sounds like to me, like this fancy—
Q I'm not trying to make it complicated because if you don't know the term, that would suggest that you were not aware of a threat analysis. I'm literally just asking, are you aware of any threat analysis being conducted for Stop the Steal?
A Today, right now, I am not aware.
Q That's it. And I'm not trying to trick you. I think you get what I'm asking, so I appreciate the answer.
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Q Can you got to Exhibit 14, please, Mr. Alexander? This is a text message exchange between you and Mr. Stephen Brown. Who is Mr. Brown?
A Mr. Brown is a—I think he's like a preferred vendor with the National Park Service or something like that. He has some special designation with—there's like three or four different groups that run permits around D.C., depending on what type of land it is. And I met him during the December 12th event, I think it was, the Jericho march. And he was—I joined in on that event. I endorsed that event. And it was a Christian event. And he, I thought, did an excellent job of, like, the staging and some of that. And there was a lot of pressure. And so he was the guy that I knew who I could hire to do permitting and tell me, you know, point me in the right direction, and just handle all of that stuff. So we hired him for Lot 8.
Q So Stop the Steal hired Mr. Brown to help organize?
A I hired him.
Q You hired him?
A Yes.
Q Thank you. Okay.
So just to orient the room, this is text messages from Mr. Brown's standpoint, so it
