MSNBC’s Ari Melber hosted Trump advisor (and coup plotter) Peter Navarro, who claimed that everything he and others did going up until the certification of the election by Congress on January 6th was perfectly legal and legitimate because the election hadn’t been certified yet–even though the results had been certified by the various state election officials, including Secretaries of State.

“You just described this plan as a way to take an election where the outcome was established by independent Secretaries of State, by the voters of those states, and legal remedies had been exhausted with the Supreme Court never even taking, let alone siding with, any of the claims that you just referred to, so legally they went nowhere, and then you’re describing a way the incumbent [Navarro attempts to interrupt and Melber quiets him].  Then you will use the incumbent, losing party power, that was the Republican Party losing power, to overtake and reverse that outcome,” Melber states.  “Do you realize you are describing a coup?”

“No,” Navarro responds.  “I totally reject many of your premises there.  First of all, the election was still in doubt and would be until it was certified.  Second, the idea that, that, that Secretaries of State, particularly in Michigan and, and Pennsylvania, were, like, innocent parties–I mean, Jocelyn Benson and, and Kathy Boockvar, the Secretaries of State in, in Michigan and Pennsylvania, they were put in power by George Soros for the express purpose of shifting the playing field.”