Chaos at the Capitol: New thread edition

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Originally Posted by Giantone

https://news.yahoo.com/trump-justifi...112935248.html


Jonathan Karl
American journalist
Trump in a new interview claimed that half of constitutional scholars support his false election claims.

"I'm telling you: 50/50, it's right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them," he told ABC News' Jonathan Karl.

Legal experts on both the left and right have said Trump's claim was unconstitutional - including one of Trump's impeachment lawyers.

Former President Donald Trump claimed in a new interview that half of constitutional scholars agree that former Vice President Mike Pence could have overturned his 2020 election loss, a move legal experts have routinely dismissed as an unconstitutional act likely to trigger a crisis.

Trump made the claim during an interview with ABC News' correspondent Jonathan Karl for his forthcoming book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," slated for publication on November 16. Karl tweeted an audio snippet of the 90-minute interview on Friday.

"How can you - if you know a vote is fraudulent, right? - how can you pass on a fraudulent vote to Congress? How can you do that?" Trump told Karl about Pence's refusal to reject the election results when Congress met to certify them on January 6. "And I'm telling you: 50/50, it's right down the middle for the top constitutional scholars when I speak to them."

"Ok name one constitutional scholar who supports your argument"

"Uh well uh, we have all the best constitutional scholars, with the most years of experience. We have the Abraham Lincoln of constitutional scholars and he totally agrees with us."