J.D. Vance stated in a viral clip that donald trump won the elections 2020 and said he would not give in if the former president lost in 2024.
Comedian Jason Selvig grilled the 2022 Republican vice presidential candidate about who really won the 2020 election in a video now circulating on X, previously Twitter.
Selvig, known to fans for his street interviews, followed Vance around as he repeatedly asked him if Trump had won the 2020 election. choice.
‘Who won the 2020 elections? Could you just reply? Did Donald Trump win? Selvig asked Vance as he walked.
Vance responded, “Yes,” prompting Selvig to confirm what he had heard. “Did he win?” the comedian asked, to which Vance responded, “Yes.”
In the viral clip from 2022, Jason Selvig could be seen asking JD Vance if Donald Trump had won the 2020 presidential election, to which he responded, ‘Yes.’
Vance also declined to answer Selvig’s question about whether he would concede if Kamala Harris won the 2024 election. Pictured: Vance speaks at a rally on the grounds of Berlin Raceway on October 2, in Marne, Michigan.
Selvig went ahead and asked the senator if he would accept if “his opponent got more votes.”
But Vance refused to answer and instead told Selvig that he felt sorry for him before entering another room after having avoided the question.
The resurfaced clip comes after Vance, during Tuesday night’s debate, said he would have helped Trump’s “alternative electors” plan to overturn the election.
Vance refused to acknowledge that Trump lost the 2020 election during Tuesday’s debate and did so again Wednesday when pressed during a campaign event in Michigan.
It comes after a 165-page court filing from special counsel Jack Smith’s team unsealed Wednesday provided a glimpse into the evidence and testimony prosecutors plan to present if the case accusing Trump of an illegal plot to overturn the election 2020 comes to trial.
The Republican presidential candidate has maintained that he did nothing illegal and has characterized the case as an attempt to harm his bid to retake the White House in November.
Trump lawyers who have pushed for the case to be dismissed will now have a chance to respond in court to prosecutors’ claims.
Prosecutors allege that Trump began laying the groundwork for his illegal scheme well before Election Day, refusing to say in the months leading up to whether he would accept the results and suggesting he could only lose if there was fraud.
Three days before the election, a Trump political adviser told a group of supporters that the then-president “was going to declare himself the winner” regardless of the outcome,” according to prosecutors.
“That doesn’t mean he’s the winner, it’s just going to say he’s the winner,” the advisor said.
Trump “did exactly that” immediately after the election, prosecutors said.
Then, in the days after the election, Trump’s allies “sought to create chaos” at polling places where votes were still being counted, Smith’s team alleges.
When a campaign staffer was told about a batch of votes in Detroit that appeared to be heavily in favor of President Joe Biden, the staffer told a colleague to “find a reason” that was incorrect and “give me options for file a lawsuit.” ‘
When the colleague suggested there would be riots, the campaign staffer responded: ‘Make them riot’ and ‘Do it!!!’ according to the presentation.
“The details don’t matter,” Trump told an adviser.
Special Counsel Jack Smith speaks to the media about an indictment against former President Donald Trump on August 1, 2023 in Washington.
Vance’s clip comes after a 165-page court filing revealed Wednesday provided a look at the evidence and testimony prosecutors plan to present if the case accusing Trump of an illegal plot to overturn the 2020 election goes to trial. . Pictured: Trump concludes a rally at Saginaw Valley State University on October 3, in Saginaw, Michigan.
Prosecutors are trying to show that Trump knew his claims of voter fraud were false because many in his circle told him there was no fraud and that he actually lost the election.
Prosecutors say Trump ignored those assurances just as he ignored “dozens of court decisions that unanimously rejected his legal claims and those of his allies.”
In a key moment detailed in the filing, prosecutors say a lawyer who represented Trump during his first impeachment trial told Trump that his claims of election fraud would not survive in court.
Trump responded: “The details don’t matter,” according to prosecutors.
Prosecutors say they will present evidence showing that Trump and his allies “made up entire numbers” about voter fraud, detailing how they repeatedly changed their baseless claims about the number of noncitizens voting in Arizona.
One of the most illuminating sections of the dossier details the relentless pressure campaign that Trump and his allies launched against Pence, which began well before Election Day and continued until the final minutes of the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory on the 6th. January 2021.
While most of the details of the former president’s futile attempts to get his running mate to reject Biden’s electoral votes have been well documented, Smith’s latest report offers an even more granular look at the rift between the two men, as Prosecutors say one desperately sought to cling to power and the other struggled to maintain his unwavering fidelity to the Constitution.
When news organizations called the election for Biden on Nov. 7, Pence saw it as an opportunity to “encourage” Trump “as a friend,” reminding him that he “took a dying political party and gave it new life,” they said. the prosecutors. wrote.
A few days later, when Trump and his allies were still strategizing how to overcome the defeat, Pence again reiterated that the next 2024 presidential election was “not that far away.”
When Pence refused on December 28 to support the various legal cases being pursued by Trump and his close allies in Congress, the document claims that Trump told his vice president that “hundreds of thousands” of people “will hate you until the guts” and “people will think you’re stupid. And he added: “You’re too honest.”
This continued for days, until the two men met in person for the last time before January 6.
The Oval Office meeting on the eve of certification is seen by prosecutors as one of Trump’s last efforts to privately encourage Pence to keep him in power, telling him once again that he had “the power to decertify” the results. .
“When Pence did not flinch, the defendant threatened to publicly criticize him,” the filing states.
“I’ll have to say you did a disservice,” Trump said.
Pence relayed this comment to a member of his team, who saw it as a direct threat, to the point of alerting Pence’s Secret Service.
-And? Trump said when told that Pence was taken to safety.
When Trump supporters began attacking the Capitol on Jan. 6 to stop the counting of electoral votes, an aide rushed to tell Trump that Pence had been taken to safety.
The aide expected Trump to “take steps to ensure Pence’s safety,” prosecutors wrote. Instead, Trump’s only response was: “So what?” prosecutors allege.
Prosecutors say they will present “forensic evidence” from Trump’s cell phone and witness testimony to show how Trump spent the afternoon of Jan. 6 on Twitter and watching television coverage of the riot while his aides pressured him to make a public statement. to quell violence.
“Instead, the defendant repeatedly refused until his advisors gave up and left him alone in the dining room,” prosecutors wrote.
Alone in the dining room, Trump sent a tweet attacking Pence for not having the “courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution, giving states the opportunity to certify a corrected set of facts, not fraudulent ones.” or those inaccurate that they were previously asked to certify.’
A rioter with a megaphone read Trump’s tweet about Pence to the crowd trying to break into the Capitol, prosecutors said.
It was only after advisers again urged Trump to do something about the riot that he sent out a tweet encouraging his followers to support law enforcement and “remain peaceful,” prosecutors wrote.
