Admission of guilt as to who was #1 behind the January 6 insurrection is clearly stated in this fine article from Newsweek and others like CNN and Salon with this Newsweek headline:
“Donald Trump Says He Wanted Mike Pence
to Overturn the Election for First Time”
Trump has admitted that he wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to have “overturned the Election while the 2020 results were being certified during his ceremonial role as presiding officer of the Senate.”
In a statement
released on Sunday night (January 30) attacking bipartisan efforts to reform
the Electoral Count Act, Trump suggested that Pence had the power to stop the
results being certified in favor of Joe Biden. However, Trump's
remarks are the first time he has described his intention as overturning the
election results, which Pence unfortunately failed to do.
While the potential update of the Electoral Count Act of 1887 proposed by lawmakers such as Senators Susan Collins (R-ME) and Mitt
Romney (R-UT), and Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) would clarify the role the
vice president has in certifying presidential elections, Trump suggested it actually aims to prevent a VP from changing the
outcome of the results, and therefore Pence did have the power to do so.
Trump said: “If the Vice President Mike Pence had absolutely no right to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans like Wacky Susan Collins are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election? Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn't exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!”
A number of people criticized Trump's statement admitting he
wanted his former vice president to overturn the election while still
attempting to suggest Pence could have stopped the votes being certified in
favor of Biden.
Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-IL), one of the two Republican
members of the House Select Committee investigating the attack on the Capitol,
tweeted: “This is an admission, and a massively un-American statement. It is
time for every Republican leader to pick a side...Trump or the Constitution,
there is no middle on defending our nation anymore.”
George Conway, a lawyer
and the husband of former White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, offered
the best most-sound legal and rational explanation for what Trump implied and
was trying to make thing fit his “Big Lie” said: “The answer is: The Twelfth
Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 already make it entirely clear
that the Vice President merely opens the envelopes. But sometimes we want to
make laws even clearer so that even semi-literate psychopaths have a chance at
understanding them.”
For more than a year, including in the days prior to the
January 6 attack on the Capitol, Trump attempted to
suggest Pence could have stopped the election results being certified and his
supporters should blame the vice president if Biden is officially declared
president.
On January 5, one day before his supporters stormed the
Capitol in an attempt to stop the result being certified, Trump tweeted that
Pence has the power to reject
fraudulently chosen electors.
Trump had also told a crowd at a rally in Georgia how he hopes Pence “comes through for us” with regards to stopping the election results from being certified.
Then while the insurrection at the Capitol was
taking place, Trump was still suggesting Pence had the power to prevent the
election being certified, tweeting: “He didn't have the courage to do what
should have been done.”
As the riot inside the
Capitol building was taking place, a mob could be heard chanting “hang
Mike Pence” in the corridors as Trump's supporters appeared to support the
former president's claims that Pence should have stopped the results from being
certified.
During the second day of Trump's Senate trial for allegedly inciting the attack, House impeachment manager Delegate Rep. Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) said: “The violent mob was looking for Pence because he had refused to do what the president demanded and that they were talking about assassinating the vice president.”
Just before he was due to begin presiding over the joint
session of Congress to count the votes, Pence issued a statement in
which he made clear there is no constitutional or legal basis for him to reject
the election votes during his purely ceremonial role as presiding officer of
the Senate.
My 2 Cents: I now firmly believe that Trump’s own words now more so than ever are enough to find him guilty by admission to the horrible day and crime on January 6 enabling a quick prosecution, trial, guilty verdict (jury or now), and a swift sentencing to prison for a for a very long time.
Trump has one single-minded goal: To take and maintain his total one-man rule and control of the United States then calling his newest property acquisition: Trump USA (TUSA). Nothing else matters to him — just that outcome.
All the evidence in my mind is simple: Trump’s own words during and now after that January 29 Texas rally on top of his infamous phone call to the GA Secretary of State demanding that he find the votes to overturn the official count. That call was captured on tape and in his own words.
Thus, this case is closed with an ironclad and simple outcome and solution: “Lock him up...”
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