The President Who Played With Fire
What was Trump really hoping to accomplish by inviting a mob to raid the Capitol?
Is anyone still wondering what then-President Donald Trump expected to happen if he and his mob had successfully hanged Vice President Mike Pence and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, among others, on the Capitol grounds on Jan. 6 — and successfully stopped the final vote certification?
I expect his plan was similar to the strategy the Nazis used in 1933 in Germany, when that nation’s parliament building was set ablaze by insurrectionists. Hitler was the new chancellor of Germany at the time — a position of power similar to being president.
From the website of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum:
On February 27, 1933, the German parliament (Reichstag) building burned down. The Nazi leadership and its coalition partners used the fire to claim that Communists were planning a violent uprising. They claimed that emergency legislation was needed to prevent this. The resulting act, commonly known as the Reichstag Fire Decree, abolished a number of constitutional protections and paved the way for Nazi dictatorship.
Insert Black Lives Matters or Antifa, for “Communists,” and it fits like a glove.
