Of course, only the videos that supported the Democratic position were shown in Nancy Pelosi’s meticulously orchestrated Jan. 6 Committee production. But, neither portrayal included all of the day’s events, and more crucially, neither portrayal discredits the other. Although neither side agrees, it is a simple fact.
Barricades were breached, Capitol windows were broken, “protesters” at first forced their way through doors against the will of Capitol security on the other side, and cries asking for the Vice President of the United States to be hanged could be heard outside the structure. Bottom line: January 6 was not a “peaceful demonstration” in its entirety — not even close — and no attempt to refute that fact will change the truth.
Let’s move on to the current problem now.
Former Vice President Mike Pence has been relatively restrained in his condemnation of Donald Trump since the events of January 6, according to a report on Sunday by my colleague Joe Cunningham. Nevertheless, in a speech at Saturday’s annual Gridiron Dinner, a white-tie event attended by both politicians and journalists, Pence criticized Trump for the violence in the Capitol and threats made against the former veep’s family.
“President Trump made a mistake. I lacked the authority to void the election. And I know that history will hold Donald Trump responsible for the harm his careless statements caused my family and everyone else in the Capitol that day.”
“140 people aren’t hurt by tourists’ sightseeing. Visitors don’t smash through doors to confront the Speaker of the House or threaten to harm public servants.”
“The American citizens are entitled to know what transpired on January 6 at the Capitol. But make no mistake, what occurred that day was a disgrace, and to portray it in any other way is to insult decency.”
Mr. Pence was correct. Ever-Trump supporters disagree. That is their right, but having a “right” does not make anything that is wrong right.
Donald J. Trump is not happy about any of this. As noted by the Washington Post on Monday, the former president not only addressed the former vice president’s criticism, but he also now holds Pence accountable for the violence that occurred on the Capitol grounds on January 6.
On Monday, Trump performed a double backflip from the denying platform and slammed Pence’s claim that history will hold him responsible for the Capitol attack. He told reporters that Pence should take responsibility for the violence carried out that day by Trump supporters.
“In many ways, you can hold him accountable for Jan. 6 because if he had brought the votes back to the legislatures, they would not have had a problem with that. You would have witnessed a different result if he had pushed them back to Georgia, Pennsylvania, or Arizona. And I also believe you would not have had “Jan. 6″ as we term it.”
Before we discuss the main points of Trump’s remark, I find it intriguing that he implied that violence took place on January 6. What would he be holding Pence responsible for if not?
Now, this “sending it back to the States” nonsense. The United States Constitution, its Amendments, and the law do not provide such a mechanism. Period. Second, many constitutional scholars concur that Pence’s attempt at such an action would have been in violation of the Constitution, despite the peculiar belief of a large number of Trump fans that he did have the power to attempt such an action.
!876 election – Rutherford Hayes v Samuel Tilden had Tilden as winner, but with claims of wild irregularities in 4 states. Congress has A CONSTITUTIONAL OBLIGATION to ensure a fair & honest election, and ordered review of those states. Fraud was found, all for were overturned, and Hayes was declared winner. The “insurrection” on J6 was orchestrated by Pelosi, McConnell & others and carried out by FBI, Capital Police, BLM & Antifa to allow special circumtance that negated Pence’s ability to return electors to review. This was a Coup, and the author of this article is knowingly lying and is likely a “never-Trumper”.
You are Correct, Judas Pence had a Constitutional duty to not certify the election results until the irregularities were looked into and the election results and possible cheating were investigated!
I think that most of you, who get their facts from FOX news, need to go back and watch the January 6th news footage.
Pence followed the Constitution and did his job how it was written into it.
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Well said sir
Absolutely 100% correct.
EVERYTHING YOU HAVE JUST WRITTEN IS THE ABSOLUTE TRUTH ESPECIALLY THE LAST SENTENCE…NO IT WASNT A TOTALLY PEACEFUL DEMONSTRATION, BUT, NEITHER WAS IT AN INSURRECTION… IT DEPENDS ON WHICH POCKET OF PEOPLE YOU WERE IN AS TO WHAT WAS GOING ON… NOT NEARLY EVERYONE IN THAT INSTITUTION WAS REBELING OR DESTRUCTIVE…I PUT A LOT OF BLAME ON PIGLOSI AND THE CAPITOL POLICE FOR THEIR PATHETIC ATTENTION TO THE INTELLIGENCE THEY HAD BEFORE THAT DAY!!
Well said David and I totally agree with you.
So sad “Boca Jack” (just for the record…”Boca” translates to “Mouth” in Spanish, Portuguese…clearly you are referencing yourself as a spokes person for the MAGA folks) How on earth can you believe that it would be possible to orchestrate all those organizations in the DC area for what happened on January 6th. without anyone outside them knowing about it? Were all of the courts, even those with officials selected and appointed by #45’s administration sucked into lying and ignoring the complaints brought to them? Even the FOX talking heads have, in writing, confirmed that even they did not believe what they were saying on cam. No, Mouth Jack, ignorance like that you have spewed in your comment is so blatantly subversive and pathetic that even you know it is a lie. Do you really want the country to be run by the reincarnated PT Barnum DJT who would throw you under the bus if you made the mistake of alleging that something he said was not the truth.
Quite right Boca, Pence did have the authority under the Electoral Act of 1887, with respect to the Rutherford Hayes v Samuel Tilden. I think his not evoking the Electoral Act was cowardly and a selfish move to ingratiate himself to the incoming Democrats, with his own political ambitions in mind.
I couldn’t have said it better sir! Great job and thank you for your post. This article has prompted me to unsubscribe from this email.
PENCE DOES NOT KNOW WHAT THE CONSTITUTION READS AND WHAT IS SAID ABOUT THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE LAWS IS ABOUT FRAUDULENT ELECTIONS>:
HE LISTEN TO PELOSI AND SHE DID NOT KNOW THE LAWS ANS REGULATIONS OF THE ELECTORAL COLLEGE>:
Please review the election results from the Rutherford B Hays-Samuel Tiden presidential election in 1876. Hays lost the electoral college vote 165-184 with 185 votes required. Fraud was discovered in four states and once the electoral college votes were suspended, the congress set up a commission composed of 5-US Senators, 5-US Representatives, and 5-US Supreme Court Justices, to investigate the corruption. Corruption was discovered in all four states and the 20-electoral college votes were awarded to Hays and Hays was declared the president. Election fraud is bad word in the USA in 2020. Attorneys are being threatened with disbarment for representing clients with fraud claims. Anyone mentioning voter fraud is being threatened. The lack of an investigation into any of the fraud claims and not answering the question as to whether these fraud claims were true or false signals fraud cover-ups as well as putting millions of voters in limbo.
pence is a disgrace to this country. So are many other republicans. The only thing worse than a demon possessed demonRAT is a demon possessed RINO. pence is worse than obma, & that old senile jackass biden. We have biden, all because pence had no guts & cowarded to piglosi.
Anyone that actually believes Biden won in 2020 must be an absolute brain dead individual. A couple million unaccounted for ballets in California alone and the list goes on to many other states. Biden rallies had more people in security, news agencies and his medical staff than voters. Look at Lightfoot in Chicago sweeping jails, prisons and BLM/Antifa organizations to get votes. Democrats know no lows, laws or ethics when it comes to elections!! We also have some Rinos and never Trumpers that are swamp rats like the Democrats.