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A protest is not the same as a coup. [...] Even if it turns violent, a protest is not the same as a coup. A protest is basically where you try to affect change or public opinion through large public demonstrations.
I think most people on Jan 6th would agree. They were protesting (some violently and unlawfully). How could the 6th "coup" succeed?
I'm not even American, but by intercepting the ballot count before it could be certified by the Senate, which was being done in the exact place they were directed to protest at (and that a particular security guard, one individual alone, was smart enough to lead them away from). As I recall they came as close as just a few hallways away from where the count box was being transported.
Had they successfully intercepted it, that could either lead to Trump having more time to position/submit false electors or their ballots... The plot of which was already rolling.
He could either stand up appearing to save the day with fraudulent duplicates of the ballot counts (pushing his ballot count via the loaded supreme court, where bribery scandals are both currently ongoing and rife) , or try to convince Pence that this interruption/destruction in ballot count certification made things more constitutional.
That particular day was legally significant as it was the final step in the authentic chain of custody over the as yet uncertified ballot count. Interrupting that chain of custody would have raised questions, as I believe the constitution provides room for ballot counts to be given on the elector's authority alone, and that it's the process of the VP and Senate verifying and authorising them as the official/valid count results that actually certifies them as the true and only valid Presidential Election results (the True account of who is President).
So Trump both had been attempting parts of this plot already, had already asked Pence to do it (I believe he called him a "pussy" for not doing it), and it was really only Pence's refusal that prevented it being a coup. Interrupting the ballots may have been a "Plan B" to recover from Pence's refusal.
Very lucky that Pence is a staunch constitutionalist and wasn't pressured into going along with it, and then in lieu of that, that one security guard lead protestors away from the as yet uncertified ballot count box. That may have been all there was between having a sanctified election result, and one that was constitutionally, and legally, in doubt.
I've heard about the ballot claims but I'd not heard that the crowd were supposed to interrupt the chain of custody. Were certain individuals given that task? The Wikipedia link only talks about the crowd chanting "hang Mike Pence".
Why do you think they were trying to hang Mike Pence? To stop him from certifying the election results so that Trump could steal it.
Yeah. They wanted Pence to back Trump.
But chanting that doesn't imply that some (or any) of the Capitol stormers were an integral part of any plan.
What a coincidence that all was then
Again, what pivotal role were the mob supposed to play?
The role of the mob was to disrupt the joint session of congress and VP from certifying the election results that would make Joe Biden president.
There's a bunch of investigations and court cases going on still, but what we do know is that there's hard evidence that Trump wanted to accomplish the goal of staying in office, and was already asking people to use illegal conduct to achieve that goal... Which was high treason.
He was asking for elector's to produce counts that give him more votes, he was asking Pence to go against his constitutional duties.
Some participants involved in J6 did appear to be trying to breach baracaded and protected areas (many of those participants had professional training as police, and military personnel others were from militias). A security guard (who turns out was a Capitol Hill Police Officer, named Eugene Goodman) was protecting an area of the senate where the ballot custody chain was, and did misdirect protestors away from areas the custody chain travels through.
To my mind that sounds like there was motive, an expressed goal, ongoing attempts, and people with the right training who were at the right place and time.
Are there any confessions? Not to my knowledge. Have their been convictions of interrupting congressional business, and was that business the certification of vote counts that decide who the President of the United States of America is?
Yes. Absolutely.
Will there be more convictions on the matter? I think we're all waiting to see. There may be a push to leave some until the next President is in office, as to not further upset the processes and stability of American democracy.