Trump call on Jan. 6 to 'walk down to the Capitol' prompted Secret Service scramble

[mahatmakanejeeves]

Source: Washington Post

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Trump call on Jan. 6 to 'walk down to the Capitol’ prompted Secret Service scramble

Agency’s actions are part of Jan. 6 committee probe into Trump’s role in inciting the violent attack on the Capitol

By Carol D. Leonnig, Josh Dawsey, Peter Hermann and Jacqueline Alemany
June 7, 2022 at 12:31 p.m. EDT

Shortly before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Secret Service agents scrambled to try to secure a motorcade route so then-President Donald Trump could accompany his supporters as they marched on Congress to demand he stay in power, according to two people briefed on witnesses’ accounts to congressional investigators.

The hectic events that day followed nearly two weeks of persistent pressure from Trump on the Secret Service to devise a plan for him to join his supporters on a march to the Capitol from the park near the White House where he was leading a massive rally that he predicted would be “wild.”

The agency had rebuffed Trump’s early entreaties, but the rushed effort on Jan. 6 to accommodate the president came as Secret Service personnel heard Trump urge his rally audience of nearly 30,000 people to march to the Capitol while suggesting he would join them. Their mission was clear, he said: pressure “weak” Republicans to refuse to accept the election results that made Joe Biden the next president.

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By Carol D. Leonnig, Josh Dawsey, Peter Hermann and Jacqueline Alemany

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/07/trump-pressed-secret-service-for-plan-to-join-march-to-capitol/

[underpants]

1. As soon as he said it I knew what was going to happen

Maybe not on that scale but he just wanted to get them close. Someone would make a break and others would follow. Bannon and others prepped them leading up to it.

Many had actually already headed that way truth be told. Trump gave everyone the okay.

[forgotmylogin]

2. TFG never planned to go, which is why Secret Service were surprised and "scrambled".

There was probably lots of "oh shit, who got that memo?"

The President doesn't go anywhere unplanned, so it's not surprising.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Wonder why he thought he'd need SS protection? He was among his truest believers.

[Harker]

5. Until that became inconvenient.

Then they miraculously became Antifa and BLM agitators.

Their incessant lying can be mind numbing.

[Bengus81]

11. Yeah...like at the NRA get together a week ago

[SunSeeker]

4. It sucks that taxpayers are still paying big $ for that traitor's security.

He should be in jail.

[Harker]

6. I'd cheerfully pitch in for that. n/t

[SunSeeker]

7. Oh Hell YES! Federal inmates cost $35,347per year to keep in jail.

We've spent over $1.3 million in Secret Service costs to protect Trump in just the past year. https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-secret-service-spent-big-traveling-with-donald-trump-last-year

[Harker]

8. They could deduct it from my Social Security...

and I'd begin feeling more secure the moment his cell door clanked shut.

[SunSeeker]

9. +1

[Lonestarblue]

10. It figures the Secret Service was trying to put together a motorcade.

Trump is in such bad physical shape, he could not have walked to the Capitol. Remember when he took a golf card to go a few hundred years when other foreign leaders walked the short distance? I forget which meeting it was, but that made him look like a baby.

I doubt he ever planned to be part of the group at the Capitol because that would have been too scary foe the guy who headed to the WH bunker because protesters were outside.

[Roy Rolling]

13. The SS was scrambling

They couldn’t find a golf cart anywhere.