potentially criminal schemes. you could say many things about him, but whatever it is in his life and business and politics, like other people who have evaded investigators, he knew a thing or two about not acting alone and leaving a lot of evidence pointing to himself. that s why the sloppy coup plans hit roadblocks. when the votes showed trump s loss, mr. trump, the outgoing president, was left impotently begging mike pence or bill barr to help a last-ditch sloppy coup. we know what happened. pence said no. barr said no and left. which is why then trump found himself begging his own aides or former aides who had far less power than those people mentioned to, as we re hearing, find fraudulent electors or run pressure campaigns on members of