Organiser of Washington rally looks to rewrite history of US Capitol attack

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WASHINGTON: The architect of a Washington protest planned for Saturday (Sep 18) that aims to rewrite history about the violent January assault on the United States Capitol is hardly a hous

The seeds of the rally were planted the day after the 2020 election as Trump made false claims of widespread voter fraud, which were later rejected by numerous courts, election officials and his own attorney general at the time, William Barr.

He told BuzzFeed News in a summer interview that he brought some early findings to the attention of the Trump campaign. The campaign, which had declined to rehire him earlier in the 2020 campaign as a low-level field staffer, initially agreed to hear him out. But after he arrived at campaign headquarters, campaign officials changed their minds, he said.

His online fundraising, however, took off. After the crowdfunding site GoFundMe.com took down an early effort, citing misleading information, Braynard migrated to a conservative-friendly site and quickly took in more than US$675,000.

 

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