The Philadelphia Inquirer reports that 50-year-old Benjamin Philips drove to D.C. in a van along with Trump-related memorabilia he had produced. The Inquirer and the Bloomsburg Press Enterprise both spoke with Philips before the rally.

He led a website called Trumparoo “where patriots can mobilize against the corrupt communist Marxist scummy democrats.” He also ran a website called ScummyDemocrats.com.
His profile on the site said he was organizing a bus from the Bloomsburg area to go to the rally and expressed anger at Democratic officials and moderate Republicans.