Trump Could Stand in the Middle of Fifth Avenue and Not Lose Mike Pence
He wants to be the conservative hero of Jan. 6: the steadfast Republican patriot who resisted the MAGA mob and defended the institutions of American democracy. Make no mistake about it, Pence said at the Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, D.C., this month. What happened that day was a disgrace, and it mocks decency to portray it in any other way. President Donald Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election and his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day.
But Mike Pence also wants to be president. And he cant fully repudiate the previous Republican president if he hopes to win the Republican presidential nomination, especially when that president is still on the stage, with a commanding role in Republican politics.
The result is that Mike Pence has to talk out of both sides of his mouth. With one breath, he takes a righteous stand against the worst dysfunction of the Trump years. We have to resist the politics of personality, the lure of populism unmoored by timeless conservative values, Pence said last week while speaking to an audience of Republican donors in Keene, N.H.
With his next breath, however, Pence rejects any effort to hold Trump accountable, especially when it asks him to do something more than give the occasional sound bite. Asked to testify about the events surrounding Jan. 6, Pence says no. Faced with a grand jury subpoena forcing him to testify, Pence says hell challenge it, under the highly dubious theory that as president of the Senate he was a legislative officer who, like other lawmakers, was covered by the speech or debate clause of the Constitution and thus free of any obligation to testify.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/trump-could-stand-in-the-middle-of-fifth-avenue-and-not-lose-mike-pence/ar-AA18Tnhe
Another human doormat in thrall to the orange guy. The GOP is full of them.
MyOwnPeace
(16,887 posts)Have these people NO souls - or conscience - or brains?
Blue Owl
(49,906 posts)kimbutgar
(20,871 posts)NNadir
(33,368 posts)The probability that he, like most Christian nationalists dishonest, lying, amoral and immoral thug with no sence of decency is 100%.