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‘They made us all look like s**t’ say ‘abandoned’ Jan 6 rally organizers who claim they were offered blanket pardons, met with senior White House staff including Mark Meadows and GOP House members during planning – 7 GOP Reps named

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Explosive allegations made by two people currently cooperating with the bipartisan House select committee investigating the Capitol riot&comma; uncover more alleged participants in the planning<&sol;strong> <&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Trump supporting&comma; Jan&period; 6 MAGA Capitol rally organizers claim they were offered blanket pardons and met with senior White House staff including Mark Meadows and <strong><strong>House Freedom Caucus chair Rep&period; Andy Biggs&comma; &lbrack;R-Ariz<&sol;strong>&period;&rsqb;<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>GOP House member who met with the organizers at planning stages include <strong>Reps&period; Paul Gosar&comma; &lbrack;R-Ariz<&sol;strong>&period;&rsqb;&comma;<strong> and Marjorie Taylor Greene&comma; &lbrack;R-Ga&period;&rsqb;&comma; according to the bombshell report<&sol;strong> <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Other lawmakers who participated in discussions include Lauren Boebert&comma; &lbrack;R-Colo&period;&rsqb;&comma; Mo Brooks&comma; &lbrack;R-Ala&period;&rsqb;&comma; Madison Cawthorn&comma; &lbrack;R-N&period;C&period;&rsqb;&comma; and Louie Gohmert&comma; &lbrack;R-TX&rsqb;&comma; report states <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Reps&period; Greene&comma; Boebert and Cawthorn were all newly-elected members&comma; sworn in only a few days before the events of Jan&period; 6<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically&comma;” one organizer said <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Rep&period; Paul Gosar&comma; organizers claim&comma; dangled an unrelated pardon over their heads to encourage them to plan their rallies <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>Trump 2016 and 2020 campaign staffer Katrina Pierson was their &&num;8216&semi;go-to girl&&num;8217&semi; for White House communications&comma;<strong> organizers said<&sol;strong><&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong><strong>Witnesses implied that it was pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander&&num;8217&semi;s rally at the Capitol that led to the violent insurrection<&sol;strong> at a time Congress was in session <&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<h2 class&equals;"has-text-color has-normal-font-size wp-block-heading" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;423a3a"><strong>The two witnesses say they still support Trump but feel &&num;8216&semi;abandoned&&num;8217&semi; by him<&sol;strong><&sol;h2>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Jan-6-Capitol-MAGA-riots-2-1024x680&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393417"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Trump supporter storm the US Capitol on Jan 6&comma; 2020 as Congress was about to confirm the results of the presidential elections&period; Bombshell report details allegations made by two of the rally organizers who are working with the House committee investigating the riot&comma; incriminating Trump admin officials and some GOP House members<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Two of Donald Trump&&num;8217&semi;s supporters who had a hand in organizing rallies in Washington&comma; DC on the day of the Capitol riot claim they had help from several House Republicans and other members in the former president&&num;8217&semi;s orbit&comma; a bombshell new report claimed on Sunday&period; <br>They&&num;8217&semi;re two of the people who are currently communicating with investigators on the House January 6 committee&comma; providing them with potentially groundbreaking new information&comma; <a rel&equals;"noreferrer noopener" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;rollingstone&period;com&sol;politics&sol;politics-news&sol;exclusive-jan-6-organizers-met-congress-white-house-1245289&sol;" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Rolling Stone<&sol;a> reported&period; <br>Speaking on the condition of anonymity&comma; the two rally planners told the outlet that they had regular to frequent communication with White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and Trump campaign aide Katrina Pierson&period;<br>The pair also detailed damning allegations that one lawmaker&comma; Rep&period; Paul Gosar of Arizona&comma; dangled the possibility of a pardon in front of their faces for an unrelated probe in a bid to force them into planning rallies&period;  <br>The two House witnesses also claim to have took part in &&num;8216&semi;dozens&&num;8217&semi; of briefings with members of Congress and their staff leading up to January 6 riot&period;  <br>&&num;8216&semi;I remember talking to probably close to a dozen other members at one point or another or their staffs&comma;&&num;8217&semi; one person said&comma; adding that pro-Trump freshman Republican Rep&period; Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia played a key role&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I remember Marjorie Taylor Greene specifically&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Andy-Gibbs-left-and-Mo-Brooks-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393424"&sol;><figcaption> <strong>House Freedom Caucus chair Rep&period; Andy Biggs&comma; R-Ariz&period;<&sol;strong> <strong> &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma;and Mo Brooks&comma; R-Ala&period; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; are among the House mambers specifically named by the organizers<&sol;strong> <&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Jan-6-Capitol-MAGA-riots-3-1024x538&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393418" width&equals;"840" height&equals;"441"&sol;><figcaption><strong>The new report details allegations that there was &&num;8216&semi;inside help&&num;8217&semi;&comma; made by two January 6 Trump rally organizers&period; The whistleblowers are working with the House committee investigating the riot that shook the nation<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Also named in the report were Reps&period; Lauren Boebert of Colorado&comma; Mo Brooks of Alabama&comma; Madison Cawthorn of North Carolina&comma; Andy Biggs of Arizona and Louie Gohmert of Texas&period; <br>The sources claimed those representatives or their staffers were in contact with activists planning pro-Trump demonstrations across the country in the weeks before the riot&period; <br>One of them recalled speaking with Boebert&comma; Cawthorn and Gosar&&num;8217&semi;s staffs &&num;8216&semi;back to back to back&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <br>But it was only Gosar who they claim tried to strongarm them into planning pro-Trump events&comma; by offering to intervene in a separate law enforcement investigation &&num;8211&semi; but the bargain never materialized&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-large"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-left-Lauren-Boebert-and-Paul-Gosar-right-1-1024x645&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393403"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Rep&period; Marjorie Taylor Greene&comma; R-Ga&period;&comma; &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; Lauren Boebert&comma; R-Colo&period;&comma; and Paul Gosar R-Ariz&period; &lbrack;right&rsqb; were among the GOP Reps named in the House Committee report&period; Some of the most damning claims involve Rep&period; Paul Gosar&comma; who the organizers claim dangled an unrelated pardon over their heads to encourage them to plan their rallies<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Gosar has been one of Trump&&num;8217&semi;s most vocal supporters in Congress&period; He was billed at a speaker for another January 6 rally&comma; the Wild Protest&comma; whose organizer Ali Alexander named as one of three lawmakers who helped him plan how to &&num;8216&semi;put maximum pressure on Congress while they were voting&&num;8217&semi; to certify the election results&period; <br>The other two were Biggs and Brooks&period;  <br>One of the organizers said Gosar made it seem like &&num;8216&semi;he&&num;8217&semi;d spoken to the president about it in the Oval… in a meeting about pardons and that our names came up&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>They added&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Our impression was that it was a done deal&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>The House Freedom Caucus is chaired by Biggs&comma; one of the lawmakers accused in the report&period; <br>But the pair said Gosar offered a &&num;8216&semi;blanket pardon&&num;8217&semi; on multiple occasions&period; <br>Once&comma; they claim he said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I was just going over the list of pardons and we just wanted to tell you guys how much we appreciate all the hard work you’ve been doing&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <br>The organizers expressed disappointment that the dentist-turned-lawmaker never followed up on his promise&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I would have done it either way with or without the pardon&comma;&&num;8217&semi; one person said&period; &&num;8216&semi;I do truly believe in this country&comma; but to use something like that and put that out on the table when someone is so desperate&comma; it’s really not good business&period;&&num;8217&semi; In Sunday&&num;8217&semi;s report Rolling Stone noted that it &&num;8216&semi;obtained documentary evidence&&num;8217&semi; to support claims that Gosar and Boebert were in contact with them&period; <br>An earlier report from April claimed that Gosar had asked Trump for a pre-emptive pardon over the events of January 6&comma; 2020&period;  <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Louie-Gohmert-left-and-Madison-Cawthorn-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393427"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Other House Freedom Caucus members mentioned in the House Committee report include Louie Gohmert&comma; R-Texas<&sol;strong> <strong>&lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and GOP freshman Rep&period; Madison Cawthorn &lbrack;right&rsqb;<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">Gosar&&num;8217&semi;s chief of staff Thomas Van Flein was one of those subpoenaed by the House for documents and communications on the riot&period; The two sources claim Val Flein was &&num;8216&semi;personally involved&&num;8217&semi; in the pardon conversation and promoted baseless election fraud theories&period; <br>The two Trump rally organizers say Mark Meadows&comma; who was also subpoenaed by the House&comma; could have prevented the violence that broke out that day&period;  <br>&&num;8216&semi;Meadows was 100 percent made aware of what was going on&comma;&&num;8217&semi; one witness said&period; &&num;8216&semi;He’s also like a regular figure in these really tiny groups of national organizers&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <br>He&&num;8217&semi;s one of four people &&num;8216&semi;with close ties to the former president&&num;8217&semi; who the bipartisan House panel is interested in hearing from&comma; in addition to Steve Bannon&comma; former White House aide Dan Scavino and former Pentagon official Kash Patel&period; Both people said they raised concerns to Meadows over Ali Alexander&&num;8217&semi;s planned Wild Protest at the Capitol&comma; which they worried had the potential to result in violence&period;  <br>They claim Alexander &&num;8216&semi;plowed forward&&num;8217&semi; with his event despite &&num;8216&semi;making a deal&&num;8217&semi; not to&period;<br>&&num;8216&semi;We ended up escalating that to everybody we could&comma; including Meadows&comma;&&num;8217&semi; one person said&period; <br>The report details allegations from a &&num;8216&semi;separate third source&&num;8217&semi; working with the House committee who said Trump rally organizer Kylie Kremer &&num;8216&semi;boasted that she was going to meet with Meadows at the White House ahead of the rally&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>The witnesses allege that Katrina Pierson&comma; who worked for Trump&&num;8217&semi;s 2016 and 2020 campaigns and also spoke at the January 6 rally&comma; was a &&num;8216&semi;primary&&num;8217&semi; contact for them who also had the president&&num;8217&semi;s ear&period; <br>They described Pierson as &&num;8216&semi;our go-to girl&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Mark-Meadows-left-and-Katrina-Pierson-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393395" width&equals;"836" height&equals;"562"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows &lbrack;left&rsqb;&comma; and former Trump campaign aide Katrina Pierson &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; were also named as having communicated with rally organizers<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">&&num;8216&semi;She was like our primary advocate&comma;&&num;8217&semi; they said&period;  <br>But the most extensive allegations in the report detail the alleged extent to which members of Congress communicated with pro-Trump activists ahead of the insurrection&period; <br>Between the election and the certification&comma; the two planners claim members of Congress and their staff gave advice on which rallies to hold states in in order to put &&num;8216&semi;pressure&&num;8217&semi; on potentially &&num;8216&semi;persuadable&&num;8217&semi; senators&period;  <br>However&comma; despite the chaotic way the day unfolded&comma; the organizers maintain that &&num;8216&semi;the Capitol was never in place&&num;8217&semi; and that the demonstrations were solely aimed at being outside the White House&period;  <br>They said it was planned in a &&num;8216&semi;variety of calls&&num;8217&semi; between them and Gosar&comma; Greene and Brooks&period; <br>The Wild Protest&comma; whose event website lists Gosar as a speaker along with Greene&comma; Boebert and Trump ally Roger Stone&comma; was scheduled to take place on the Capitol lawn&period; <br>Greene&&num;8217&semi;s office told Rolling Stone&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Congresswoman Greene and her staff were focused on the Congressional election objection on the House floor and had nothing to do with planning of any protest&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2021&sol;10&sol;Donald-Trump-left-and-Ali-Alexander-right-1&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-393400" width&equals;"839" height&equals;"694"&sol;><figcaption><strong>Witnesses implied that it was pro-Trump activist Ali Alexander&&num;8217&semi;s&comma; &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; rally at the Capitol that led to the violent insurrection<&sol;strong><&sol;figcaption><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"wp-block-paragraph">One of the organizers who spoke with the outlet said he wants to go public with their allegations&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I have no problem openly testifying&comma;&&num;8217&semi; they said&period; <br>The other person said they want the House committee to &&num;8216&semi;uncover the truth about what happened at the Capitol that day&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s clear that a lot of bad actors set out to cause chaos&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the person complained&period; &&num;8216&semi;They made us all look like s&ast;&ast;t&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>They claim that on January 6&comma; once Trump asked his supports to march on the Capitol&comma; their reaction was one of &&num;8216&semi;let&&num;8217&semi;s get the f&ast;&ast;k out of here&period;&&num;8217&semi;  <br>That day&comma; the ex-president encouraged his supporters to &&num;8216&semi;fight like hell&&num;8217&semi; and at one point said&comma; &&num;8216&semi;I know that everyone here will soon be marching over to the Capitol building to peacefully and patriotically make your voices heard&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>The witnesses both maintain they still support Trump but feel betrayed by him&period; <br>They accused Democrats of using &&num;8216&semi;tactics to disrupt their political opposition in ways that frankly were completely unacceptable&&num;8217&semi; including social media censorship and changes to voting requirements in light of the COVID pandemic&period; Of the ex-president&comma; they said&colon; &&num;8216&semi;I do feel kind of abandoned by Trump&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;I&&num;8217&semi;m actually pretty pissed about it and I&&num;8217&semi;m pissed at him&comma;&&num;8217&semi; the person said&period;  <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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