![]() ![]() And if we're wrong, we will be made fools of. ![]() Giuliani expressed a similar sentiment, telling the rioters that "over the next 10 days, we get to see the machines that are crooked, the ballots that are fraudulent. He also said that the demonstrators should give "our Republicans" some of the "pride and boldness that they need to take back our country." Later he tweeted that protesters should "stay peaceful" and posted a brief video address that, while urging them to "go home in peace," continued to implicitly legitimize their behavior by falsely claiming "we had an election stolen from us" and characterizing those who say otherwise as "so bad and so evil." The president appeared at a rally and told his supporters that "we will never concede," that they should "show strength" and that they should "fight" to move their rally to the steps of the Capitol. Not a single case alleging widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election has been supported by any legal institution in the United States, despite dozens of filings by Trump and his backers.ĭuring demonstrations in Washington earlier today, both Trump and Giuliani seemed to urge their supporters to participate in a coup. Even if the Constitution did vest that power in the vice president, there is no evidence that there was widespread fraud, a fact that has been confirmed by roughly 60 courts, 90 judges, Trump's own attorney general (before he was fired for saying so) and the entire Supreme Court. (If it did, the vice president of any incumbent party that loses a presidential election could subvert democracy on a whim.) It simply says that the vice president should read the slates of electors submitted by each state as they are counted, recite the results aloud and maintain order. In fact, the Constitution does not empower the vice president to nullify electoral votes. In his statement, meanwhile, Pence explained that he does not have the "unilateral authority to decide which electoral votes should be counted." Trump was reportedly both fuming at Pence all day and giddy at the prospect of his supporters successfully delaying the certification of Biden's win. After both "official and unofficial" presidential advisers urged Trump to issue a statement denouncing his supporters' riot because both he, his lawyer Rudy Giuliani and his daughter Ivanka Trump have only said things that give the mob a " permission structure," Trump released a video that was so inflammatory it was taken down from Facebook and Twitter. Pence also condemned pro-Trump rioters who stormed into the Electoral College certification ceremony he was presiding over. After Trump initially resisted, it was Pence who reportedly mobilized the DC National Guard. ![]() "He's blaming me for advice to VP," Short said of Trump to Real Clear Politics' Phillip Wegmann. The vice president's chief of staff, Marc Short, said he was denied entry into the White House late on Wednesday. And after it was confirmed that at least 4 people died during the hourslong rampage, the president, reportedly still raging that his vice president would not engage in a coup, ramped up his vindictive campaign against Pence. As far-right rioters storm the United States Capitol to implement a coup on behalf of President Donald Trump, who refuses to accept his defeat in the 2020 election, the president refused to denounce them in strong language - reportedly because he remains angry at Vice President Mike Pence for not breaking the law on his behalf. ![]()
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