Posted on 08/04/2023 10:23:40 AM PDT by Olog-hai
As Donald Trump was being arraigned in Washington on yet another round of criminal charges, his running mate-turned-rival Mike Pence hurried to capitalize on the news.
Pence’s campaign unveiled new T-shirts and baseball caps for sale featuring the phrase “Too Honest” in big red letters — a reference to an episode in the indictment in which the former president called Pence to berate him over his refusal to go along with Trump’s scheme to overturn the results of the 2020 election.
“You’re too honest,” Trump allegedly scoffed at his second-in-command on New Year’s Day.
Pence’s decision to seize on the words marks a notable change in tone for a usually cautious candidate who has struggled to break through in a primary dominated by his former boss. Since the release of the indictment in which he plays a central role, Pence has criticized Trump more aggressively, casting himself as the person who stood up to Trump, averting catastrophe.
Pence’s response might seem like the expected reaction of a man who had to flee for his life on Jan. 6, 2021, when a violent mob of Trump’s supporters violently stormed the Capitol building, clashing with police and disrupting the joint session of Congress over which Pence was presiding. Trump had convinced legions of his followers that Pence had the unilateral power to undo the election, and Pence, his staff and family spent hours in hiding in a Senate loading dock as rioters chanted, “Hang Mike Pence!” outside. …
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LOL! Either one makes a pretty good moniker. DJT is welcome to borrow it.
Hey Pence, you did not your job on Jan. 6, do not expect people to vote for you either. I’d stab myself in the heart and vote for Kennedy before you.
I am not sure where he stands. It could very well be that he is clueless. Why would any serious candidate say that they are not concerned about what are GOP voter concerns, in that Tucker Carlson interview?!
That quote by VP Pence on Jan 4, 2021 should be proof enough for President Trump that he truly believed that he won the election. After all, his Vice President also had doubts about the integrity of the election just two days before the January 6 speech.
That should be enough to get the latest round of indictments tossed out.
-PJ
Even for people who don’t have Trump at the top of their Primary list, this makes Pence look really, really, really bad.
“I know we all have got our doubts about the last election. I want to assure you that I share the concerns of millions of Americans about voting irregularities. I promise you, come this Wednesday, we will have our day in Congress!”Thinking about this quote from Pence some more...
— Pence, 01/04/2021
Actually, President Trump can make the very credible claim that it was actually this quote from Pence that incited the riot, and not Trump's January 6 speech.
Trump can claim that nobody knew what he was going to say until he started speaking on January 6.
However, two days before the speech Pence set the expectation "We will have our day in Congress" and gave trouble-makers a two-day lead time to organize and travel to DC.
President Trump can show that on January 6 he implored the crowd to go peacefully to the Capitol and show their numbers. That was an extemporaneous comment made to a already peaceful gathering.
But it was Mike Pence's quote that made the "promise" to personally do something about it in two days. I'm saying that it was Mike Pence who galvanized the people to riot at the Capitol, not Donald Trump.
-PJ
The only thing worse than a backstabbing weasel is a backstabbing weasel who professes to be a devout Christian.
Sorry Pence, the World is passing you by.
I didn’t even know that Pence was a Carter Democrat in his youth.
The only serious breakthrough this backstabbing, traitor is gonna have is his entrance thru the gates of hell.
https://www.foxnews.com/media/mark-levin-goes-off-bill-barr-weasel-mike-pence-indictment-crap
“Life, Liberty & Levin” host Mark Levin joined “Fox & Friends” to call out statements made by former Attorney General Bill Barr and former Vice President Mike Pence about the latest indictment against former President Trump. Speaking on CNN, Barr dismissed First Amendment concerns with the latest charges against Trump over the January 6th riot.
MARK LEVIN: This indictment, Mr. Barr, is crap! And the reason they didn’t bring insurrection, and seditious conspiracy is because there was no insurrection and seditious conspiracy. … I want to say something to Mike Pence, who has turned out to be quite the weasel. Mike Pence fought like hell, he didn’t want to testify in front of this grand jury, he didn’t want to give his notes to this grand jury, now we know why, he’s scribbling them down in the meeting. Well, he had to give them up, then he gives them up and he comes out, he’s like all of a sudden a drama queen! ‘I said no!’ because his notes were in there, he’s flipped completely, ‘and I stopped a constitutional crisis.’ You did?
😂😂😂
This only leaves two conclusions any thinking person can arrive at regarding Pence:
There are no other options.
30 Pence will rue the day he pulled this stunt. Furthermore, you don’t tell voters you care more about backing an funding Ukraine and in the same breath tell the country don’t care about America.
30 Pence will rue the day he pulled this stunt. Furthermore, you don’t tell voters you care more about backing an funding Ukraine and in the same breath tell the country don’t care about America.
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