> | The memo, reportedly authored and distributed in advance of
> | the January 6 electoral vote count, suggests a scenario
> | under which Vice President Pence excludes the electoral
> | votes of seven states--on the false pretense that competing
> | slates of electors had been submitted by those states--so
> | as to give Trump a majority of the electoral votes cast.

|
| 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.
|
| But as Trump relayed to them the situation with Pence, he
| pressed his lieutenants about how to stop Biden's
| certification from taking place on 6 January, and delay the
| certification process to get alternate slates of electors
| for Trump sent to Congress.
| ...
<https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/donald-trump-called-top-aides-capitol-riot-biden>

--bks

On 11/30/2021 6:20 AM, Bradley K. Sherman wrote:
>> | The memo, reportedly authored and distributed in advance of
>> | the January 6 electoral vote count, suggests a scenario
>> | under which Vice President Pence excludes the electoral
>> | votes of seven states--on the false pretense that competing
>> | slates of electors had been submitted by those states--so
>> | as to give Trump a majority of the electoral votes cast.
>
> |
> | 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.
> |
> | But as Trump relayed to them the situation with Pence, he
> | pressed his lieutenants about how to stop Biden's
> | certification from taking place on 6 January, and delay the
> | certification process to get alternate slates of electors
> | for Trump sent to Congress.
> | ...
> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/nov/30/donald-trump-called-top-aides-capitol-riot-biden>
>

Guilty.