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To: i-node who wrote (1300622)	5/16/2021 4:51:54 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1588039

He told the violent mob that Pence could stop the election turnover if he had the guts. It was no accident the mobs were looking to lynch Pence. Trump had been for days setting up his loyal lieutenant to either break the law or pay the consequences of his wrath. “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,” Trump tweeted. “USA demands the truth!” Just like that, Trump used his power to turn the trusted Pence into a traitorous scoundrel who had to be disposed of as an example to others in order to keep the alternative reality where people could live and die so that he could find a way to remain in power. There were plenty of signs of where Trump intended to go. It was widely reported that his pardoned former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and Rudy Guiliani, the play was to break up the acceptance of the vote?—?which Trump insisted Pence had the authority to deny. That done, the Flynn recommendations went, Trump could declare martial law and re-run the election to his favor. In that self-involved cauldron of thought, Trump went from thinly veiled threats to Pence that he would “suffer major political consequences if he refused to cooperate,” to outright putting him in the path of the lynch mob he sent to the Capitol. “Our country has had enough,” Trump incited the crowd against his vice president. “We will not take it anymore, and that’s what this is all about. To use a favorite term that all of you people really came up with, we will stop the steal.” “Where’s Mike Pence?!” Back at the capitol, Pence was in danger. The message was pretty clear. It turns out there were other Trump supporters willing to do what Pence would not do, and angry enough to shout they would hang him. And that was the moment when Trump became the greatest betrayer in American history. At the very time, the capitol was on lockdown and his vice president was fleeing for his safety when lawmakers were being told to lock themselves in their offices and to “not make a sound,” Trump himself was on the phones calling Senators to stop the process and tweeting “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution.” “Mike Pence is going to have to come through for us, and if he doesn’t, that will be a sad day for our country,” Trump had told the crowd assembled for his “wild” Save America March, organised just for the purpose of exercising pressure on lawmakers to throw out the results of the election that went to Biden. In practice, it was all a straight line to Pence. It was laid out that way. Pence would either be the last resort to keep power or he would have to be purged as just another undesirable who made Trump unhappy. Fearing that Pence was perhaps wielding too much power against his ambitions, Trump discarded the previously ingratiating and obsequious Pence, literally dispensing with his safety and perhaps his life in his mad quest to remain in office. Now, in the halls of Congress, Trump’s incompetence fell short once more. Unthinkable and unforgivable personal betrayal played out on a national and global state that showed a sordid putsch that threatened to kill the vice president of the United States at the urging of the president himself. The long knives of Trump’s January 6th “wild” march on Washington did bring about 5 deaths as sacrifices on the altar of Donald Trump. It is perhaps the luck of the nation that one of them was not Mike Pence. ........... https://www.theweek.in/news/world/2021/01/11/hang-mike-pence-trump-failed-day-of-the-long-knives.html --------------------------------- Enough of Babbitt. Your Trumphumper lies got her killed. You fed people a mess of lies and then acted shocked when they acted on them.