Mike Pence said Donald Trump and his “gaggle of crackpot lawyers” asked him “to literally reject votes.
that all Trump had ultimately asked his vice president to do was “simply pause” the Electoral College count at the U.S. Capitol“I think it’s important that the American people know what happened in the days before January 6,” Pence said. “President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. I had no authority to do that.”Sign up for NECN newsletters.
Based on Pence’s contemporaneous notes from the meeting, the indictment says, Trump “made knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, ‘Bottom line — won every state by 100,000s of votes'” and asking, “What about 205,000 votes more in PA than voters?” issued by the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol.
Just before 1 p.m., the indictment notes, Pence released a statement “explaining that his role as President of the Senate at the certification proceeding that was about to begin did not include ‘unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not.'”
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