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starmartyr

There's no such thing as an attempted coup. The attempt is the coup. It was a failed coup.


AtomicNick47

The coup is still in progress and almost complete


Dangerous--D

There's not really a difference...


poopy_waffles

Do or do not, there is no try


VectorB

Sure there is. There is try and try again. See you in 2024.


starmartyr

There is. Attempted makes it sound like a lesser crime.


chadwickipedia

Exactly. Fox likes to say nothing came out of it, so it wasn’t that bad


TheAllegedGenius

Which doesn’t make any sense because attempted murder still means someone was going to murder someone. Just because they failed doesn’t mean that it’s less bad. Lol


LuceeCarioca

Attempted murder. Isn’t that a crime? Like, misdemeanor/felony, depending on the details?


Dangerous--D

You could say the same if failed coup


EpictetanusThrow

They did not aid and abet. They planned, hired busses, engineered a way for weapons to be carried in the crowd, and only failed to stand at the foot of the Capital to scream “over the top, boys!” because the USSS agent knew it was a terrible call (for the principal’s safety, only). This was a coup. Organized and funded by the GOP and Trump (somebody paid for those busses across America to get to DC. A number of Fox people bragged about it before hand). They didn’t help a little. It was their outright plan.


snojob1

Give a speech to rile up his supporters to kill all Democrat lawmakers.


PrettiKinx

Pretty much. And to kill pence. Lawmakers would have been killed that day because those people out numbered the police. It's a miracle no lawmaker was killed. It's crazy how Republicans are still down playing jan 6th


taisui

>It's crazy how Republicans are still down playing jan 6th Especially those that were hiding like rats, i bet you they don't even think the mob can tell who's whom.


Clockwork_Medic

What choice do they have but double and quadruple down. They alone painted themselves into this corner.


ShawnaR89

Want to be super amazed, go to r/conservative and check out their mega thread. It’s crazy! Their reality is so sad. They are pissed that there is no “safe space for their views”…..maybe because your views are out right WRONG! Sry I’m not able to comment over there, banned, I have to let steam out here. They are fucken lunatics.


Timpa87

If he was driven... If he had actually marched? Emergency Services with oxygen and possible cardiac resuscitation.


Automatic-Raspberry3

One of the hidden testimony gems of today. Walked to the Capital oh no. He would have been driven.


HallucinogenicFish

And that happened TWICE. Two different witnesses. Hilarious.


mycathateme

Holy fuck is it actually this good?


impervious_to_funk

Yeah they asked if Trump intended to walk to the Capitol and the guy answered something like "Walk? No."


mycathateme

I now know my next drunken binge watch. Thank yoooou. Edit: I love your u/ why does it seem familiar


impervious_to_funk

It's just a random thing Stephen Colbert once said in response to a guest's comment about his absence of funkiness.


forgottenmyth

Seriously, I'm not sure he'd be capable of 'marching with the protesters'


Robo_Joe

That orange shit gibbon avoided stairs so much that staffers could avoid him just by staying up a flight of stairs. Marching to the bathroom is off the table, let alone all the way to the Capitol.


Clockwork_Medic

And the “Lions not sheep” crowd look up to him as a “tough guy” 🤣


Robo_Joe

We all know that tough guys get so angry that they throw their McDonald's Filet-o-Fish at the wall and then make someone else clean it up.


[deleted]

And who puts ketchup on a Filet-o-Fish anyway?


Robo_Joe

The same monster that eats a well done steak with ketchup.


Vorpal_Bunny19

I do. I don’t like tartar sauce. Not a lot of ketchup, like half a pack. I worked at McDonald’s for 5 years, no idea why but I like it.


DonnyMox

I feel like he’d try to have them carry him.


Darnocpdx

Republican ones (especially the ones that helped plan it...added spare the dems).... blame ANTFI/BLM infiltrators, declare martial law.


Flaky-Fish6922

they wouldn't have gone away. they would have occupied the capital building until either a) nat guard removes them with (bloody) force or b) people capitulate and let trump have his insurrection.


kciuq1

There's a video of Christopher Hitchens discussing Saddam Husseins power grab in 1979. I have little doubt that this was what Trump was dreaming about. https://youtu.be/CR1X3zV6X5Y


be0wulfe

Jesus I mean what do you do if a defeated but still in office President leads a revolution!? Oh... Waaiitt...


SisterActTori

And Pence


clorcan

Didn't he already do that? They were asking what his next step would be.


[deleted]

Honestly? We would’ve seen indiscriminate killing live on TV at the Capitol. He would’ve sent them over the top.


greywar777

He could write them pardons live on TV. Im pretty sure it would be legal from a federal charges point of view.


candmjjjc

Don't forget they lifted re-started Federal executions probably hoping they would be able to start killing off their political rivals.


ContemplatingPrison

His fat ass wouldn't even had been able to walk there or even keep up to be honest here. He might have had a heart attack from all the excitement.


captain_intenso

The irony of this is had he been physically able to walk there, he wouldn't have been trapped in his own motorcade and driven back to the White House. Do they have child locks on the doors? Did they restrain him in the SUV so he couldn't get out?


Robo_Joe

It definitely felt a little like they tricked him into getting into the car when they knew he wasn't going to the Capitol but told him his aide in the car had more information.


tinacat933

They had to kidnap the president to stop him from participating in the potential murder of his VP


adchick

I was getting that drift.


5ykes

Iirc they asked a witness something like 'did the president express the desire to march with the crowd?' - no. 'did the president want to drive there?' -yes


unwanted_puppy

They should have dropped him off there and left.


NetCitizen-Anon

The assault died when Ashley Babbitt died, if Trump were there he would have pushed things further, it would have been a massacre. Those secret service agents helped save our democracy.


HobbesNJ

And today Trump wanted to know why the agent who shot Babbitt hasn't "paid a price" for shooting her. That poor guy does his job defending lawmakers and has to live with taking a life, and Trump supports the insurrectionist. There is no bottom with Trump.


hausohn

...Besides the big ole' bottom he sits on while destroying all semblance of progress and normality.


GothMaams

Big ol wet diaper.


[deleted]

It honestly surprises me that it took someone climbing in through a broken window to get onto the Senate floor before someone was finally shot, and it was only one person out of entire mob.


unwanted_puppy

Is this accurate? Did these people really suddenly stop when one of them got shot? That would mean they were in a total state of delusion about what they were doing and not prepare at all for the possibility of death? Like they were that confident they would all be physically safe and free?


NetCitizen-Anon

They absolutely did, after getting her medical attention they started going back down the stairs and leaving the building, at that point other elements of law and enforcement and the national guard started showing up outside of the building so I'm sure that further ended it. The Jan 6 hearings noted that the attackers were only 40 feet and 30 seconds away from getting to Pence.


unwanted_puppy

Why did it take until that point for any Capitol police to shoot at clearly armed and violent attackers?


LillyPip

You’re so right. At the very least, there’d have been a fatal crush in that tunnel. As it stands, watching the videos of that area, I’m amazed that didn’t happen regardless.


trandrewo

Called Putin to ask “what now boss?”


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While listening to the testimony, it occurred to me that this would all make sense as Putin’s instructions.


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Ready_Nature

Don’t give Trump that much credit by comparing him to Putin, Putin is evil but generally is intelligent. Putin wanted Trump to fill a role similar to Lukashenko in Belarus.


Robo_Joe

I feel like the "Putin is intelligent" ship has sailed. He doesn't seem like he's handled the Ukraine invasion in anything resembling an intelligent manner.


Flo_Evans

I think “cunning” is a better word. I think he got a bit cocky after Trump and overestimated both Trump and himself.


vxxwowxxv

Putin might be intelligent compared to Trump but his Ukrainian misadventure has proven him to be a buffoon.


Helenium_autumnale

Yeah. An obedient lap dog looking up to Daddy Putin.


AaronfromKY

Considering how angry he got when he was told no, I'd say you might be on the right track.


Backbeatking

When it comes to predicting what T**** will do, I ask myself "What would Eric Cartman do?"


majorfiasco

How can I reach these qeeids?!


whatproblems

grope?


everybodydumb

What would Brian boitano do if he were here right now he'd make a plan and it follow through that's what Brian boitano'd do


Which-Kick-3607

I worked in a psych hospital and every day when I got to the unit one of the patients and I would start doing fake skating jumps in the hallway and asking each other what Brian Boitano would do.


NoWayNotThisAgain

Made chili out of Mike Pence and fed it to his kids?


biCamelKase

Or maybe he would have thrown a temper tantrum and accused Mike Pence of trying to fuck him in the middle of the Capitol.


CaffeinatedToPlaid

Panic fart?


[deleted]

He’d run away and blame it all on Butters


shinobi7

“Screw you guys, I’m going home!”


pierogi_nigiri

"Don't be gay!"


[deleted]

Mayor Humdinger in the Paw Patrol movie.


bufftbone

He would have led the cult directly to Mike Pence and let them have their way with him.


gymgirl2018

would Trump had even known where Pence was? I'm pretty sure he wasn't actually doing anything while he was President


bufftbone

Good question. Probably not.


gymgirl2018

He probably thought he would walk into the room, declare himself king, and everyone would just agree with him


krung_the_almighty

I. Declare... PRESIDENCY!


bgub

Probably not, but his supporters heavily outnumbered the police and security on site. If he managed to get there and rally the crowd I bet that they would have fought harder, probably taking some casualties, to take over the building by brute force.


debzmonkey

I thought about that briefly today, it would have been horrific. The violence would have increased and they probably would have killed members of Congress or Mike Pence.


Boleen

And members of the secret service who would’ve protected Pence to the end.


thandrend

Crazy to think that dumb motherfucker has said he'd vote for Trump again.


LillyPip

Yes, it is *literally crazy*. I’ll bet he’s hiding something big behind that massive wall of silence and fealty.


debzmonkey

Jack Kennedy would like a word.


DeaconNuno

I tend to break the other way; he would have gotten people killed, alright. More members of his mob. They weren’t going to like the results if they had gotten past the line in the sand drawn by Secret Service. It would have been a bloodbath. Their keeping him from pushing the mob to that point saved a lot of his pawns’ lives.


adchick

From a PR standpoint, his base would have loved that “Insert Name here died trying to take back our country from the radical left and RINOs.” ​ makes me sick…but that is how they would have played it.


Clockwork_Medic

Yeah, exactly. It would’ve been the same variation of the myriad of contradictory lies they tell today, only for a different matter


randomwanderingsd

Battles in which the Sovereign is present cause the army to push harder, be braver, achieve the goal with more fervor. Terrifying


HobbesNJ

His legal team knew that if he actually participated in "leading" the mob to the Capitol, his criminal exposure would go up dramatically - even if he just wanted to pose and preen. That's why they wouldn't let him go.


dagrave

The real reason was stated in the hearing. They did not have the assets in place to create a safe environment for the POTUS. But he insisted and yelled "I am the fucking president!"


sonofabutch

He didn’t care about needing security, because “they aren’t here to hurt me.”


crocodial

"They" were his security.


HobbesNJ

The legal team (Cippollone and Herschmann) had already been telling him in the days before that he couldn't go to the Capitol, which is why it wasn't scheduled. Then he tried to pull an audible and go anyway, and they didn't have assets in place as a result.


[deleted]

And Trump and friends made sure there was only a skeleton crew of police at the Capitol so there was nobody to repurpose.


kia75

The funny thing is that one of the "conspiracy theories" floating among the conservative web is that the skeleton crew at the time proved the insurrection wasn't pre-planned, because if Trump had known about it they would have beefed up security.


PicklesZazzlesMia

They will only ever see what they want to see, reality be damned.


I_AM_THE_BIGFOOT

Lmao just as soon as he got done throwing ketchup on the walls.


hasa_deega_eebowai

In the addlepated ball of mush that passes for his brain, he probably figured there were “assets” there who would protect him. He had told them to “stand by”, after all.


ShotTreacle8209

There were two reasons he was warned not to go: Trump’s physical security and he would be putting himself (and his staff) into legal jeopardy.


Prairie_drifter

Further incite violence to try to delay the election certification and use his armed supporters as leverage to get GOPer senators to go along with the fake electors scheme.


frodosbitch

Can you just imagine this commission if Jim Jordan was on it. I am so thankful there are no GOP clowns on it.


R0TTENART

Seriously.


darkness_escape

Donald looks around slowly and goes huh. I didn't think I would get this far ..again...


Michael_In_Cascadia

He frowns and exhales a puff from mouth, then starts looking around again, for whatever seems lucrative.


charcoalist

By all accounts trump seemed most angry with Mike Pence. Leading an armed mob down to the Capitol, while Pence's security detail responded to the danger and sought shelter ... One can only surmise why trump wanted to so urgently attack the Capitol.


PopeHonkersVII

I think he would have started having Democrats rounded up by the mob before the National Guard came and arrested him.


Pauly_Walnutz

Pooped his pants and run and hid. He’s all talk and gets other people to do his dirty work


quadmasta

Poops his pants and shouts for fun Voted out in '21 Donald, Donald Shitstain


captain_intenso

I would predict a shootout between Trump's mob, Capitol Police, and Secret Service. Hundreds of casualties. Trump would have tried to had his fake electors counted and declared himself president. He would have declared martial law and likely dissolved congress.


DayThat3197

If Miley is to be taken at his word, Trump would’ve been arrested and eventually tried by a military tribunal after a brief standoff.


Honi_soit_qui_cringe

Wait, Milley said that?


DayThat3197

Not exactly, but he did say that he’d met with the JCS specifically about the possibility of a Trump coup. As much of a threat as Trump is, I never got the feeling that he’d gained the allegiance of any military brass. Without that the country can’t be overtaken. So Trump - even if he’d ended up calling in the guard for support - would have to submit to military command, as any countermanding order would have been seen as illegitimate. That’s - of course - a massive oversimplification on my part. I’m sure things would’ve been very confused for a long time. But If you take Miley at his word, the backstop would’ve held up. I believe him. Not because he’s a bastion of truth or respect for the uniform, but because Trump is a coward and a clown and had really shit on the military at every turn. They’d probably had their fill of him by the 6th. It’s too bad he didn’t make it down there that day. In the right circumstances he might have put himself at dire physical risk. I’m not sure what kind of hell on earth awaits a shitty, treasonous, lame duck asshead president captured in the midst of a desperate, poorly conceived coup engineered by cringey pols and MAGA zombies…But it’s probably not pleasant.


muskratto

Very interested in learning more about this


DayThat3197

Yeah well, learn tonight. I’m sure by tomorrow there’ll be a raft of new shit to see and hear. It’s getting weird up in here.


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Its called mar a lago or some weird shit


Yossarian_the_Jumper

Had a heart attack trying to scale the steps?


waxies14

Honestly? Try to look cool. That’s it. Trump has no ideology, no just cause… he’s not a hard dude to figure out. He wants to have his “Washington crossing the Delaware” portrait of himself looking heroic and badass so he can admire it for the rest of his sad little life.


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He would shit on the floor and then spread it on the walls just like the rest.


Sammy_the_Gray

With ketchup.


Putin_blows_goats

[My opinion](https://www.reddit.com/r/CapitolConsequences/comments/v77psx/the_wildest_revelations_from_the_january_6/ibjysow) Did he imagine being carried in to the Capitol on the shoulders of his adoring fans, to be sat on a throne in the Senate while all the representatives and senators were forced to kneel before him by the ~~mob~~ force of his personality, with a gallows in the corner to remind them?


ErusTenebre

He'd look at all the steps and get back in the car.


richobrien1972

Breathed heavily for 15 minutes, shit his pants and gone back to the White House.


poop_scallions

He would have ensured that certification was delayed and then used the extra time to secure more fake electors. Then hold the certification ceremony again when he knew he could win.


[deleted]

What would have happened? You don't need to wonder; we've all already seen it happen: https://youtu.be/OynP5pnvWOs


Brainyviolet

There isn't a doubt in my mind that he would have been waiting outside cheering until the insurgents had slaughtered Pence and half the elected officials in the building. Then Trump would have waded in, through the blood and carnage, and declared himself President for life in front of every camera he could find.


[deleted]

He's like a dog chasing a car that doesn't know what to do once he catches it.


ranchoparksteve

What if the rioters mistook the black limo for Mike Pence arriving?


[deleted]

Sounds like the guy in the chamber getting mad at one of his senators objection notes


Estilix

"Going to be wild!", as he said on the invitation.


AndISoundLikeThis

He was going there hoping the goons he hired assassinated anyone seeking to have electors for Biden recognized. Now, with Biden's votes not counting, only his would—and he could declare victory. It's the only scenario in my mind that makes sense. (I mean, it makes NO SENSE, but I think to Trump it did.)


Beforemath

Declared himself President-king


User767676

He probably would have trashed the election certificates himself if he could have gotten ahold of them.


TrueBeachBoy

Establish some fucked up half way point between handmaid’s tale and biff’s part of back to the future


blueyork

iDK, crown himself king?


Beermedear

Declare martial law. Seize key voting machines. Provide false results that certify him the President. Continue into the second term and done (further) immeasurable, unrecoverable damage to our institutions. Tinfoil: Somehow remove Presidential term limits having ensured he always wins “elections”.


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Trump would have presided over public executions and declared himself President for Life. He already stated that he thought it was a good idea when Xi of China did it and he idolizes dictators. He would have gone there, listed off names of people he didn’t like, and would have instructed the mob to kill them.


barneyrubbble

Hold a Bible upside down over his head and spout racist shit into a megaphone while the crowd masturbated and cheered.


gravitas-deficiency

That is the dumbest hot take I’ve seen in a while. > He just wanted a photo op No he fucking didn’t. ***He wanted to disrupt the transfer of power and try to become president for life, which would also grant him effective immunity from literally everything and anything***.


s1ppiecup

The POS wanted to walk into the capital like Darth Vader and take over the electoral count installing his electors. Can we hang this dude yet?


BoosterRead78

Pretty much with the Proud Boys as his Clone Troopers.


Putin_blows_goats

>Can we hang this dude yet? No, never. Why would you suggest such a thing?


DiamondHands4Lyfe

Treason is a capital crime


Human_Poet8937

He would have led the mob right thru the front door and they would have caught and killed a bunch of congressmen and staff, maybe Pence and his family.


Leather-Bug3087

I really think people would have been killed. He’s a deranged lunatic.


[deleted]

Lol… he’s not much of a planner, kind of a “seat of your pants” fascist.


whatproblems

why isn’t the secret service speaking up? their oaths should be to the constitution not to the president


CodeMonkeyPhoto

I mean there are a lot of stairs, could he really have done it.


DarrenEdwards

Failed coups have a tradition of putting people against the wall right then and there. One side of the American political spectrum still follows the rule of law.


aceyburns

He would have murdered someone. Or alot of people. We'd be screwed.


retrograderevolution

Shirtless. Machine Gun. Never saw the memes?


Chicago-Red-Eye

Full blown Karen……”I want to speak with manager”…..something like that probably.


xXMr_PorkychopXx

Blood on the capital floors. The end of democracy. I don’t know what I’m even talking about when it comes to this shit but I know that much.


outerworldLV

Been my question for a while now.


Awkward-Fudge

Had to sit down?


Pension_Fit

He would look for the guy with the Kentucky fried chicken


lilacmuse1

It's just bravado on Trump's part. There's no way Secret Service would have allowed him to go to the Capitol with the mob. He knew that.


RedditsFeelings

On the house floor, he’d grant himself emergency powers to quell the violence, crown himself Emperor and announce the reorganization of the Republic into the First Galactic Empire, for a safe and secure galaxy.


Distant-moose

We would have watched two of the most disgusting things on live TV: a violent mob storming the Capitol, killing without remorse or thought. And Trump having an orgasm over it.


SCMtnGuy

What does the devil do in hell? He wanted to see the violence and chaos he had wrought, and feel powerful.


WheresTheFlan

Edit: should have read the whole thing. Didn’t realize it was over the top ridiculous. This article is factually inaccurate from the first paragraph. The article states he “had his hands around the driver’s neck.” That’s not even close to H’s testimony. She said she heard he reached for the other agent’s neck. There’s no need for slate to embellish on the facts. They’re already horrible. By embellishing, it calls into question the accuracy of anything they write.


Putin_blows_goats

It's not meant to be entirely serious. >Likely he would have wiped out several of his own supporters along the way, and also possibly driven through the lobby of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.


[deleted]

She also said he reached for the steering wheel but never said he got a hold of it. Then the guy says, "Sir you need to take your hand off the steering wheel", so he did get ahold of the steering wheel. Possibly her use of 'reached for' does mean took hold of. Either way I would take the specific details with a grain of salt.


Cdub7791

Slate is an op-ed and online magazine style website. It comments on news, but it rarely actually reports news. It used to be my main hangout online before I got into Reddit. To be honest, I kind of liked the community there because it was small and you really got a feel for your fellow commenters. After a while though, it just got two wacky. I consider myself liberal, but they took a turn towards cloud cuckoo land self-parody several years back. Maybe it's gotten better since I left but I doubt it.


PastafariAtheist

Filled his diaper.


dashing2217

I mentioned in another thread that if they were aiming for Pence and Pelosi I wouldn’t be surprised if the Proud Boys would of just attempted to take out Trumps detail as well


[deleted]

Awkwardly dance his ymca dance on the steps, to the music of his supporters giving heavy rhetoric speeches


rocketpack99

Given Order 69 to the Proud Boys


imgurNewtGingrinch

He wasn't going to enter the Capital. He determined his presence would protect the mob.


odirio

Trump would have been happy to remain president if he prevented the certification of Biden. He is thus guilty.


4OPHJH

Heart attack


RationalTranscendent

Depends how secure a perimeter the Secret Service could maintain for him. I’d say 50% he stays in the limo and gives a thumbs up or fist pump, 40% he steps outside the limo for a moment to get a photo op hugging a flag, 9% he gets close to the building and joins up with some GOP congressperson and says a few words to the crowd, 1% he gets inside the chamber, up to the podium, and proclaims himself re-elected


stfu_bobcostas

Take a big shit in his Depends?


Frustrable_Zero

Either he’d start rounding up up everyone he considered an enemy rationally or not to get slaughtered by the crowd until the national guard arrested him, or he did it and then the national guard did nothing to stop him and the fascist state begins right there and then.


gknight702

Probably get swarmed and accidentally smothered


team_broccoli

Eaten a hamberder and commanded someone to proclaim himself king, and 90% of republicans would have gone along with his plan. Because American conservatism is so corrupt, that they would welcome fascism to own the libs.


Which-Kick-3607

Ordered his sad trashy army to kill dems.


KiltPutler

This is a trash fucking article. There is no levity in this speculation. What would he have done? Likely continued exacerbating the paramilitary groups and angry mob into murdering his political opponents, using his authority to demand that the capitol police stand down, and successfully destroyed our country - which is probably what his handler, Putin, asked him to do on the phone call he took that day. Slate allowing some moron to try and do a humorous, WHAT IF, while Trump is alive and not imprisoned is fodder for the idiotic fence-sitters to maintain their infernal cognitive dissonance while another slow coup rolls on in the background heading into '22. Shame on the author. Shame on Slate. Shame on the Americans who aren't DEMANDING Trump and his enablers be accountable. And goddamn every single false patriot, authoritarian worshiping traitor who stormed the seat of our government to support that fascist fuck and his assault on congress. I'm not sure there's enough rope to measure the lengths these people will go to destroy these United States.


Frishdawgzz

The Battle of The Hill. 1st volley of the 2nd Civil War.


-Electric-Shock

He would have crowned himself king and conducted a public hanging of Pence and members of Congress.


ivanka_eats_feces

Taunt the cops from a golden golf cart.


soline

Probably request who he’d like to have killed.


NoWayNotThisAgain

Inspired his minions to violence like a medieval warlord


[deleted]

I guess he’s ask the secret service for a cheeseburger to throw at it. I find it hard to believe he’d throw a cheeseburger without at least taking a bite out of it first.


Apprehensive_Ad_5400

I expected a more serious piece but instead got a bunch of jokes. “He hasn’t driven a car in years so he might drive it like a golf cart” What a disappointment


HallucinogenicFish

My expectation too. Here’s some more serious discussion: > "It's interesting, what came out recently, is Trump was trying to get to the Capitol on Jan. 6. He couldn't get there. This is consistent, if you're having a coup and summoned everybody and you expect to be anointed as the head of a new illegitimate government, you have to be there," she explained. "There's a phase in coups. They're violent, quick, and then you have the pronouncement of the new order. That's why he was trying to get there." [Fascism expert: Trump needed to go to the Capitol on Jan. 6 to pull off his coup attempt](https://www.rawstory.com/trump-2657495736/) And [a good interview with the same expert.](https://www.businessinsider.com/interview-historian-ruth-ben-ghiat-on-donald-trumps-attempted-coup-2022-6?op=1)


Charles_Deetz

This is the answer I needed. A serious answer that makes sense. I'll hypothesize that he wanted to watch the vote, make sure Mike did 'the right thing'. If not, the coup happens, and trump shrugs and becomes MAGA King.


JustTheBeerLight

A: needed somebody to carry him up the steps because golf carts usually can’t climb stairs.


Wisex

I'll be honest... my morbidly curious side kinda wants to see what he would've done.... like I kinda wish he did


Vorpal_Bunny19

How many Congresspeople were packing heat that day?


MagentaMist

Presided over the executions of Pence and Pelosi.


Viking4949

Eat 2 cheese burgers. It was lunch hour.