Washington: Donald Trump put his own vice president’s life at risk by embracing an elaborate plot to overturn the 2020 election, despite knowing the plan was unlawful, a Congressional hearing on the US Capitol attack has been told.
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A number of GOP figures on Sunday said they backed former Vice President Mike Pence in his rebuke of former President Trump’s claim that he had the authority to overturn the 2020 election results.
Source: Republicans back Pence rebuke of Trump on overturning 2020 election | TheHill
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These latest revelations do show us just how different these days are than 48 years ago when it was revealed that Richard Nixon had tried to get the CIA to block the FBI’s investigation into Watergate. That was known as the “smoking gun” in that case and it made dozens of Republicans and conservative Democrats turn against him. He resigned days later. What Trump did was worse. He tried to use the Department of Justice, the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security (and for all we know the CIA and the Department of Education too) to overturn a legal election that he lost. And his party shrugs. Worse than that he is the front runner for the nomination in the next presidential election. If, for some reason, he is actually held to account for any of this — or anything at all — it won’t be because the Republican Party lifted a finger to make it happen.
Source: Donald Trump’s Having an Awful Week — and It’s Only Wednesday | The Smirking Chimp
A new book shines fresh light on the final days of the Trump administration when a top general feared the president had gone into “serious mental decline.”
Source: Trump Threatened To Withhold Friendship From Pence Over Election Certification: Book | HuffPost
Donald Trump is reportedly furious in private over the role Vice President Mike Pence is about to play in confirming his election defeat.
Mike Pence: Donald Trump fumes over VP’s role in confirming Biden’s win
Pence is a serial science denier. He says smoking cigarettes does not cause cancer. He has called the human-caused climate emergency “a myth.” The Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine involves science and Muslim immigrants, so why is he getting it?
Pence, who backed Muslim visa Ban, gets Vaccine invented by Muslim Immigrants
The crime that can’t be remembered (ODT)
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