It totally was bait. If it isn't obvious now, then it should be soon. I don't understand what Trump was thinking he would possibly accomplish by telling his supporters to march to the Capitol, but the Deep State took total advantage of his miscalculation.' If anything, he should have waited until after the electoral vote counting, before he held his rally. But a rally in the nation's capital, during such a volatile time, was dumb. And it fucked him politically.