The Trump regime’s plot to overthrow the election consisted of pressuring Mike Pence to wave a magic wand that didn’t exist. You don’t have to give Pence any credit for refusing to go along with it, because there was nothing for Pence to go along with.
The most Pence could have done was verbally object to the certification, which the Senate would have certified anyway. And if Trump didn’t like it, the courts would have immediately laughed in his face. There was literally nothing Pence could have done to keep Trump in office.
And Pence knew all of this, which is why he didn’t bother futilely making a fool of himself. He knew it was a desperate and defeated Trump asking him to wave a magic wand that simply did not exist outside of Trump’s hallucinatory mind.
It was still treason on the part of Trump, and everyone who illegally helped him try to pressure Pence into taking this imaginary step to magically keep Trump in office. But it’s not as if it had any chance of working; the “strategy” was a hallucination.
There’s a reason that, even as the media has spent all year insisting this plot “nearly worked,” they’ve never once spelled out the steps of how it COULD have worked. Because they know there aren’t any such steps. It’s just baseless fear mongering for ratings.
January 6th was horrifying enough in its own right. We have enough to deal with as it is. The media is making things harder by continually and falsely claiming that January 6th almost magically kept Trump in power. That is, literally, by definition, fake news.
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