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(25,942 posts)accomplish getting into the building, finding offices, being informed that Pelosi was evacuated, and having weapons nearby ready to use. If not for officer Goldman leading part of the mob away and Capitol security inside the building giving warnings and escorting people to safety, the coup would have succeeded. The mob was just one minute away from Pence when Goodman led them away and just a few minutes away when others hid behind barricaded doors.
If the mob had made it into the Capitol just 5 minutes earlier, there would have been a slaughter of House members and Senators. That's pretty damn close.
There was planned coordination to have so little security outside, the Guard standing down, people with knowledge of office locations, people with equipment to protect themselves while carrying out the attack, someone to notify them when Pelosi was evacuated, and experienced invaders (former military) to know how to choose and use materials at hand to break windows and beat cops. There were also people with megaphones instructing the mob on where to go and when to move forward.
They came very close to carrying it off.