On Fox News ... Pence said Trump and his “gaggle of crackpot lawyers” asked him “to literally reject votes.”
“I think it’s important that the American people know what happened in the days before January 6,” Pence said. “President Trump demanded that I use my authority as vice president presiding over the count of the Electoral College to essentially overturn the election by returning or literally rejecting votes. I had no authority to do that.”
https://www.factcheck.org/2023/08/what-trump-asked-of-pence/
Edited by tmcats at 11:33:00 on 09/19/24