A The text message does not deny a relationship between Wild Protest and "stop the steal." Wild Protest had outdated information on it that was no longer true and we could not update in time because of the, you know, the moving the events. My intention was to do the right thing with the expert advice of my consultant. I do not have an expertise in permitting or the process. I am only informed of that process through my consultant. And I could only approve recommendations that I was given.
And the last consideration that I'd ask you to make is that—is that there are a lot of isolated things and, you know, that could look damning. But it is my understanding 9 from what my consultant told me and then what I've later read in congressional testimony, that even if it was—if we said, "Oh, this is "stop the steal." and we wanted to keep out the Christian groups and the Jewish groups, or we wanted all the people, that they couldn't deny it, they couldn't deny the permit. So I wasn't scared of getting denied a permit, if that's the question.
Q My question was about this text. But you actually raise a really good point that it doesn't actually say affiliated with whom. It doesn't say affiliated with "stop the steal." But the next two texts say: The application's under the name One Nation Under God. I also included Nathan's name on it. I kept yours off so you're below anybody's radar.
Was there concern that the affiliation with you would be a problem and so you didn't put you on the permit for that reason?
A Not that I'm aware of.
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Q So, if I ask Mr. Stephen Brown whether you directed him to put Mr. Nathan Martin's name on the application instead of yours, your testimony is that you did not direct him to do that?
