![]() ![]() This week, a judge denied Trump’s claim, writing: “Presidents are not kings, and plaintiff is not president.” Another judge issued a temporary stay. Trump and other aides are contesting such summonses on grounds of presidential privilege, which Biden has largely declined to invoke. But Eastman is, as one of many subjects of subpoenas from the House select committee investigating 6 January. Unlike Trump, Pence is not in legal jeopardy over attempts to overturn the election. In trips to early voting states, Pence has sought to downplay the Capitol attack. In a Republican party dominated by Trump, however, anyone with ambitions of running for president in 2024 has a stark choice to make. Pence and his family were hidden in an underground loading bay during the insurrection, and then duly presided over the certification of Biden’s win. Pence considered the memo and then, on the advice of others, including the former vice-president Dan Quayle, rejected it.įive people died in or following the attack on the Capitol. One scholar, John Eastman, provided Pence with a memo outlining how he said the vice-president might reject slates of electors from key states and thus throw the election back to the House of Representatives, where a Republican majority in state delegations would hand victory to Trump. “Top constitutional scholars” do not agree the 2020 election was subject to electoral fraud. How can you pass a vote that you know is fraudulent?” Anybody I spoke to – almost all of them at least pretty much agree, and some very much agree with me – because he’s passing on a vote that he knows is fraudulent. Trump continued: “And I’m telling you: 50/50, it’s right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them. The 2020 election was not subject to widespread electoral fraud, an opinion which was relayed to Trump by his own attorney general, William Barr. How can you – if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? – how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?” “It’s common sense that you’re supposed to protect. “Because it’s common sense, Jon,” Trump said, repeating baseless claims about election fraud. Karl said: “They were saying ‘ hang Mike Pence’.” Trump said: “He could have – well, the people were very angry.” Karl interjected: “Because you heard those chants – that was terrible. In a characteristically febrile, grammatically offensive statement disseminated on Twitter, Trump once again claimed that Mike Pence had this right to change the outcome of the election. Because I had heard he was in very good shape. “I thought he was well-protected, and I had heard that he was in good shape. Karl asked Trump if he was worried about Pence during the attack on the Capitol by rioters who aimed to stop the certification of electoral college results and thereby overturn Trump’s defeat by Joe Biden. Trump was speaking to the ABC chief Washington correspondent, Jonathan Karl, for his book Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show, which will be published on Tuesday. Trump said it was “common sense” when asked about the chants. ![]()
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