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208 the Steal or alialexander.org have donated the money?

My guess is that I personally would have done that. That's my guess, and that, to me, makes sense.

And, sorry, just to tie a bow on that, you went to working with the Oath Keepers because you never got—you never heard back from First Amendment Praetorians?

We didn't go to—we worked with Oath Keepers—I shouldn't say we worked with them.

Stewart Rhodes provided me a Michigan contact, and—but, like, in Chicago, I hired my own security. When I went back to Atlanta, I don't know who we used. In Arizona I used, I think, nobody, or we—or we—we hired someone out.

So I didn't—Oath Keepers wasn't following me around. And they made a promise that they could provide people everywhere, but, really, that just kind of fell short. And I only have secondhand knowledge of that, because, again, those are other details.

It's like, if Ali is going somewhere, somebody around me would say, "Go find him security," and we stopped using 1AP. Oath Keepers sometimes was unresponsive or couldn't provide somebody in their veterans group, and so we hire security.


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Did you ever use the Proud Boys?

Me, I don't think so. I don't believe so at all.

Did you ever—do you know of Mr. Enrique Tarrio?

Yes, I do.

Did you ever use him to come speak at an event?

I had never invited him to an event, I believe, and—but he—you know, we