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Witnesses at Thursday’s hearing on the occasions leading up to the Jan. 6 attack had one very clear point: Attorney John Eastman’s theory that Mike Pence alone could prevent Joe Biden from becoming president, a concept that Donald Trump and his allies repeated to his supporters. just before and the assault on the Capitol, it was quackery.
“There is no basis in the Constitution or the legislation of the United States, at all, for the theory followed by M. Eastman. Not at all. None,” testified retired federal judge and attorney J. Michael Luttig, who pleaded with Pence while Trump “No vice president in 230 years of history has claimed to have this kind of authority, has not claimed the strength to reject electoral votes, has not claimed the strength to return electoral votes to the states,” Jacob said. noting that Eastman had privately admitted that his theory would not hold until, if successful, Eastman admitted, “we would lose 9-nothing,” according to Jacob.
Thursday’s presentation, the third in a series of public hearings on the House committee’s investigation into Jan. 6, 2021, focused on Trump’s attempt to force Pence to use his historically ceremonial role as Senate president to nullify the effects of the 2020 election. At one point, the committee released recorded testimony from Trump White House counsel Eric Herschmann, recalling how, in the face of Eastman’s unconstitutional theory, he had asked the lawyer, “Are you crazy?In some other strip, former Trump Crusade spokesman Jason Miller said several Trump White House officials think Eastman’s theory is “crazy” and “crazy. “Two officials “found no validity in this in any way” before the riots on Capitol Hill, Miller said, and “would tell anyone who listened. “
Pence obeying Trump and blocking the certification of Biden’s victory “would have plunged America into what I believe would amount to a revolution in a constitutional crisis,” Luttig said Thursday. At the hearing, the committee presented evidence that Eastman himself knew this theory was legally valid. Doubtful, however, she was on the same level as Rudy Giuliani on Jan. 6 before the Capitol attacked her anyway. he has to break the law to carry out his plan.
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Mark Meadows, The Array’s Trump leader, had also privately agreed that the vice president lacked the authority to flatly reject electoral votes, Pence leader Marc Short told the committee in a statement. aired on Thursday.
“We are fortunate for Mr. Pence on January 6. Our democracy has come dangerously close to disaster,” Rep. Bennie Thompson, the committee’s chairman, said in his opening remarks. “Thanks to Mike Pence, our democracy has resisted Donald Trump’s ploy. and the danger of January 6. ” This is perhaps the most important thing I’ve ever said,” Pence told his team before pronouncing his resolve to reject Trump’s demands, according to Short. A day before the uprising, Short warned Pence’s top sensible Secret Service agent that Trump is about to publicly oppose the vice president and that he could become a threat to Pence’s security.
On the eve of Thursday’s hearing, ABC News first published a photo of Pence and his circle of hidden relatives as the crowd stormed the Capitol, in which Second Lady Karen Pence can be seen pulling back the curtains of her ceremonial Senate workplace. He has done so out of fear that rioters, whom he can only see outside the Capitol, will detect them.
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Thursday’s revelations about Pence only add to what is already known about Trump’s tense crusade to verify his tenure in power, how Trump’s demands put the vice president’s life at risk, and the president’s allegedly jaded reaction to threats of violence against Pence. of the rioters’ chants to ‘hang Mike Pence,’ the president responded with this sentiment: “Maybe our supporters have the right idea. “Mike Pence deserves it,” Rep. Liz Cheney said in her opening statement. the week. Trump has defended his supporters by threatening the life of his vice president, as he did in an interview with ABC News’ Jonathan Karl last year. “Well, other people were very angry,” the former president said.
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