there was no reason for them to be in the capitol the way they were quite obviously but all of them were suffering under this delusion that trump had fomented. the fact that he came out and it wasn't just that he was celebrating her life and recognizing her service to the country because she served in the air force, but he was re-casting her as a victim. he was continuing this argument that he's made that the people who have been arrested because of january 6th are show political prisoners and he was celebrating her essentially as a martyr, which is exactly what happens in circumstances historically when you see, for example, fascist authoritarians seize power. they seize upon these incidents as emotional ways of reframing political violence, and trump has long embraced political lel violence. this is a very direct example of that centered on a day in which people tried to overthrow, you know, the results of the 2020