“Matt Schlapp, Mercedes Schlapp, and Matt Whitaker offered to pay for everyone’s legal fees except” for two people under subpoena, according to an attorney familiar with the legal fund. “They’re doing it all through Whitaker’s firm in Kansas City.”…

The fund will not help the hundreds of Trump supporters who have been charged with storming the building. Trump, who previously called on his supporters to come to Washington that day to protest the certification of his loss to President Joe Biden, spoke on stage at that rally and encouraged the crowd to march to the Capitol. Some in the crowd began walking the mile and a half to the Capitol dome as Trump spoke and the barricades were breached minutes before the former president concluded his remarks.

The existence of the arrangement is additionally corroborated by text messages viewed by Rolling Stone that describe the Schlapps’ “legal fund” and comments from a Jan. 6 rally organizer on a recent conservative podcast.