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A question that did not arise in the January 6th Committee was how did Trump intend to complete his plan to stay in power once he reached the Capitol? Did he have the fake elector documents with him in the SUV after his speech at the Ellipse? Is that why Trump argued with and even grabbed the Secret Service agent driving the SUV to force him to go to the Capitol?
Wisconsin Republican Senator Ron Johnson is known to have been asked to take fake Wisconsin elector documents by hand to Mike Pence, but the Vice President’s team rebuffed that idea. Were those documents instead given to Trump, along with all others from other states, when it became clear that Pence wouldn’t deliver the coup?
When the actual Secret Service agents in the presidential SUV that day testify under oath to the Jan 6 Committee, they need to be asked if Trump had brought anything into the vehicle that could’ve contained those documents.
It all makes sense, because the path was cleared out by the Oath Keepers.
This excellent article by Spencer S. Hsu in the Washington Post exposes the realtime Jan. 6 coordination of the Oath Keepers including a call to action going to the rear of the Capitol after the front had been breached. Here’s the link to the full article:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/oath-keepers-calls-capitol-riot/2021/04/01/1b48aad4-9338-11eb-a74e-1f4cf89fd948_story.html
In this excerpt, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is shown to have circulated a call to regroup at the rear for a new incursion into the building.
Prosecutors previously asserted that Rhodes forwarded a message around 2:15 p.m. by a person in charge of Oath Keepers security details — apparently Person 10 — to an encrypted Signal message group called “DC Ops 1” that included regional leaders from several states, including several charged riot participants.
They “have taken ground at the capital[.] We need to regroup any members who are not on mission,” the message said moments after the mob at 2:13 p.m. smashed its way into the Capitol from its West Front.
Prosecutors have also alleged that Meggs and Rhodes spoke for 97 seconds about nine minutes before Meggs helped lead a file of Oath Keepers in helmets and camouflage gear to force entry into the building through broken rotunda doors on the east side around 2:41 p.m.
Was this timing in essence using the storming of the west side as a diversion, so the east side could be breach without the massive mob?
If Trump had gone to the Capitol his SUV would’ve had to stay above ground. The President is not allowed on Capitol grounds unless invited by Congress.
Were the Oath Keepers meant to be the tip of the spear for Trump’s Capitol entrance and subsequent push into the House chambers? Would the fake elector documents be with Trump so he could replace the real ones and claim he was indeed the current and future President? If Pence was not present as President of the Senate, would Mitch McConnell as Senate Majority Leader be next on the list to take the role?
Was that the ultimate plan, covered in a facade of legitimacy, that would’ve completed the coup?
This endgame of the plot is thoroughly farfetched, it’s true. But not in the Trump brain. Having already pushed the limits of his power far beyond its rational boundaries with little resistance over nearly four years, this scenario would fit right into Trump’s MO.
So let’s urge the Jan. 6 Committee to ask the right question when occupants of the SUV are called to testify under oath: Did Trump appear to have the fake electoral documents with him that day?
If a smoking gun is needed for the former president to be charged for seditious conspiracy, this one would be billowing.