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(849 posts)What Trump wanted was enough mayhem to allow him to declare martial law. It seems to me that in order to do that he probably did need some deaths of high officials. Once he's declared martial law, with his emergency powers he can do whatever he wants. He can postpone the counting of the electoral votes and indefinitely postpone the inauguration of Joe Biden. If Trump had done all that would anyone in the armed forces have stopped him? Before this week I would have thought definitely, yes, but looking at the lack of security on Wednesday I now have grave doubts about that. There was a method to this madness. Obviously, all these defenses were withheld for a reason. The National Guard leadership needs to give permission for other states' National Guards to come into DC, because D.C. is not a state. Disallowing the National Guard entrance to assist was withheld long enough to allow these horrid people to enter the Capitol Building and do what they wanted. Fortunately, the SS protected all of the officials. These are TERRIBLE people.