This is an oft repeated refrain, but is nonsense. He made legal challenges (as any party would do and he lost badly), and when Inauguration Day came, he left office. Yes, there was the issue at the Capital, but it’s not as if it Trump designed that event to keep himself in office.
He wasn't the architect of the plan, but every indication is that he was aware of it and approved it.
He didn’t order the military to keep him in.
What scenario for "ordering.the military to keep him in" do you think:
- was actually available to Trump, and
- had - or appeared to Trump to have - a reasonable chance of actually keeping him in power?
It was a lot of bluster. It will be a lot of bluster again if he loses, but to what end? He has no choice but to accept the outcome.
It was a coup attempt. Like a lot of things involving Trump, it was poorly planned and executed, but it
was a coup attempt.
If the mob had actually succeeded in their aims, Pence would have been killed and Trump would have appointed someone willing to go along with the fake voter scheme in his place.
Trump was instrumental in this plan. The fact that the plan failed before it got to the part that only Trump could have done doesn't change that.