I’m just going to put this here for the record:
Mr. Trump initially resisted taping the video, agreeing to do it only after aides pressed him and he appeared to suddenly realize he could face legal risk for prodding the mob, coming shortly after the chief federal prosecutor for Washington left open the possibility of investigating the president for illegally inciting the attack by telling supporters to march on the Capitol and show strength…“We are looking at all actors, not only the people who went into the building,” Michael R. Sherwin, the U.S. attorney in Washington, told reporters. Asked if that included Mr. Trump, he did not rule it out. “We’re looking at all actors,” he repeated. “If the evidence fits the elements of a crime, they’re going to be charged.”…
In the weeks since the election, Mr. Trump has shrunk his circle, shutting out those who told him to concede and favoring those telling him what he wanted to hear, that he was somehow cheated of the presidency.
As supporters stormed into the Capitol on Wednesday, Mr. Trump was initially pleased, officials said, and disregarded aides pleading with him to intercede.
Of course he was pleased. He went on video as it was happening and told these people that he loved them. They had chanted “we love you” at the rally in which he directed them to go to the Capitol and stop the vote. The only reason he gave in an did the phony video last night is that they persuaded him that he is in legal jeopardy.
And lest you think the GOP establishment is ready to back away, check this out:
The anxiousness extended to cocktail parties held Wednesday night at the winter meeting of the Republican National Committee in Florida.
“People are freaking fed up. Repeatedly, what I kept hearing over and over again was that the president is responsible for the loss in Georgia and the president is responsible for what happened yesterday,” said one Republican operative at the event, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to describe private conversations. “It may well mean that he will not have the same kingmaking power.”
Nonetheless, Trump was showered in adulation when he called in to a Thursday RNC breakfast, an audible signal of his continued pull over many activists…
On Thursday, less than 24 hours after the riot, he called into the RNC’s winter meeting in Florida, where he was greeted with cheers at an all-members breakfast when placed on speakerphone. He did not mention the rioting and only spoke for about a minute. He complained about the media.
“We love you!” some in the room yelled when the president spoke.
I don’t know where this is going but I sure hope that all government offices around the country and all the inauguration planners have enhanced security right now.