As an armed mob charged the Capitol while cheering, “Hang Mike Pence!” President Trump wasn’t begging the National Guard to go save his most loyal servant and his family, hiding for their lives, and immediately calling for the rioters to stand down on his (once) prolific Twitter account.

“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify,” Trump instead tweeted mere minutes after boasting to the mob that he would lead the group to the Capitol to convince Congress to override President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. “USA demands the truth!”