Maybe Trump told McQarthy the mob was Antifa because that was part of the Qoup script...

[zonemaster]

... and with Kevin "I-think-there-are-2-people-Putin-pays" McQarthy's response, that it was "your [Trump's] people", he was now most-certainly off-script.

Congress might want to subpoena talking heads from a few propagandist news orgs, like Fox, Newsmax and OANN, to find out how and when they got the word to start blaming Antifa. Those roles and instructions may have been handed out before January 6th. I wouldn't put it past them, and it sure would be nice to roll up those 3 POS networks more directly in this seditious clusterf*ck.

[Sedona]

1. My sister has gone full on bat shit Q Anon

and she was posting the Antifa-BLM lie on Jan 6

[sop]

2. Why would Antifa want to assault the Capitol to stop the EC certification process?

To keep Fascist Trump in office?

[zonemaster]

3. Oh, I'm not saying it had to make sense.

Being able to weave a lie into the web of truth and reality is a challenge for sane people, let alone this crew. The 'blame Antifa' angle would just be another vector of conspiracy.

[Hugin]

4. How could it be Antifa when he was talking at them only a few minutes earlier?

Wouldn't they have taken the opportunity to end it right there?

It would seem to be the shortest and easiest path rather than risking an attack on the Capitol simply to possibly make Trump "look bad".

[tanyev]

5. Yes, I just speculated about that in another thread.

Weird that Donny would blame Antifa as soon as things got going and to someone who's been so supportive of him all along. Makes me think casting the blame on them was an early part of the plan. And remember some Proud Boys sent out a notice to wear black instead of their usual black and gold?

ETA: Good chance blaming Antifa would be the justification for declaring martial law.

[sop]

6. I'm surprised George Soros wasn't implicated.