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The events of January 6 were more closely coordinated by the WH than we've been led to believe—from the Brian Jack-Mo Brooks call, to a dozen current/former Trump employees assisting the march, to Trump friend Jones saying the WH asked him to lead it and Roger Stone echoing that.
I'm honestly concerned that the Trump impeachment trial is happening too soon, not too late. I've become certain—based on the 800+ major-media stories I've compiled—that Trump didn't just incite the insurrection, but helped plan it. But investigators need more time to confirm it.
As ever, I'm only speaking on the basis of major-media reports—no nonsensical speculation. The picture that is coming together from such reports is that January 6 played out exactly as Trump and Giuliani intended it to, which is why the reports say Trump was so pleased about it.
There's a reason Trump told rally organizers he'd go with the marchers—and then told the marchers that too—after the Secret Service had told him he couldn't. There's a reason his teleprompter had comments loaded about Pence that he knew were untrue from speaking to Pence himself.
I doubt either Trump or Giuliani were expecting violence and destruction, but that they wanted the Capitol (a) occupied, and (b) in a state of security breach sufficient to forestall the certification of Biden's win until a later date seems to me nearly certain from the evidence.
Weirdly, the one saving grace in all this is that it probably doesn't matter: Republicans will do what they always do, which is find one whackjob lawyer who previously held a different opinion to tell them the whole proceeding is illegal. Then they can just ignore all the facts.
