“I know we all have got our doubts about the last election. I want to assure you that I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress!”The fact that Pence broke that promise flies in the face of his "Too Honest" slogan he is currently pimping.
— Pence, 01/04/2021
That quote by VP Pence on Jan 4, 2021 should be proof enough for President Trump that he truly believed that he won the election. After all, his Vice President also had doubts about the integrity of the election just two days before the January 6 speech.
That should be enough to get the latest round of indictments tossed out.
-PJ
“I know we all have got our doubts about the last election. I want to assure you that I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress!”Thinking about this quote from Pence some more...
— Pence, 01/04/2021
Actually, President Trump can make the very credible claim that it was actually this quote from Pence that incited the riot, and not Trump's January 6 speech.
Trump can claim that nobody knew what he was going to say until he started speaking on January 6.
However, two days before the speech Pence set the expectation "We will have our day in Congress" and gave trouble-makers a two-day lead time to organize and travel to DC.
President Trump can show that on January 6 he implored the crowd to go peacefully to the Capitol and show their numbers. That was an extemporaneous comment made to a already peaceful gathering.
But it was Mike Pence's quote that made the "promise" to personally do something about it in two days. I'm saying that it was Mike Pence who galvanized the people to riot at the Capitol, not Donald Trump.
-PJ