Can you imagine what Trump had in mind?? Walking onto the House floor with 1000s of armed thugs?

[bigtree]

“I don't fucking care that they have weapons. They're not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here. Let the people in. Take the fucking mags away."
-- Trump on Jan 6, according to WH aide Cassidy Hutchinson

Link to tweet

Hugo Lowell @hugolowell 31m
NEW: Jan. 6 committee obtained National Security Council staff chatlog, which shows that up to 10mins before rioters breached the Capitol at 12:57p ET, Trump was still pushing to march to the Capitol.

Hugo Lowell @hugolowell 26m
...Cassidy Hutchinson testifies that Trump wanted to go to the Capitol after the speech, despite it being breached — “I’m the fucking President, take me up to the Capitol now” — and when told no, reached to grab the steering wheel.

Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule 15m
Hutchinson: "I remember a few different ideas being discussed between Mark [Meadows] and Scott Perry...between Mark and Giuliani...there were discussions about [Trump] having another speech outside of the Capitol...and about his going into the House Chamber at one point."

Harry Litman @harrylitman 1m
So Trump is ready to grab the wheel and choke people to go to Capitol. Can you imagine what he had in mind?? Walking onto the floor with 100s of armed thugs behind him??

Helen Kennedy 🌻 @HelenKennedy 6m
Throwing plates and grabbing steering wheels is one thing. But saying out loud that he wanted to lead armed people - whom he noted weren’t there to hurt *him* - to the Capitol to stop the certification of the election he lost is quite another.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Millions of MAGA are just waiting...they are furious Pence and Pelosi weren't killed that day

I hope we understand this.

[scarletlib]

2. He was going to be a king.

[Eliot Rosewater]

3. And almost every other person you pass in the grocery store today was on board.

[scarletlib]

4. Sad but true.

[TwilightZone]

5. He thought so, but he's delusional.

In the real world, that was never going to happen.

That's what makes all of this so pointless and a bit mind-boggling. The election was *never* going to be overturned, regardless of what happened. There was no mechanism by which he was going to remain president. He floated the idea of martial law and even Rudy refused to go along with it.

[bigtree]

6. right. There was no mechanism

...even if police had let him into the chamber he'd just be standing there like a buffon, maybe bellowing something absurd as his armed hillbilly band spilled in around him and ignited the House into something lethal, but resembling a John Belushi Animal House food fight.

[sarcasmo]

15. Yep and announcing his Kingdom by banging the gavel in the Capitol building.

[Hekate]

7. We absolutely know what he had in mind

[bigtree]

9. well, yeah

[barbaraann]

8. He couldn't fight in Vietnam, but he could fight in our Capitol against our elected officials. n/t

[Claustrum]

10. Honestly, they saved him from being seen literally on tv leading the mobs in the capitol.

If they didn't stop him, TFG would be done in most American's eyes.

[Boomerproud]

11. The fact it that he would have ANY support after that tells me

this country has gone over the tipping point.

[Claustrum]

13. I don't take calling them a cult lightly.

But you can't explain any of this other than it being a cult.

[onenote]

12. But but but ...antifa

The fact that he didn’t think the crowd would want to harm him basically is the final nail in the coffin for the lie that the insurrectionists weren’t his supporters.

[Wounded Bear]

14. Yes, I can. He wanted to stand at that podium again...

and this time declare himself King of America in front of his pathetic supporters.

[bigtree]

17. I can just see him up there with the shirtless horned guy by his side

...then the swearing-in.




...make it all legal-like.




...all according to plan.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Something along these lines:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22march+on+rome%22&rlz=1C1CHBF_enGB841GB841&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X

[bigtree]

18. oh, yes

...in his wildest dreams.

[tanyev]

19. Since he's also a coward, he would have waited until his thugs had control.

Then he would have strutted in like a conquering hero to enjoy watching his “enemies” suffer.