Trump timeline (nonfiction)
Trump timeline.
January 6, 2021
It's clear that Trump's calls to march to the Capitol were not spontaneous & that he knew his supporters were armed.
Of interest has been this text message between Kylie Kremer (nonfiction), one of the organizers for the Save America rally & Mike Lindell, the My Pillow CEO who was participating in strategy sessions with Trump.
Here, Kremer seems to suggest that Trump will call for a march to the Capitol
It's worth a refresher on who Kremer is. She's the daughter of Amy Kremer who is credited with founding the Tea Party movement decades ago.
Together the mother daughter duo founded a dark money group that funded the January 6th rally.
It's unclear how Kremer knew Trump's intentions days before the rally. And untangling that thread will likely be the subject of future hearings.
But it's important we put into context what it means that Trump's call to action was not spontaneous.
A draft tweet the January 6th commission obtained indicates Trump had been considering a march to the Capitol, but WH lawyer Cipollone advised against it, saying Trump might be inciting violence if he took the stage and ordered the crowd to march.
Because the tweet was never sent, it might appear that Trump took the advice of WH counsel.
But the text between Kremer and Lindell suggests otherwise. Trump was proceeding with the plan, but keeping his intentions quiet.
Further evidence Trump knew exactly what he was doing lies in the changes he made to his speech the night before the rally, inserting incendiary language that specifically targeted Mike Pence and removing language calling for "peaceful" protest.
There's also an email from Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign spokesperson, where she specifically refers to Trump's plans.
"POTUS expectations are to have something intimate at the ellipse, and call on everyone to march to the [C]apitol,"
Coupled with explosive testimony from Hutchinson that Trump was aware his supporters were armed and advocated for them to bypass security screening to join him near the stage, it's increasingly clear Trump intended to incite violence.
That matters.
There's an argument Trump is responsible for inciting the violence that lead to the deaths that day.
And that his role rises to the charge of manslaughter. It's an accusation the January 6th committee will likely bring into focus in the coming weeks.
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