something that all of us in the reality-based community understand and know, which is that everyone on january 6th believed that the rioters thought they were following trump s instructions and that trump could stop it, and that s why you have quarter after quarter from trump jr. to all of these people that were in trump s inner circle emailing the chief of staff, texting him and saying trump has got to do something. got to stop it and the like. and you know, the trump defense is, well, i didn t say the words kill or invade the capitol or something like that, which is a silly standard because basically, you know, if you re the president of the united states, everyone knows you have to avoid any sort of stray language that might in any way give aid, comfort, encouragement to acts of violence. trump did the reverse. he always comes creeping up to the line in order to do this, and you know, that s why these revelations, frankly, aren t surprising.