"We're going to march peacefully and patriotically down to the Cap-i-tol..."

[kentuck]

Trump said during his Ellipse speech of January 6th.

That was the only time he mentioned "peacefully and patriotically" during his entire speech. The rest was pure incitement.

In my opinion, he wanted them to march "peacefully and patriotically" down to the Capitol because he did not want them distracted from their job at hand.

Once they got to the Capitol, he wanted them to send a message to the Congress. He told them they had to fight if they wanted to keep their country.

The whole purpose of his comment about marching "peacefully and patriotically" was to make sure they made it to the Capitol without interruption and then they could do the job they came to Washington to do.

Just my opinion.

[dalton99a]

1. It was an Extremely Calming speech

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-fight-like-hell-speech-extremely-calming-1270504/

Trump Says His ‘Fight Like Hell’ Speech Before Capitol Riot Was Actually ‘Extremely Calming’

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Let’s take a look at some of those “extremely calming” words from the speech he delivered on Jan. 6:

“And we fight. We fight like hell And if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore.”

“All of us here today do not want to see our election victory stolen by emboldened radical-left Democrats, which is what they’re doing … We will never give up, we will never concede. It doesn’t happen. You don’t concede when there’s theft involved.”

“Our country has had enough. We will not take it anymore and that’s what this is all about … We will stop the steal.”

“Because you’ll never take back our country with weakness, you have to show strength and you have to be strong.”

[LakeArenal]

2. Is trump that nuanced? I don't feel he is.

[kentuck]

3. I see it more as manipulation than nuance.

I think he has proven he is very capable at manipulating his followers.

[usonian]

4. The "tourists" were just a cover for the organized terrorists.

The plan was in place. The fix was in.