Speaking with special counsel Jack Smith’s team earlier this year, former Vice President Mike Pence offered harrowing details about how, in the wake of the 2020 presidential election, then-President Donald Trump surrounded himself with “crank” attorneys, espoused “un-American” legal theories, and almost pushed the country toward a “constitutional crisis,” according to sources familiar with what Pence told investigators.
The sources said Pence also told investigators he’s “sure” that – in the days before Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob tried to stop Congress from certifying the election – he informed Trump he still hadn’t seen evidence of significant election fraud, but Trump was unmoved, continuing to claim the election was “stolen” and acting “recklessly” on that “tragic day.”
I always think of it this way.
Pence’s ‘spontaneous’ walkout when the bad football man didn’t salute the flag took weeks of planning.
If he’d put a fraction of that effort into denouncing the coup planners before January 6 he’d have saved the country.
Yes but how would that have helped Mike Pence? /s
He’d be the front runner in the GOP primaries?
That’s with the hindsight of Jan 6 being a complete failure. They will always jump to the winning side the moment it becomes apparent.