Mike Pence trashes Trump as ‘wrong then and wrong now’

[Kamaji]

Mike Pence trashes Trump as ‘wrong then and wrong now’ on alleged attempts to overthrow 2020 election

By Carl Campanile
August 6, 2023 12:30pm

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday trashed his former boss Donald Trump for allegedly attempting to overthrow the 2020 election — and defended his actions in blocking the ex-president from doing so.

“What I want the American people to know is that President Trump was wrong then and wrong now. I had no right to overturn the election,” Pence said on CNN’s “State of the Union” while stumping in New Hampshire.

“By God’s grace, I did my duty under the constitution of the United States and I always will.”

Pence, along with Congress, certified the election of President Biden as the winner of the 2020 election — over Trump’s objections.

The former VP’s criticism of Trump Sunday parrots statements he made last week after Trump, 77, was indicted on four counts over his alleged efforts to cling to power and overturn the 2020 presidential race.

Prosecutors allege Trump unlawfully supported a scheme to put forward fraudulent electors and pressured Pence and various state officials to reject Biden’s victory. The ex-president said Pence was “too honest,” according to the indictment.

“Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” Pence tweeted Tuesday.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/pence-trashes-trump-as-wrong-then-and-wrong-now-on-alleged-attempts-to-overthrow-2020-election/

[libertybele]

Mike Pence trashes Trump as ‘wrong then and wrong now’ on alleged attempts to overthrow 2020 election

By Carl Campanile
August 6, 2023 12:30pm

Former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday trashed his former boss Donald Trump for allegedly attempting to overthrow the 2020 election — and defended his actions in blocking the ex-president from doing so.

“What I want the American people to know is that President Trump was wrong then and wrong now. I had no right to overturn the election,” Pence said on CNN’s “State of the Union” while stumping in New Hampshire.

“By God’s grace, I did my duty under the constitution of the United States and I always will.”

Pence, along with Congress, certified the election of President Biden as the winner of the 2020 election — over Trump’s objections.

The former VP’s criticism of Trump Sunday parrots statements he made last week after Trump, 77, was indicted on four counts over his alleged efforts to cling to power and overturn the 2020 presidential race.

Prosecutors allege Trump unlawfully supported a scheme to put forward fraudulent electors and pressured Pence and various state officials to reject Biden’s victory. The ex-president said Pence was “too honest,” according to the indictment.

“Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” Pence tweeted Tuesday.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2023/08/06/pence-trashes-trump-as-wrong-then-and-wrong-now-on-alleged-attempts-to-overthrow-2020-election/

I believe that Pence is who the GOPe wants to back and become the nominee.

[Kamaji]

I believe that Pence is who the GOPe wants to back and become the nominee.

With almost no support whatsoever?  WADR, I find that hard to believe.

[libertybele]

With almost no support whatsoever?  WADR, I find that hard to believe.

The GOPe will back him.  Who else do they have that's a RINO? Trump is doing the leftists a favor by going after DeSantis.

[Kamaji]

The GOPe will back him.  Who else do they have that's a RINO? Trump is doing the leftists a favor by going after DeSantis.

So far they haven't.  And unless they're going to manufacture a vote-stealing operation that would dwarf whatever the democrats did in 2020, he's never going to get the nomination, let alone the general election.

[Hoodat]

I believe that Pence is who the GOPe wants to back and become the nominee.

The GOPe wants Trump as the nominee just like they did in 2016.  Which is why they have so many trash candidates like Pence and Christie to dilute the strength of any Conservative standing against him.  If the GOPe wanted anyone else besides Trump, then they would pick one candidate and get behind that candidate.

The GOPe is far more threatened by the Ted Cruz's and Ron Desantis' of the world than they are by Donald Trump.  Just ask Trump-endorsed Ronna McDaniel.

[Kamaji]

The GOPe wants Trump as the nominee just like they did in 2016.  Which is why they have so many trash candidates like Pence and Christie to dilute the strength of any Conservative standing against him.  If the GOPe wanted anyone else besides Trump, then they would pick one candidate and get behind that candidate.

The GOPe is far more threatened by the Ted Cruz's and Ron Desantis' of the world than they are by Donald Trump.  Just ask Trump-endorsed Ronna McDaniel.

[Right_in_Virginia]

FLASHBACK: In December 2020 at the TPUSA Summit, Mike Pence said he would keep fighting until ‘every illegal vote is thrown out’. That was a lie. (Video)

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1686780757920935936

[Right_in_Virginia]

"Also strange how Smith has built his case around Pence's various recollections of what Trump is supposed to have said about stuff but somehow Smith forgot to mention that Pence himself caused most of the damage by raising false hopes with his pre-J6 speech?" (Video)

https://twitter.com/HansMahncke/status/1686570440418873344

[jmyrlefuller]

Remember when Trump chose Pence as his running mate solely because he knew without a known quantity of an establishment Republican, he would have lost a huge chunk of the GOP base and lost to Hillary Clinton?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

[Right_in_Virginia]

Remember when Trump chose Pence as his running mate solely because he knew without a known quantity of an establishment

What has your late stage epiphany to do with the topic of this thread @jmyrlefuller ? 

[Kamaji]

Remember when Trump chose Pence as his running mate solely because he knew without a known quantity of an establishment Republican, he would have lost a huge chunk of the GOP base and lost to Hillary Clinton?

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

Trump picks only the best-est and the bright-est.

[Maj. Bill Martin]

Pence was right then, and is right now.  Trump's claim that Pence had the unilateral right to send state-certified elector tallies back to the states contradicted the Twelth Amendment to Constitution on January 6, and still contradict it today.

I defy anyone to quote the language in the Twelth Amendment that gave the VP that right.

[Fishrrman]

Mike Pence:
"...Trump as ‘wrong then and wrong now’"

Fishrrman:
Mike Pence -- wrong back then (both times), and wrong and worthless now.

[libertybele]

The GOPe wants Trump as the nominee just like they did in 2016.  Which is why they have so many trash candidates like Pence and Christie to dilute the strength of any Conservative standing against him.  If the GOPe wanted anyone else besides Trump, then they would pick one candidate and get behind that candidate.

The GOPe is far more threatened by the Ted Cruz's and Ron Desantis' of the world than they are by Donald Trump.  Just ask Trump-endorsed Ronna McDaniel.

Amen!! Absolutely!