President Donald Trump's continued false claims about election fraud and his calls for people to protest the Electoral College certification are “unprecedented," "dangerous," "unconstitutional and unpatriotic," former Defense Secretary William Cohen told Jim Braude on Tuesday.
While more than 100 Trump loyalists in the House and Senate stand ready to object to tomorrow’s Electoral College certification, it will not be enough to make a difference. So the president is turning his attention to increasing the pressure on Vice President Mike Pence, who Trump claimed today “has the power to rejected fraudulently chosen electors.” In fact, Pence’s only real power is to count the electoral votes.
Cohen and all nine other living former defense secretaries wrote an opinion piece in The Washington Post over the weekend declaring "the time for questioning the results has passed” and warning that “to involve the U.S. armed forces in resolving election disputes would take us into dangerous, unlawful and unconstitutional territory."
