Trump Scraps January 6 Anniversary Plans as Top Adviser Cops to Entire Coup Plot on Live TV

As the anniversary of the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol approaches, at least one American will not be commemorating the day in the manner in which he had hoped. That American is former president Donald Trump, who previously had big plans for the occasion involving a press conference at Mar-a-Lago and, from what we can tell, a speech about how the violent insurrection was actually a good thing because the 2020 election was stolen from him, with the insistence that anyone suggesting otherwise should be thrown in a gulag. There also probably would have been party favors (“Make America January 6 Again” hats), at least one balloon arch, and pigs in a blanket because, after all, the guy still thinks this is an event to look back on fondly. “Remember this day forever!” he told the bloodthirsty mob last year, and damn it, he meant it!

Unfortunately for old man Trump, things will not be going down as planned. While reason and logic have rarely, if ever, gotten through to him, advisers were reportedly able to convince him that the whole thing was one of his worst ideas ever, which, obviously, is saying something. According to Axios, Senator Lindsey Graham urged the ex-president to cancel the presser, saying “there could be peril in doing a news conference,” while Laura Ingraham used her Monday night show to signal that she also thought the whole thing was a car crash waiting to happen, asking a guest the leading question, “Some things were horrific that happened and shouldn’t have happened that day…. Is it smart for President Trump to do a rally on that particular day, versus next week or the week before?”

One person familiar with the matter told The Washington Post that “it was going to be awful, awful press,” noting how Trump had originally announced the whole thing “on a lark” and without an established plan, which sounds about right. As The New York Times’ Maggie Haberman reported on Tuesday, “it was becoming clear he wasn’t likely to get the live TV coverage he was hoping for,” which probably led to an ex-presidential hissy fit and the decision to cancel.

Of course, in a statement released by his Save America PAC, Trump pinned the blame elsewhere for the event being scrapped, saying/screaming: “In light of the total bias and dishonesty of the January 6th Unselect Committee of Democrats, two failed Republicans, and the Fake News Media, I am canceling the January 6th Press Conference at Mar-a-Lago on Thursday, and instead will discuss many of those important topics at my rally on Saturday, January 15th, in Arizona—It will be a big crowd!” He added: “This is the Democrats’ Great Cover-Up Committee and the Media is complicit…. Why is the primary reason for the people coming to Washington D.C., which is the fraud of the 2020 Presidential Election, not the primary topic of the Unselect Committee’s investigation? This was, indeed, the Crime of the Century.”

How will Trump be spending the riot’s anniversary instead? For starters, he might be talking to his lawyers about the fact that three more officers who responded to the attack have sued him, asking a court to hold him responsible for siccing his violent supporters on the Capitol, and seeking damages for the physical and emotional injuries they’ve suffered as a result. Lawyers for one of the officers, Marcus Moore, said in their suit that their client “continues to suffer a severe emotional toll in the wake of the January 6 insurrection,” adding, “He is haunted by the memory of being attacked, and of the sensory impacts—most particularly the explosions of flashbangs and other devices, as well as the sights, sounds, smells, and even tastes of the attack remain close to the surface.”

Honestly, though, Trump—who regularly downplays the violence and has claimed his supporters were “hugging and kissing” police—would probably find all that legal stuff boring. Instead, maybe he’ll use the newfound gap in his schedule to catch a replay of one of his aides describing in full detail the plot Team Trump hatched to overturn the results of the election:

That’s Peter Navarro, a top Trump administration adviser, describing “Green Bay Sweep,” a plot he hatched with Steve Bannon—using reportedly Trump-blessed research—to block the Electoral College vote count and deprive Joe Biden of the necessary 270 votes to have his win officially certified, which would ultimately lead to the House of Representatives giving Trump a second term. Which definitely seems worth looking into as we approach the anniversary of the attempted coup.

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