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aI44, Trump sat on his ass. Go to it people. I love you for it. They love me too. Sigh. Luxuriating in the riot.

No proof Trump asked for troops on Jan. 6 or that Democrats denied a request
https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/10/facebook-posts/no-proof-trump-asked-troops-jan-6-or-democrats-den/

And see what Pence said and what Trump didn't say or do.

Also important: What Trump didn’t do
Analysis by Philip Bump National columnist
June 10, 2022 at 3:28 p.m. EDT
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Let’s say, just for the sake of argument, that tens of thousands of people showed up in Washington without Trump cajoling them to. Let’s say they were there because they thought the election had been stolen, even without Trump having said a word to that effect. And let’s say that, once there, a subset of the group marched on the Capitol and broke inside, intent on disrupting the finalization of Trump’s election loss as Congress counted the electoral votes.

What might you expect the president of the United States to do? The Capitol, just over a mile down the street from the White House, is being overrun by angry rioters and members of Congress and the vice president are inside. They are at risk. What would you expect the response from the chief executive to be?

Perhaps something like this?

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“He was very animated and he issued very explicit, very direct, unambiguous orders. … He was very animated, very direct, very firm to [Army] Secretary [Christopher] Miller: Get the military down here, get [National] Guard down here, put down this situation, etc.”
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That’s Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark A. Milley, telling the Jan. 6 committee about a phone call he had with a senior administration official on the day of the riot. But that forceful insistence on addressing the riot didn’t come from the president. It came from Vice President Mike Pence.

Trump, Cheney said during Thursday’s hearing, “did not call his secretary of defense,” “did not talk to his attorney general,” “did not talk to the Department of Homeland Security,” “gave no order to deploy the National Guard that day” and “made no effort to work with the Department of Justice to coordinate and display and deploy law enforcement assets.”

Pence demanded action. Trump demanded nothing.

Why? Why wouldn’t the president want immediate action to stem the violence? Messages from allies were flooding his chief of staff’s phone, demanding he do something. But he didn’t. Why not?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/10/also-important-what-trump-didnt-do/