I hadn’t heard this quote before. Apparently, when he was trying to talk Pence into overturning the election and Pence said he didn’t have the power to do that, he said this:
Gesturing at some of his supporters already gathered and shouting outside the White House, Trump asked, “Well, what if these people say you do?”
The president was willing to find authority in the mob if he lacked it in the law.
No doubt about it.
Trump then said:
“Wouldn’t it almost be cool to have that power?”
Trump then said: “You’ve betrayed us. I made you. You were nothing.”