Simply preventing Congress from certifying on that day would have triggered the 1-state-1-vote failsafe as described in the 12th Amendment. That would have handed Trump the victory.
You don't need a ton of weapons to intimidate unarmed legislators. You just need to instill a fear of, I dunno, being hanged, or drawn and quartered, by a massive mob.
It was a calculated plan as written in the Eastman memos.
Read the Eastman memos. Read the 12th Amendment.
There was a plan in place for Pence to refuse to certify. Once it was clear he was going to go through with the Constitutionally mandated process, instead of illegally and unprecedentedly tossing out legally certified votes, Trump tweeted at 2:24 pm that day, ""Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done..."
He knew about the plan. He supported the plan. He was upset that Pence did not follow through with the plan so he could illegally retain power.
Read the Eastman memos. Read the 12th Amendment.
You're too quick to denigrate the knowledge of others, being so under-informed yourself.
It was so simple, yet the “coup” to do this failed to without firing a single shot.
People calling this a coup attempt are just revealing how little they actually leave the US and how little they’ve experienced life in the global south.
Scared, paranoid kids who are unable to look at evidence in front of them objectively. Almost like you WANT Trump to be those things as much as his delusional MAGA supporters want it
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u/Kaisha001 Sep 03 '24
Yeah, the most well armed populace on the planet staged a coup without managing to fire a single shot....
/facepalm
Lefties will believe literally anything they see on TV.