Witness after witness has testified that Trump knew that his plan to simply ignore electoral votes from key states was illegal, unconstitutional and ludicrous.
The mob dutifully stormed the Capitol chanting “Hang Mike Pence.” They also had marching orders to “drag Nancy Pelosi out by the hair.” And they searched the halls for AOC and other targets that Trump and his zealots put in the cross hairs.
At the end of the rioting, five Capitol policemen were dead, hundreds were injured and, like in 1856, the nation was pushed into bitter divisions caused by one man’s shocking irresponsibility and dereliction of duty. sident. Trump ran an unrelenting pressure campaign on his own Vice President before, during and after the attack. The President made personal phone calls to urge Pence to simply proclaim Trump the winner. In typical coarse language, Trump called his own vice president a “wimp” and a “p---y.” When he heard that his rabid supporters were intent on hanging the Vice President, he remarked that “they might have the right idea.
Judge J. Michael Luttig put it this way: “America’s democracy was almost stolen from us on January 6. Had the Vice President of the United States obeyed the President of the United States, America would immediately have been plunged into what would have been tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis.”
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