The third hearing into the Capitol attacks detailed the enormous pressure facing former vice-president to put in place Mr Trump’s plan to overturn the election.
| Donald Trump’s closest advisers viewed his last-ditch efforts to pressure vice president Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 election as “nuts”, “crazy” and even likely incite riots, witnesses revealed to the January 6 committee on Thursday .
“Are you out of your effing mind?” said Eric Herschmann, a lawyer advising Mr Trump, told Mr Eastman in recorded testimony shown at the hearing. By refusing Mr Trump’s demands, Mr Pence “did his duty,” said the panel’s vice chair, Republican Liz Cheney.The committee portrayed the gripping, if complicated, final days before the deadly January 6 insurrection as the defeated Mr Trump pursued the theory that Mr Pence could swing the election. The move put his own vice president in danger as the mob headed toward the Capitol.
The panel’s year-long investigation is showcasing Mr Trump’s final weeks in office as the defeated president clung to “the big lie” of a rigged election even as those around him were telling him he simply lost the election.
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