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It's one thing for trump to ask his mob to enter the capitol, and another for him to want them to slaughter Congress. But it's hard to see how anything else makes sense.
It's long been predicted that trump would use any means he could, including violence if he could, trying to stay president. People from Michael Cohen to his niece have warned about how he might do anything if he lost.
So, for weeks after the election, he's claiming he won to his mob. That their election and their country is being stolen and they have to fight to defeat the thieves.
He launches about 60 lawsuits trying to overturn the election, he asks Republican legislatures to overturn it, he has Texas sue other states trying to overturn it, he demands secretaries of states overturn it. It all fails.
Now, he's facing the biggest, last part of the process of Congressional certification of the vote. He asks Pence to simply declare that he's recognizing different electors and that trump won, Pence refuses.
So all trump has left is his mob. He can't get the military to overthrow the election, despite installing loyalists at the Pentagon after he lost. How does he use them?
He calls to all his supporters across the country to come to Washington, D.C. on Jan 6 for a rally, at which he tells them they need to fight and to march on the capitol. But why? What did he hope to get?
What does he gain by having his mob walk around the capitol building, delaying the process for a few hours, and getting them turned into criminals? Did all that effort for the rally and plan to storm the capitol make sense just for some hours of delay?
It's hard to see what that gained him.
On the other hand, if the mob got to Democratic members and slaughtered them - and maybe Mike Pence, why not, then he could appoint Ivanka as VP as he wanted to in the first place - that would really stop the process. Establish him as a 'strongman'. He could disavow responsibility while taking advantage of the chaos for his own benefit.
Any questions about whether he'd do that are answered by the fact of how close that came to happening, while he was thrilled to see the mob trying, marching the halls chanting 'hang Mike Pence' and trying to find members to assassinate, we now know.
It's hard to see his plan as having any other goal than for members to be killed - his 'burn the place down' revenge and his only chance to disrupt the process enough to try to seize continued power.
Doing all that to arrange for the storming of the building just for a few hours' delay makes no sense.
So it's seeming trump deserves to be seen not only for inciting insurrection but inciting assassination, which nearly happened. We now know that Mike Pence was moved from the Senate floor into hiding with his family one minute before the mob reached the door of the floor, and was less than 100 feet from his hiding area.
If you have another theory of what trump's goal by this whole planned operation was, make your case, but I'm not seeing any other goal that makes much sense. Clearly trump did create the danger of assassination and nearly caused it, but it's hard to see how that wasn't his goal.
Add in that his closest allies in Congress were having mob members led around the capitol the day before for recon, and even worse possible plots involving more people are possible.
It's long been predicted that trump would use any means he could, including violence if he could, trying to stay president. People from Michael Cohen to his niece have warned about how he might do anything if he lost.
So, for weeks after the election, he's claiming he won to his mob. That their election and their country is being stolen and they have to fight to defeat the thieves.
He launches about 60 lawsuits trying to overturn the election, he asks Republican legislatures to overturn it, he has Texas sue other states trying to overturn it, he demands secretaries of states overturn it. It all fails.
Now, he's facing the biggest, last part of the process of Congressional certification of the vote. He asks Pence to simply declare that he's recognizing different electors and that trump won, Pence refuses.
So all trump has left is his mob. He can't get the military to overthrow the election, despite installing loyalists at the Pentagon after he lost. How does he use them?
He calls to all his supporters across the country to come to Washington, D.C. on Jan 6 for a rally, at which he tells them they need to fight and to march on the capitol. But why? What did he hope to get?
What does he gain by having his mob walk around the capitol building, delaying the process for a few hours, and getting them turned into criminals? Did all that effort for the rally and plan to storm the capitol make sense just for some hours of delay?
It's hard to see what that gained him.
On the other hand, if the mob got to Democratic members and slaughtered them - and maybe Mike Pence, why not, then he could appoint Ivanka as VP as he wanted to in the first place - that would really stop the process. Establish him as a 'strongman'. He could disavow responsibility while taking advantage of the chaos for his own benefit.
Any questions about whether he'd do that are answered by the fact of how close that came to happening, while he was thrilled to see the mob trying, marching the halls chanting 'hang Mike Pence' and trying to find members to assassinate, we now know.
It's hard to see his plan as having any other goal than for members to be killed - his 'burn the place down' revenge and his only chance to disrupt the process enough to try to seize continued power.
Doing all that to arrange for the storming of the building just for a few hours' delay makes no sense.
So it's seeming trump deserves to be seen not only for inciting insurrection but inciting assassination, which nearly happened. We now know that Mike Pence was moved from the Senate floor into hiding with his family one minute before the mob reached the door of the floor, and was less than 100 feet from his hiding area.
If you have another theory of what trump's goal by this whole planned operation was, make your case, but I'm not seeing any other goal that makes much sense. Clearly trump did create the danger of assassination and nearly caused it, but it's hard to see how that wasn't his goal.
Add in that his closest allies in Congress were having mob members led around the capitol the day before for recon, and even worse possible plots involving more people are possible.