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 told President Trump that he saw videos on Twitter of "pro-trump people chanting on planes heading to DC," which he asked to be shared with Scavino.

"We will not let them silence your voices," the President told the crowd from the podium at the Ellipse. "We're not going to let it happen, I'm not going to let it happen." His supporters started chanting, "fight for Trump!" The President thanked them.

President Trump knew not only that his supporters were angry, but also that some of them were armed. At times, he ad-libbed, deliberately stoking their rage even more. At one point he said: "And we fight. We fight like hell. And if you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore." The word "fight," or a variation thereof, appeared only twice in the prepared text. President Trump would go on to utter the word twenty times during his speech at the Ellipse.

President Trump had summoned a mob, including armed extremists and conspiracy theorists, to Washington, DC on the day the joint session of Congress was to meet. He then told that same mob to march on the U.S. Capitol and "fight." They clearly got the message.