Posted on 11/20/2022 9:52:43 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Former Vice President Mike Pence said Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that former President Donald Trump asked him to violate his oath to the Constitution on January 6, 2021.
Pence said, “I write did it in the book, I will never forget, it was the night before January 6, the president and I were alone in the office in what was ultimately a tense conversation. I had made my position clear, as vice president, I did not believe I had the authority to return or reject electoral votes when the House convened to count the electoral votes, but there was great tension in the room. At the outset, I remember the president looking at me and he pointed at the window of the crowd that was gathering just off the South Lawn and in the Ellipse and he said, did you see that crowd out there? I said, I did, Mr. President. He said those people love us. I said those people love you. He said that is probably true. I looked at him very seriously and I said do those people love the Constitution? Because I believe Republican voters and the Republican Party’s future is ultimately grounded in us producing men and women who will stand up for ideal enshrined in the Constitution and the Declaration, ideals Ronald Reagan stood for without apology and our that the carried or movement forward for generations.”
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I am from Indiana and you have him pegged to a T.
Well, we now know who is NOT going to win the GOP nomination for president in 2024. Pence is losing votes every time he opens his mouth.
You guys are fantastic.
The point you make about President Trump asking him to delay the certification should be repeated over and over.
THAT WAS NOT “VIOLATING THE CONSTITUTION”, YOU INSIPID MORON.
That point is NEVER made and it should be SHOUTED REPEATEDLY.
Violate the Constitution...hurumph!! NONSENSE!!!
Yes. And like Bush, Dole, McCain, and Romney, after securing the nomination, Pence intends to campaign politely and to lose graciously.
Wow..pence is like a whiny little girl.
Wonder if he read where Trump told the protesters to do it peacefully?
Also, as many have pointed out IF j6 was a insurrection..why no guns?
wah wah wah
That’s right.
The rules governing objections are codified in Congress. Pence’s role was not as a rubber stamp, but as administrator for calling for and hearing objections.
We saw how Swamp lawyers sat down with Pence the weekend before and pressured him to turn on Trump.
Oath breaking sack of....
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It’s telling that Pence and his wife Love Biden and Jill - and have no problem with Joe’s crazed statements to vilify MAGA.
He’s a tool of the Left.
Republicans are required to be quiet and gentle.
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Mr. Pence you have more than violated your oath to defend the US Constitution
Pence is an ungrateful piece of crap.
If it weren’t for President Trump, no one outside of Indiana would ever have heard of Pence.
Remember who this Black Hat Bastard’s besties were (are?): Paul Ryan and Jeff Flake.
There has been something “off” about him from the start.
If Satan were running on an opposing ticket, I still would never vote for him.
He’s too meek. That’s mostly not a good trait for president in my opinion.
BS, Mike.
The oath is to faithfully execute the laws of the country. The basis of the argument by President Trump’s lawyer, John Eastman, was the Electoral Count Act of 1887 which was still the law of the land on Jan 6, 2022. The President of the Senate is responsible for opening the electoral vote count documents certified by the governors of the states.
The contention was that several states had submitted alternate elector counts in anticipation of a possible voiding of their state’s election process due to irregularities. The state legislatures had asked for additional time to evaluate the irregularities and vote on which elector counts should be counted.
Trump was asking VP Pence to respect the request by the states to delay opening the elector vote counts for 10 days to allow this process to go forward.
Pence was never briefed on this legal question and simply performed his function to open the documents based on the advice of his aide, Marc Short.
No one on Trump’s team directly asked Pence to do anything and even if they had briefed him, it would have been completely withing the laws of the country. Pence is completely misrepresenting the sequence of events and intent of Trump’s legal team for political purposes.
Like he has a chance....
I believe this guy is a liar and a phony.
All he had to do is not sign off until things coulda been looked at more closely.
That’s it.
But this turd is deep state and I believe the mole who was leaking all along.
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