J6
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Trump sent the mob to the capitol. He told them to stop the count of electors. He told them to fight like hell. He thought Mike Pence was going to reject electors from battleground states.x.com
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He tweeted out that Pence had betrayed him and then watched the riot on Fox for three hours.
Did it occur to him that the 10,000 guard troops weren't there? Did he contact Miller or Platt to order deployment?
EatTheRich
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In fact, several people begged Trump on January 6 to deploy the NG and he flatly refused. It took Pence going outside the chain of command to make that happen, and when that maneuver worked, that’s when Trump called his attack dogs off with a tweet just as he could have done 4 hours earlier.
