OOOOPS. Trump not pleased that DOJ responded on Pence's behalf in Screwy Gohmert lawsuit.

[Miles Archer]

Maggie Haberman
@maggieNYT
POTUS was not pleased that DoJ responded on Pence's behalf in the Gohmert et al lawsuit trying to expand the VP's procedural role on Jan 6, per 3 ppl briefed. POTUS called Pence this AM to express some surprise about it; he has been more vocal with others about his displeasure.
2:13 PM · Jan 1, 2021·Twitter Web App

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[Blue Owl]

1. Suck it Donny you fat piece of shit

[Talitha]

5. Somehow I just knew you'd say that!

[lame54]

7. It's called Trumpettes Syndrome

[dhill926]

10. hahaha....good one....

[SammyWinstonJack]

14. I suffer from that.

[Dem2theMax]

18. I think we all suffer from it!

But on January 20th, we finally get a cure!

[sprinkleeninow]

15. always clear, unequivocal, never ambiguous...

✅

[Kid Berwyn]

34. It is the phrase that denotes the Age.

Perfectly.

[LiberalBrooke]

2. Yes he really believes that myself and more than 81 million other people who voted

Biden/Harris would just say ok to him staying in our house. Get real, our votes were counted and don the con is the loser. Anything other than Biden being sworn in would not be tolerated.

[StarfishSaver]

3. I wondered about this

It was clear that, probably unbeknownst to his own dim self, Goehmert put Pence in a terrible position. And the court forced Pence's hand by ordering him to respond by yesterday and not allowing him to duck.

Pence was boxed in and had to respond and had to respond as he did - telling the court that Goehmert was full of it and he had no power to unilaterally upend a presidential election.

And I knew that when he did so respond, his boss and personal savior would not be happy.

Now I'm sitting back and enjoying the family drama ...

[MyOwnPeace]

4. Well, he's not doing anything else.......

he just may as well fire an "Acting Attorney General" every day up to January 20!

Why not - it's not like it's an important position ( ) and who knows, he might even find one who will actually listen to him.

[Marie Marie]

8. Once again, his acting Atty General didn't come through for him.

His power is waning.

[MyOwnPeace]

31. Can you believe it?

He's somehow been finding people that actually understand the law and are not simply devoted to him.

[abqtommy]

6. Now why do I fell glad when tRUMP feels bad and has a sad? I really don't wanna know but I

just can't/won't stop!

[BlueIdaho]

9. Fatso will soon learn the lesson of the ex-celebrity...

Pretty soon everyone will stop taking and returning his calls. That silence is deafening.

[smb]

11. It'll Get Worse

Pretty soon everyone will stop taking and returning his calls.

That's gonna really suck when he only gets one phone call.

[BlueIdaho]

12. +1000

[DemoTex]

13. Trump is going to stroke-out between this DoJ action and today's override of the NDAA veto.

The override vote of Trump's veto of the National Defense Authorization Act is a stinging blow to Don the Con. This should make Trump's trip to Georgia to "campaign" for Perdue and Loeffler very interesting.

[ShazzieB]

24. And if his blood pressure is high now...

Just wait till Congress ends up certifying the election results on January 6!

[vapor2]

28. We can only hope and then there will be no more pardons for criminals

[Dave in VA]

16. Take Cover!

The orange hemorrhoid is going to blow!

[MyOwnPeace]

32. Sorry - can't resist............

&t=8s

[Dave in VA]

33. Oh God!

We can hope. And that it will on every television in the world!

[Paladin]

17. I've never given a shit about trump's statements or feelings before.

I'm sure as hell not doing otherwise, at this point.

[ShazzieB]

22. I think it's safe to say

the only reason anyone here cares about Chump's feefees is Schadenfreude.

And after all the crap he's put us all through in the last 4 years, not to mention his assholery about the election, I think he owes us all every drop of Schadenfreude we can wring out of his sorry orange hide.

[Paladin]

23. Nicely put. (nt)

[ShazzieB]

26. Why thank you!

[CaptainTruth]

20. What was it the Trumpers say? "Fvck your feelings" or something like that?

[link:|]

[ProfessorGAC]

21. Shadow President My Rear!

The real power is already ignoring him. Pence & Barr on this.
He wants $2,000, McConnell says no. He vetoes a bill, McConnell's senate republicans bote overwhelmingly to override.
Top generals openly saying the military doesn't get involved in elections..
He's becoming yesterday's news while he's still in office.

[gratuitous]

25. As Trump should be well aware by now

The Department of Justice represents all high government officials in court matters touching on the duties of their offices. While Trump has used DOJ as his personal law firm, there are still a good number of career professionals who do their jobs as they're supposed to be done. Of course DOJ responded on the Vice President's behalf (as ordered by the court), and of course those government lawyers followed the law in responding as they did. Trump can't possibly feign surprise about all this, and no responsible media outlet should give Trump the time of day about his ignorance.

[ShazzieB]

27. That lawsuit is even sillier than I realized...

According to the Washington Post:

"In a Thursday night filing, a Justice Department lawyer wrote on Pence’s behalf that the case is 'a walking legal contradiction,' because Gohmert has sued Pence seeking to give Pence more power. If Gohmert and his allies want to make such a claim, the Justice Department argued, they should sue Congress, not Pence."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/gohmert-court-filing-claims-pence-is-not-a-glorified-envelope-opener/2021/01/01/eeb6b222-4c51-11eb-839a-cf4ba7b7c48c_story.html

Don't know how I missed that bit of hilarity until now, but here we are!

[muriel_volestrangler]

29. And Gohmert used to be a judge

Gohmert attended The JAG School at the University of Virginia and entered U.S. Army JAG Corps. He served in the JAG Corps at Fort Benning, Georgia, from 1978-82.[7][8] The majority of his legal service in the U.S. Army was as a defense attorney.

Gohmert was elected as a state district judge for Texas's 7th Judicial District, serving Smith County (Tyler, Texas) from 1992 to 2002. He was elected to three terms.[7] He first saw national recognition for a 1996 probation requirement where he ordered an HIV positive man, who was convicted on motor vehicle theft charges, to seek the written consent from all future sexual partners on a court provided form notifying them of his HIV status.[9] The order angered LGBT activists and civil libertarians.[9]

In 2002, Gohmert was appointed by Texas Governor Rick Perry to fill a vacancy as Chief Justice on Texas's 12th Court of Appeals, where he served a six-month term, which ended in 2003.[10]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Gohmert

What a nightmare Texas can be.

[LeftInTX]

35. Perry actually appointed this loon to the appeals court????

It's easy for loony Rs to get elected because they have an R next to their name, but a governor appointing this loon???