Witness Says Trump's Chief Of Staff Helped Plan March To Capitol

According to witness testimony to the January 6th Committee, Donald Trump's chief of staff, Mark Meadows, was on a phone call where a group planned out the march to the Capitol that eventually turned into the Capitol Riot. But if you remember how events were supposed to happen that day, this actually isn't that surprising at all. Farron Cousins explains how this new information fits in with what we already knew.

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According to a witness who has spoken to the January 6th select committee, Donald Trump's, then chief of staff, Mark Meadows was actually on a phone call where the March to the capital was planned out. They talked about the route they talked about who was gonna be there, who was gonna lead it, and course kind of what they wanted those individuals to do once they got there. Now this of course is new information. The fact that Mark Meadows was on that call. If, of course the testimony is accurate, we always have to take that into consideration. So a assuming all of this is accurate. What does it tell us? Well, it tells us that the March to the capital, that of course turned into the capital riot did in fact involve planning from the white house itself, but that's not actually new information. See the original plan was to actually have Donald Trump lead the March.

And that has been common knowledge. Okay. That's something we have all known about for quite some time now is the secret service that was like, Hey, probably not a good idea. So Trump didn't go through with it. So if that was the original plan, it really does make sense that Mark Meadows would in fact be on that phone call, which of course does corroborate, you know, based on what we know this new testimony. So it would appear obviously that this is something, the white house would've been involved planning. If Donald Trump was originally intending to go along with them to the capital. Now it's the rest of the information. Of course, that is the most vital we knew from the beginning. This obviously had some kind of ties to the white house, given Trump's plans, given the information about the seek good service, even telling him no, don't do this.

This is dumb. So we knew again, they wanted in on it. So the question is what had they planned on doing once they got there, right? That's the $10 million question. Why go to the capital? What are you gonna do? Just stand outside. That seems unlikely, right? That doesn't seem to serve any legitimate purpose. You already had your crowd gathered. You already knew what you wanted, which was to overturn the election results. So why leave the ellipse in DC and go to the capital if not to storm it, right? See that I guess would be considered the missing piece of the puzzle at this point. But it does appear that the capital riot committee is trying to put that piece together right now. And this testimony of course could prove to be what puts that final piece into place here. What was the ultimate goal of taking it to the capital building?

They knew you were already in DC. They knew you already had, you know, an unfortunately large number of people who wanted to overturn the election results. So why go to the capital, if not to intimidate them and make it seem like you were going to do something we'll find out. But in the meantime, the committee's work continues, right? They've got more information than we know about, which is always a good thing. You know, if we knew everything that had happened, basically if everything that had been reported is all that had happened. Wouldn't exactly, you know, paint a good picture, but this is what we know now. There's plenty more, we don't know hell Liz Chaney even came out in the last couple days and said, they're looking at special criminal charges to possibly recommend for Donald Trump's special. You know, not, not just her average, everyday criminal charges.

They're trying to go special on him. So they know a lot more than they're letting on. But of course, occasionally we get the, you know, little bit of leaks like this, which keep our faith in the committee going cuz without them, we would be left to assume that nothing was moving forward in that there wasn't a whole heck of a lot of information to go on, but things are moving forward the way they should be. I would still much rather have a special prosecutor at the DOJ looking into this, but I do remain optimistic and as more and more information continues to trickle out, it is almost becoming undeniable that Donald Trump's white house was involved in every aspect of what happened that day.