Rioters heard from others besides Trump on Jan. 6. As the former president confronts a Senate impeachment trial, 12 other notable “Stop the Steal” speakers have faced few, if any, consequences.
Former President Donald Trump may be the one facing an impeachment trial for the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. But he wasn’t the only one who riled up the crowd at the now-infamous “Stop the Steal” rally.
A dozen of the president’s allies and family members took the stage before Trump, where they repeated the same false claims and egged on attendees with similar enthusiasm. The speakers blasted the 2020 elections as rife with fraud, saber-rattled to Republican lawmakers still on the fence about challenging the election results and heaped praise on the thousands of attendees as the country’s true patriots.
So far, the other speakers haven’t publicly apologized for their roles that day. Many of them defended themselves by saying they were merely gassing up supporters to challenge lawmakers at the ballot in 2022 and 2024. And few have faced sanctions approaching the scale of the former president.
Here’s who else spoke at the rally and how things have played out for them since.
Mo Brooks
Representative, Alabama’s 5th Congressional District
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“Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass.”
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Katrina Pierson
Former Trump campaign adviser
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“Americans will stand up for themselves and protect their rights and they will demand that the politicians that we elect uphold those rights, or we will go after them.”
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Amy Kremer
Chairwoman, Women for America First
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“Republicans for years have been afraid of their own shadow. They tuck tail and run any time they see their shadow.”
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Vernon Jones
Former member, Georgia House of Representatives
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“Today, I’m coming home. I’m coming home to the Grand Old Party. I am officially joining the Republican Party.”
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Ken Paxton
Texas Attorney General
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“If you look at what Georgia did, they capitulated. They consented.”
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Lara and Eric Trump
Daughter-in-law and son of President Donald Trump
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“Our family didn’t get in this fight for just four years. We are in this fight to the bitter end. We are going to take our country back, OK?”
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Kimberly Guilfoyle
Former Trump campaign adviser
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“We will not allow the liberals and the Democrats to steal our dream or steal our elections.”
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Donald Trump Jr.
Son of President Donald Trump
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“You have an opportunity today: You can be a hero, or you can be a zero. And the choice is yours but we are all watching.”
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Madison Cawthorn
Representative, North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District
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“There is a significant portion of our party that says we should just sit idly by and sit on our hands. They have no backbone.”
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Rudy Giuliani
Trump’s personal attorney
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“If we’re wrong, we will be made fools of. But if we’re right, a lot of them will go to jail. So, let’s have trial by combat.”
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John Eastman
Constitutional lawyer
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“This is bigger than President Trump. It is the very essence of our Republican form of government and it has to be done.”
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