mark meadows, forwarded the ellis memo to pence s top aide. there s been so much talk about the memo john eastman wrote, and john eastman didn t work at the white house. he was some outside lawyer, but meadows is forwarding a document that basically outlines the effort to essentially have a coup, a document written by a lawyer on the trump campaign payroll. publicly pence raised the hopes of trump supporters, telling one georgia rally we ll have our day in congress. we ll hear the objections. we ll hear the evidence. pence reached out to others to see if there was some way he could carry out this unconstitutional move including, according to the washington post journalists bob woodward and robert costa, former vice president and fellow hoosier dan quail who convinced pence he had no constitutional power to throw out the election. also reported by woodward and costa was steve bannon s role in
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shed. but in late december 2020 then-vice president mike pence was desperate. donald trump was refusing to concede the election despite having clearly lost to joe biden, and trump was putting immense pressure on his vice president to use his ceremonial role in counting the electoral votes to deny president biden s victory and instead falsely proclaim trump the winner of the 2020 election. and so mike pence called one of the few people on this earth who had ever held that ceremonial role before. he called dan quail. this is from bob woodward and robert costa s book peril. quote, over and over pence asked if there s anything else he could do. you have no flexibility on this, none, zero, put it away, quail told him. pence pressed again, you don t know the position i m in, pence said. i do know the position you re in, quayle responded, i also
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