#election-certification

#election-certification

The book, titled Retribution, cites Pence's notes from the 6 January 2021 phone call with Trump, who was purportedly trying to shame his vice-president into refusing to certify Joe Biden's victory weeks earlier. If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago, Trump is said to have told Pence, who was his running mate when he won his first presidency in 2016. You'll go down as a wimp.

During the meeting, as reflected in the Vice President's contemporaneous notes, the Defendant [Trump] made knowingly false claims of election fraud, including, Bottom linewon every state by 100,000s of votes' and We won every state,' and askedregarding a claim his senior Justice Department officials previously had told him was false, including as recently as the night before'What about 205,000 votes more in PA than voters?'