wild. having failed to influence the elective on some of the 14th, trump s team began to focus on the day those electoral votes were to be counted and certified by congress. a mere formality observed in every election since the passage of the electoral count act, in 1877. the white house tab john eastman, of pro trump to draft a legal strategy for flipping the election. his plan, fleshed out into bonkers memos, said that vice president, mike pence, could use his role in overseeing the january six electoral count, throat votes from key battleground states that biden won. trump could then claim victory, from remaining electoral votes. on december the 20th, the then president met with some of his biggest backers, to discuss this plan, including more brooks, marjorie taylor greene, and jim jordan. as all this was going on, trump supporters began organizing on social media to descend on washington d.c.. they were goaded on by sitting members of congress. in early january, as trump was c