Current Events > Trump angry with Pence for not joining in attempts to overturn the election

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https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-angry-pence-not-supporting-overturn-election-attempts-report-2020-12

President Donald Trump is furious at Vice President Mike Pence and other top White House officials who are not joining his futile attempts to overturn the 2020 election, Axios reported Tuesday, citing multiple top officials.

The outlet said the president was "turning bitterly on virtually every person around him" who he believes is not supporting him.

Trump thinks that those who are not fighting in his corner are, in Axios' words, "weak, stupid or disloyal" and "beneath contempt."

Trump has complained about Pence and recently brought up an ad by the Lincoln Project, an anti-Trump Republican super PAC, that said the vice president was "backing away" from him, Axios reported.

The outlet said Trump was also unhappy with Mark Meadows, his chief of staff; Pat Cipollone, the White House counsel; Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.

Top White House aides have for weeks been trying to distance themselves from Trump and his fruitless election lawsuits, according to multiple reports.

Axios reported that Trump had been asking his advisors if they could order state legislatures to rescind their electoral votes and that when he is told no, he gets angry again.

Before the Electoral College met on December 14, Trump had considered asking Republican lawmakers in battleground states to refuse to ratify their results and to replace electors with loyalists who would switch their votes from President-elect Joe Biden to Trump. It was a last-ditch plot that was improbable.

But now that the Electoral College has confirmed Biden as the president-elect, Trump is turning to his congressional allies to help overturn the result on January 6, when both chambers will meet to certify the vote count.

At that joint session, Pence, in his role as the vice president and Senate president, is expected to certify the selection of the president-elect and the vice president-elect.

Trump would consider this act, a constitutional formality, "the ultimate betrayal," Axios said.

Pence has often been absent during Trump's most damaging moments. The vice president has made few public appearances since Election Day and has not taken questions from reporters, CNN said. And earlier this year, Pence was conspicuously absent as Trump was criticized for his response to Black Lives Matter protesters.

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I don't think Trump will survive to 2022.

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Pence has betrayed him by not backing up his unhinged efforts to overturn the election for no reason.

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"i'm mad you're not doing illegal things for me!"

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWkfJ4uvV0

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So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

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NES4EVER posted...

So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

You could even keep most of the original dialog and it'd still fit the context

NES4EVER posted...

So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

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NES4EVER posted...

So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

I'm sure I saw a subtitle edit of this exact thing somewhere.
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treewojima posted...

You could even keep most of the original dialog and it'd still fit the context

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Pence wants a political future, and has nothing to gain by going down with the ship.

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anything short of pence telling him "shut the fuck up, go home, and let the adults handle this disaster or you won't be president for 30 more minutes let alone 30 more days" is a failure on his part.

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NES4EVER posted...

So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

BakonBitz posted...

I'm sure I saw a subtitle edit of this exact thing somewhere.

https://www.facebook.com/messenger_media/?thread_id=501072415&attachment_id=419605642368368&message_id=mid.%24cAABa81BMMWd70ARpOV1nr41XeHs1

NES4EVER posted...

So the White House is basically the scene in Downfall where Hitler yells at everyone.

I'd love to see an edit of that scene with what's going on right now.

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doomcrusader posted...

I'd love to see an edit of that scene with what's going on right now.

I literally posted it above you lol

lolife67 posted...

I literally posted it above you lol

Yeah I figured that's what it was but the link is broken for me.

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doomcrusader posted...

Yeah I figured that's what it was but the link is broken for me.

Oh is it? Damn, my bad. When I clicked on it, I can see it but maybe it's not an open page. I wonder is it that way for everyone else?

I never thought I'd actually like anything about Mike Pence, but here we are.

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Jiek_Fafn posted...

I never thought I'd actually like anything about Mike Pence, but here we are.

I mean this is just Pence saving his own ass for the future
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Freddie_Mercury posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWkfJ4uvV0

lol

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Freddie_Mercury posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxWkfJ4uvV0

He kinda looks like Trump right there....


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