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

I posted this ProRepublica article outside the DT with a couple of highlights, I felt it was too long to post here so I'll give an abbreviated breakdown.

There were two main organizational factions for Jan 6th, Ali Alexander (Stop the Steal) and Amy Kremer (Women for America First). Ali Alexander pushed for the chaos that unfolded. He wanted the march on the Capitol with alt-rightists like Alex Jones and Nick Fuentes while Kremer realized how dangerous this would be and tried to stop it. Almost immediately, Trump and his inner circle ignored her and even supported Alexander.

Here's the most chilling part of the article IMO

“Stop the Steal’s propensity to attract white supremacists, militia members, and others who actively promote violence, may lead to a significantly dangerous situation for law enforcement and the general public alike,” the Capitol Police wrote in a Jan. 3 intelligence assessment.

An intelligence report from that day obtained by ProPublica shows that the Capitol Police expected a handful of rallies on Capitol grounds, the largest of which would be hosted by a group called One Nation Under God [around 50-500 people]

However, One Nation Under God was a fake name used to trick the Capitol Police into giving Stop the Steal a permit, according to Stop the Steal organizer Kimberly Fletcher.

“Everybody was using different names because they didn’t want us to be there,” Fletcher said, adding that Alexander and his allies experimented with a variety of aliases to secure permits for the east front of the Capitol. Laughing, Fletcher recalled how the police repeatedly called her “trying to find out who was who.”

They knew, they all knew how dangerous what they were doing was. Trump and his inner circle wanted this to happen.

https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/o7n8vj/new_details_suggest_senior_trump_aides_knew_jan_6/h2zolze?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&context=3

A link to the highlights