Flaming tweets, a flaming speech, a raging crowd … The commission of inquiry into the attack on the Capitol detailed Thursday during a hearing on the many harassments made by Donald Trump to his vice president Mike Pence in an attempt to stop him from proving Joe Biden’s victory in the presidency on January 6, 2021.
” The president was repeatedly told that the vice president could not change the election result. But he still publicly pressured Mike Pence to do just that. “
After nearly a year of investigation, the group of elected officials sought to show that Donald Trump’s rejection of the presidential results in November 2020 was not just bad loser coquetry, but an integral part of a strategy. thoughtful to maintain power.
It quickly focused on the certification ceremony of the election results of Vice President Mike Pence before Congress on January 6, 2021, in principle is a simple formality.
The commission of inquiry revealed how a lawyer, John Eastman, developed a specific plan for Donald Trump to take advantage of loopholes in the electoral counting law and block Joe Biden’s entry into the White House.
President cling to a dangerous theory that he does not want to give up because he is convinced that it will keep him in placeaccused elected Pete Aguilar.
Under pressure, Mike Pence turned to some legal experts who assured him that he had no legal freedom and had to prove Joe Biden’s success in everything.
” I believe that if Vice President Pence followed the orders of his President […] it would have plunged America into a revolution in the midst of a constitutional crisis. “
A call in front of the demonstrators
On January 6, 2021, an hour before the certification session began, Donald Trump still tried for the last time to carry out this harassment by dealing with a crowd of Trumpists who had gathered in Washington in the frigid cold.
Mike Pence, may you fight for the good of our country, of our Constitution. Otherwise, I would be utterly disappointedlaunched the Republican billionaire, in a serious tone.
Minutes later, Mike Pence published a letter in which he insisted that he would not comply with the president’s pressures.
At the same time, pro-Trump protesters are starting to crowd around Congress, images spreading around the world. The certification session was suddenly delayed.
While the vice president and congressmen were evacuated from the Capitol turmoil, Donald Trump was disgusted on Twitter that Mike Pence was not did not have the courage to do what was necessary to protect the country.
In the crowd that stormed Congress, the Trumpists demanded that we hang Mike Pence.
” When Mike Pence clarified that he would not follow Donald Trump’s scheme, the latter turned the majority back against him. “
After a while, calm finally returned to the American capital. From the hemicycle of the House of Representatives, the Vice-President promised that those who sow discord nothing won and officially confirming the election of Joe Biden.
After long months of silence, Mike Pence spoke publicly about the horrors on Jan. 6 in a speech in Florida in mid-February.
President Trump said I had the right to reverse the election, but President Trump was wronghe said, recording his last break with the former businessman, still maintaining the opposite.
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Source: Radio-Canada
