Pence pretends to be shocked shocked
Mike Pence has written a memoir.
A post-election meeting at which advisers led by Rudy Giuliani attacked campaign lawyers and urged Donald Trump not to accept his election defeat was “a new low” for a president “well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates”, Mike Pence writes in a forthcoming memoir.
That is, a president who is a notorious crook and cheat and bully, whose every act is a new low because everything he does and says is low so each new item is automatically a new low. Mike Pence was part of the crook’s team, so it’s way too late for him to be talking about new lows.
Of the meeting in November 2020, the former vice-president writes: “In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and [attorney] Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy … The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January.”
Not tragic, evil. That day was all Trump’s doing, and the doing was evil. Pence is prettying it up because he was part of it.
By openly blaming Trump for events leading to the January 6 insurrection, when a pro-Trump mob attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn Joe Biden’s election victory, Pence risks angering Republicans he must court as he considers the next nomination for president.
Diddums. Pence should go away from any form of politics forever. He worked for Trump throughout his “administration” and he should isolate himself in shame and regret.
Some of these people would have been more than happy to have strung him up on Jan. 6 if they’d been lucky enough to find him. What kind of power-hungry madness drives you to “court” people who wanted to kill you? Unless he thinks the kinks to the plan have all been straightened, out and he’s reasonably confident that he’s not signing up to be his own effigy.
Pence made a cooked goose of his reputation the moment he signed on as running mate to that festering pile of poo.
Cooking your own reputational goose is one thing; having your own, bodily goose cooked by others is something else! And for those who were ready to kill him, why would they ever trust Pence again, given that he was so “follow the rules” when he wasn’t supposed to be? What would keep him from having another sudden appearance of conscience and legality in the future? It just doesn’t seem a good fit in either direction; Pence courting people who might have been happy to kill him; Trumpish, Jan. 6 Republicans supporting someone who is prone to occasional, unpredictable opposition their populist, autocratic demands. Looks like lose-lose to me.