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195 And so it seems like it was Mr. Martin largely running this bus operation for Stop the Steal for January 6th?

I would say that we acted as an endorser and an amplifier. And it was hard to call it, you know, Stop the Steal's bus effort. But we definitely wanted to natively market it that way to our audience so that they would feel comfortable participating.

Did Stop the Steal pay for the bus fees up front, or did Turning Point USA pay for them?

I don't think we paid for the bus fees up front. I think—and I don't know. We may have even got one independent bus, but I'm not sure that that ever went through or didn't go through. So I would—I would not know that.

So you're not aware of Mr. Martin maybe being reimbursed by Turning Point USA for buses that he may have paid expenses for?

Yeah, I'm not sure how that all logistically finally finalized.

Mr. Do you have follow-up, ?


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No. I just—it sounds like you're saying that to the extent that buses were paid for with the exception of one possible one that you may have had for Stop the Steal, your involvement in the buses was basically to advertise Turning Point's offering of the bus.

Yes. And that included—we made our own landing page on Stop the Steal. And we tried to rally, sometimes very unsuccessfully, tried to rally interest in some cities that didn't materialize. But if there was a city that materialized, that would get handed over to Turning Point USA, I believe.

And I guess you kind of just said it. But in terms of the mechanics of, if you were signing people up in interest for the buses, was it like a list that you then passed on