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WASHINGTON ― Donald Trump posted a tweet attacking his own vice president for lacking the courage to overturn the election for him ― enraging his Jan. 6 mob even further ― just minutes after learning that Mike Pence had been removed from the Senate chamber for his own safety.
Newly elected Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) told reporters Wednesday night, following the second day of the former presidents impeachment trial, that Trump had called for his help in delaying election certification the afternoon of the U.S. Capitol attack but he had told Trump that Pence had just been taken from the Senate and he couldnt talk just then.
He didnt get a chance to say a whole lot because I said, Mr. President, they just took the vice president out. Ive got to go, Tuberville said.
According to video footage from that day, Pence was removed from the Senate at 2:14 p.m. after rioters had broken into the Capitol, meaning that when Trump lashed out at Pence at 2:24 p.m., he already knew Pences life was in danger.
Mike Pence didnt have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, Trump wrote in his tweet.
Videos shown by Democratic House members presenting their impeachment case document that rioters were aware of Trumps tweet. Some had erected a gallows outside the Capitol. Others roamed the halls, chanting, Hang Mike Pence.
The exact time Pence was taken from the Senate following the breach of the Capitol by the mob Trump had incited to try to overturn the presidential election was known the day of the attack, as was the time of Trumps tweet. What was not known until Tubervilles statement was whether Trump was aware of the danger Pence was in at the time he posted his tweet.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-pence-tweet-capitol-riot-impeachment-trial_n_6024b281c5b6b295bc045640
SunSeeker
(51,571 posts)kysrsoze
(6,022 posts)... for this, among many other things.
Laurelin
(529 posts)If he'd used the 25th amendment. He enabled trump the whole time and shouldn't have been surprised at the result.
uponit7771
(90,347 posts)Freddie
(9,267 posts)Its loyalty to him above all. Screw the Constitution.
LastDemocratInSC
(3,647 posts)that John Gotti felt about Sammy Gravano after Gravano testified against him. He's disloyal and deserves death.
No wonder about that: Trump and Gotti are both mobsters from Queens.
alwaysinasnit
(5,066 posts)Orange Turd speaks more about who and what Pence is. How can he remain silent knowing that his boss was tossing him to the rabid horde to be maimed, or even killed???
malaise
(269,054 posts)that is all