Pence: Trump is ‘wrong’
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Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump’s false claims that he somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply “wrong.”
In a speech to a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence addressed Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that, as vice president, he had the unilateral power to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office.
“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election.”
Pence’s declaration marked his most forceful response yet to Trump, who has spent his post-presidency fueling the lie that the 2020 campaign was stolen from him. And it comes as Pence begins laying the groundwork for a potential run for president in 2024, which could put him in direct competition with his former boss, who is also teasing a comeback run.
The already strained relationship between the two men further deteriorated this week as Trump escalated his attacks on Pence.
In a statement Tuesday, Trump said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that “he could have overturned the Election!”
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OMG-- telling the truth about Trump!!!
(No wonder so many of the MAGA-cultists want to hang him!)
his legal counsel's 9 hour deposition in front of the J6 committee forced his hand. too late to grow a pair now, mike.
Former Vice President Mike Pence on Friday directly rebutted Donald Trump’s false claims that he somehow could have overturned the results of the 2020 election, saying that the former president was simply “wrong.”
In a speech to a gathering of the conservative Federalist Society in Florida, Pence addressed Trump’s intensifying efforts this week to advance the false narrative that, as vice president, he had the unilateral power to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office.
“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said. “I had no right to overturn the election.”
Pence’s declaration marked his most forceful response yet to Trump, who has spent his post-presidency fueling the lie that the 2020 campaign was stolen from him.
And it comes as Pence begins laying the groundwork for a potential run for president in 2024, which could put him in direct competition with his former boss, who is also teasing a comeback run.
According to the Republican National Committee, "Hang Mike Pence" is now part of "legitimate political discourse".
Well, there's an olde saying:
Actions speak louder than words...
All of a sudden there was a huge upswing in anti-Asian hate crimes-- immediately afterTrump started calling Covid "The Chinese Flu". And "The Kung-Flu". Words have power..
So I can't help but wonder if some MAGA-Cultist will decide its time to "exercise his Second Amentment Rights"-?
Or merely to merely hang Pense...?
OMG!
So now Mike Pense is living rent free in the heads of the entire Republican National Committee!
Oh-- the Horror of it all!
Yeah, they've got Pence Derangement Syndrome. And Liz Cheney Derangement Syndrome, too.
The already strained relationship between the two men further deteriorated this week as Trump escalated his attacks on Pence.
In a statement Tuesday, Trump said the committee investigating the deadly Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol should instead probe “why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” And on Sunday, he blasted Pence, falsely declaring that “he could have overturned the Election!”
The already strained relationship between the two men further deteriorated this week as Trump escalated his attacks on Pence.
DeSantis would also like to be President.
Maybe a Pence-DeSantis ticket could beat out Trump for the nomination?
Or-- a DeSantis-Pence ticket might beat Trump in a primary...especially as more revelations are uncovered about the extent of Trump's malfeasance!
I have to wonder if even Pence could live through another 4 years of playing second fiddle to another incompetent moron.
4th fiddle, jesus and mother come in 1st and 2nd...
Pence isn't telling me something I did not already know. He should have said it sooner though.
Yes, like in DECEMBER of 2020.
Oh dear, has Pence morphed into a born-again Judas? What's in your wallet Mike?
Poor Pence. /s
Will probably not last in the primaries...
Actually, now that I think about it-- he probably doesn't want to run for President. The vast majority of the Republican Party is still in the clutches of Trump worship. So saying anything critical of Trump is not the best way to win a Republican primary!
So it looks like Pence has given up on being president--- probably has some more lucrative job lined up...?
Why are republicans so enamored (or beholden) to this 'society'...
... because only rich white men get to make all the decisions.
One answer.
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