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Again, it begs the questionHere's reportage that informs on that question:
"For weeks, President Trump and his supporters had been proclaiming Jan. 6, 2021, as a day of reckoning. A day to gather in Washington to “save America” and “stop the steal” of the election he had decisively lost, but which he still maintained — often through a toxic brew of conspiracy theories — that he had won by a landslide.
And when that day came, the president rallied thousands of his supporters with an incendiary speech. Then a large mob of those supporters, many waving Trump flags and wearing Trump regalia, violently stormed the Capitol to take over the halls of government and send elected officials into hiding, fearing for their safety.
“Big protest in D.C. on January 6th,” Mr. Trump tweeted on Dec. 19, just one of several of his tweets promoting the day. “Be there, will be wild!”
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The POTUS, the CIC.......encourages American citizens to come to DC and "Be wild"!
Not my idea of mature, wise, responsible .........leadership.
If Trump wanted them not to violently attack the Capitol, what is it that he wanted them to do?
Congress and Mike Pence were certifying the vote, how did Trump expect his mob to stop them?