The Epoch Times
by Tom Ozimek
January 4, 2021
Excerpt:
White House trade adviser Peter Navarro said in an interview on Fox News on Saturday that the Jan. 20 date of Inauguration Day could be changed.
Navarro made the remarks on “Justice With Judge Jeanine,” in context of a recent call by 11 Republican senators for Congress to appoint an electoral commission to conduct an emergency 10-day audit of the election results.
Program host Judge Jeanine Pirro asked Navarro about his expectations for the effort, saying, “All this has to happen before January 20. Do you have any hope that this can succeed?”
“Vice President Pence, he has the authority to give that 10-day window to do what needs to get done,” Navarro said. “I cannot imagine when he looks at the facts he won’t vote the right way on that.”
Pirro responded by saying that the “10-day window” could change the date for certification of electoral votes planned for the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress, chaired by Pence, when lawmakers certify the votes cast for the U.S. president by members of the Electoral College.
“January 20 cannot be changed; that’s constitutional,” Pirro added, presumably referring to Section 1 of the Twentieth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, which states: “The terms of the President and the Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January…and the terms of their successors shall then begin.”
“It can be changed, actually,” Navarro said. “We can go past that date. We can go past that date, if we need to. And we have got to get this right … We need to take [the election] back for the people.”
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