From Cassidy Hutchinson‘s testimony today we learned that Donald Trump knew the rioters were armed and had planned to lead them to the Capitol.
And that he was furious at being denied the opportunity to have a Washington Crossing the Delaware moment. He had planned to enter Congress with an armed and adoring rabble at his back to demand that he be declared King.
Is there any question that his only concerns were: 1) Forcing his way into a second term, or 2) The great TV it would have been leading his peeps in to demand it.
Edit: If he had been in the lead, and physically in the mix, it’s hard to see how calling up the military could have been avoided. No doubt part of the pressure he wanted to use to invoke the Insurrection Act and add the military to his ‘team’.