• CaptainSpaceman@lemmy.world
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    … an excerpt from the book, detailing a phone call made two days before the deadly Capitol attacks in which the former president’s legal team allegedly discussed the fake elector scheme. Cheney, who noted that Trump’s attorneys were unaware that she was listening in on the call, also observed that former Vice President Mike Pence was acting in cooperation with the plans at that time. 

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      That definitely corroborates about his text message that he claims was, “missing a comma.” Pence was all for until he realized Trump actually didn’t have anything under control and would throw Pence under the bus. No loyalty amongst Trump’s loyalists.

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      And instead of telling anyone she sat on it, for her book.

      This country is fucked.

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      “Listening to them describe how these fake electors were going to be used and the fact that they anticipated that Vice President Pence was gonna use them to refuse to count the legitimate electors was certainly a moment of intense concern,” Cheney wrote, also noting that she fled to the House parliamentarian after the call concluded to try and halt the plan.