WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump attempted to make the Jan. 6, 2021, march on the Capitol appear spontaneous even as he and his team intentionally assembled and galvanized a violence-prone mob to disrupt certification of his electoral defeat, the House committee investigating the attack showed Tuesday.
“POTUS is going to have us march there/the Capitol,” Kylie Jane Kremer, an organizer of the “Save America” rally Jan. 6, wrote in a Jan. 4 text shown by the panel Tuesday as it detailed Trump’s efforts to gather his backers in Washington for a final, last-ditch effort to overturn his loss. Kremer added that Trump was “going to just call for it ‘unexpectedly.’”
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