The Secret Service took steps to try to make it happen, including asking D.C. police to block intersections for a motorcade.
that a review of its records found no operational plans to have Trump join his supporters at the Capitol.
Trump ultimately was transported back to the White House, where he watched television, spoke with lawmakers over the phone about overturning the election, and complained on Twitter about Vice President Mike Pence, who was moved to a secure location in the Capitol. It was not until several hours later when he finally posted a video telling his supporters to go home. But if Trump had his way, he would’ve been at there alongside them. “Secret Service wouldn’t let me,” Trumpin April.
Trump’s chief of staff at the time, Mark Meadows, recounted that Trump told him after his “Stop the Steal” speech that his line about walking down to the Capitol wasn’t to be taken literally. “When he got off stage, President Trump let me know that he had been speaking metaphorically about the walk to the Capitol,” Meadows. “He knew as well as anyone that we couldn’t organize a trip like that on such short notice.
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