Here’s the FT:
Donald Trump wanted to march on the Capitol with his mob of supporters on January 6 last year, even after he was told that they had weapons, according to damning new testimony revealed at a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
A former White House aide testified that the former president was irate after being told that he could not go to the Capitol. Trump said: “I’m the fucking president. Take me up to the Capitol now,” Cassidy Hutchinson testified.
Trump, who was sitting in his vehicle, then tried to grab the steering wheel but the Secret Service agent next to him took his arm and stopped him, Hutchinson said. “Sir, you need to take your hand off the steering wheel”, she said the agent told the president.
Hutchinson testified that Trump said of his armed supporters: “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the effing mags away. Let my people in. They can march to the Capitol from here.”
Mags is a reference to magnetometer, a metal detector which was preventing armed supporters from entering his rally.
It wasn’t a coup attempt. It was an effort by a madman to lead a well-armed mob of right-wing crazed extremists to the Capitol with the goal of forcing Congress to overturn a democratic election and installing Trump as dictator.
Why do people insist on calling it a coup attempt?