finally surfaced, confirming what US Person knew all along--he was into the conspiracy up to his neck. The only significant development that remains is his indictment for conspiracy to commit sediition by a very reluctant Department of Justice. The UK's Guardian newspaper reports based on multiple sources he made several phone calls to the main characters--Gulliani, Bannon, and Eastman--plotting to overthrow the government of the United States on the night of January 5th. He talked to lawyers and non-lawyers separately, so as not to violate any attorney-client privilege that may have been applicable.
In his calls he complained about the lack of cooperation from Vice President Mike Pence and discussed ways to delay certification of the Electoral College vote the next day in Congress. Trumpillini was reportedly furious at his VP for refusing to participate in the coup, calling Pence "arrogant" in a phone call with Bannon. He also sought suggestions from the conspirators on ways to delay to the certification in order to allow states controlled by GOP governments to send in alternative Trump electors. The fallback position agreed upon was to pressure GOP congress members to raise enough objections to the certification without Pence to force an adjournment of the joint session . Guilliani followed through on this idea by calling at least one GOP senator, Tommy Tuberville later that evening asking him to object to certification of ten states' votes until the next day, January 7th.
Apparently, Der Leader was delighted to see his 30,000 supporters storming the Capital on January 6th in search of the electoral ballots, according to Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse (R). The demagogue incited the rioters by telling them to march down Pennsylvania Avenue to the Capitol and "fight like hell" to save their democracy. In reality he was using the mob for his own perfidious attempt to stay in power. The fact that he wanted to find ways to stop certification by any means possible accounts for why he did practically nothing to call off his mob despite the violence taking place on Capitol Hill.
What the corporate media is missing about this astounding series of events is that they have no historical precedent in American history. No president has ever attempted to prevent the peaceful transition of power. Domestic pundits tend to dismiss Trumpillini's putsch as a "clown car" or "dumpster fire" full of ridiculous men separated from reality by their sense of impunity. Foreign observers call the January 6th Insurrection what it is, a coup attempt to overthrow the legitimately elected Untied States government. The fact that it had little chance of succeeding is totally irrelevant to its historic social significance.
Perhaps the closest historical parallel is from Red October, 1917, when the mob, stirred into revolt by Lenin and the Bolsheviks, stormed the Winter Palace to remove Kerensky's provisional government and install Lenin in power. Instead of incendiary rhetoric from rabble rousers and sidewalk pamphleteers, the modern mob ferments in the echo chamber of cyberspace, unexpectedly erupting into reality. The most disturbing aspect of the January 6th coup is the complicity of the GOP, which has failed to distance itself from the rioters and their leader. Some of its members may have even aided and abetted them. Refusing to participate in governance, the GOP has become the party of the Mob. Belittling the American version of the coup d'état does nothing to remedy the defects Individual One wished to exploit for his own aggrandizement. He is a demonstrably dangerous man, antithetical to democracy.