The Jan. 6 committee wanted to question Scavino about exactly this, among other things, but could not.
All this information would presumably come out at trial, which considerably raises the stakes around a potential Supreme Court delay.
In this telling, the mob wasn’t all that directed by Trump; it just got out of control, and wasn’t particularly motivated toward realizing any concrete project.
In reality, those narratives are part of the same story: Trump saw the mob violence as the weapon to complete the procedural coup once it had failed him on every other front.
He incited and directed it toward that precise end. »
