I don't think it's that hard to connect the dots that this was planned in advance by Trump and people he installed in the Pentagon and it was hoped that the crowd would capture or kill some of the people in the Capitol. https://twitter.com/brynstole/status/1347243333396041729
The open planning on places that should be monitored like Parler, the selling of merchandise like shirts advertising Civil War on January 6, the open threats by Trump's inner circle, the refusal to send the National Guard, Capitol Police welcoming the rioters in. Planned.
So if it was planned, what was expected? That a mob of people invited to storm the Capitol with rhetoric including Lin Wood's threats of executing Pence - these people would convince lawmakers with rhetoric? Of course not. Had they not been evacuated there would have been blood.
The right is busy whining about the woman who was shot - the only one during an armed insurrection! - and comparing this to protests when it was a attempt coordinated in plain sight to murder lawmakers or take them hostage and violently overthrow the government.
Here's the "funny" part about it: Trump was expecting these folks to behave like a trained army and go do what he had primed them to do. But the mob was such a bunch of dipshits that they just took selfies and put their feet up on desks. They utterly failed at his task.
Final note: Trump is an expert at stochastic terrorism, building up a violent frenzy and opportunistically exploiting it. The army/police weren't deployed, Capitol Police let them in, the doors were open for them. His cronies were talking about executions. It isn't that complex.
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