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Trump retreats from his job, and Pence fills the void as ‘acting’ president
Los Angeles Times ^ | JAN. 15, 2021 | ELI STOKOLS

Posted on 01/16/2021 7:54:13 AM PST by MinorityRepublican

Frustrated by the loss of his Twitter account and forced to accept that he soon must leave office, President Trump has effectively stopped doing his job, delegating daily responsibilities to Vice President Mike Pence while hunkering down with a shrinking group of acquiescent aides and contemplating additional presidential pardons. Trump had considered leaving the White House before his final day in office Wednesday, even as early as this weekend, but he has opted to depart on the morning of President-elect Joe Biden’s Inauguration Day, according to two people familiar with discussions who cautioned that, with Trump, plans are always subject to change.

Intrigued by the idea of upstaging Biden, the president has requested a major send-off. It would begin with a throng of cheering, flag-waving staffers and supporters to see him off on the White House’s South Lawn, according to a person familiar with the planning, and continue to a more formal ceremony at Joint Base Andrews, featuring a red carpet, military band, color guard and 21-gun salute. He would make his final Air Force One flight to Florida, to take up residence at Mar-a-Lago, his West Palm Beach, Fla., estate.

While Trump is still unwilling to formally concede to Biden directly, or to participate in the traditional show of the peaceful transfer of power by attending his successor’s swearing-in, Pence on Thursday called Vice President-elect Kamala Harris and “congratulated her and offered assistance ahead of inauguration,” according to a person familiar with the call.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


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Let me guess. Pence is looking forward to a BIG PAY DAY.

1 posted on 01/16/2021 7:54:13 AM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

LA Times, nuff said


2 posted on 01/16/2021 7:55:26 AM PST by CheneyClone
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To: MinorityRepublican

Fake “news.”


3 posted on 01/16/2021 7:55:57 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far more danger from an authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

We have witnessed a coup.


4 posted on 01/16/2021 7:56:02 AM PST by MercyFlush (Donald Trump is my President and Free Republic is my social media!)
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To: CheneyClone

Lies.


5 posted on 01/16/2021 7:56:04 AM PST by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie. )
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To: MinorityRepublican

B S


6 posted on 01/16/2021 7:56:41 AM PST by P-Marlowe (Freep mail me if you want to be on my Fingerstyle Acoustic Guitar Ping List )
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To: MinorityRepublican

Every day they have to write another hate-Trump article and this is the one for today. They just make up the stories. It’s pure agit-prop from the totalitarian Left, which includes the media.


7 posted on 01/16/2021 7:56:52 AM PST by WashingtonSource
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To: MinorityRepublican

Nice try a$$holes.


8 posted on 01/16/2021 7:57:53 AM PST by duckman ( Not tired of winning!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“Barf”


9 posted on 01/16/2021 7:58:08 AM PST by Qiviut (2020 Election steal result: We are beginning our "40 years of wandering in the Wilderness".)
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To: MinorityRepublican

LALA Times missed quite a few things the President has done in ths last week. Just as well, they tear down down p..everything he does anyway.


10 posted on 01/16/2021 7:58:44 AM PST by madison10 (Democracy dies in darkness.)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I wonder if they are making up stuff like this as they know that Biden will barely get out of the starting gate as President without being that kind of huge disappointment to many.


11 posted on 01/16/2021 7:58:51 AM PST by OttawaFreeper ("The Gardens was founded by men-sportsmen-who fought for their country" Conn Smythe, 1966 )
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To: CheneyClone

[LA Times, nuff said]


Indeed. Stephen Glass, who made up entire interviews out of whole cloth, used to be the exception among journalists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Glass

Traditionally, reporters would embroider and distort, but actually talk to a living person who was actually someone in a position to say something about the events in question. Today, fiction is the order of the day.


12 posted on 01/16/2021 7:59:25 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: WashingtonSource

[Every day they have to write another hate-Trump article and this is the one for today. They just make up the stories. It’s pure agit-prop from the totalitarian Left, which includes the media.]


The American Pravda media complex could give the original stilted, Onion-like Soviet-era Pravda a run for its money. Of course, on some days, American Pravda does end up sounding like the Onion or the Babylon Bee.


13 posted on 01/16/2021 8:02:05 AM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: P-Marlowe

You are correct. If Trump did this, he then could be removed under the 25h Amendment.


14 posted on 01/16/2021 8:02:28 AM PST by DownInFlames (Ga)
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To: MinorityRepublican

https://thepoliticalinsider.com/msnbc-analyst-outraged-trump-didnt-demand-death-penalty-las-vegas-shooter/

The author of this article is an idiot


15 posted on 01/16/2021 8:02:42 AM PST by BookmanTheJanitor
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To: MinorityRepublican

LA Times. Another blathering rag which doesn’t have time to uncover the mountains of Democrat corruption. Jackasses.


16 posted on 01/16/2021 8:03:03 AM PST by Enterprise
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To: MinorityRepublican

The political slant of the article belies the author’s hatred of POTUS.


17 posted on 01/16/2021 8:04:53 AM PST by Terry L Smith
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To: MinorityRepublican

Another interpretation: Trump is busy wrapping up some things, and has told Pence to fill in on ceremonial appearances.


18 posted on 01/16/2021 8:05:28 AM PST by PapaBear3625 ("Those who can make you believe absurdities, can make you commit atrocities." -- Voltaire)
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To: MinorityRepublican

So Pence is calling out the 25000 national guard and locking down DC then like Baghdad then?

Yeah - that’d make sense...


19 posted on 01/16/2021 8:06:35 AM PST by Skywise
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To: CheneyClone
exactly

President Trump doesn't quit, nor run

20 posted on 01/16/2021 8:08:01 AM PST by knarf (The Constitution protects the right to peaceably assemble, not to protest)
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