That group, with ties to Mr. Trump’s former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn, often worked with the Oath Keepers to provide security at Stop the Steal rallies. On Monday, another Oath Keeper charged in the sedition case released a host of internal messages from the group showing that its leader, Mr. Rhodes, enjoyed working with the 1st Amendment Praetorian and protecting Mr. Jones called “a big kudos” at pro-Trump rallies. in our hat.”
During his Infowars show, Mr. Jones went on to discuss his relationship with Caroline Wren, a former Trump campaign aide and fundraising pundit who helped arrange Mr. Trump’s speech at the Ellipse. Mr. Jones said that Ms. Wren was with a group of people who led him “to the back of the stage so we could go around the crowd and lead the march.”
In its letter subpoenaing Mr. Jones, the House committee said he, Mrs. Wren and Mrs. Chafian were working with a donor, Julie Fancelli, an heiress to the Publix supermarket fortune, to provide “80 percent of the funding.” . for mr. Trump’s rally on the Ellipse. The committee also noted that in the run-up to Jan. 6, Mr. Jones regularly promoted Mr Trump’s lies about a rigged election and made “statements suggesting” that he had knowledge of the former president’s plans for his meeting.
That day, before Mr. Trump’s speech ended, Mr. Jones left the Ellipse and marched with Mr. Alexander and Mr. Shroyer to the Capitol, cheering the crowd around them with a megaphone. Videos show Mr. Jones yelling chants like, “We’ve only just started fighting” and then being notified that the building broke through shortly after 1:30 p.m.
“We’ve got to get this right,” you hear Mr. Jones say to Mr. Shroyer, just before bringing the crowd closer to the Capitol. Along the way, the videos show, he led the crowd in chants about “globalists,” declaring, “We’re not surrendering.”
The commission acknowledged that once Mr. Jones reached the Capitol, he told the crowd not to be violent there and to gather on the east side of the building, where Mr. Alexander was licensed to hold a meeting, suggesting that Mr. Trump would eventually meet the group. But Mr. Trump never came to address the crowd, and Mr. Jones’s words had the effect of a massive crowd on both sides of the Capitol.
The Jan. 6 investigation is just one of the legal challenges Mr. Jones faces.
On Sunday, three affiliated companies, including Infowars, filed for Chapter 11 protection following his prominent losses in defamation lawsuits in Texas and Connecticut related to the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting, which Mr. Jones claimed it was a fraud.
