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REPORT: Trump Campaign Alums Planned the ‘Save America’ Rally That Led to Riot

One of the things that investigators will evaluate closely in assessing possible criminal prosecutions against those aligned with Trump will be the money that went into setting up the rally, the planning, who rented what, who reserved what, and who handled other details. Obviously, this isn’t genius insight, but it will be where the investigation starts. Once agents establish those relatively easy questions, they will start rolling up on the next level until they’re satisfied they have the primary decision-makers and the decision they intended.

Did they intend to ignite a rally that would threaten the government? We will find out. According to an investigation by AP News, and the investigation already seems focused on campaign officials:

Members of President Donald Trump’s failed presidential campaign played key roles in orchestrating the Washington rally that spawned a deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to an Associated Press review of records, undercutting claims the event was the brainchild of the president’s grassroots supporters.

A pro-Trump nonprofit group called Women for America First hosted the “Save America Rally” on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse, an oval-shaped, federally owned patch of land near the White House. But an attachment to the National Park Service public gathering permit granted to the group lists more than half a dozen people in staff positions for the event who just weeks earlier had been paid thousands of dollars by Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign. Other staff scheduled to be “on site” during the demonstration have close ties to the White House.

Okay, well, that makes a lot of sense. The “campaign” never ended. We saw interviews on Fox as late as January that listed the person interviewed as a member of the “Trump campaign.” So it is hard to imagine the final rally organized without the “Trump campaign” involved.

It would seem like many of these organizers regret their role. Perhaps they didn’t understand the danger (Perhaps?). They certainly did after the fact. It looks like they attempted to disappear themselves in cyberspace.

The AP’s review found at least three of the Trump campaign aides named on the permit rushed to obscure their connections to the demonstration. They deactivated or locked down their social media profiles and removed tweets that referenced the rally. Two blocked a reporter who asked questions.

Yes, that will happen when one realizes that they’re associated with one of the most awful insurrections in American history, one that may be charged as sedition.

They can erase their digital footprint as it stands now. They cannot hide from the FBI and other intelligence assets who can interview whoever they want. Additionally, the NSA and NRO have computers with pretty good memories.

None of this is surprising.

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Jason
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Jason Miciak is a political writer, features writer, author, and attorney. He is originally from Canada but grew up in the Pacific Northwest. He now enjoys life as a single dad raising a ridiculously-loved young girl on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. He is very much the dreamy mystic, a day without learning is a day not lived. He is passionate about his flower pots and studies philosophical science, religion, and non-mathematical principles of theoretical physics. Dogs, pizza, and love are proof that God exists. "Above all else, love one another."

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