1. The mob was very much armed as the released police transcripts revealed.
2. The plan was for the mob to be assisted by the Commander in Chief and the loyalists at his disposal.
The average price of gas that day was $2.41 per gallon, somehow your source feels the need to lie and make things up to make a point they couldn’t make otherwise. Economic analysts were warning of inflation (higher than the 1.4% it already was) just around the corner due to Trump’s years of print-borrow-and-spend economics.