president trump continued t pressure pence, both publicl and privately. and january 4th, trump ratcheted up the pressure at a rally in georgia and i hope that mike penc comes through for us i hope that our great vice president, our great vic president comes through for us he is a great guy. on january 5th, trump kep at it tweeting that the vice president has the power to reject fraudulently electe electors called pence won last time, an by all accounts trump wa furious. listen to what aides of th president told the january six committee. did you hear any part of th phone call, even just the en of which the president was speaking from? i did yes what did you hear as i was dropping off the note in my memory, i remembe hearing the word when.
that was the conclusion of a new ten-page letter from trump s lawyers nothing to see here, just shut the whole thing down now criminal defense attorneys regularly appear before judges and argue that the charges against their clients should b dropped or that an investigation infringes on their clients rights but trump s lawyers did no address that in a letter to th judge, nor did they addres that letter to the departmen of justice they didn t send it to a judge they didn t send it to do th doj. that plea for relief fro donald trump s legal team wa addressed to a republica member of congress pecifically to the republica chair of the house intelligenc committee. and that is highly unusual but trump s legal team i asking here for congress t interfere with an independen criminal investigation in their letter, the lawyers argue that it wasn t trump s fault that this classified documents ended up a mar-a-lago it was white house staffers an deep state government employee who were to blame. bu
donald trump refused to conced the election, having clearly lost to joe biden. and trump was putting pressure on the vice president to use his ceremonial role, to deny president biden s victory an instead falsely proclaimed trump the winner of the 2020 election, so mike pence called one of the few people on thi earth who had ever held that ceremonial role before, he called dan quayle. this is from bob woodward an robert castor s book, peril. quote, he asked if there s anything he could do mike, you have no flexibilit on this, none, zero, put i away quayle told him. hans pressed again you don t know the position i in, pence said i do know the position here and, quayle responded i also know what the law is. you listen to th parliamentarian, that is all that you do you have no, power the man who could not spell th word potato, acting as a voice of reason.