The revelations about Mike Pence's role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse

[Nevilledog]

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Greg Sargent
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There's a big revelation buried in all the new reporting about the John Eastman memo: Pence apparently went further than we thought in entertaining whether to execute the coup scheme.

@RepRaskin tells me the 1/6 committee will likely flesh all this out:

Opinion | The revelations about Mike Pence’s role in Jan. 6 keep getting worse
We may soon learn a lot more about how close we came to the unthinkable.
washingtonpost.com
7:36 AM · Oct 4, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/10/04/pence-eastman-memo-jan-6-role/

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Buried in that piece is an important revelation: Pence apparently went further than previously known in probing whether he could execute a version of Eastman’s scheme.

The select committee will be fleshing this out, Rep. Jamie B. Raskin (D-Md.), a member of the committee, suggested in an interview.

“It’s an important part of the historical record to determine how close Trump actually came to achieving his scheme of getting Pence to declare unilateral power to reject electoral college votes,” Raskin told me.

Eastman met with Pence and Trump a few days before Jan. 6, the Times reports. Eastman tells the Times he suggested to Pence and his chief counsel, Greg Jacob that Pence could merely delay counting the electors.

This would kick things back to the states, where GOP legislators could send rogue electors for Trump in defiance of the popular vote and Pence could then refuse to count the real electors, triggering a contingent election in the House decided for Trump by state delegations.

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[uponit7771]

1. Why didn't Pence scream right then !!!