Information Warfare. When the enemy lies, Trump will sometimes amplify those lies as a way to weaponize them against the enemy. It’s a way to use the momentum of their attack as a boomerang against them. This is smart and strategic and often more effective than always taking the defensive position of correcting or debunking the lie. He also did this initially with Covid, when he at first tried to downplay the hysteria the corporate media was creating, saw his resistance was playing into their hands (even though he was telling the truth), then went quiet for a few days, and when he came back he went even HARDER on Covid than they were. He reframed it as an attack on the country and positioned his response as a national war effort, and then used the media’s hysteria as an attack point against China. I think his goal there was to try to burn the energy out of Covid fast with the goal of trying to get people back to normal by the spring, and that did somewhat work - the spring and summer of 2020 was actually closer to the old normal than the fall and winter were - but Covid ended up being such a multi-level, multi-stage narrative that Trump’s strategy had to shift a few times. It seems to me that January 6th is similar, although obviously much less powerful.