.speechboy71: The duplicity of Trump and his Jan. 6 enablers is stunning.
On Thursday, the committee presented evidence that Trump was told multiple times, including by Vice President Mike Pence, that his efforts to get the vice president to stop the certification of electoral votes on Jan.6 would not fly. Trump was told that Pence had no constitutional standing to hand the election to Trump, and his attempt to do so would break the law. But that didn’t stop him, and he continued to publicly and privately pressure Pence up through Jan.6.
To Luttig’s point about allies and supporters, Trump didn't act alone. His top legal adviser and enabler, John Eastman, continued to push his harebrained legal theory that Pence could stop the certification even after virtually every member of the White House staff, and Pence’s own chief of staff and counsel, told him it was a no-go.
In video testimony to the Jan. 6 committee, White House lawyer Eric Herschmann said he told Eastman “you’re going to cause riots in the streets.” Eastman reportedly shrugged and said America had witnessed such violence before.
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