Trump well knew what was going on Jan 6

Let's also remember that Jan. 6 did not live in a vacuum, as Tucker Carlson and the GOP would like you to believe by cherry-picking this day and making a red herring out of it. It was not simply a group of ragtag conspiracy theorists who spontaneously got out of hand.

It was the culmination of a months-long, multi-faceted effort at every level of government and conservative media - led by the President of the United States to overturn his election loss.

If successful, these efforts would have invalidated 81 million votes, ended any semblance of democracy as it had stood for 235 years, and established the U.S. as an authoritarian state.

These are all actions and events related to Trump known before the Jan. 6 committee even held its first hearings:

• Trump tried to extort the country of Ukraine for political dirt on Biden. He was impeached over it.
• He tried to weaponize COVID-19 politically by waging a war on mail-in ballots, which he knew would favor Democrats.
• Him and DeJoy tried to manipulate the USPS.
• Systematically and intentionally promoted The Big Lie that the election was stolen, which tens of millions of people have come to believe.
• Tried to get electors to illegally cast their votes.
• Him, his lawyers, and allies filed 60+ ridiculous lawsuits for lower courts to overturn the election (with zero evidence), oftentimes not even arguing there was fraud in court, yet claiming it in public.
• Supported an absolutely absurd case for SCOTUS to overturn the election (with zero evidence).
• Summoned Michigan GOP members to attempt to subvert election results.
• He undoubtedly provoked his AG's resignation a few weeks after the election, who soon-before felt compelled to announce there was "No widespread fraud."
• Attended a meeting which floated martial law.
• Told election officials to "stop counting"
• Suggested the military should force states to rehold elections.
• Tried to get the VP to illegally name him President.
• Called the PA Speaker of the House in an attempt to overturn the results.
• Pressured Governor Brian Kemp to push the state legislature to overturn the election.
• Threatened the GA Secretary of State with legal consequences if he did not find enough votes to overturn the election.
• Tried to get an insane conspiracy theorist to lead a special counsel.
• Defied and fired his own election security officials.
• Purged key Pentagon positions after the election.
• Ordered the Pentagon to stop working with Biden's transition team
• Had a draft declaration which instructed the military to seize ballots.
• Directly told the DOJ to lie about the election. "Just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the R. Congressmen"
• Pressured the DOJ to file a lawsuit to SCOTUS to nullify the election.
• Plotted the logistics of overturning the election with WH staff.
• Plotted the logistics of overturning the election with his lawyer, John Eastman. A federal judge, after seeing the evidence, has now suggested multiple times both Trump and Eastman's efforts "more likely than not" constitute felonies.
• Incited a violent insurrection on U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden.

It's nothing short of a miracle that the people involved resisted and worse things did not happen.

All of this could happen again as well:

AFTER the attack happened, the same night - 147 Republican lawmakers returned to the broken-glass halls of the Capitol and still voted to overturn the election. Most of them remain in Congress today.