One is up on the dais yelling "Trump won that election!" This is insane /p6CXhBDSFT In a bit of surreal irony, one such rioter who'd made it into the Senate chamber took up Pence's seat and declared Trump to be the actual winner of the presidential election. "In the end, Pence will be forced to declare Biden the next president of the United States, at which point Trump, being Trump, might very well turn against him, as he has when other loyal allies dared to defy his whims," wrote Sullum.įew could have predicted Trump's turn on Pence would come right as the vice president was fleeing from rioters who were more willing to do Trump's dirty work for him. Pence's mealy-mouthed resistance to Trump's demands was always going to provoke condemnation from the president, as Reason's Jacob Sullum presciently noted yesterday. Vice President Mike Pence was just ushered off the floor of the Senate. JUST NOW: The United States Capitol is on lockdown. That tweet also comes a day after Pence told Trump, per reporting from The New York Times, that he did not have the power to unilaterally reject electoral votes for Joe Biden, even though the vice president did promise to keep studying the issue of voter fraud. That tweet came roughly 10 minutes after it was reported that Pence had been escorted off the Senate floor-where he was presiding of the electoral college tally-in response to aforementioned protesters breaking through police lines and entering the Capitol. Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify," said Trump on Twitter. WE NEED YOU TO FIGHT FOR INTEGRITY AND THIS ELECTION - FORGET THE FUTURE AT THIS POINT, WE NEED TO FIX THE 2020 ELECTION OR WE ARE NO LONGER THE AMERICA AS WE ONCE KNEW DO YOUR SWORN DUTY TODAY AND SAVE OUR COUNTRY & OUR FREEDOM 77 replies 60 retweets 945 likes. The ever-gracious Trump has decided to use this opportunity to attack Vice President Mike Pence for not doing that job for them. capitol building in an effort to stop Congress tallying Electoral College votes that will deliver the presidency to Joe Biden.
Devin O’Malley, the vice president’s press secretary, confirmed to Check Your Fact in an email that the cover photo “is of the VP and the Second Lady.Currently, right-wing supporters of President Donald Trump are storming the U.S. 8, including the day he presided over Congress certifying the Electoral College votes, all show that it has not changed from that photo of the pair holding hands. Various archived versions of Pence’s Twitter account from Nov. An archived version of his account from later that day shows that it switched to another photo: a white-haired man in a black coat holding hands with a woman wearing a round hat. 3, it shows Pence and his wife, Second Lady Karen Pence, waving from behind a podium. In one archived version of his Twitter account on Nov. He appears to have last changed his Twitter cover photo on Nov. (RELATED: Was Mike Pence Pictured Waving A Confederate Flag?) But in reality, Pence has not changed his Twitter header image in a few months. Some social media users have suggested that Pence changed his cover photo on Twitter to one showing Biden and Harris, seemingly in response to his disagreement with Trump about approving the election results. President Donald Trump had previously urged Pence to not certify the election results, though Pence later said in a letter that he did not believe the vice president had the power to reject them, CNBC reported.
Pence was presiding over a joint session of Congress certifying the Electoral College vote when a group of Trump supporters breached the Capitol and temporarily occupied it in protest of the election results, according to The Associated Press.
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