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Zorro

(15,749 posts)
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 12:05 AM Jan 2021

Trump and Pence Signal President Won't Resign or Be Removed

Source: Bloomberg News

Vice President Mike Pence signaled he’ll spurn demands to immediately oust Donald Trump over a deadly riot by the president’s supporters as the two met and agreed to work together for the remainder of the term, according to a senior administration official.

The discussion adds to indications that Trump has no plans to resign before Joe Biden’s Jan. 20 inauguration.

It was the first time Trump and Pence have spoken since the president’s supporters stormed the Capitol while Pence was presiding over formal affirmation of his re-election defeat, according to two people familiar with the matter.

The two men, meeting in the Oval Office, agreed that people who broke into the Capitol don’t represent Trump’s “America First” movement and pledged to continue their work on behalf of the country for the remainder of their term, the official said. It was a good conversation in which Trump and Pence discussed the week ahead and reflected on the last four years of the administration’s work, the official added.

Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-01-11/trump-and-pence-spoke-monday-for-first-time-since-capitol-riot



Then impeachment it is...
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Trump and Pence Signal President Won't Resign or Be Removed (Original Post) Zorro Jan 2021 OP
Damn the torpedoes, Mme. Defarge Jan 2021 #1
Enabler Pence has always been too weak to stand up to Trump. Doodley Jan 2021 #2
Hence the choice for him as VP C Moon Jan 2021 #5
It's telling that they have ressurected the old "America First" slogan. Hadn't heard that one in.... EarnestPutz Jan 2021 #3
+1 Ferrets are Cool Jan 2021 #4
The telling that this is bullshit is they still haven't condemned it, and trump still pushes the lie still_one Jan 2021 #6
No pardon for you, Donnie Two Scoops. Nt Fiendish Thingy Jan 2021 #7
Bastard! Impeachment? Ahead Warp 9. Engage! electric_blue68 Jan 2021 #8
GOP is a terrorist organization. badboy67 Jan 2021 #9
and they continue to prove it daily onetexan Jan 2021 #10
"America First". SMH. Same shit, different day. Same blaming everyone else but themselves. Solly Mack Jan 2021 #11
Why isn't Trump charged as a accessory to murder? Firestorm49 Jan 2021 #12
So Pence was down with the plan all along? Ford_Prefect Jan 2021 #13
Pence is disgusting Corgigal Jan 2021 #14

EarnestPutz

(2,120 posts)
3. It's telling that they have ressurected the old "America First" slogan. Hadn't heard that one in....
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 12:09 AM
Jan 2021

....a while. I guess that "Stop the Steal" had run it's course and the irony was just too much to sustain any longer.

still_one

(92,394 posts)
6. The telling that this is bullshit is they still haven't condemned it, and trump still pushes the lie
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 12:21 AM
Jan 2021

that he won the election

There is no redemption for them


Solly Mack

(90,785 posts)
11. "America First". SMH. Same shit, different day. Same blaming everyone else but themselves.
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 04:24 AM
Jan 2021

Even as they claim those who stormed the Capitol don't "represent" "America First" (Where did its twin MAGA go?), by using the phrase "America First", they are telling those who stormed the Capitol that the part of them not representing Trump is a lie.


Giving a president that fomented insurrection an out will come back to bite everyone in the ass.

Corgigal

(9,291 posts)
14. Pence is disgusting
Tue Jan 12, 2021, 11:15 AM
Jan 2021

His family should be so proud. He won’t protect his own family, nor American citizens. That included the diluted maga’s.

He only has one job to do at Vice President, and he’s fail. We want our taxpayers money back.

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