I found this piece at the NY Post really interesting and possibly significant.

Alternative news pioneer, Alex Jones, of Info Wars fame, paid $500,000 of his own money to book either the Ellipse or another venue [it isn’t clear from the article] at the January 6 Capitol protest.

The idea was for Jones to lead the walk to the Capitol, but people were already on their way in the hundreds of thousands before he got there.

One of the things that participants noted was the disorganization of the event, from the poor quality of the audio that meant that Trump’s speech wasn’t easy to hear to the division of the crowd into two venues organized by different groups.

It looks from this piece as if Jones was one of the organizers.

Trump seems to have publicly praised Jones and invited him to organize.  So one thing I’d like to follow up on is why Jones  did not coordinate with the other organizers.

The second question I have is about the size of the crowd.

I got the impression when I watched the rally on videos on pro-Trump sites like The Gateway Pundit, The Donald, Conservative Treehouse, and Centipede Nation, that it was over half a million and maybe even a million, but public accounts of it are much more modest, usually saying something like 200 to 300,000. But that’s still vastly more than the official estimates before the event, which anticipated a maximum number of 80,000.

On India Today, an American Indian Republican official of some kind mentioned a figure in excess of a million, but I have not been able to find a printed transcript of the interview.

This is the first printed estimate I have seen which is close to my own observation.