Terrified Trump Melts Down Over Mike Pence Denying His Coup

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Former President Donald Trump didn’t take well to a recent insistence from former Vice President Mike Pence that the ex-commander-in-chief was wrong in his assertion that Pence had the power to block the certification in Congress of Joe Biden’s presidential election victory. Pence said at a speech to a Florida branch of the conservative legal group known as the Federalist Society that he “heard this week that former President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,'” adding: “President Trump is wrong… I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”

Trump had wanted Pence, in his role overseeing the Congressional proceedings to certify the election outcome, to reject certain electoral votes that had been cast on behalf of Joe Biden, but Pence did not actually possess the legally recognized power to undertake such a move. In the time since, those on the side of democracy have been formulating plans for making the legal provisions covering the election outcome certification process clearer, and Trump has apparently taken these considerations to mean that he was right all along about the power to overturn the election outcome being there. In fact, he wasn’t — wanting to make the law more directly understandable doesn’t somehow mean that powers were automatically present that simply weren’t there.

After Pence’s remarks, Trump ranted as follows:

‘Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible. Well, the Vice President’s position is not an automatic conveyor if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist. That’s why the Democrats and RINOs are working feverishly together to change the very law that Mike Pence and his unwitting advisors used on January 6 to say he had no choice. The reason they want it changed is because they now say they don’t want the Vice President to have the right to ensure an honest vote. In other words, I was right and everyone knows it.’

Trump added that if “fraud or large scale irregularities” had been present, then “it would have been appropriate to send those [electoral] votes back to the legislatures to figure it out.” The saga of Trump’s belief in non-existent systematic election fraud is definitely one for the ages — deranged egomania like Trump displays is quite a (metaphorical) drug. Although Pence acknowledged the truth of what he was legally allowed to do, it’s not as though the Republican Party is generally breaking from Trump’s nonsense. In a censure resolution targeting Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) and Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.), Republican Party officials insisted that the House committee investigating the Capitol riot is targeting individuals who were engaged in “legitimate political discourse.” No matter any later attempts at a justification — per the language of the resolution, it’s as though they wanted to pretend the violence at the Capitol didn’t even exist. Check out Trump’s statement below:



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