Smoking schedule
The dog that didn’t bark in the night:
Donald Trump was aware long before he took the stage at the “Save America” rally on 6 January that he would not march to the Capitol to protest the congressional certification of Joe Biden’s election win, according to his White House private schedule from that day.
The former president started his nearly 75-minute long speech at the Ellipse by saying he would go with the crowd to the Capitol, and then repeated that promise when he said he would walk with them down Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Capitol.
But Trump’s private schedule – released by the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack in a filing on Wednesday – shows Trump must have known that there were no plans for him to join such a march, and that he was being taken back to the White House.
The newly-released private schedule indicates Trump deliberately lied to his supporters…
It documents it I suppose, but it can’t come as a surprise to anyone who’s paid attention to Trump. Walk all that way? On his own feet? In a crowd of actual human people? You must be joking. Of course he was never going to do that.
However the fact that it’s documented is evidence of conspiracy.
It is a significant revelation that could bolster the select committee’s claim in the filing that Trump engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States by seeking to obstruct a lawful function of the government by deceitful or dishonest means.
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Trump’s promises are significant as they served as one of the primary motivations for his supporters to march to the Capitol alongside militia groups like the Oath Keepers, and were used by far-right activists like Alex Jones to encourage the crowd along the route.
Well yeah. What was he supposed to do, not encourage them to march to the Capitol? The marching and attacking and entering was the whole point. It was a rally, not a get-together for coffee.
Isn’t it funny how, given that the Capitol was under attack from protesters that Trump was not whisked away to some secure spot by the Secret Service? Maybe, given the fact that it was already walled and barricaded they figured it was secure enough for him to stay there. Maybe, given the fact that the attackers were Trump supporters, they knew there was no threat to him, which is telling in itself.
‘Trump’s promises’–I think I see the problem.
Odd language. ‘There were no plans for him….’ rather than ‘he never intended.’
Not really odd in this context – it’s about the documented schedule, which is about more than his personal intentions. It all has to be planned carefully, because of logistics and so on. Michelle Obama found it very irksome and confining. She would have liked to be able to go out on the balcony when she felt like it, but she couldn’t – it required advance notice so that sharpshooters could get in place. Result: she never used it at all.