EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say................

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EXCLUSIVE: Jan. 6 Protest Organizers Say They Participated in ‘Dozens’ of Planning Meetings With Members of Congress and White House Staff

Hunter Walker

17-21 minutes

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As the House investigation into the Jan. 6 attack heats up, some of the planners of the pro-Trump rallies that took place in Washington, D.C., have begun communicating with congressional investigators and sharing new information about what happened when the former president’s supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol. Two of these people have spoken to Rolling Stone extensively in recent weeks and detailed explosive allegations that multiple members of Congress were intimately involved in planning both Trump’s efforts to overturn his election loss and the Jan. 6 events that turned violent.

Rolling Stone separately confirmed a third person involved in the main Jan. 6 rally in D.C. has communicated with the committee. This is the first report that the committee is hearing major new allegations from potential cooperating witnesses. While there have been prior indications that members of Congress were involved, this is also the first account detailing their purported role and its scope. The two sources also claim they interacted with members of Trump’s team, including former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, who they describe as having had an opportunity to prevent the violence.

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Paul Gosar assured Jan. 6 protest organizers they would get a 'blanket pardon' while they were planning rallies: report

Matthew Loh

4 minutes

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Representative Paul Gosar (R-AZ) speaks at a news conference on January 7, 2016. Photo by Paul Morigi/WireImage

 

• Rep. Paul Gosar offered protest organizers a "blanket pardon" to motivate them to plan rallies on Jan. 6, reported Rolling Stone.

• Gosar told the organizers he had spoken with former President Donald Trump about the pardons, which were never realized.

• The GOP congressman has defended US Capitol rioters before, saying they were "peaceful protestors."

GOP congressman Paul Gosar encouraged pro-Trump rally organizers to plan protests in Washington DC on January 6 by telling them they would get a "blanket pardon" for another, unrelated investigation, according to two of the protest's planners.

Gosar had repeatedly assured them of the pardons, to the point where they believed it was a "done deal," they told Rolling Stone in an exclusive released Sunday. Both organizers have been speaking with the congressional committee investigating the US Capitol riots, per Rolling Stone, and were kept anonymous. It is unclear what the original unrelated investigation mentioned by the pair was.

In the interview, one organizer said they were given the impression that Gosar spoke to former President Donald Trump about the pardons and that they had been mentioned by name.

"They were working on submitting the paperwork and getting members of the House Freedom Caucus to sign on as a show of support," the organizer told Rolling Stone.

The two anonymous sources said Gosar told them: "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," according to the outlet.

To their dismay, the offer was never fulfilled, but they added that the pardons alone were not the sole impetus for their plans on January 6.

"I would have done it either way with or without the pardon," the organizer told Rolling Stone.

"I do truly believe in this country, but to use something like that and put that out on the table when someone is so desperate, it's really not good business," the organizer continued.

They told Rolling Stone that they were unsettled by how the pro-Trump rallies on January 6 eventually turned into the violent attack on the US Capitol, prompting them to cooperate with investigations.

Meanwhile, Gosar, the representative for Arizona, has said that he "never instigated violence," and that the idea that he involved in the Capitol riots was "devoid of reality."

But he has also been outspoken in his defense of US Capitol rioters, calling them "peaceful protestors" who were being harassed by the Justice Department. One of Trump's most ardent supporters, Gosar also said that Ashli Babbitt, a protestor who was shot by Capitol Police on January 6 and later died from her wounds, was "executed."

Gosar's office did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.

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[CoffeeTiger 5,523]

Nonsense, 

Jan 6 never happened, and if it did happen it was by Antifa supporters disguised as Trumpkins, and if it wasn't ANTIFA then the number of protesters attacking the capitol was very small, and even if it wasn't very small it wasn't really an "attack", just a peaceful demonstration, if it wasn't exactly peaceful then it wasn't really that bad all things considered....HEY! did you know black people looted a Target in Portland last summer? Why don't we investigate that?!?!

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6 hours ago, CoffeeTiger said:

Nonsense, 

Jan 6 never happened, and if it did happen it was by Antifa supporters disguised as Trumpkins, and if it wasn't ANTIFA then the number of protesters attacking the capitol was very small, and even if it wasn't very small it wasn't really an "attack", just a peaceful demonstration, if it wasn't exactly peaceful then it wasn't really that bad all things considered....HEY! did you know black people looted a Target in Portland last summer? Why don't we investigate that?!?!

"And they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

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3 minutes ago, Grumps said:

"And they would have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids."

Ruh, Roh Raggie……