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President-elect Donald J. Trump was at Mar-a-Lago, his members-only membership and residential in Florida, almost 1,000 miles away from the Capitol as a joint session of Congress licensed his Electoral College victory on Monday.
“CONGRESS CERTIFIES OUR GREAT ELECTION VICTORY TODAY — A BIG MOMENT IN HISTORY. MAGA!” Mr. Trump wrote on his web site, Truth Social.
Jan. 6 unfolded a lot in a different way than it did 4 years in the past, when a pro-Trump mob left a speech that he was giving close to the White House and marched to the Capitol. Many clashed with legislation enforcement officers, forcefully entered the constructing and disrupted the proceedings.
The violence was the fruits of Mr. Trump’s weeks of lies about widespread fraud affecting the election and his refusal to acknowledge Joseph R. Biden Jr. because the victor. Some within the crowd that day hunted for Speaker Nancy Pelosi whereas others threatened the sitting vice chairman, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
Mr. Trump has spent the previous 4 years making an attempt to rewrite the occasions of Jan. 6, 2021, calling it a day of “love.”
On Saturday evening at Mar-a-Lago, he sat in for a screening of a film referred to as “The Eastman Dilemma: Lawfare or Justice.” It is unclear who produced the film, however it focuses on the conservative lawyer John Eastman, who pushed a authorized concept that Mr. Pence might have summarily stopped the certification of Mr. Biden’s Electoral College win throughout the Jan. 6 session. White House legal professionals and different Trump advisers disagreed, however Mr. Trump grew to become captivated by it.
Mr. Eastman in the end misplaced his legislation license and was charged, together with various different Trump allies and advisers, in an election interference case in Arizona. He has maintained that he’s the sufferer not of accountability efforts however of partisan makes an attempt to wreck conservatives.
On the eve of the joint session of Congress to certify his second victory, Mr. Trump continued to advertise the debunked concept that Mr. Eastman was appropriate.
He greeted the a number of hundred attendees on the screening, standing onstage and speaking right into a hand-held microphone. He praised Mr. Eastman and mentioned that his concept of Mr. Pence’s choices was “proper.”
“Those votes might have been despatched again,” Mr. Trump mentioned, referring to efforts on Jan. 6 to overturn slates of electors from a number of states. Without figuring out anybody by title, he mentioned that “they satisfied” Mr. Pence “that he’s not allowed to do it.”
He singled out for reward three individuals standing close to each other within the room: his onetime private lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani; Peter Navarro, a commerce adviser within the first Trump administration who will probably be returning as a senior counselor on commerce and manufacturing; and Michael T. Flynn, Mr. Trump’s former nationwide safety adviser. They had both forcefully pushed the false declare of an election stolen by widespread fraud or endorsed the notion that Mr. Pence might have an effect on the certification.
And Mr. Trump mentioned he hoped that the film was good. “Gotta be sturdy,” he mentioned. “I hope they didn’t maintain something again.”
