Trump wanted a different insurrection: Jan. 6 hearing reveals violent intent behind Pence plot

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Trump wanted a different insurrection: Jan. 6 hearing reveals violent intent behind Pence plot
Trump and his henchmen may very well have known their actions would incite an insurrection — from Biden voters

By HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
PUBLISHED JUNE 17, 2022 9:57AM


(Salon) Over the many months of revelations about Donald Trump's attempted coup, one lingering question has rarely been asked: What would have come next if Vice President Mike Pence had done what they asked?

A collective "Oh well, I guess Trump is president for another four years after all" from the country sounds unlikely, to say the least. And if the courts had become involved, it's hard to imagine that Trump's followers would have been any less angry than they already were. So, what was the plan?

Thursday's January 6th Committee hearing finally addressed that question, at least obliquely, through testimony by Donald Trump's staff and Mike Pence's inner circle. The answer was not comforting.

This third hearing discussed the campaign to pressure Pence, then the vice president, into overturning the election — and what a campaign it was. The main player in this scheme was Republican lawyer John Eastman, who appears to have been a Trump true believer (as well as a highly credentialed, conservative, constitutional scholar) who offered his services to serve Trump's pre-fabricated conspiracy theory that the election had been stolen. Trump was apparently pleased with his devotion to the Big Lie and Eastman quickly became the primary January 6th coup plotter.

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It is pretty clear that Eastman knew there was a good chance for serious bloodshed if Pence overturned the election. And I think it's fair to say that Trump knew that too. In fact, he was probably welcoming it. It would give him the chance to do what he'd been wanting to do for ages: invoke the Insurrection Act. ...........(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/06/17/wanted-an-insurrection-jan-6-hearing-reveals-violent-intent-behind-pence-plot/

[TheRealNorth]

1. That was likely the plan....

Nullify the election results and either get the Republican state legislators in WI, PA, GA, AZ, and MI to replace the electors, or just throw it to the House of Representatives and win that way. Since some of us wouldn't take our votes being tossed without a fight, that could be used as an excuse by Trump to implement the Insurrection Act.

So no matter what, the Biggest Loser wins (hence why they called it the "Green Bay Sweep".

[malaise]

2. Yep

Rec

[babylonsister]

3. Rec. nt

[dchill]

4. Do tell!

[FelineOverlord]

5. Many big time and small time anti-Trump Twitter accounts

Were BEGGING resisters NOT to show up on January 6th.

They were very worried.

One even warned that Trumpers might storm the Capitol.

They suspected that Trump WANTED violence between sides.

Remember how much he loved Charlottesville.

Remember his tweets about being “wild” and his shoutout to the white supremacists at the debates.

[electric_blue68]

6. I think I remember that call for Anti-Trumpers NOT to go to DC Jan 6

Honestly it sometimes feels like we were unperceptively slipped into this parallel time line on the day of General Election voting back in 2016!
Le Sigh.