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.
The former president’s remarks came as part of strategy discussions he had from the White House with the lieutenants at the Willard – a team led by Trump lawyers Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, Boris Epshteyn and Trump strategist Steve Bannon – about delaying the certification.
Three federal appellate judges appear likely to reject Donald Trump’s effort to block Jan. 6 investigators from obtaining his White House records — a big potential boost for lawmakers hoping to reveal the former president’s actions as a mob of his supporters attacked the Capitol.
“We have one president at a time under our constitution,†said Patricia Millett, one of the three judges on the D.C. Circuit panel that heard arguments Tuesday in the high-profile fight. “That incumbent president … has made the judgment and is best positioned, as the Supreme Court has told us, to make that call as to the interests of the executive branch.â€
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Trump’s lawyers have indicated they plan to appeal if they lose. They could ask the full bench of the D.C. Circuit or the Supreme Court to take up the case, but it’s unclear if either would do so. It’s also unclear if the committee will attempt to fight any efforts to prolong the case while other courts review the matter.
The files at issue are drawn from former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, former adviser Stephen Miller, former deputy White House Counsel Patrick Philbin and former Press Secretary Kayleigh McEnany, among other top Trump aides. The National Archives has identified the documents in periodic batches since early September and expects to produce additional tranches in the coming months.
And also how the question of whether Trump was trying to infect Biden at the debate was treated as paranoia… https://t.co/tway8swmBU
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) December 1, 2021
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SCUMAnd also how the question of whether Trump was trying to infect Biden at the debate was treated as paranoia… https://t.co/tway8swmBU
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) December 1, 2021
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SCUMAnd also how the question of whether Trump was trying to infect Biden at the debate was treated as paranoia… https://t.co/tway8swmBU
— Garance Franke-Ruta (@thegarance) December 1, 2021
I had the thought of him trying to give it to Biden on purpose too.
Trump tried to blame Gold Star families for giving him covid last year. Now we now learn he had already tested positive when he meet with them maskless. The folks in the WH that enabled this madman should be in jail. He was a biological weapon, not a POTUS. Arrest him.
— NoelCaslerComedy (@caslernoel) December 1, 2021
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Mornin' all!
Today I feel like I have a greater understanding of things for some odd reason. Or it could just be that weed I puffed on earlier.
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Sooo yeah no matte how much weed I puff on I'll never fully understand the motivations of people like TFG. There's no way he was motivated to do all this shit simply for money or to get reelected. It had to have deep personal meaning to be this dismissive of reality and other people's lives.