I disagree with what he wanted Vice President Pence to do.
Do you agree now May 25, 2022 Trump wanted Pence to put the following paragraph in motion on Jan6 having absolutely no proof of election fraud in any of the seven states that sent fake electors to Trump?
[Pence] announces that because of the ongoing disputes [receipt of fake certificates of electors] the 7 States, there are no electors that can be deemed validly appointed in those States. That means the total number of “electors appointed” – is 454. A “majority of the electors appointed” would therefore be 228. There are at this point 232 votes for Trump, 222 votes for Biden. Pence then gavels President Trump as re-elected.
I don’t think he had the needed evidence at that time. And refusing to certify just to buy time to “maybe” get proof (or to get some States to provide real alternative electoral slates) would have been received by many of the electorate as — insidious.
That’s on the record is it not?
I believe Trump was seeking to prevent the electoral votes obtained via election fraud thievery from being counted. Fraudulently obtained state electoral vote totals shouldn’t be counted.
Trump sought to block all electoral votes based upon his suspicion of election fraud against him. Only the courts can determine if there was sufficient fraud or any other glitch that would overturn the final accepted result. The loser is the last one who should be able to block a state certified result from bring counted with no valid reason, specifically when they don’t have the needed evidence as you say Trump did not have.
There There is absolutely plenty legal about refusing to accept a fraudulently obtained slate of electors.
Check the Constitution and Election laws. There is no way to legally block any state’s results if they were certified by December 14. All fifty states were certified by the “safe harbor” date. Trump’s only legal recourse on suspicion of fraud was to (a) concede with a complaint to the winner (b) gather the proof and sue the states suspected of fraud and file lawsuits. Trump has done neither.
I KNOW you can't just discard slates of electors because you don't like the results...and trying to do so is obstructing the peaceful transfer of power...a coup attempt
Lesh is correct. It’s called a self - coup.
And a big one is: an “act in furtherance” of the crime.
Yes Trump took the Eastman Plan and acted in furtherance if a crime.
Proposed alternative slates of electors.
No. They were fake electors for Trump who was the loser in the seven states claiming Trump was the winner and they were certified as such. They were organized by Rudy Giuliani who had no official capacity to certify their validity. They were frauds. Trump pressured Pence to cite them as the reason to not count their states.
It was symbolic showing they think the election was stolen.
If they only “think” the election was stolen they have no business doing anything other than filing to be heard in court. Definitely should not be disenfranchising every voter in seven of the many states that they lost. Just enough to overturn the election.
He asked Pence to reject the slates of electors thought to have been stolen. I’m very satisfied that Pence said “no.”
Yes Trump did? He disenfranchise every voter if Pence agreed to do that.
As I understand it, Trump did try to persuade Pence to reject the presumed fake slate of electors where considered to have been invalid due to election fraud. So what? Stolen elections don’t deserve recognition.
You understand it wrong - The states were not to be counted by Pence due to the appearance of two sets of certified electors because the fake certificates were given to him. It had nothing to do with fraud in the election itself because it couldn’t. The real Biden electors were certified by December 14 and could not be returned or switched.
Trump wanted to get the entire election out to the House where a Republican majority would vote to re-elect Trump without having to prove anything about fraud at all