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âItâs pretty remarkable that youâre not concerned about it, given the fact that they wanted to hang you on on Jan. 6,â Bash told the ex-veep.
Former President Donald Trump warned on a conservative talk-radio show last week that it would be âvery dangerousâ if he went to prison over the Jan. 6 insurrection, as his supporters are âa passionate group of voters.â
But his former vice president, Mike Pence, who encountered a large group of passionate Trump voters out for his blood two years ago, doesnât seem worried.
âEveryone in our movement are the kind of Americans who love this country, are patriotic or law-and-order people who would never have done anything like that there or anywhere else,â Pence told CNNâs Dana Bash on Sundayâs State of the Union. âI have more confidence in the American people than that. I hear my former running mateâs frustration in his voice, but Iâm sure the American people will respond in our movement in a way that will express, as they have every right to under the First Amendment, to express concerns that they have about what they perceive to be unequal treatment of the law. But Iâm not concerned about it beyond that.â
The winding answer seemingly left Bash flabbergasted, prompting her to note why someone like Pence of all people should be concerned.
âItâs pretty remarkable that youâre not concerned about it, given the fact that they wanted to hang you on on Jan. 6,â she said through a laugh before attempting to move on.
But Pence wouldnât let that stand, refusing to let the CNN anchor âuse a broad brushâ to classify everyone at the Capitol on Jan. 6 as being perpetrators of violence.
âThe people in this movement, the people who rally behind our cause in 2016 and 2020, are the most God-fearing, law-abiding, patriotic people in this country,â he said. âAnd I just I wonât stand for those kinds of generalizations because they have no basis in fact.â
But Pence wouldnât say much about the person being investigated for allegedly helping to perpetuate some of the violence itself: His former boss.
Earlier in the interview, Bash asked Pence whether the Department of Justice should charge Trump if it finds evidence he committed a crime related to the insurrection. The ex-veep, however, would only note that Trumpâs actions were inappropriateâthough perhaps not criminal.
âIâve said many times that the presidentâs words were reckless that day,â he said. âI had no right to overturn the election. But while his words were reckless, based on what I know, Iâm not yet convinced that they were criminal.â
Republicans need every vote they can get our else even their cheating wonât work. He literally canât afford to alienate the people who threatened his life.
A reasonable person with even a shred of self respect would simply choose not to run in such a situation. But then, if he was reasonable and had any self respect, he wouldnât have chosen to be Trumpâs VP in the first place.
So much so that heâll set aside the ethic and moral standards he and all those âGod-fearing, law-abiding, patriotic people in this countryâ profess to uphold.
Plain old fascism is all they have at this point.
I guarantee that if he ever learns his lesson about these people, heâll only keep that lesson for a few minutes.
However long it takes his brain to die after heâs been hanged.
Based upon the logic of his responses, the parts of his brain responsible for cognition died a while back. Heâs not coherent.
âI mean, yes, of course they are violent, and yes they are insurrectionists, but I need the votes.â Pence, I guess. Never another GOP vote, ever. Their aim, misguided as it is, has clearly become one with Putinâs, to destroy the USA.
@kuontom Pence is a walking delusion. The MAGATs didnât like him then because he wouldnât throw the election to Trump and they donât support him now for the same reason. Maybe he thinks he has a shot if Trump goes to jail
All in the name of the church and Jesus that has sent these assholes into our political network.