Trump called aides hours before Capitol riot to discuss how to stop Biden victory

[BidenPresident]

Hours before the deadly attack on the US Capitol this year, Donald Trump made several calls from the White House to top lieutenants at the Willard hotel in Washington and talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January.

The former president first told the lieutenants his vice-president, Mike Pence, was reluctant to go along with the plan to commandeer his largely ceremonial role at the joint session of Congress in a way that would allow Trump to retain the presidency for a second term.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...tol-riot-biden

[AProudLefty]

Color me shocked.

[BartenderElite]

And this gets a shrug from JPP.

It's a real tribute to how Trump made the outrageous normal. If Obama, Bush or any previous President had done this kind of thing, it would have dominated this board for days.

[BidenPresident]

And this gets a shrug from JPP.

It's a real tribute to how Trump made the outrageous normal. If Obama, Bush or any previous President had done this kind of thing, it would have dominated this board for days.

Stunning. The right is more concerned about anything besides the wellbeing of our nation.

[Cypress]

Trump talked about ways to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s election win from taking place on 6 January.

If a sitting Democratic president did this, conservatives would call it treason and unconstitutional.

[BartenderElite]

The Chris Cuomo thread is getting much more attention than this one.

Think about that.

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The above comments are all accurate, especially those pointing out the quiet coming from the right wing media who scripted and endlessly sold a whole “deep state” conspiracy on just a dozen or so phrases cherry-picked from over five thousand text messages between two people.

It is just the way it is, as I’ve said before, if January 6th proved anything it is that Trump can get away with anything short of actually shooting someone on 5th Avenue, and to help him he has a entire political party and major news network ready to defend him regardless of what he does

[Hoosier Daddy]

if you listen to fox, what smollett did is 5000 times worse than trump being a traitor.

[ThatOwlWoman]

Color me shocked.

I know, right?

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if you listen to fox, what smollett did is 5000 times worse than trump being a traitor.

It is what sells to their audience, and it is all about making a buck, but you would at least think in an attempt to look somewhat legitimate they would at least recognize the gravity of what occurred on January 6th and facts known since then