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the sole decision maker as to under your theory who becomes the next president of the united states? and he said yes. i said are you out of your f-ing mind? the vice president decided he could not buy into eastman s theories. was it your impression the vice president had directly conveyed his position on these issues to the president? many times. and he d been consistent in conveying his decision to the president? very consistent. you basically cannot overstate the pressure trump was putting on pence in the lead-up to january 6th. i hope that our great vice president, our great vice president comes through for us. he s a great guy. of course if he doesn t come through, i won t like him quite as much. that night pence s outside lawyer, richard cohen, phoned retired judge michael ludig, an
they called on the vice president to refuse the electoral college votes from certain states that had certified joe biden as the winner. he had been pressuring him behind the scenes, so now he s going public. he s trying to get public pressure on mike pence. the january 6th committee s interviews with white house attorneys made it clear that pat cipollone, eric hershman, and many others were appalled. the way it was communicated to me was that pat cipollone thought the idea was was nutty and at one point confronted eastman basically with the same sentiment. what were your prior interactions with eastman? he described for me what he thought the ambiguity was in the statute, and he was walking through it at that time. and i said, hold on a second, i want to understand what you re saying. you re saying that you believe the vice president acting as president of the senate can be
right now or i ll cut you out of the will. he read me some of that thread. the only responsibility and power of the vice president under the constitution is to faithfully count the electoral college votes as they have been cast. the constitution does not empower the vice president to alter in way the votes that have been cast either by rejecting certain of them or otherwise. that twitter thread spread and garnered attention around the world. but with just one day before congress was set to certify biden s electoral college victory, trump continued to apply maximum pressure. in this tweet, quote, the vice president has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors. and when they met at the white house on january 5th. in the book peril,
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