Pence says 'history will hold Donald Trump accountable' for January 6th

[Lasher]

Source: CNN

Former Vice President Mike Pence made his most blistering comments yet about former President Donald Trump’s role in the January 6th attack on the US Capitol during remarks Saturday evening at the annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC.

Pence began his remarks at the dinner, which traditionally features politicians making jokes about notable Washington figures, with lighthearted comments about Trump, President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris and several Republicans expected to run for president in 2024, including Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley.

He then took a serious tone, noting the attack on the Capitol was “one thing I haven’t joked about” and calling January 6th “a tragic day.”

Pence rebuked Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack, saying he was “wrong” for claiming Pence had the authority to overturn the results of the 2020 election in his role presiding over Congress that day, saying “history will hold Donald Trump accountable.”

Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/11/politics/mike-pence-gridiron-dinner/index.html

[MiHale]

1. And the word "cuckold" has been forever replaced by...

The word “pence”.

[gab13by13]

2. If Pence is right

I will never get to see Trump held accountable, I'm 75 years old. Maybe my 9 year old grandson will see Trump held accountable?

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Hey that's great, Mikey, but I'd prefer the COURTS step up for accountability

Guess Mikey's not going there!

[modrepub]

10. You Caught That Also

History's judgement is not the same as Judicial judgement.

I'm still cynical about the courts ever holding TFG accountable for his actions. "Rich" old white men with political connections seem to take a different glide path in our court system. Maybe someday that will change, but....

[agingdem]

4. Mike, you self righteous cardboard cutout..

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how about you honor the goddamned subpoena and testify instead claiming bullshit privilege you don’t have

[Achilleaze]

5. But he's a republican elitist

Republican elitists think they are special. They do not respond to legal subpoenas, or otherwise respect American jurisprudence.

Repubs have abandoned honor, integrity, honesty, and loyalty to America. They have disgraced themselves.

Sad.

[SomedayKindaLove]

7. He said history will hold Trump accountable

Not himself. Pence seems to to want to be on the invisible side of history. Unless this means he is ready to testify.

[agingdem]

15. If he testifies and tells the truth..the real truth

he loses his phony hero status..

[The Unmitigated Gall]

6. God knows YOU didn't. And history will see to that as well.

[Traildogbob]

12. Really?

GQP are eliminating history in schools and the Tuckum’s of the party write their own version. How will that hold the fat boy accountable? I hope flies lay eggs in your skull, MAGAt Brain! (Not a good one like “Maggot Brain”, Funkadelic 1971. Helleva, song, amazing guitar)
The GQP “invertebrates” like Pence, Graham and McCarthy to name a few, are not even in our Class, Family, Genus and Species. They fit well out there with slugs, jellyfish, Amoebas and protozoans. Some of the least “evolved” of all species. They are freaking Devolving as we watch. It is amazing how they stand erect though. Next generation, they will need to move like amoebas streaming protoplasm to pull themselves along.
Let’s not forget “Sponges” in the subphylum of non vertebrate's. The GQP are serious sponges, sucking up ALL our tax revenue.

[czarjak]

8. That's because history happened, Hoosier Daddy.

We know what history will say. Justice now, would be nice.

[AmBlue]

9. Pathetic coward

Still on his knees from all the boot licking.... thinks he is saying something brave. What a sad loser.

[Botany]

18. 2 + years later? You owe all pathetic cowards an apology for associating them with Pence.

Pence rebuked Trump for his role in the January 6, 2021 attack, saying he was “wrong.” What a bad ass
mother fucker it is not like Trump wanted Pence lynched so he could declare martial law, bring on his proud
boys/oath keeper goons who were waiting to attack our Nation's democracy, and stop our Constitutional
democracy from installing the legally elected POTUS.

[AmBlue]

28. I don't disagree

There just aren't words quite strong enough to express the disgust I feel for Pence and his response to J6 and what happened that day. Further down this thread I saw "cardboard cut-out" and "limp dick"... those probably come closer.

[Botany]

33. Pence knew that Russia installed Trump in 2016 and made some mealy mouthed comment about, "the ...

... other side will try to use the stories about Russia and the election to question the President's win
as not being legitimate."

[NullTuples]

36. 2+ years later...and not in front of Congress, either but to save his own career. Such bravery.

[Botany]

38. Pence and his family are just grifting shits (see Pence gas stations Indianan clean up costs) and

he was picked by Putin to be V.P. too.

Mike Pence Could Be the Next President and He Was Handpicked by Paul Manafort
https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

[Aussie105]

11. History?

I prefer a lot sooner.

[rurallib]

13. Pence could help that along by testifying truthfully

and completely in court.

[Joinfortmill]

14. Well, well, well, what does he know that we don't? Getting on the right side of history.

[2naSalit]

16. Yeah, well, History is gonna have to get in line.

Fuck you, mike pants. Why don't you go tell it to that Grand Jury?

[NNadir]

17. I believe Pence's Party is trying to ban history. n/t.

[Scrivener7]

19. Yes, Mike, and history is going to remember you as a quisling and an enabler of treason.

[JT45242]

20. And the enablers who didn't tell homeland security and the FBI...

Instead of talking to Dan Quayle, he should have called the FBI and homeland security.

When he knew TFG was in cahoots with the Russian oligarchs as conduits to Putin (remember who picked him for VP), he could have put country first. Hell he could have put his career first, turn on tRump and become president.

He let all of it happen. Kids in cages. Rushed execution of potentially innocent people...etc

[bluestarone]

21. History? Give me a fucking break!

It's like you standing by a river watching someone drown. No help from you. (history will hold accountable!) GO AWAY you lowlife fucker!

[Baitball Blogger]

22. Pence may have done the right thing on January 6th, but when it comes to history, he

floundered on everything that happened afterward. History is written by the winners. And we are still in a battle for our American freedom and liberty. Pence could have helped protect history by providing testimony that would surely give the last chapter a proper ending.

[COL Mustard]

23. History may hold him accountable.....

But the Republicans sure aren't gonna.

[Aristus]

24. To Hell with history.

I would prefer that the justice system hold him accountable.

[Martin68]

25. Fuck Mike Pence. If he has his way, history will be drowned out in right wing noise.

His political ambitions have Trumped his sense of morality.

[LPBBEAR]

26. Screw History

I want his ass in prison....NOW.

[SWBTATTReg]

27. You were there, why didn't YOU unhold the law, and hold djt accountable? Why didn't you force

tRUMP out of office, and go grab some cabinet members and force tRUMP out of office when 1/6 happened...you were constitutionally able to remove tRUMP and DIDN'T.

[jvill]

29. At least he still seems to support teaching history...

... which isn't unanimous in the GQP.

[republianmushroom]

30. Why not the federal court ?

25 months and counting

[zanana1]

31. I want Trump to be accountable NOW!

[dalton99a]

32. In other words, let historians in the next century deal with it

[Justice matters.]

34. 17.67 months before the FBI's 60-day mute tradition kicks in (no comey here)...

That traitor's beloved hair furhair is not even indicted yet 24.33 months after his attempted coup d'etat and stealing of TS/CSI documents.

National Security is waiting while everyone is at risk (probably since January 2017)... still not even just indicted yet!

And that despicable religious weasel will be working with the Fascists to erase History if his beloved hair furher is not in prison for the rest of his criminal life or locked in a mental institution a day before the 00.00 countdown mark if he wins the Fascists nomination.

[mzmolly]

35. And, history will hold Pence accountable for being too chickenshit

to testify against him.

[Mr. Ected]

37. Then why are you fighting the subpoena to testify about J6, Mike?

Seems the best way to hold Trump accountable is for a court of law to have all the facts and you're not just a witness, you were a participant. Republicans say things but their behavior tells otherwise.

[Rebl2]

39. Best way to

hold tfg accountable mr. pence would be for you to testify against him under oath.

[Solly Mack]

40. LOL. History doesn't hold anyone accountable. Never has. Never will.

History, at its best, tells the truth about events. The whole truth. Not just names and dates, but the good, the bad, and the very ugly. But it does not offer accountability - it offers an accounting of events. Not the same at all.

Sure, one can read history and look back at the actions of people, either directly or funneled down through policies, and deem those actions wrong - but that's not holding anyone accountable.

History, in America, has never been at its very best.

It has never told the complete truth. People have had to fight to get the full truth, the actual facts told, and they have faced pushback every step of the way. Look at what is happening now and look at your own past experience with being taught history.

If you have ever caught yourself asking. "Why wasn't that taught in school?" (And you know you have), then you already know the history you were taught was not history at all - it was a decided upon narrative that did not reflect the actual history of a time or an event.

And an incomplete history that leaves out marginalized people, and downplays atrocities, is an incomplete history that has been selectively curated to push a certain narrative.

Nothing about that says accountability.

[DFW]

41. He says this NOW? And at Gridiron, of all places?

My dad was President of Gridiron during Clinton’s presidency. I went to the big March dinner and show a couple of times, since he was a member for over 20 years.

Gridiron, besides being off the record (though stuff inevitably leaks out every year), is an event where levity and satire are expected from the highest levels. “Serious” is neither expected nor desired. That Pence spoke at all is a testament to how little humor the Republicans are capable of.

[MayReasonRule]

44. "That Pence spoke at all is a testament to how little humor the Republicans are capable of." LMAO!!

Well said!

[DFW]

45. The bar used to be MUCH higher

At Gridiron, each party selects a speaker to give a funny speech. Then maybe the Vice-President speaks, and the final speaker in the President of the United States tops off the speeches. If you're good, you're good. If you're not, you bomb.

At my first Gridiron, Jimmy Carter had just taken office a couple of months earlier (March, 1977). Fritz Mondale spoke before Carter, and made fun of the fact that Carter, after his being sworn in, walked back to the White House to show he was a president of the people. Mondale turned it around to say that he, Mondale, was the real power in the White House. This was proven by the fact that he rode to the White House in a heated, chauffeur-driven limousine, while poor Jimmy Carter was forced to walk. This brought the house down, as did Carter's opening statement mentioning the remarks of the "acting Vice-President."

When I was there last, the Democratic speaker was House minority leader Richard Gephardt. He was just NOT funny, and bombed miserably. The Republican speaker was Bill Bennett, who, though a religious and ideological nut case, was nonetheless one of the funniest speakers in Washington with a great sense of humor. But the Clintons were the absolute stars of the night. Bill with his updated, downsized new Contract With America, and Hillary, who, traveling in Pakistan at the time, left her "Hillary Gump" video, which had everyone, including Gingrich, convulsed with laughter.

Mike Pence in a setting like that? That's like inviting the Pope to a circumcision.

[MayReasonRule]

46. I'm groaning aloud from the cringe that I feel.. It's no laughing matter to be cut off and peeled...

A penis ought not be, an exception for rules, that prohibit removal of parts that are "you".

Yet still to this day, this butchery proceeds, with dicks in the lips of those making them bleed.
It's licensed and practiced all over the world, with blessings from "YAHWEH", the "God" that they dread!

No reasonable person would ever assert that dicks are for cutting right after a birth.
The pain it inflicts on the child, soon a man, is literally irreparable, not ever, in hand.

The penis's frenulum roughly contains, 4000 nerve endings, for pleasure and pain.
Removing the foreskin that lubes and protects, is bereft of reason, it punishes sex.

Dismembering dicks of a lad as a babe, is crime that I'm angry 'bout still to this day.

May reason rule.

[Marcuse]

42. It all depends on who writes and approves the publication of the history books.

Pence says 'history will hold Donald Trump accountable' for January 6th

[MayReasonRule]

43. Those That Support the Same, Are the Same. They're the Same.

Anyone that supports the GOP is complicit in it's ongoing crimes against humanity.

Pence is a Nat-C through and through.

Germany abolished the National Socialist Party.

The GOP is America's National Socialist Party.

Abolish the GOP!

May reason rule!

[samsingh]

47. history might, republicans won't