evidence: The day before the assault on the Capitol, Trump tweeted, "The Vice President has the power to reject fraudulently chosen electors." PolitiFact rated that False. [...] The other guiding law is the 1887 Electoral Count Act. It provides more procedural details, but gives the vice president no power to reject votes. As recently as January 2022, Trump argued the opposite, saying that Pence "could have overturned the election." [...] If evidence of fraud on a scale big enough to flip the results had emerged — as Trump alleged — then there might have been legal grounds for Congress to reject electoral slates. But every state certified their election results, meaning that officials — a mix of Republicans and Democrats — were confident that there was no fraud or errors to come close to reversing the results. And in dozens of lawsuits after the election, judge after judge consistently rejected such allegations.