Trump: Pence missed a chance to be historic on Jan. 6, 2021

Former US President Donald Trump said his vice president, Mike Pence, had a chance to be historic on January 6, 2021, by refusing to certify the results of the 2020 presidential election.

Trump made the remarks on Thursday as the two politicians are set to hold events backing opposing candidates in a contested GOP Arizona gubernatorial primary.

Trump said that Pence told him he did not have the power to reject votes from the Electoral College, and questioned why, if that were the case, “Democrats and RINOs,” meaning Republicans in name only, are working to adopt legislation to make clear that the vice president only has a ceremonial role in counting the results of a presidential election.

On Wednesday, a group of Republican and Democratic senators introduced a bill that would make clear that the vice president does not have the power to overturn election results, reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887.

“This was a major event, because everybody ganged up and said that Mike had no choice, he could not send the slates back to the States (which is all I suggested he do) for possible retabulation and correction based on largescale Voter Fraud and Irregularities,” Trump said.

Trump said Pence sending certain electoral slates back to states could have been an “Election-changing event,” and the country “would have been a different place!”

Trump has repeatedly denounced Pence for refusing to attempt to overturn the results of the disputed 2020 presidential election.

The US Congress has been holding hearings on the January 6, 2021 protest march on the Capitol when thousands of people marched against the certification of the November 2020 election which placed Joe Biden in office as the current US president.

The nine-member Democratic-led House of Representatives select committee’s public hearings intend to put up a case against Trump that he was responsible for the January 6 violence, starting with knowingly spreading lies around the election, seeking to overturn the results, assembling the mob in the Capitol and failing to act to stop the violence.

The committee is trying to build a case that Trump's efforts to overturn his defeat amounted to illegal conduct, far beyond normal politics.

Cheney says Jan. 6 panel will hold more hearings in September

Congresswoman Liz Cheney, an anti-Trump Republican from Wyoming, announced on Thursday that the January 6 select committee will hold additional hearings in September.

Cheney, who is the vice chair of the committee, announced the additional upcoming presentations and claimed that the panel has “considerably more to do.”

“In the course of these hearings we have received new evidence, and new witnesses have bravely stepped forward. Efforts to litigate and overcome immunity and executive privilege claims have been successful, and those continue. Doors have opened, new subpoenas have been issued, and the dam has begun to break,” Cheney said.

“And now, even as we conduct our ninth hearing, we have considerably more to do. We have far more evidence to share with the American people, and more to gather. So our committee will spend August pursuing emerging information on multiple fronts before convening further hearings this September,” she added.

Trump pressured Pence to overturn his 2020 election defeat, US House panel hears

Trump pressured his vice president, Mike Pence, to overturn his 2020 election defeat, aides to Pence told the congressional committee investigating the January 6, 2021 protest march on the Capitol .

Trump has maintained that he lost the election only because of widespread fraud that benefited Biden. Trump and his supporters denounce the January 6 panel as a political witch hunt.

Trump claimed that he won the 2020 presidential election and that there was "massive" voter fraud. The former president claimed that he ordered 10,000 National Guard troops to protect the Capitol.

The certification vote on January 6 had become a focus for Trump.  On January 6, 2021, Trump's supporters occupied the US Capitol while lawmakers were in the process of reviewing the certification of state electors which indicated Biden's victory. Some Trump supporters had hoped that this process could have resulted in some of the electors being disqualified, thus overturning the outcome of the presidential election.

It is claimed by some that the demonstrators were infiltrated and incited by provocateurs from US intelligence agencies, who orchestrated the “false flag operation” in order to get rid of Trump.

Some among the crowd clashed with police, and some made threats to beat up a number of Democratic lawmakers. Some also inflicted damage on parts of the Capitol building.

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