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Originally Posted by Brian James
Bullshit. He left the White House peacefully.
He didn't pressure officials to falsify outcomes. Once again more bullshit.
And he wanted his vice-president and allies in congress to temporarily delay certification until certain ballot anomalies in some states were sorted out. There was a process whereby that could have been legally possible to do. Ironically the invasion of the Capitol prevented that process from taking place.
In five of the seven states they portrayed themselves as legitimate slates of electors. This was at the request of Donald Trump using Eastman as his lawyer. To be clear, these electors were fake and it was made to appear like real electors, and the plan was to get Pence to act like he had no idea which were the real ones and which were the fake ones, and then a contingent election would be held in the congress, which Trump would win.
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ABC News chief Washington correspondent Jonathan Karl reported that on New Year's Eve 2020, White House chief of staff Mark Meadows sent a memo drafted by Trump attorney Jenna Ellis to a top Pence aide containing a detailed plan to overturn the election results. The plan entailed Pence returning the electoral results to six battleground states on January 6, with a deadline of January 15 for the states to return them. If any state did not return their electoral slate by that date, neither Trump nor Biden would hold a majority, so the election would be thrown to the House for a vote to determine the winner. Per the Constitution, in such a scenario the vote would be conducted on the basis of party control of state delegations to the federal House of Representatives, with Republicans holding 26 of 50, presumably giving Trump the victory.[79]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trum..._electors_plot
This is just not contested, we have the communications. They don’t even pretend that they were trying to just get it looked at, they thought they could overturn the election results this way.
January 6th IS Trump’s responsibility. He was trying a last ditch effort to put pressure on Mike Pence because Pence had already said he wasn’t going to go along with it. That’s why Trump waited 2 and a half hours before he did anything, despite pleas from his own family. He was watching the news, sulking like a little kid.
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Trump watches TV (1:25–4:03 p.m.)
According to the final report of the January 6 House select committee:
"Here’s what President Trump did during the 187 minutes between the end of his speech and when he finally told rioters to go home: For hours, he watched the attack from his TV screen. His channel of choice was Fox News. He issued a few tweets, some on his own inclination and some only at the repeated behest of his daughter and other trusted advisors. He made several phone calls, some to his personal lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, some to Members of Congress about continuing their objections to the electoral certification, even though the attack was well underway. Here’s what President Trump did not do: He did not call any relevant law enforcement agency to ensure they were working to quell the violence. He did not call the Secretary of Defense; he did not call the Attorney General; he did not call the Secretary of Homeland Security. And for hours on end, he refused the repeated requests—from nearly everyone who talked to him—to simply tell the mob to go home."[225]
This is what he tweeted while there was still a mob ascending in the capitol building, after two pipe bombs had already been found that day
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President Trump tweets "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"[167] When Twitter reinstated Trump's account in November 2022, this tweet was gone.[259] The U.S. House select committee investigating January 6 wrote that this tweet "inflamed and exacerbated the mob violence"; this assessment was part of the committee's criminal referral of Trump for insurrection.[260] Similarly, the committee wrote in its final report: "Immediately after this tweet, the crowds both inside and outside of the Capitol building violently surged forward. Outside the building, within ten minutes thousands of rioters overran the line on the west side of the Capitol that was being held by the Metropolitan Police Force’s Civil Disturbance Unit, the first time in history of the DC Metro Police that such a security line had ever been broken."[261] Within an hour after this tweet, Pat Cipollone complained to Mark Meadows that "we need to do something more. They’re literally calling for the Vice President to be [****ing] hung." Meadows suggested that there was nothing to do, given that Trump "thinks Mike deserves it."[262] According to Trump aide Nick Luna, when Trump was told that Pence had to be moved for his safety, Trump responded: "So what?" [263]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time...Capitol_attack
But yeah if your point is that Trump’s attack on US democracy started far before Jan 6, I agree. That was the last ditch effort and luckily it failed.
