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President Donald Trump on Aug. 15, 2020. By Logan Jaffe, Lydia DePillis, Isaac Arnsdorf and J. David McSwane, ProPublica The invasion of the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday was stoked in plain sight. For weeks, the far-right supporters of President Donald Trump railed on social media that the election had been stolen. They openly discussed the idea of violent protest on the day Congress met to certify the result. “We came up with the idea to occupy just outside the CAPITOL on Jan 6th,” leaders of the Stop the Steal movemen...