Mike Pence: My Last Days With Trump
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WSJ excerpt here, no paywall. Worth a read.
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So, according to Pence, outside of Trump's deluded fantasies, there were no serious people who believe a coup by legal technicality was a possible thing.
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"As I headed to the Capitol, President Trump took the stage. He told the crowd: “I hope Mike is going to do the right thing. I hope so. I hope so. Because if Mike Pence does the right thing, we win the election.” Repeating the argument made by the crank lawyers standing just offstage, he said . . . All Vice President Pence has to do is send it back to the states to recertify and we become president and you are the happiest people.”
And there you have it: a real-life illustration of Trump Reality.
It would be whacked out even as a strategy. But -- and this is the scary thing -- it wasn't a mere strategy for Trump. He believed it.
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"The president had sent a tweet at 2:24 p.m. [on Jan 6]: 'Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!'”
Fucking swine.
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@Horace They’re discussing one particular technicality, the VP unilaterally refusing to certify certain states.
At the local things get much more complex.
@jon-nyc said in Mike Pence: My Last Days With Trump:
@Horace They’re discussing one particular technicality, the VP unilaterally refusing to certify certain states.
At the local things get much more complex.
So complex that the supreme court wouldn't ultimately be able to decide the matter of legal technicality vs rightful vote count?
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a shit show and bad for the country, but I do claim that there is no plausible successful coup down that road.
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@jon-nyc said in Mike Pence: My Last Days With Trump:
@Horace They’re discussing one particular technicality, the VP unilaterally refusing to certify certain states.
At the local things get much more complex.
So complex that the supreme court wouldn't ultimately be able to decide the matter of legal technicality vs rightful vote count?
I'm not saying it wouldn't be a shit show and bad for the country, but I do claim that there is no plausible successful coup down that road.
