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The NYT Daily podcast yesterday had some insightful info from some of their reporters on the ground.

The president was basically communicating with the mob through Twitter. Ten minutes after Trump tweeted that his VP was a coward and a traitor, the mob that had invaded the Capitol started chanting, "Give us Pence". This is as the U.S. VP is also being evacuated.

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“Coward and a traitor.” Is that an actual quote or are you editorializing?

The actual Tweet is “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country”.

I do also recall that he called out Pence during the speech leading to the riot as well.

However the thing that stood out the most to me at that speech is that his son said they would make the party the “Trump Republican Party”, which seemed to indicate a coming purge.

Now at the time, I thought it would be a nonviolent purge, but considering the riot I am not sure what was actually intended since his followers took that to mean Pence should be hanged.

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