Despite the fact that Donald Trump and congressional Republicans have tried to distance themselves from the events of January 6, it’s clear that not only were they involved, but that they’re still tied to organizers.

This comes to light on the heels of reporting by the Daily Beast, which outlines how Trump used a firm called Event Strategies to coordinate with protesters at his pre-riot rally blocks from the Capitol. But they never stopped cutting checks to the firm, even after seeing the results of the January 6 incident.

In all, Trump-associated groups have paid nearly $3 million to the firm, much of it after the insurrection. And one of the GOP House members accused of coordinating with protesters leading up to January 6, Mo Brooks of Alabama, took on contracts with Event Strategies after seeing how effective the firm had been in the Capitol affair.

Spending reports showed Brooks and the Alabama Republican Party paid the firm more than $200,000 in two separate amounts in the months after the event.

Even more curiously, Trump paid travel reimbursement expenses for around 60 people after January 6, according to the report. That included a large number of names that had previously never appeared on the Trump campaign’s payroll.

Accusations that Trump and GOP members had bussed in protesters from far away now seem to be confirmed with that bit of information.

All told, Trump and Brooks were nowhere near the only people to give untold sums to January 6-linked firms, of which Event Strategies was only one. Social media site Parler, rally organizers Tea Party Patriots, and even Turning Point USA — the alt-right group that was actually caught bringing in outside agitators on January 6 — have all been making money hand over fist from Trump and the GOP.

If they’re trying to get away from the image that they were directly involved in the attack on the Capitol, Donald Trump and the Republican Party sure have a strange way of showing it.

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