Judge asks why Trump was silent during riot

All of these arguments and conjectures are laughable when you consider that nothing about J-6 was possible if not for the lie that the election was stolen.  So then, the question becomes: 
Who told the lie that the election was stolen?  That is the person responsible for all that followed, including the quick response teams, planned to bring deadly weapons into the Capitol once they had taken possession and quite possibly expecting that they'd also have hostages by that time.