He had them right where he wanted them
Everybody has figured out that Trump’s 187 minutes of “inaction” in the White House dining room was actually three hours of action. He was calling senators and telling them to hold up the electoral vote count. He was calling Rudy Giuliani and getting him to make even more calls to senators for the same purpose. He was watching the riot he had fomented unfold on television.
But what nobody is talking about is that Trump had the senators right where he wanted them: under attack by his mob, cowering in their “secure locations,” terrified for their lives. And most important of all, he had Pence right where he wanted him, under a kind of pressure he had never faced in his life. Trump was finished trying to convince Pence to go along with his conspiracy to throw the election. Now he was trying to scare him to death. There was even testimony that members of Pence’s security detail were calling their families to say goodbye because they were afraid for their lives.
It was only after it became clear that the riot at the Capitol wasn’t working the way he wanted it to that Trump agreed to make his public statement reluctantly sending the mob home. But for three hours there, Trump had them terrified.
What a crash it must have been for him later that evening to realize that his plan hadn’t worked. Someone on MSNBC even pointed out that all of the shots of Trump at the White House after his 4:17 statement showed him still in his overcoat from being outside in the Rose Garden doing the taping. They are pictures of a sad, depressed man.
“They are pictures of a sad, depressed man.” I want to see the sad, depressed man photographed behind bars. That will be a day of celebration for the intelligent, and a wake-up to reality for the stupid and power-hungry.
One Senator who has escaped, IMHO, scrutiny is one Charles Grassley. One timeline is that he made a statement while the riot was going on that should Pence not be able to conduct the vote he , himself , would step in and as President Pro Tem preside over the Senate vote counting. Where did he get the idea Pence might not be present and able to do his duty. Why did he make this statement while the riot was going on?
We hear a lot about those seven GOP Reps in the House who were in on the scam. Might a few Senators also he culpable. Here is looking at you Ron Johnson, Tommy Tubberville and Chuck Grassley. Might some of the calls not on the President's log for that day be to one or more of these Senators?
The plot thickens?