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A Well, I—I don't remember this tweet. I wasn't part of this one at all. No, I don't at all.
Q Do you remember discussions in December, middle of December, after the votes had been certified in the States about January 6th being the next important date coming up?
A No. I knew there was a rally on 6 January or—yeah 6 January. That's all.
Q How did you first learn about that?
A Through published reports and we—there was a lot of people coming to it.
You know, since we're talking about the rallies, you know, when I drove in the morning of 6th January, you know, there was a lot of people moving to the rally on The Ellipse. And what I noticed right away was there's a very friendly, flag-waiving group.
But, as I drove into the White House, you have to do the Secret Service things, nobody was in enhanced security. Nobody had body armor on. What's called the inaugural fence, that's a 20-foot fence, there was no 20-foot fence up. There was no initial—there was no additional Secret Service groups there like during the Black Lives Matter riots in the summer. I mean, we had the horse patrols. We had everybody else. Every was up in body armor, ready to go, fully, you know, ready for some type of disturbance.
When I walked in there, it was business as normal. There was no additional security at all. And so, I mean, to me, it was one of those, okay. It was another rally. I had been probably—wow—
Q And we're going to get to that—
A Okay.
Q —specifically.
But, just in the lead-up to January 6th, I just want to understand what was going