Why Trump called off his mob at 4:17 pm? [View all]
He was not talked into it. He did not do it because he thought it was the right thing to do.
He had gotten a message that Mike Pence had usurped his authority and called out the National Guard to "clear the Capitol". He did not have the people or the weapons in place to defeat the National Guard.
His plan was to declare "martial law".
The timeline:
At 2:12 pm, VP Pence was rushed off the Senate floor as the mob flooded inside.
Twelve minutes later, at 2:24pm, Trump tweeted, "Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify,”.
At 3:36pm, Kayleigh McEnany, tweeted that Trump had just called in the NG...We now know some of this is not true... We now know Trump was not the one who called in the NG, Pence did. Pence would have called them a few minutes earlier and someone informed Trump, who then informed McEnany to put out the tweet that he (Trump) was the one calling out the National Guard.
At 4:08pm, Pence placed an urgent phone call from the Capitol as rioters pummeled police and vandalized the building, informing Miller the Capitol was not secure and asking military leaders for a deadline for securing the building, according to a document prepared by the Pentagon for internal use that was obtained by The Associated Press.
“Clear the Capitol,” Pence had told them.
Nine minutes later, at 4:17 pm Trump, knowing that his mob was not in place and was going to be defeated and embarrassingly beaten down, tweeted his video message to his mob:
"I know your pain. I know your hurt," he begins. "We love you. You're very special. You've seen what happens. You've seen the way others are treated. ... I know how you feel, but go home, and go home in peace."
Around the same time, Maryland and Virginia were sending National Guard and state troopers to the District of Columbia. Trump and his mob retreated.
I sincerely believe this is what happened.
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