Last Call For Insurrection Investigation, Con't

Jonathan Karl, like Bob Woodward and Robert Costa before him, has a book about the Trump regime to sell, and that means doling out "book-exclusive" tidbits of criminality and sedition to a public that should have been informed months ago, in this case a Trump regime memo instructing VP Mike Pence exactly how he was expected to steal the 2020 election in January.

In a memo not made public until now, then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows emailed to Vice President Mike Pence's top aide, on New Year's Eve, a detailed plan for undoing President Joe Biden's election victory, ABC News' Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl reports.

The memo, written by former President Donald Trump's campaign lawyer Jenna Ellis, is reported for the first time in Karl's upcoming book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show" -- demonstrating how Pence was under even more pressure than previously known to overturn the results of the 2020 election.

Ellis, in the memo, outlined a multi-step strategy: On Jan. 6, the day Congress was to certify the 2020 election results, Pence was to send back the electoral votes from six battleground states that Trump falsely claimed he had won.

The memo said that Pence would give the states a deadline of "7pm eastern standard time on January 15th" to send back a new set of votes, according to Karl.

Then, Ellis wrote, if any state legislature missed that deadline, "no electoral votes can be opened and counted from that state."

Such a scenario would leave neither Biden nor Trump with a majority of votes, Ellis wrote, which would mean "Congress shall vote by state delegation" -- which, Ellis said, would in turn lead to Trump being declared the winner due to Republicans controlling the majority of state delegations with 26.

The day after Meadows sent Ellis' memo to Pence's aide, on Jan. 1, Trump aide John McEntee sent another memo to Pence's chief of staff, Marc Short, titled, "Jefferson used his position as VP to win."

Although McEntee's memo was historically incorrect, Karl says, his message was clear: Jefferson took advantage of his position, and Pence must do the same.

The plan was for Pence to steal the election by scrapping the electoral count in enough states to send it to the House delegations where Trump would have won. The planned insurrection was political cover. We were supposed to look at the footage of terrorists storming the US Capitol as heroes, as an expression of the people's will that Donald Trump should have been granted another term.

It failed only because Pence chickened out at the last minute.

We only have a democracy because Mike Pence got cold feet.

That's how close we came, but we're going to give this country back to the insurrectionists anyway it seems, because Junior doesn't want to feel bad about slavery.

Jesus wept.