Steal rallies, not much happened. you re overhyping this, nobody s going to show up. i said, look, you can t compare the previous two rallies because this one, trump is getting directly involved. when i looked at some of the influencers and the leaders, the money that got involved, the busses that were being organized, different media platforms, telling people to come all across the country, i read things from people in california, washington, oregon, all saying they were going. and that was much different than the other two. and also saying what they were going to do when they got there. so, no, wasn t surprised in the least by what happened. as part of my introduction to you tonight, i said perhaps coming soon to your town. what s going on today? what is now the outreach on a grass roots level? after january 6th, we saw the
Coming to your town. newly gathered data former president trump disputed in the 2020 race. the associated press reviewed every possible case of voter fraud. the numbers are minuscule. no impact on the final result. take a look, 25.5 million people voted in those states. joe biden beat then president trump by more than 311,000 votes there and how many votes from those 25.5 million were questionable? fewer than 475, less than one quarter of 1% of biden s victory margin in those states. it wasn t even close. and not all of that handful of votes were even for biden. and when the a.p. contacted trump for comment, he quoted a litany of afraid claims. like everything else in the mountain of evidence that the
Swaths in the west are being attacked. this is a difference between a columnist and a strategist. i ve been both. brett stephens is an outstanding columnist, enjoy his column and read it. he s talking about the president talking a strategic move and he s at 49 in the polls, better than trump ever was. with insurrectionists having circled only a year ago. it would be crazy. every democrat would spend all the next of three years running for office. the congress would hate the senators, the senators would hate the government, the government would hey the cabinet, everybody would hate vice president kamala harris. i do think this column
Exploded. they just lit up. basically the consistent theme was the boss has given us our orders, this is the big one, let s all gear up and let s get ready. that s kind of like the proud boys nickname for trump is the boss. in other words, this was like the bat signal had been put up in the sky and they were all going to respond in kind. yeah, i can t even tell you the difference between their traffic on social media from the 19th from the 18th to the 19th after that tweet came out. it was like night and day and it was very alarming. okay. so most of us were shocked by the events that unfolded on january 6th, but as i comb through your social media in the month leading up to the 6th, it strikes me that you probably weren t surprised by the way it all unfolded. am i wrong? not surprised in the least. i got a lot of pushback from the people who followed me on twitter, who have since deleted their replies to some of my posts, which basically was saying you re being alarmist, yo
What he put out. how was that message interpreted by the people that you were monitoring? well, people forget january 6th of the third stop the steal rally. there were two in d.c. before that, early in december, and we had monitored those. we watched people that were involved in those previous two rallies. some of the same organizers. but they were kind of duds. they fizzled. there weren t that many people there. the second one was a little alarming. a lot of the proud boys and oath keepers showed up, but still it was kind of ad hoc. when the december 19th tweet was sent out by president trump at the time, i was monitoring their social media pages and they just