‘Faux Information’: Trump Reacts to Report Pence Informed Him He Cannot Overturn Election Outcomes

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US media reported earlier within the day that Pence informed the US president that he didn’t consider he had the ability to dam the congressional certification of the three November election outcomes on Wednesday.

President Donald Trump has dismissed the sooner report of Vice President Mike Pence telling him he can not overturn the outcomes of the presidential election, calling it “Faux Information”.

Trump additionally reiterated his earlier assertion that Pence has the ability to behave to decertify the US election outcomes.

“The New York Instances report concerning feedback Vice President Pence supposedly made to me in the present day is faux information. He by no means mentioned that. The Vice President and I are in complete settlement that the Vice President has the ability to behave,” the assertion launched on Tuesday evening says.

The assertion was allegedly made by Pence in a dialog with the president simply hours before the latter tweeted that the vice chairman really had the ability to reject the election final result, if electors are “fraudulent”.

Trump has been difficult Biden’s victory, insisting mass fraud and irregularities passed off on November 3 that “helped” Democrats to “steal” his victory within the election.

Congress will meet in a joint session on Wednesday to certify the outcomes of the presidential election with Vice President Mike Pence presiding over the session to rely the votes. The foundations require US Vice President Mike Pence, who will probably be presiding over the joint session, to unseal states’ certificates in alphabetical order and cross them to 4 “tellers” – a Democrat and a Republican from every chamber of the Congress – for reviewing and announcing the contents.