FACT: Prior to 1/6, Trump lawyer John Eastman told Trump that (1) Team Trump needed 5-10 days to get GOP-led state legislatures to decertify Biden's win; (2) by law, if the joint session began it couldn't be adjourned. So it had to either never begin or be impossible to continue.
(PS) If you understand that one fact, you understand 1/6.
(PS2) You also understand why some paramilitary groups left Trump's speech early—and some never went at all. The attack had to begin at a certain time to achieve either of its objectives: 1) stop the session beginning; or 2) make it impossible to continue prior to certification.
(PS3) PROOF has established that both Trump's legal team and Trump's political campaign were in touch with paramilitary extremists both before January 6 and on January 6.
The paramilitary extremists knew *exactly* what had to happen for Trump to get Biden's electors decertified.
The paramilitary extremists knew *exactly* what had to happen for Trump to get Biden's electors decertified.
(PS4) So all the far-right BS about "if we'd wanted to stage a coup, we would have ____________" is nonsense. All of the paramilitary groups involved in the attack were well aware that what was needed was a postponement of the joint session; a government takeover wasn't the plan.
(PS5) Look at it another way: there was *no Trumpist plan to "win" the joint session*—yet Team Trump was *convinced he could continue as POTUS*. Why? Because it firmly believed that the events of January 6 would require a postponement of the joint session. Do the math from there.
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