Trump did tell everyone to go home in a tweet and was banned by Twitter 10 minutes later and had his account deleted.
10 A.M.: Trump is told that many of the rally goers have weapons.
10:15 A.M.: Rudy Giuliani, acting as Trump’s attorney, calls for “trial by combat” in Trump’s earshot.
12 P.M.: Trump tells staff to get metal detectors away from the rally.
12:15 P.M.: Trump tells the armed crowd to “fight like hell” and keep fighting until the election results are overturned.
1:00 P.M.: Trump supporters breach Capitol security.
1:25 P.M.: Trump learns of the armed invasion of the Capitol.
2 P.M.: White House Counsel tells Trump’s chief of staff that Trump needs to call off the riot.
2:15 P.M.: White House Counsel again contacts Trump’s chief of staff to ask that Trump call off the riot; chief of staff responds that Trump is not going to call off the riot and that he agrees with the rioters and particularly with their efforts to kill Mike Pence.
2:24 P.M.: Trump, having watched an armed mob ransack the Capitol calling for Pence’s death, tweets that Pence failed him.
2:28 P.M.: Marjorie Taylor Greene contacts Trump’s chief of staff to ask him to tell Trump to calm people down.
2:32 P.M.: Laura Ingraham contacts Trump’s chief of staff to say Trump needs to tell everyone to go home.
2:35 P.M.: Trump’s former acting chief of staff contacts Trump’s chief of staff saying Trump needs to tell everyone to go home.
2:38 P.M.: Trump reiterates to his chief of staff that he will not tell the rioters to go home.
2:53 P.M.: Donald Trump Jr. contacts Trump’s chief of staff saying that Trump must tell the rioters to go home. He replies that he is pushing hard to get Trump to do so.
3 P.M.: On the phone, Kevin McCarthy tells Trump to tell the rioters to go home. Trump replies that they care more about the election than McCarthy does.
3 P.M.: White House staff draft a statement for Trump to release condemning “violent and illegal actions” by the rioters. Trump refuses to release the statement.
3:09 P.M.: Trump’s former chief of staff texts his chief of staff to say that Trump should tell the rioters to go home.
3:13 P.M.: Trump’s former HHS Secretary texts his chief of staff to say Trump should tell the rioters to go home, while Trump refuses to do so.
3:31 P.M.: Sean Hannity contacts Trump’s chief of staff to say Trump should tell the rioters to go home; the chief of staff replies that he is working on getting Trump to do so.
4:03 P.M.: Trump delivers a Rose Garden address to the rioters, but departs from his prepared remarks saying “no one should be using violence or threats.”
4:05 P.M.: Donald Trump Jr. contacts Trump’s chief of staff saying Trump needs to go on TV and call off the rioters.
4:15 P.M.: Biden goes on TV criticizing Trump’s tacit support of the riot.
4:17 P.M.: It having become clear that the riot has failed, Trump goes on Twitter to tell the rioters to go home; they do so immediately.