...but telling them to go home is supposed to work?
It literally did. Many of the rioters started clearing out as soon as he sent that video.
Many of the "rioters" were peaceful as well.
You keep arguing that sending any kind of communication to them was futile because they wouldn't have listened, but when I make the point that he did nothing for 3 hours your immediate response was to jump to his Twitter post to say he did. So which side of the fence is it?
You're wrong on both sides of the fence. He wasn't idle for three hours and words alone did not prevent or end the riot.
which cuts entirely against the argument that he never expected violence
You always expect a few crazies.
You don't send in 10,000 troops to deal with a few crazies.
That's what Pelosi thought.
Again, if Trump was offering these troops it's only because he recognized a very real threat of violence on a massive scale.
Then he tricked the left-tribe leadership into refusing help with his dastardly reverse psychology *rolls eyes*
You can't have it both ways.
Yes I can (again). Neither Trump nor Pelosi thought they were unprepared, but Trump was doing his duty as POTUS by offering resources. He didn't care too much if they refused because he didn't expect anything violent to happen (he thought congress was just going to suddenly choose democracy over corruption because he doesn't plan for failure).
Both were out of touch, but Pelosi's paranoia and lack of caution was the deciding factor and the existence of the offer (all but) disproves the accused coup plan. In fact the reason Pelosi and goons refused is because they thought he would execute a military coup with the troops he sent to help, that would be what an actual military coup looked like.
Jan 6 was an attack BY the American people, not the military, not the executive branch and history will not rewrite itself.
But this debate isn't about how effectively Trump could have stopped the attack, it's about what his purposeful inaction says about him and how that is not an unquestionable disqualification for office.
Thoughts and prayers must be sent ASAP, got it.