re: #16 silverdolphin

As I recall, the Secret Service did try to find a path for him to get to the Capitol. There was supposedly a scuffle in the car because they would not drive him immediately but they called the Capitol police to ask for roads to be blocked off for his motorcade. The CP said no way and that was the end of it.

Trump likely knew that there was little chance of getting such an improvisitional path set up. He could not work with them beforehand because he knew that would look like a conspiracy. I really believe he thought he would get off by NOT being there.

Trump’s MO is to get other people to do illegal things and then rely on “loyalty” to keep them quiet. Yet anyone who looks at his actions on Jan 6 can clearly see he was up to his eyeballs. That he organized the mob to be there, and cheered them on in the hopes the Congress would crumble under the assault and he could do the next part of the coup plan. Every last one of the GOPers who feigns confusion about this is a treasonweasel, as Lawhawk so eloquently puts it.