Posted on 11/16/2022 10:54:17 PM PST by bitt
Former Vice President Mike Pence said that he would refuse to testify before the Jan. 6 Committee because Congress has "no right" to his testimony.
Pence made the comments in an interview with Margaret Brennan of CBS News, who asked him whether he would testify as many of his staffers have.
"I served for twelve years in the Congress, it's inconceivable to me that one party would appoint every member of a committee in Congress, that's antithetical to that whole idea of the committee system. That being said I never stood in the way of senior members of my team cooperating with the committee and testifying," Pence responded.
"But Congress has no right to my testimony," he added.
"We have a separation of powers under the Constitution of the United States and I believe it would establish a terrible precedent for the Congress to summon a vice president of the United States to speak about deliberations that took place at the White House," Pence said.
"So you're closing the door on that entirely?" Brennan asked.
"I'm closing the door on that," he said.
"But I must say again the partisan nature of the January 6 Committee has been a disappointment to me. It seemed to me in the beginning there was an opportunity to examine every aspect of what happened on January 6 and to do so more in the spirit of the 9-11 Commission, non-partisan, non-political," Pence added.
"And that was an opportunity lost," he concluded. Video showed that some of the rioters on Jan. 6 chanted, "Hang Mike Pence," and a confidential witness for the FBI said that rioters were seeking to kill Pence for not helping overturn the official results of the election.
The committee will likely be disbanded after the newest term of Congress begins since Republicans have narrowly seized control of the House of Representatives. In October, the committee voted unanimously to subpoena former President Donald Trump to have him testify about his possible role in the events of the rioting on January 6.
Here's the video of Pence's response:
Oh, now the great wad follows the law.
C’mon Mike, this is your big chance to show everyone what a disgrace you are.
Get in there Mike. It will be like Thanksgiving with family.
Some drinks, maybe some TV, tell them Trump planned the entire event and sent personal texts to all the Jan 6 attendees instructing them to breach security and take over the United States of America with body paint and bewilderment.
Go on Mike, get your backstab on.
Name one person....
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Peter Navarro?
Also, watch Trump rightfully punch Mike Pence in the throat.
...followed by all the faux intellectual speed bags of life who vote against their own self interest saying Trump is mean and they don’t support him.
Just go away, traitor
That's a BINGO!
Oh come on now, Mikey. This is your time to go there and blast President Trump. Be a man. What a PUTZ!!!! Any of you thinking about that guy Mike as your next President should get a brain scan.
Waiting to announce what he knows and could have announce earlier, is exactly the same thing he did on Jan 6. He could have announced on the 5th.
What will happen next? Pence must have taken spineagra.
Of course he won’t go to jail or be persecuted like oh say, Trump and Bannon et al.
For such a boy scout he completely missed the part about Trustworthy, Loyal and Brave.
The strangest part of this little slice of reality - Mike Pence is (or was) the duly re-elected VP in 2020 election. If Trump gets re-instated how do we proceed with a new non-traitorous VP?
Didn't he promise he would do it if they asked?
What's he afraid of?
Where’s the contempt charge or subpoena?
There is a set of balls I didn’t think Pence had.
Someone give him an early Christmas gift of testicles???
Good for him. He knows what political suicide looks like, having Liz et al. as examples.
So he’s smart enough to figure that out, but too stupid to figure out he should not ‘certify’ an election when there re legitimate claims of fraud.
Sounds like you’ve got a pretty good point there.
I was buying part of it too. I was interested in all the threats to Trump,
and this guy gets a pass. That may change.
On another thread Olog-hai made this observation.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4109778/posts?page=10#10
As for your Conservative comment, I don’t believe there are any.
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