Biff_Poindexter
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Mike Pence couldnāt wait to get to heaven to meet āgeniusā Founding Fathers
Former Vice President Mike Pence couldnāt āwait to go to heavenā to thank the founding fathers for their āgeniusā in creating the Constitution, his chief legal counselā¦
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"Former Vice President Mike Pence couldnāt āwait to go to Heavenā to thank the founding fathers for their āgeniusā in creating the Constitution, his chief legal counsel told the Jan. 6 committee Thursday. The ex-veep, who steadfastly resisted former President Trumpās effort to bully him into overturning the 2020 election, believed the framers would never have allowed one person to change the results of a presidential election. āI canāt wait to go to Heaven and meet the Framers and tell them: āThe work that you did in putting together our Constitution is a work of genius,ā Pence said, according to counsel Greg Jacobs. āIt was divinely inspired.ā āThere is just no way the framers would have let one person determine who the next president would be,ā Jacob said.
To further drive the point home that EVERYONE KNEW THIS WAS ILLEGAL -- INCLUDING TRUMP -- we have this....
"Dr. John Eastman, the conservative legal scholar and ex-lawyer for former President Trump who championed the theory along with Trump that the vice president could unilaterally reject electors, sought a presidential pardon in the aftermath of Jan. 6. The revelation came out in a hearing of the Jan. 6 select committee, where the panel sought to prove that Trump and those around him were fully aware of the illegality of their plans. "I've decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works," Eastman wrote. Eastman, when he was deposed by the Jan. 6 committee, took the Fifth Amendment 100 times, Aguilar said."
Ex-Trump lawyer John Eastman sought pardon after Jan. 6
"I've decided that I should be on the pardon list, if that is still in the works," Eastman wrote.
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So there is no ambiguity.....everyone knew that asking a Vice President to overturn an election and declare himself the winner was ILLEGAL...Even the fascist who came up with the plan, John Eastman, knew his scheme would lose 9-0 in the Supreme Court. You can't claim to be on solid legal footing then be afraid to assert your scheme to overturn the election once you were placed under oath -- he invoked the 5th every time he was asked.....Their ultimate plan was for this to never even be taken up by the courts...and then hope that might makes right. After all, they already had their MAGA army at the Capitol willing to fight for their fascist coup attempt.....
So the question remains, did Pence do the right thing?? Majority of the hard-core Trumpers I've seen; have all decided to go full fascist and claim Pence committed treason and should have been hunged...other Trumpers find a more weasely way to admit what Trump did was wrong, but always preface it by saying "but but but Democrats did it too" -- but fail to produce a single example....what do I think? I think Pence is no hero and he didn't do the right thing....
If he wanted to do the right thing, he should have exposed this scheme way back when it was first introduced...way back when he knew that was the plan.....if he had, I am CERTAIN that the wind would have been taken out of the sails of the Oath Keeper-Proud Boy-White Nationalist storm the Capitol brigade...if Pence made clear A LONG TIME AGO that he would not do what Trump was asking him to do, I doubt half of the people who went to storm the Capitol, would have been there...I also believe, had Pence known then how weak the legal actions would have been so far to hold those in power accountable --- he very well would have overturned the elections...but moving forward, people now see, ESPECIALLY REPUBLICANS, that simply having your Vice President overturn an election doesn't really yield you any real legal consequence...because you can simply rely on the courts to stay out of it -- and since the courts can't resolve it -- the only thing left is for it to be resolved in the streets....and Republicans feel, their years and years of pandering to white supremacist right-wing ammo-sexual militia types would pay off in that scenario....