Rep. Raskin suggests that the Jan. 6 committee's upcoming hearings will be dramatic and present explosive revelations that the panel has been piecing together behind the scenes for months.
was to use then-Vice President Mike Pence to try to get President Joe Biden's electoral vote tally below the 270 majority needed for victory, Raskin said, which under the 12th Amendment would shift the contest to a vote in the House. If that occurred, he said, Republicans would have the majority to seize the presidency because the votes would be cast by the state delegations, and the GOP controls more state delegations than the Democrats do.
"It’s anybody’s guess what could have happened — martial law, civil war. You know, the beginning of authoritarianism," Raskin said, speculating on what might have unfolded if the plan was successful."I want people to pay attention to what’s going on here, because that’s as close to fascism as I ever want my country to come to again."
"This was not a coup directed at the president," Raskin said."It was a coup directed by the president against the vice president and against the Congress." The plan was coordinated"most tightly by Trump and his inner circle," Raskin said, adding that the committee faced the most difficulty in this aspect of its probe. The panel has interviewed more than 800 witnesses, but he said,"The closer you get to Trump, the more they refuse to testify."on Jan.
Pence then"uttered what I think are the six most chilling words of this entire thing I've seen so far: 'I'm not getting in that car,'" Raskin said.
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