Surrounded by "Trump Won" flags at a rally Saturday in Texas, the loser of the 2020 election teased another run for president and dangled impunity for those who waged last year's attack on the Capitol in a failed bid to halt the transfer of power to Joe Biden.

Trump claimed that those charged in the assault -- characterized by the FBI as an act of domestic terror -- were being "treated so unfairly" and vowed that "if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons."

Perhaps attempting to reach beyond the few obscure TV channels carrying the rally live, Trump upped the ante by accusing a trio of Black prosecutors pursuing him over a panoply of alleged crimes as "racist."

The 75-year-old property magnate urged his followers to launch "the biggest protests we have ever had" if the prosecutors "do anything wrong or illegal." 

The rally made headlines for its lawless, authoritarian tone but Trump set off bigger alarm bells the following day, repeating his false assertion that his vice president Mike Pence could have rejected Biden's victories in a handful of crucial battleground states.

"Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!" Trump railed, in perhaps the most explicit and self-incriminating statement yet of his intent.

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