The eighth presentation of the January 6 Committee was given last night. VP Mike Pence's security forces were so threatened by the coup rioters searching to find and kill the VP that they called their loved ones to say goodbye in case they did not survive.
They thought they might be killed.
They thought that Mike Pence might be killed.
One way you can look at Trump's behavior on the 6th was that he "did nothing". Absolute nonsense. Trump very actively "did something" - he kept the military from intervening in the coup attempt - he refused to call the Military of any kind to come to the aid of the White House police to put down the rioters. That is an active action to aid and abet the attempted Coup. Eventually, Mike Pence did call the military and the violence was ended.
Trump sat his filthy fat ass in the Dining Room next to the Oval Office and watched it all on Fox News (where else?). Trump was pleaded with by virtually everybody on the White House staff in the White House to call off the violence. He VERY ACTIVELY let the violence continue because they were doing exactly what he asked them to do - trying to overturn the election.
All the phone logs and diary entries for that day while he was in the White House were wiped out - admission of guilt via coverup.
He allowed no photos in the White House on that day - admission of guilt via coverup.
These are admissions of guilt via coverup of his ACTIVITIES that day. He did NOT "do nothing". He actively stoked and promoted the violence.
At a critical juncture he tweeted that Mike Pence was a coward and didn't do what he was supposed to do. That tweet was read as it was intended - an order from Trump to the rioters to go find Pence and kill him.
At one point Trump tweeted to stop attacking the police - and that was understood by the rioters to go after the Congress People, not the police, and do them harm.
One fabulous image was the despicable Josh Hawley running for his life along the halls as police watched him go. This after he raised his fist in defiant solidarity with the rioters-to-be prior to the violence. Hawley is apparently making his presidential run on the notion that real manly manly men are no longer allowed in this country because of ??? liberals ??? Nice to see the manly manly man turning tail and running.
Finally Trump was forced by fear of the invoking of the 25th amendment that would remove him from office because of mental incompetence, he robotically read something telling the rioter to go home, that he loved them, that the election was stolen, stolen, stolen, he loved them, loved them, loved them.
Fascism in action. It is still ongoing. The Party that Used to be called The Republican Party has become the fascist party dedicated to ending democracy in America - limiting votes of color, installing fascist operatives to "count" the votes, and "certify" Republican victories.
America is in trouble.
Prison please.
