"Trump's" Pentagon Offered National Guardsmen to Secure Capitol 4 Days Before 1/6/21

This is significant, though kinda complicated IMO. 

One view of this seems to be that this is tantamount to Trump his ownself offering it--thus showing that he did not intend to prompt the riot / storming of the Capitol. That doesn't seem to me to be quite right--but maybe he did and that will come out. Rather, though, I'd say; it probably shows that nobody prior to 1/6 thought Trump had laid sufficiently significant groundwork for the riot. Now, he clearly didn't engage in direct incitement on the day of. That's as obvious as it could be. My complaint has been: (a) he basically laid out premises that made the riot a plausible practical conclusion, and (b) he was shit when it came to telling everybody to go the goddamn hell home. But the real--and only--question is: is (a) true? Rejection of assistance from the Guard shows that nobody (or not enough-bodies) thought Trump had created a sufficient threat. Which is the best evidence that he hadn't, and is innocent. And he didn't change that on the day of. So he's innocent even by a very high standard. 

OTOH, some on the right think it shows that Pelosi rejected the Guard's offer in order to facilitate the breach of the Capitol. I don't think that at all--and, in fact, I think that would be worse for Trump, because it would mean that she judged that he'd created a real threat. Better for him that he didn't...which I sort of think is right...but am not sure.

All OTTOMH, basically...