Thread by @Monaheart1229

Per ProPublica:
More evidence of what we know to be true:
Sr Trump officials were warned that 1/6 could turn chaotic
Instead of stopping the march Trump and his allies "fooled" the USCP
& accommodated the Stop the Steal leaders
(thread)
propublica.org/article/new-de…

2/"ProPublica has obtained new details about the Trump White House’s knowledge of the gathering storm, after interviewing more than 50 people involved in the events of Jan. 6 and reviewing months of private correspondence.

3/"Taken together, these accounts suggest that senior Trump aides had been warned the Jan. 6 events could turn chaotic, with tens of thousands of people potentially overwhelming ill-prepared law enforcement officials.

4/"Rather than trying to halt the march, Trump and his allies accommodated its leaders, according to text messages and interviews with Republican operatives and officials.

5/"Katrina Pierson, a former Trump campaign official assigned by the White House to take charge of the rally planning, helped arrange a deal where those organizers deemed too extreme to speak at the Ellipse could do so on the night of Jan. 5.

6/"That event ended up including incendiary speeches from Jones and Ali Alexander, the leader of Stop the Steal, who fired up his followers with a chant of “Victory or death!”

7/".. One of the Women for America First organizers told ProPublica he and his group felt they needed to urgently warn the White House of the possible danger.

8/"'A last-minute march, without a permit, without all the metro police that’d usually be there to fortify the perimeter, felt unsafe,' Dustin Stockton said in a recent interview.

9/"'And these people aren’t there for a fucking flower contest,” added Jennifer Lynn Lawrence, Stockton’s fiancee and co-organizer. “They’re there because they’re angry.'

10/"Stockton said he and Kremer initially took their concerns to Pierson. Feeling that they weren’t gaining enough traction, Stockton said, he and Kremer agreed to call Meadows directly.

11/"Kremer, who has a personal relationship with Meadows .. said she would handle the matter herself. Soon after, Kremer told Stockton “the White House would take care of it,” which he interpreted to mean she had contacted top officials about the march.

12/"Kremer denied that she ever spoke with Meadows or any other White House official about her Jan. 6 concerns. “Also, no one on my team was talking to them that I was aware of,” she said in an email to ProPublica. Meadows declined to comment on whether he’d been contacted.

13/"A Dec. 27 text from Kremer obtained by ProPublica casts doubt on her assertion. Written at a time when her group was pressing to control the upcoming Jan. 6 rally, it refers to Alexander and Cindy Chafian, an activist who worked closely with Alex Jones.

14/"So far, congressional and law enforcement reconstructions of Jan. 6 have established failures of preparedness and intelligence sharing by the U.S. Capitol Police, the FBI and the Pentagon, which is responsible for deploying the D.C. National Guard.

15/"But those reports have not addressed the role of White House officials in the unfolding events and whether officials took appropriate action before or during the rally.

16/" Legislation that would have authorized an independent commission to investigate further was quashed by Senate Republicans.

17/"Our reporting raises new questions that will not be answered unless Trump insiders tell the story of that day. It remains unclear .. precisely what Meadows and other WH officials learned of safety concerns about the march and whether they took those reports seriously. .."