Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) mentioned Donald Trump’s plans after shedding the 2020 election have been much more radical than many individuals notice.
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow learn a passage from Cheney’s guide describing a Jan. 4, 2021 telephone name wherein Trump’s authorized staff mentioned an elaborate plot involving pretend electors for Trump in addition to cooperation from then-Vice President Mike Pence.
They didn’t know Cheney was listening in.
“Listening to them describe how these pretend electors have been going for use and the truth that they anticipated that Vice President Pence was gonna use them to refuse to depend the legit electors was definitely a second of intense concern,” she recalled.
Cheney mentioned she ran to the Home parliamentarian after the decision to ask how the plan may stopped.
“It was very clear that there have been not a variety of good solutions to that,” she mentioned, including that she later realized Pence was having his personal discussions with the Senate parliamentarian.
“The vp in the end after all did his responsibility bravely,” she mentioned.
However occasions may have unfolded otherwise.
“It was a really harmful and chilling second,” she added.
See extra of her dialog with Maddow beneath:
