The stuff covered last night has always been the key to me, because it pretty clearly demonstrates the one thing all the lawyers say is necessary: Intent. He had his staff pleading with him. He had his family pleading with him. He had his political allies pleading with him. He had his media allies pleading with him. And he steadfastly refused. It is clear that he wanted those people doing exactly what they were doing. He was only sorry he couldn't BE there as conquering hero.
First of all, nothing was "covered" by such a few short and highly selectively edited video clips of Trump allies introduced by speeches which were far longer than the clips themselves, and put the spin on them that the TDS committee want to put on them. We don't know what else people said to him at the time, and there was absolutely no cross-examination to test the veracity of what they say that they said.
Second, suppose they really did "plead" with him. What did they plead with him to do? Say that the election was NOT stolen and that he had been lying about that? Take all the blame for the riot itself? Tell his supporters to leave quick before Walmart closed? Nope.
Did they plead with him to speak against closing the border, or therapeutics for COVID, or putting American first, or re-opening drilling in the U.S.? No, they did not plead with Trump for any of those things.
All they asked (not pleaded, that's hype), was that he ask the rioters to stop rioting. Which he did. In short, they did not want him to stop being Trump, they just told him that he was Trump-ing it up a little too much that day. The American people realize that his policies were better for them than the Dems' more and more everyday, and we're not even to the midterms yet.
Trump-ism isn't dead, and neither is Trump. Dems might as well run Biden again in 2026, so someone expendable gets their ass handed to them. That ass-handing will be done either by Trump, or by DeSantis as a younger, better, version of Trump who will actually build the wall and never shut down his purview for COVID as Trump did. Maybe - I need a less likely word for maybe here - if the media starts grooming them right away,
someone could get the nom instead. But it is hard to imagine the media grooming someone that the GOP voters would not hate. Like L. Cheney.
Maybe some of you Dems have a GOP candidate/Dem Candidate race in mind that would not be a 48 state landslide. If so, shout it out.