President Trump’s controversial billion dollar “slush fund” payment to the Jan. 6 rioters for their alleged wrongful prosecution has put that dark day back in the headlines.
And it appears that much of what was going on back in January 2020 remains a mystery to many Americans, leading to many differing opinions regarding that event.
For instance, many Trump supporters insist that it was not an insurrection at all but rather a mostly peaceful protest against what they feel was a stolen election. Others believe that many federal agents and paid “actors” were in the crowd fomenting the violence.
Hopefully this comment can clear up a few of the most important aspects of this startling moment in our recent history.
The capital riot was not an insurrection but rather part of plot to illegally overturn the 2020 election results, as is described in detail in both the federal and state of Georgia indictments.
In the weeks leading up to that moment, Trump campaign officials had been making phone calls in which they lied to battleground state election officials by saying that they had found positive proof of fraud in those states and that those officials should reject Biden’s slate of electors in favor of the fraudulent ones they were fabricating that supported a Trump victory in their state, all serious felonies.
This of course, caused mass confusion among those officials. (Meanwhile, the president himself was also making phone calls to Republican secretaries of state in the battleground states asking them to “find” the exact number of votes it would take for him to win that state.)
So with this “confusion” surrounding the vote counts in the battleground states along with the civil unrest plainly visible at the capitol that day, VP Mike Pence had a rationale for saying something like this:
“Due to voting irregularities in many states and serious questions the American people have regarding the integrity of the outcome of this election, I cannot in good conscience certify this slate of electors.”
Then the election outcome, per our constitution, would have been passed to the state legislatures to decide. And since a majority of state governments were in the hands of Republicans, that would have handed DJT a second term. Surprisingly, Pence refused to go along with the treachery.
That’s why the mob wanted to hang him!
I hope this clears things up. And if you want to learn more, read the indictments for yourself:
• www.justice.gov/storage/US_v_Trump_23_cr_257.pdf
• d3i6fh83elv35t.cloudfront.net/static/2023/08/CRIMINAL-INDICTMENT-Trump-Fulton-County-GA.pdf
Richard Huffaker is a resident of Mariposa.
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