comment: Ignoring the advice of his own top White House lawyers, Mr Trump had mounted a pressure campaign meant to convince then-vice president Mike Pence to use his ceremonial role presiding over the certification session to install him and Mr Trump in the White House for a second term, by throwing out lawfully-cast electoral college votes from swing states won by Joe Biden.voters.
  
  i'm worried that we're becoming numb to the craziness, because i read the article and was sort of nodding along with what i was expecting - but then i had to reread it to remind myself just how batshit crazy this was
  a sitting president tried (and though twice impeached and ousted, is still trying) to ignore the American people/their votes - the insanity of that cannot be exaggerated