The Secret Service agents who presumably are reporting to Trump`s Secret Service agents, were trying to spirit him off of the campus. And he said, I`m not getting in that car until we count the Electoral College votes. He knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for, was going to do. This was not a coup directed at the president. It was a coup directed by the president against the Vice President and against the Congress.
Raskin describes the actions of the Secret Service on January 6 as an attempt to remove Vice President Pence from overseeing the Electoral College vote count, framing it as a coup against Pence and Congress.
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