Trump has no further rallies planned after the 17th, which is unusual: https://www.donaldjtrump.com/events/
January 18th marks 45 days since the election, which EO13848 requires: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2018-09-14/pdf/2018-20203.pdf
Since November 4th, his schedule has been pretty empty. Publicly at least, but everyone is aware he's still having meetings, because there is evidence of folks in and out of the White House, evidence of meetings and attorney discussions and so on.
Then, starting in December, his public schedule starts to drop some crumbs.
December 1: He meets with Barr nearly 2 and a half hours. December 2: Lunch date with the Secretary of State. December 7: Lunch date with the Vice President. December 10: Lunch date with "State Attorney Generals" December 14: Lunch date with the Vice President. December 16: Cabinet Meeting
Am I reading into things? Probably.
His Twitter has also been dropping interesting nuggets: December 16: Publicly tells the world Krebs was wrong. December 16: Publicly tells the world that PA GA broke the law. December 15: Retweets verified machine error rates. December 15: Reinforces that Republicans believe the election was fraud. December 15: "Evidence pouring in" on fraud. December 15: Retweet of Linwood saying "Trump doesn't like to put people in jail". Names Brian Kemp and GA SoS. December 15: Tweets about voting law and acceptable error rates. December 14: Retweet of CodeMonkeyZ on foreign interference with our elections. December 14: Barr "resigns" tweet.
** At this point in time SolarWinds was raided by a joint operation between the FBI, US Marshalls Office, and Texas Rangers **
December 13: States can't legally certify because of known fraud. Implying crime occurred to certify. December 13: SCotUS tweet.
And much much more.
I'm pretty sure the 18th is gonna be a wild ride. Keep up the energy, and remember to be like water. Trust Trump as he's trusted all of us.
EDIT: December 18th, not January, I'm a boob.
Don't get caught up in this please. The EO says "not later than 45 days after the conclusion of an election...shall conduct an assessment...shall deliver this assessment".
Is the election concluded? It's really unclear if we've even entered this 45 day period since as we all well know, a winner hasn't actually been declared so is the election done?
THEN "Within 45 days of receiving this assessment... shall deliver... a report"
There are no hard timelines in EO 13848 so saying December 18th is "The Happening" is setting a lot of people up for heartbreak. We really just have to wait and see.
Even if it is due the 18th. That doesn't mean there will be action taken that day, or if you'll even know IF/WHEN it does. There's nothing stating he has to do anything publicly, and honestly it's better to do these things quietly.
I'm 99.9% positive that nothing earth shattering is going to happen on the 18th.