Two days before the January 6 insurrection, the Trump campaign’s plan to use fake electors to block President-elect Joe Biden from taking office faced a potentially crippling hiccup: The fake elector certificates from two critical battleground states were stuck in the mail.
So, Trump campaign operatives scrambled to fly copies of the phony certificates from Michigan and Wisconsin to the nation’s capital, relying on a haphazard chain of couriers, as well as help from two Republicans in Congress, to try to get the documents to then-Vice President Mike Pence while he presided over the Electoral College certification.
The operatives even considered chartering a jet to ensure the files reached Washington, DC, in time for the January 6, 2021, proceeding, according to emails and recordings obtained by CNN.
The new details provide a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the chaotic last-minute effort to keep Donald Trump in office. The fake electors scheme features prominently in special counsel Jack Smith’s criminal indictment against the former president, and some of the officials who were involved have spoken to Smith’s investigators.
Mike Pence is a national hero. he knew about these and said he wouldn’t accept them even if delivered. he stood strong when thousands outside wanted to lynch him. As much as I don’t agree with him, he is a true patriot. I don’t think he gets enough credit. without his backbone we would be in an even crazier place.
Hero is too strong a word. It took far too long for him to tell anyone what happened and he hasn’t once called out Trump for being a traitor or trying to overthrow our democracy. During the Republican debates this year he agreed he’d endorse the Republican candidate regardless of who it was, including Trump.
Pence could have been a hero but he’s tried too hard to stay in the middle and not offend the MAGAts when we’ve really needed the truth.
Darth Vader didn’t stop being a villain just because he killed the Emperor.
Pence did one good thing after years of killing Younglings.
Hero is the wrong word. He did the bare minimum as to not be a traitor. Which is something I guess given the state of the GOP.
Pence just had a few more braincells than the rest in knowing the consequences of this action versus the probability of it actually succeeding. He’s no hero. He’s no Patriot. As always, he is a self-serving sociopath.
Sometimes I wonder if that’s all it takes. For all the stories and myths we have celebrating selfless heroism, perhaps it’s often well placed self preservation.
LMAO