'What’s the harm?' Cheney says Trump aide dismissed concerns as election challenge planned
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) revealed on Monday evening that she secretly listened in on a campaign call by Donald Trump's team on coordinating Jan. 6.
She shared the details in her book,"Oath and Honor."
Jenna Ellis began explaining how the objections to the election result would unfold in the joint session of Congress.
She said that Pence could ask: “Which of these two slates have been certified as correct?” Then, she explained, that Pence could refuse any votes for those states.
"This would, of course, have thrown our nation into turmoil," Cheney writes. "Then Jenna explained that some Republican members of Congress were already aware of these plans.
"She was saying out loud that this was a plan to obstruct or delay the lawful counting of electoral votes. And that some members of Congress were in on it."
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Ellis then turned the call over to Jason Miller, a long-time Trump ally who created a social media network for conservatives.
"Miller described what he called 'an uptick in activity' in calls from state legislatures to 'address concerns,'" writes Cheney. "That was not even remotely true. The Trump campaign had been trying for weeks to coax state legislatures to change their votes. It was already well publicized that not a single one had done so.
"Jason Miller said that Republican objectors would be 'calling out details of fraud and irregularities' and 'working to overturn election results,'" Cheney recalls. "Yet Miller knew then, as he was saying these things, that the campaign had no genuine evidence to prove the election had been stolen. Indeed, Miller was scrambling at the time to try to find any basis to support the Republican objections.
Pausing, Miller said, “What’s the harm? What are the Democrats so afraid of?”
Cheney unleashes.
"The harm? How about the shattering chaos that would ensue if the vice president refused to count certified electoral votes? We would be in completely uncharted territory."