the week leading up to the Jan. 6 rally in Washington, D.C., that exploded into an attack on the Capitol, a top Trump campaign fundraiser issued a directive to a woman who had been overseeing planning for the event.

“Get the budget and vendors breakdown to me and Justin,” Caroline Wren wrote to Cindy Chafian, a self-described “constitutional conservative,” in a Dec. 28 text message obtained by ProPublica.

Wren was no ordinary event planner. She served as a deputy to Donald Trump Jr.’s girlfriend, Kimberly Guilfoyle, at Trump Victory, a joint presidential fundraising committee during the 2020 campaign. The Justin mentioned in her text was Justin Caporale, a former top aide to first lady Melania Trump, whose production company helped put on the event at the Ellipse.

Text messages and an event-planning memo obtained by ProPublica, along with an interview with Chafian, indicate that Wren, a Washington insider with a low public profile, show the extensive role Wren played in managing operations for the event. The records show that Wren oversaw logistics, budgeting, funding and messaging for the Jan. 6 rally that featured President Donald Trump.

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A guidance memo provided to VIP attendees of the Jan. 6 rally further establishes Wren’s centrality to the event. She is listed, along with three other people, as one of the primary points of contact for the demonstration. The Kremers, whose nonprofit was attached to the event, are not mentioned at all.

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The Kremers run Women for America First, the group that got the permit for the rally.
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ProPublica: Text Messages Show Top Trump Campaign Fundraiser's Key Role Planning the Jan. 6 Rally (Original Post) highplainsdem Jan 2021 OP
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2. The evidence is growing that T---- tried to overthrow the U.S. government
Sat Jan 30, 2021, 05:19 PM
Jan 2021
The White House was in contact with insurrectionists before the rally, and the T---- campaign organized the event that brought the insurrectionists to the Capitol. If this were any other American, they would have been indicted on criminal charges for an attack against the United States of America. - PoliticusUSA


Then indict them immediately! Justice is moving too slowly. But no matter, so long as the punishments are harsh and focus the most punishments to those at the top.
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