Julie Jenkins Fancelli is said to have donated around $300,000 for the event, the ‘lion’s share’ of its funding.
Trump campaign megadonor Julie Jenkins Fancelli—heiress to the billionaire Publix fortune—donated the bulk of the funds that helped pay for a Jan.6 rally at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C. which preceded the deadly assault on the U.S. Capitol, according to the Wall Street Journal. The event was meant as a last stand for the “Stop The Steal” effort, built on Trump’s baseless claims the election was stolen through widespread voter fraud. Other groups involved in the event included youth conservative group Turning Points Action and an arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association. Some of the event’s attendees marched to the Capitol and stormed the building in an effort to stop lawmakers from certifying President Joe Biden’s victory.
