2020 ELECTION/SECRET SERVICE: “Shortly before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Secret Service agents scrambled to try to secure a motorcade route so then-President Donald Trump could accompany his supporters as they marched on Congress to demand he stay in power [after losing the 2020 election], according to two people briefed on witnesses’ accounts to congressional investigators.
The hectic events that day followed nearly two weeks of persistent pressure from Trump on the Secret Service to devise a plan for him to join his supporters on a march to the Capitol from the park near the White House where he was leading a rally that he predicted would be ‘wild.’”
-Carol D. Leonnig, Josh Dawsey, Peter Hermann, and Jacqueline Alemany, “Trump call Jan. 6 to ‘walk down to the Capitol’ prompted Secret Service scramble,” washingtonpost.com, June 7, 2022