committee is focused in on. one year ago today then president trump tweeted this. see you in washington d.c. on january 6th. don t miss it. information to follow. a few days before he tweeted statistically impossible to have lost the 2020 election big protests in d.c. on january 6th. be there. will be wild. and then this video just released from the insurrection from the justice department shows what that turned into. will those tweets not age very well and come back to haunt trump? you know, it certainly seems like they will. it s becoming harder and harder to see those tweets and to think of them as something that was completely random, unconnected to anything else, sprung from the mind of the former president without any sort of influence. when you look at the tweets and understand his very close associates like taylor others were spending hundreds of thousands of dollars at the same time to send the same message
it really gets you right to the source of people making decisions. it s always been odd to me and i m sure you, too, andrew. this assumption, this being a spontaneous event, right? it clearly was prbankrolled and coordination and a lot of people getting together with a former funding and organization. they re trying to get to the heart of that, right? that s absolutely right. i think taylor is a perfect example of that because the committee already knows that he funneled several hundred thousand dollars to different organizations for the purpose of essentially marketing the events, marketing the rally like getting the word out that people should come to the rally and be prepared to participate in these activities so that s not something that happens spontaneously. it s not you don t come up with several hundred thousand dollars to market an event. that comes from predetermined decisions being made how you re going to generate attention to
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