that white house senior staffers, including jared iotiner and national security advisor robert o brien, also vice president pence s national security advisor, keith kellogg, they all proposed to trump an idea that they had for how the breach between president trump and vice president pence could be repaired. how they could repair relations between the president and vice president after trump had sicced his supporters on vice president pence and put pence s life in quite serious danger.an this from leonnig and rucker s book. quote, kellogg, o brien, and kushner brainstormed how to bring the president and vice president back together, short of an apology, which trump would never give. o brien proposed having trump award pence the presidential medal of freedom, the nation s highest civilian honor. the others liked the idea. they thought it could recognize pence s work chairing the coronavirus task force but knew it would be interpreted as a post-insurrection peace treaty. the three men th
never reported before carol leonnig and phil rucker put it in their new best-selling book, it is now reported. it is now on the record. excerpts including that one from the book have been circulating in recent days. because of that, we probably should have seen today s news coming. when the house of representatives decided they would do an investigation of the attack on the capitol on januaro 6th and what caused it, they first negotiated a true legit, bipartisan/nonpartisan expert commission, a blue ribbon commission that would have equal representation from republicans and democrats. it would be scrupulously ic nonpartisan, or at least evenly divided. democrats and the leadership of the house negotiated that with the republicans who had been delegated by their leadership to come up with this sort of thing. both sides came to an agreement. they worked out in detail how this bipartisan/non-partisan blue ribbon commission would work. they put it up for a vote, and the republicans voted a
jim jordan making the case that the election must have been stolen, that it shouldn t be certified. jim jordan spoke at stop the steal rallies. he did media interviews arguing that it was impossible that trump didn t win, rattling off data and statistics that to him proved that it was impossible ia that biden won. he literally plotted at the white house with the president about how january 6th would go, as they plotted to overthrow the election result and keep trump in power. and so, yeah, the republicans ec picked him to be on the commission investigating what happened on january 6th. it s like if you wanted to investigate the rise in obesity and you appointed ten cheeseburgers and a blooming onion as your contribution to the inquiry. we ll look into this. after january 6th, carol leonnig and phil rucker report in their new book i alone can fix it