Did Danforth fucking Quayle save the nation in January?
Dan Quayle. Fuck.
shut up
Okay, technically the answer is no. But still... in reading the Esquire article on John Eastman's memo of January 4, 2021, drawn up under Trump's supervision, to convince Mike Pence (who Eastman & Trump seem to have considered a team player and a coward) to gum up the works of the Electoral college enough to throw the country into chaos.
This is why Trump's team assembled the maga mob on the 6th. They were to be there to create enough street pressure to support an EC coup geared at throwing the election into the House, where Republicans held a 26 state majority. The mob would ensure that no delegations got weak and supported the actual winner of the election.
It gets worse. Pence didn't reject the insane, unconstitutional, Rube Goldbergesque coup mechanism out of hand. He actually called up Dan Quayle to get His Eminence's input.
As writer Charles Pierce puts it:
And before we all start blessing the name of Michael Richard Pence, we should remember that he actually agonized over what to do, going so far as to consult with Dan Quayle, who had to remind Pence what Pence’s duty to the republic actually was. We now have the game plan, in writing.
When Pence got back to Trump with his No, that's when Trump started tantruming his personal insults, via Twitter, at the Veep. Of course the 1/6 protestors were already on their way to DC. Without Pence playing his key role in the coup's game plan, Trump, Rudy, and all the other rally speakers improvised a Plan C: fire up the mob and send them down to the Capitol to beat up some cops and smear their feces on the walls.
No one spoke up to warn Congress, especially not Pence, who dutifully kept Trump's machinations secret.
You out have to read the whole thing. This was their plan
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But I pretend not to hear them!
All he knew was Mike came back with a No and Trump announced they weren't friends anymore. Literally, Trump said that. 
That's when they decided to give their mob a more central roll in the drama
The excerpt about it 
Because he didn't trust the secret service? Not doubting you just trying to recollect where that came from I just watched The New York times compendium on that day. They had a little snippet of pence in his office acting like business as usual.
On edit.... Which tells me he didn't expect the goons to be unleashed like they were
