....Trump's "lawyers*" attempt to convince Mike Pence to go along with their plan on January 4th (the pressure continued on 5th and 6th, culminating in Trump calling out Pence both in his speech at the Washington Ellipse and his tweet as rioters were attacking the Capitol building:
*White House Counsel Office was not present"
‘The meeting among the defendant, [ ] Pence, and Pence staffers [JE[ and [J ]began around 4:45 pm
No one from the defendant's White House Counsel's Office attended.
During the meeting, the defendantasked [CC2] to explain his plan to Pence. [CC2] presented two options:
Pence could unilaterally decide objections to electors, or altemnatively, in the plan that JSS had devised the prior day, Pence could send the elector slates to the targeted states” legislatures to determine which electors’ votes should be counted.
In the defendant's presence, in response to Pence’s questioning, admitted that the ECA forbade what he proposed and that no one had tested new plan to send elector slates to state legislatures for review.
Nonetheless, the defendant repeatedly expressed a preference that Pence unilaterally reject valid elector slates. Throughout the meeting, the defendant repeated his knowingly false fraud claims as a purported basis for Pence to act illegally.
The defendant repeatedly expressed a preference that Pence unilaterally reject valid elector slates. Throughout the meeting, the defendant repeated his knowingly false fiaud claims as a purported basis for Pence to act illegally.
Pence’s five pages of contemporaneous notes from the meeting reflect that the defendant said, “when there's fraud the rules get changed”: “bottom line ~ won every state by 10,0005 of votes” “this whole thing is up to MP"; “has to do w/you- you can be bold" and “sfigh]t to do whatever you want to do."
page 65-66.
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