NEW: As recounted in the indictment, when Mike Pence told Trump he couldn't overturn the election, Trump allegedly lit into him. 'You’re too honest.' Story:
Mike Pence and Donald Trump participates in the Oval Office on Sept. 4, 2020 in Washington, D.C.on conspiracy charges related to his attempts to subvert the results of the 2020 election makes clear that the then-president not only made false claims about who won the presidency, but “knew that they were false.”
Trump’s tortured relationship with the truth is highlighted in an exchange he allegedly had with Vice Presidenton Jan. 1, 2021. Trump, the indictment says, called Pence and “berated him” because Pence opposed efforts to claim that he alone had the power, in his ceremonial role presiding over the counting of the votes of the Electoral College, to reject the official tallies from the states.
As recounted in the indictment, Pence told Trump that — as he understood the laws of our land — there was no constitutional authority invested in the vice president to make such a move.
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