Hey Portland - you might get what you deserve.

[Rev. Rye]

Just for the record, here’s an article chronicling Trump’s attempts at trying to use the law to overturn the election as of the morning of the storming of the Capitol.. His accomplishments in the intervening two months:

• 62 lawsuits filed by Trump or his allies to contest the results of the election.
  
• 61 of those lawsuits were lost.
  
• The sole victory being that Pennsylvania voters who failed to provide proper ID three days after the election could not cure their votes. Very few votes were effected and it had zero effect on the election results. 
  
• Two lawsuits headed for the Supreme Court and endorsed by Trump were dismissed by the Supreme Court. 
  
• Three recounts in two states, each of which Biden won. 
  
• Zero electoral college votes were changed as a result of these claims. 
  
• An attempt to strong-arm the governor of Georgia to give him a large enough margin of votes for him to win.
  
• A last-ditch effort to claim that Mike Pence could overrule the results of the election, which turned out to be fake. 
  

The idea that Trump could meaningfully challenge the results and regain the presidency, even on the morning of January 6, were slim to none, and it looks like even Trump was aware of this. 

And as for the speech that day, looking at it, I couldn’t help but notice that he used the word “fight” twenty times, and any variant of “peace” exactly once. And, if there was to be no violence, what did Giuliani mean when he talked about “trial by combat” earlier in the day? And, furthermore, there were reports that people attending the rally were looking to start something. How likely was it that he didn’t know about this and said some shit  that could be taken as provocation to violence anyway? And why would Trump have been reveling in the chaos at the Capitol if he honestly planned for a peaceful demonstration? You can see why I (and, frankly, anyone who isn't Hell-bent on exonerating Trump) don't buy that he seriously expected that the protesters would all be peaceful, right?