Donald Trump tried to plunge America into a “revolution in a constitutional crisis” with a campaign to pressure Vice President Mike Pence to annul the outcome of the 2020 election, the committee investigating the riot said yesterday. January 6.
Pence White House staff members told the third public hearing of the committee on the attack on the U.S. Capitol last year of the growing pressure it faced to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s election victory .
Trump urged Pence to overturn the result, though he was repeatedly warned that his plan was unconstitutional and illegal, bringing American democracy closer to catastrophe.
Although he was repeatedly warned that his plan was unconstitutional and illegal, Donald Trump refused to surrender.
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Bennie Thompson, the chairman of the committee, said that when Pence refused Trump, “the mob turned to him.” White House staff heard Trump reprimanded