President Trump said what he said and not what anyone imagined he said.
Vice-President Pence’s duties are to preside as President of the Senate when the electoral votes are certified by Congress. The Constitution doesn’t narrowly define those duties nor was he constrained from challenging or questioning disputed electoral votes.
Just the same as a judge may poll a jury about their verdict to confirm that the verdict is indeed valid.
Pence had a chance to question the fraud and he failed.
I hope he sleeps well at night.
Bull.
And you know the funny part of this is -- you just don't know.
I've heard this tired, fatuous argument before: "And all Pence had to do was not knowingly certify fraudulent electors."
Where were the alternate slates of Electors with the imprimatur of both that state's legislature and signed off by that state's Governor?
And even if Pence had had that, the House and the Senate must both vote in the majority to throw out the original Electors of any challenged state's slate.
The fact that 1 Congressman and 1 Senator, can object to every electoral slate (50 states + DC) is Constitutionally not enough to actually disqualify that state's slate. The Vice President must have both the House & Senate majority votes.
There is nothing in 3 USC that allows the incumbent VP to act extra-constitutionally.
Therefore, the complaints that Freepers rage amount to the absence of any enabling Constitutional language that would have permitted Pence to act in your prescribed manner.
Therefore, what each of you glass-chewers really wanted Pence to do was errant libtard constructionalism "Living Document" a la RBG, and each of you know it.
Had your glass-crunching dream been realized in 2016, the Democrats objection to every state electoral slate starting with ALABAMA permitted VP Biden to have simply ruled every challenged electoral slate out of order and elected Hillary.
But what makes this asshattery wholly unacceptable and requires a purge of FreeRepublic, is that people like you believe Trump showed Presidential restraint -- not cowardice -- by not commanding 100,000 people to seize the Electoral-counting chambers on Jan. 6, but that Pence showed cowardice -- not restraint -- acting solely within his Vice-Presidential Constitutionally-directed duties just. 2. hours. later.