Trump’s team agreed it would encourage supporters to march, but try to “make it look like they went down there on their own,” Scott Johnston tells Rolling Stone.
with White House staff and pro-Trump Republicans in Congress as they planned protests against Trump’s election loss. Andamong the rally organizers — including Johnston — in which the organizers said they were “following [Trump’s] lead” in planning the Ellipse rally.
Katrina Pierson, senior adviser to Donald J. Trump for President, speaks on Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C. White House chief of staff Mark Meadows walks along the South Lawn of the White House on Oct. 30, 2020. - Credit: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Images; Sarah Silbiger/Getty ImagesThe committee has subpoenaed Meadows, Pierson, and Kremer. In a letter that accompanied those subpoenas, Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson indicated his interest in communications.
With multiple investigations into Jan. 6, cooperating witnesses can have a variety of motivations for coming forward. Some may hope to avoid legal trouble while others could be eager to shape the public narrative or settle scores. Ultimately, Johnston said his relationship with the Kremers soured, in part, because he came to view them as “total grifters.” Johnston claimed he told investigators that the Kremers used donated funds for personal expenses.
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