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...the Senate president pro tempore in January, 2021, said that he and not vice president Mike Pence would preside over the certification of Electoral College votes since "we don't expect him [Pence] to be there"?
Well, originally Pence had planned to give Trump what he wanted: a possible Constitutional crisis in the House on January 6.
In a meeting at the White House in late December 2020,
as many as 20 House Republicans erupted in applause after Pence told them to "get your evidence together" and assured them "we [will] get our day in Congress," with an opportunity for all of the evidence to be heard before the election would be certified, sources said he told Smith's team.
At one point before Pence was set to preside over Congress certifying the election results on Jan. 6, 2021, he decided that he would
skip the proceedings altogether, writing in the note that there were "too many questions" and it would otherwise be "too hurtful to my friend." But he ultimately concluded he had a duty to show up.And that helps explain why Grassley said he would preside over the vote count and didn't expect Pence to be there.
What "ultimately" happened is that Pence's son, a marine, told Pence while on vacation in Colorado: "Dad, you took the same oath I took" -- it was "an oath to support and defend the Constitution."
The Constitution? That pesky old thing? Trump already dismissed that as disposable.
So, it turns out that Pence was perfectly willing to blow up democracy and that Pence's son turned out to be the guy who saved democracy.
https://abcnews.go.com/US/pence-told-jan-6-special... 