'What if the Secret Service and other aides had kowtowed to 'the (expletive deleted) president' and driven him to the Capitol?' Will_Bunch writes. 'How might that have changed the course of the attempted and ultimately failed coup that was underway?'
for Donald Trump, for whatever remains left of his tattered legacy, and possibly even for his schemes to return to the White House in January 2025. Over just a couple of hours, Hutchinson laid out a compelling case that Trump and his closest aides knew the potential for violence on Jan. 6 and knew that morning of dangerous weapons, yet still sought mayhem at the Capitol when the votes were to be counted.
What if the Secret Service and other aides had indeed kowtowed to “the president” and driven him to the Capitol? How might that have changed the course of the attempted and ultimately failed coup that was underway? In other words, Trump’s physical presence could have intensified the violence, prolonged it, and created a scenario where it would have taken police and ultimately troops longer, and with much more difficulty, to clear the Capitol and re-take the building. And if that had happened, it might have been unsafe for Vice President Mike Pence and Congress to resume Biden’s certification.
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