Chapter 5 (Intro) - "A Coup in Search of a Legal Theory" (The January 6th Report)
Government Unfiltered
Dan Williams
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🗓️ 6 March 2023
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Summary
As January 6th approached, President Trump turned on his own Vice President. This chapter describes the pressure placed on Vice President Mike Pence in the days leading up to January 6th. It also provides evidence that President Trump knew what he was doing was in violation of the Electoral Count Act and the U.S. Constitution. Finally, sending his supporters to march to the U.S. Capitol was one last attempt to pressure Vice President Pence into taking one of the two options that President Trump and John Eastman believed would either keep Trump in office or delay former Vice President Biden from taking office.
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| 0:00.0 | This is a reading of the December 22nd, 2022 final report from the select committee to investigate the January 6th attack on the United |
| 0:16.2 | States Capitol. |
| 0:18.7 | Chapter 5 A coup in search of a legal theory. |
| 0:25.0 | On the morning of January 6, 2021, |
| 0:28.1 | Vice President Michael R. Pence |
| 0:30.4 | gathered his staff to pray. Vice President Pence and his closest advisors knew the day ahead would be a challenging one. |
| 0:38.0 | They asked God for guidance and wisdom in the hours to come. |
| 0:42.0 | No Republican had been more for guidance and wisdom in the hours to come. |
| 0:43.0 | No Republican had been more loyal to President Donald J. Trump |
| 0:47.0 | throughout his turbulent presidency than Vice President Pence. |
| 0:51.0 | The Vice President rarely, if ever, criticized his boss. |
| 0:55.0 | But as January 6th approached, President Trump turned on his own Vice President. |
| 1:01.0 | President Trump was desperate, as described Vice President. |
| 1:02.5 | President Trump was desperate. |
| 1:04.3 | As described in the previous chapters, the President was searching for a way to stay in power. |
| 1:10.1 | He had lost the election to former Vice President Biden. |
| 1:13.6 | He had run out of legal options to overturn the election weeks earlier |
| 1:17.9 | when his lawyers lost nearly every court challenge they filed. The president pursued other means as well. |
| 1:25.5 | President Trump and his lawyers tried to convince state and local officials to |
| 1:30.0 | overturn the election, but they met resistance. |
| 1:34.1 | Those same officials would not break the law or violate their oath to the Constitution. |
| 1:39.9 | President Trump and his associates tried to convince state legislatures to replace the legitimate electors won by former Vice President Biden with Trump electors. |
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