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80 Stewart Rhodes in Atlanta. We had an Atlanta protest and Stewart Rhodes showed up. Someone introduced us. And he said, Hey, wherever you guys go across the country, we can provide veterans that are clean. And they actually, you know, were, like, we don't—we don't protect White nationalists, we don't do this, we don't do this. We are just like here to help patriots like you. And, so, like I mentioned earlier, I believe I had two Oath Keepers with me or my party at the Ellipse event. And so, this text message seems to line up with that.

So when you were talking about the Oath Keepers, the veterans group is a term we use, it sounds like they were pretty professional to work with in your experiences in Atlanta, and then moving on through January 6th?

In—let's see. I worked with them in Atlanta. I don't know if we worked with them in December or not at the Jericho march. But again, was an even I partnered on. I didn't really run the whole thing. And so, maybe that's why Stephen is handling the exchange because he worked with them more. That's what I was told about Oath Keepers is they are a veterans group. And, you know, I've seen con I've seen other media reporting characterizing them as other things or whatever, but January 6th, like I said, I used two of them. I don't know if I just answered your question or not.

No. Did you consider them professional from your experiences with them in Atlanta?

In Atlanta they were professional. And I barely had any—I didn't have any direct interaction really, so they were on the perimeter.

You trusted them to provide your security, though, for January 6th?

No.

You did not trust the Oath Keepers to provide security for you on January 6th?