ProPublica: New Details Suggest Senior Trump Aides Knew Jan. 6 Rally Could Get Chaotic

[kpete]

Text messages and interviews show that Stop the Steal leaders fooled the Capitol police and welcomed racists to increase their crowd sizes, while White House officials worked to both contain and appease them.

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ProPublica has obtained new details about the Trump White House’s knowledge of the gathering storm, after interviewing more than 50 people involved in the events of Jan. 6 and reviewing months of private correspondence. Taken together, these accounts suggest that senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials.

Rather than trying to halt the march, Trump and his allies accommodated its leaders, according to text messages and interviews with Republican operatives and officials.

Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign official assigned by the White House to take charge of the rally planning, helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5. That event ended up including incendiary speeches from Jones and Ali Alexander, the leader of Stop the Steal, who fired up his followers with a chant of “Victory or death!”

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ProPublica has learned that White House officials worked behind the scenes to prevent the leaders of the march from appearing on stage and embarrassing the president. But Trump then undid those efforts with his speech, urging the crowd to join the march on the Capitol organized by the very people who had been blocked from speaking.


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https://www.propublica.org/article/new-details-suggest-senior-trump-aides-knew-jan-6-rally-could-get-chaotic

[tanyev]

1. Of course they did. LOTUS, Dec. 19: "Be there. Will be wild!"

[Corgigal]

2. Chaotic,

my ass, They knew he wanted violence, but worried over their careers to do the right thing. I hope they are unemployed for a long time.

[lagomorph777]

4. I hope they find steady employment

in the prison laundry.

[Duppers]

8. And "rally" "my ass"!

It was a RIOT!

Why do so many progressives soft peddle their subversion of democracy?!

[Firestorm49]

3. I am aghast! What a surprise! My day is ruined.

[Wounded Bear]

5. Who could have predicted?

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[triron]

6. So I wonder about that Jan 5 (planning?) meeting that involved Trump's inner circle

Was there anything regarding that or hinting it happened?

[dalton99a]

7. Trump had no idea

Donald J. Trump
@realdonaldtrump
Wow! Thousands of people forming in Washington (D.C.) for Stop the Steal. Didn’t know about this, but I’ll be seeing them! #MAGA
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