Washington: Donald Trump’s closest advisers have pressured Vice President Mike Pence to dismiss the state’s voter turnout and describe the 2020 election as ‘crazy’, ‘crazy’ and even likely to provoke riots. Saw his last-ditch efforts, witnesses disclosed in candid testimony on Thursday, January 6 to the committee. Capturing new evidence also reveals how the mob that stormed the Capitol that day came within 40 feet of the site where Pence and his team were taking refuge, the threat Trump put them in. be exposed.
With live testimony, including from Pence’s attorney, and other evidence from its annual investigation, the panel is dissecting conservative lawyer John Eastman’s plan to reverse Joe Biden’s election victory as illegal and unconstitutional. The panel said the pressure Trump exerted on Pence, including the January 6 rally, directly led to a rebellion at the Capitol.
“Are you out of your fickle mind”? Eric Hershman, the attorney who advised Trump, told Eastman in recorded testimony shown at the hearing. “You’ll turn around and tell the over 78 million people in this country that your theory is how you’re going to invalidate their votes”? Hershman said. He warned: “You are going to riot in the streets.”
A text message from Fox News’ Sean Hannity to Trump’s chief of staff Mark Meadows about the plan by January 6 read: “I am very worried about the next 48 hours.” Trump campaign adviser Jason Miller said people around Trump called it “crazy.”
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The panel began its third hearing this month, showing that Trump’s false claims of a bogus election have left him grasping for options as courts return dozens of lawsuits challenging the vote. Trump lashed out at Eastman’s highly unusual plan to defy the historic precedent of the Electoral Count Act and began pressuring Pence publicly and privately as congressional January 6 to ratify Biden’s election to the vice president. To preside over the joint session of The committee has said the plan was illegal, and a federal judge has said it is “more likely” that Trump committed crimes in his attempt to withhold certification.