A former aide to one of the 'Stop the Steal' organizers claims that the events of January 6 were far from spontaneous, and that Trump’s people wanted the mob to march to the Capitol.
A former aide to one of the groups that helped organize the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place outside of the White House on January 6, 2021, says that aides to the former president wanted to use the rally to encourage Trump loyalists to march to the Capitol building.
Several individuals who have served as aides to former President Donald Trump — including his last chief of staff, Mark Meadows — have disputed claims that they wanted to use the rally to push Trump loyalists toward the Capitol to protest lawmakers inside Congress. In a book that Meadows, he claimed that the violence that day could be attributed to “the actions of a handful of fanatics across town.
Those conversations took place on burner phones — cellular devices that can easily be purchased and disposed of, making them difficult to trace later on — which Johnston said he helped purchase. Johnston was privy to those calls because they happened on speakerphone, he said, as he was driving Kremer to events in the last week of December 2020.
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