Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff

[George K]

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289/

As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communicating with congressional investigators and sharing new information about what happened when the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Two of these people have spoken to Rolling Stone extensively in recent weeks and detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.

Rolling Stone separately confirmed a third person involved in the main Jan. 6 rally in D.C. has communicated with the committee. This is the first report that the committee is hearing major new allegations from potential cooperating witnesses. While there have been prior indications that members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an opportunity to prevent the violence.

The two sources, both of whom have been granted anonymity due to the ongoing investigation, describe participating in “dozens” of planning briefings ahead of that day when Trump supporters broke into the Capitol as his election loss to President Joe Biden was being certified.

“I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically,” the organizer says. “I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs.”

For the sake of clarity, we will refer to one of the sources as a rally organizer and the other as a planner. Rolling Stone has confirmed that both sources were involved in organizing the main event aimed at objecting to the electoral certification, which took place at the White House Ellipse on Jan. 6. Trump spoke at that rally and encouraged his supporters to march to the Capitol. Some members of the audience at the Ellipse began walking the mile and a half to the Capitol as Trump gave his speech. The barricades were stormed minutes before the former president concluded his remarks.

These two sources also helped plan a series of demonstrations that took place in multiple states around the country in the weeks between the election and the storming of the Capitol. According to these sources, multiple people associated with the March for Trump and Stop the Steal events that took place during this period communicated with members of Congress throughout this process.

Along with Greene, the conspiratorial pro-Trump Republican from Georgia who took office earlier this year, the pair both say the members who participated in these conversations or had top staffers join in included Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.), Rep. Mo Brooks (R-Ala.), Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-N.C.), Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.), and Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas).

[Doctor Phibes]

It's sure nice to see these devoted public servants helping the mentally disadvantaged plan their tourism trips like this.

[Jolly]

Did the organizers meet with members of Congress?

Don't doubt it a bit.

Did the congress critters tell them to break into the Capitol?

Nope.

If you can't sell the steak, sell the sizzle.

[Copper]

So it was planned by White House Staff meeting with the FBI?

Who came up with the idea of having a handful of doofusses take selfies?

[LuFins Dad]

And they went to a party at UVA afterward and raped a coed named Jackie Coakly.

[jon-nyc]

I wonder if the magat bitch taking a cap in her face was part of the plan or a last minute improvisation.

[Horace]

That’s what “emoting” looks like.

[Renauda]

I suspect Rolling Stone is the victim of provocation with this yarn. The outlet should really stay on task and focus its attentions on pop and rock and roll gossip.

[LuFins Dad]

@renauda said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

I suspect Rolling Stone is the victim of provocation with this yarn. The outlet should really stay on task and focus its attentions on pop and rock and roll gossip.

Agreed. That's basically what I was trying to say above. Rolling Stone really needs to go back to celebrity gossip...

[Jolly]

@horace said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

That’s what classless “emoting” looks like.

FIFY.

[Improviso]

@jon-nyc said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

I wonder if the magat bitch taking a cap in her face was part of the plan or a last minute improvisation.

Damn... that's cold.

[Jolly]

He hates hard.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

He hates hard.

She was a mostly innocent victim of Trump's pathetic attempt to avoid admitting he was beaten. A completely avoidable tragedy if that grotesque knobhead could have just accepted the inevitable and acted with even a modicum of dignity.

Yeah, yeah, TDS, TDS. Sure, say I'm deranged if it makes you feel better, but I wasn't the one trying to break down barriers in the Capitol building in the name of "freedom".

[Jolly]

None of that addresses a burning hate, worthy of a SS-Oberführer, eyeing the next crammed cattle car full of Jews.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

None of that addresses a burning hate, worthy of a SS-Oberführer, eyeing the next crammed cattle car full of Jews.

TBH, he sounds a bit like some of you when you talk about liberals.

[Jolly]

Bullshit.

And you know it.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

Bullshit.

And you know it.

No, I really don't. You're entitled to your opinion, just as I am.

[Jolly]

Here's an informed opinion for you...What Byrd did was stupid. STUPID. Scared witless, he shot an unarmed protester with other law enforcement personnel in close proximity. He could have easily killed another officer with a pass-through or a miss. That is reckless and dangerous behavior. In most instances, he would have faced disciplinary action.

And here's just an opinion...

The guy is not a hero for killing a woman on the other side of a wall. Her name is Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, and not just some Magat bitch.

[Aqua Letifer]

@jolly said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

The guy is not a hero for killing a woman on the other side of a wall. Her name is Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, and not just some Magat bitch.

That makes her, what, a patriot?

[Jolly]

@aqua-letifer said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

@jolly said in Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff:

The guy is not a hero for killing a woman on the other side of a wall. Her name is Ashli Babbitt, an Air Force veteran, and not just some Magat bitch.

That makes her, what, a patriot?

She thought she was. Erroneously, but in her mind not trying to tear the country down, but trying to save the rule of law and the Constitution.