Who Paid $3 Million for the January 6 Riot & Election Overthrow Attempts

A reminder: The coup was planned, and many people organized it

Gold bars (by chiplanay) & Capitol, both from Pixabay

Last month, in the federal prosecution against Donald Trump for election obstruction, special counsel Jack Smith filed a 165-page brief with about 1900 pages of supporting evidence. This month, Judge Chutkan released that material with heavy redactions.

Jack Smith’s 165-page brief (Lawfare Institute on DocumentCloud)

Some of this supporting evidence is information that the U.S. House Select Committee on the January 6 Attack — which interviewed a thousand people and reviewed a million documents — shared with the Justice Department.

The documents show, according to USA Today, that someone budgeted up to $3 million for the January 6 rally. Prior reporting by the Washington Post indicates that this is Julie Jenkins Fancelli, heir to the Publix grocery store fortune, and that not all of the money went to the January 6 rally itself, some of it instead going to related election-overturning attempts in Georgia.

Of that $3 million, the biggest planned expenditure was $1 million for Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point Action to spur young Republicans and…