General Discussion

But the fact is that Jan. 6, 2021 was an assault on the Capitol, which has a massive area around it, and it was very poorly defended (since nothing like Jan. 6 had ever happened, no one counted on it happening then. The White house has a far smaller perimeter, and has a massive defense system (obviously not visible to the casual visitor) in place. The team defending the White House is not the same as the Capitol Police. They will not hesitate to shoot uninvited intruders, no matter their number. It's a different job description.

I think Trump wants to take over D.C. simply in order to prevent embarrassing anti-Trump demonstrations, which will probably be quite plentiful the longer he hangs around. We shouldn't forget that his priorities and worries differ vastly from ours. His lawyers and Pam Bondi may be able to prevent him from seeing jail time, but they can't prevent the world press from reporting that a quarter million Americans turned out to protest their own head of state. It's hard for us to imagine that someone would worry more about embarrassment and bad PR than incarceration, but I think that is the mentality we are looking at.