I have Professor Eastman here with me to say a few words … He’s one of the preeminent constitutional scholars in the United States. It is perfectly appropriate given the questionable constitutionality of the Election Counting Act of 1887 that the vice president can cast it aside, and he can do what a president called Jefferson did when he was vice president. He can decide on the validity of these crooked ballots, or he can send it back to the legislators, give them five to ten days to finally finish the work. We now have letters from five legislators begging us to do that. They’re asking us. Georgia, Pennsylvania, Arizona, Wisconsin, and one other coming in …

It is perfectly reasonable and fair to get ten days … and you should know this, the Democrats and their allies have not allowed us to see one machine, or one paper ballot. Now, if they ran such a clean election, why wouldn’t they make all the machines available immediately? If they ran such a clean election, they’d have you come in and look at the paper ballots. Who hides evidence? Criminals hide evidence. Not honest people …

Last night one of the experts that has examined these crooked Dominion machines has absolutely what he believes is conclusive proof that in the last ten percent, fifteen percent of the vote counted, the votes were deliberately changed. By the same algorithm that was used in cheating President Trump and Vice President Pence. Same algorithm, same system, same thing was done with the same machines. You notice they were ahead until the very end, right? Then you noticed there was a little gap, one was ahead by three percent, the other was ahead by two percent, and gone, gone, they were even. He can take you through that and show you how they programmed that machine from the outside to accomplish that. And they’ve been doing it for years to favor the Democrats.

At 11:45 a.m. the White House entourage, including Meadows, Herschmann, and Scavino, piled into the Beast, the presidential limo and the follow-on vehicles for the two-minute ride to the rally staging area (mostly the president liked to ride alone, with the rest of the entourage following). The Trump family was already there. The greenroom tent was almost giddy—despite their ostensible purpose there being to protest the election, defend the Trump presidency, and anticipate the vice president’s push to save it. Here was a celebratory sense that this might be Trump’s last rally as president. Nostalgia was beginning. Elvis’s last show. Don Jr. had his phone out, filming the moment.