According to the Wall Street Journal, Vice President Mike Pence is regarded as the most loyal person to Trump at the top of the Republican government.
However, on January 6th local time, Pence was determined to abide by the U.S. Constitution and officially recognize Joe Biden as the next President of the United States.
People familiar with the matter revealed that Pence’s approach worsened his relationship with Trump as the Trump regime was about to end. What prompted Pence to “rebelle” against Trump at a critical moment?
Critical moment
Pence raised the anti-flag
In the joint parliamentary deliberation to determine the outcome of the presidential election, the tension between Trump and Pence has actually been highlighted around what role Pence should play.
A few days later, on January 6, the conflict between the two people was finally exposed. On the day when chaos and violence hit the Capitol, Pence, who had been loyal to Trump before, finally raised the counter-flag.
According to relevant sources, such an unexpected plot made Trump furious. Since a few days ago, Trump has had the wrong idea that Pence can overthrow the previous election results in determining the presidential election results.
Just as his supporters turned into mobs and stormed the Capitol, Trump spent most of the day pinning his hopes on Pence. However, when the mob stormed the Capitol, Pence and other important people were all forced to move to a safe place, he wavered!
According to people familiar with Pence’s idea, in the final analysis, Pence is dissatisfied with Trump’s failure to take action to stop the riots.
“He was shocked that the president didn’t immediately stand up and take the right action,” the insider said.
Political career may be overshadowed by it.
For Pence, who has been dedicated for a long time, this parliamentary review has become a decisive moment in his life.
On the one hand, he angered Trump and his supporters. On the other hand, he was praised by some Republican lawmakers.
Pence’s political career has become an open issue as the Republicans begin to deal with the effects of Trump’s last term and the violent chaos on January 6.
Alex Conant, a Republican adviser, said, “I think the problem with Pence is that he has been a very loyal supporter of Trump for the past four years, and Pence should be the most loyal to Trump among all the senior Republican administrations.
So his political career should be tied to Trump.”
Sources familiar with Pence’s schedule revealed that Pence’s chances of attending Biden’s inauguration ceremony on January 20 are very high.
CNN also pointed out that Pence’s attendance at Biden’s inauguration ceremony would mark another major disagreement between him and Trump.
After being criticized
The contradiction finally came to light.
Although Trump has repeatedly insisted on his own ideas, there is no evidence of fraud in this U.S. presidential election.
The joint parliamentary review on January 6 determined the results of the electoral vote in the states.
Legal experts, on the other hand, also said that the vice president did not have the authority to overturn this result.
Pence officially “breaks off” with Trump in a letter to lawmakers on the day of the riots when demonstrators broke into the Capitol.
He said that he did not have the “power to unilaterally decide on the presidential election” and could not change the election results.
Trump then tweeted his anger at Pence, who wrote: “Mike Pence has no courage to do what should do to protect our country and our constitution, giving states the opportunity to prove a set of corrected facts, not the fraud or inaccurate things they were previously asked to prove.
It’s true.
According to a Republican lawmaker, Pence has long expressed his dissatisfaction with Trump in private.
Jim Inhoffer, a Republican congressman from Oklahoma, talked to reporters in the legislature on the 6th about his previous conversation with Pence.
“Pence was very outraged by the president’s criticism,” he said. Inhofer also quoted what was said to be Pence’s original words, “I have done so much for him, I didn’t expect this to happen.”
“In four years, Pence has never publicly commented on his relationship with Trump, so I highly suspect he started yesterday (6th) and not before,” said a senior aides to Pence.
A spokesman for Inhove responded, “In an interview with the media, our senator really wanted to express his emotions in front of the media, especially on behalf of Vice President Pence, his anger and the hurt.”
It is a lot of concern that Pence may prepare for the presidential election in four years.
Some Republicans say Pence did the right thing in a difficult situation.” In last week’s disaster, one person’s performance was the most outstanding to me. He is Vice President Mike Pence.
What Trump has asked him to do in the name of loyalty is radical, unconstitutional, illegal, and wrong for this country.”
Pence has long tried to show his loyalty to Trump, and has been on the sidelines of Trump during the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the impeachment of the U.S.
House of Representatives and the chaotic response to the coronavirus pandemic. Although he never revealed his future ambitions, it is believed that if Trump does not run, he is likely to seek the Republican presidential nomination in 2024.
Democrats intend to propose provisions for impeaching Trump
According to CNN on the 7th, Pelosi said that she joined Senate Democratic Leader Schumer in calling on Vice President Pence to immediately remove the current president by invoking the 25th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; if Pence and the cabinet do not act, the U.S. Congress may be ready to initiate impeachment proceedings again.
Pelosi said that “the president called for inflammatory action and indescribable attacks on the United States and the people” and “should not remain in office”.
According to the Wall Street Journal, two Democratic aides in the U.S. Congress revealed that House Democrats plan to introduce impeachment provisions against President Trump next Monday.
Because Trump encouraged a group of mobs, who later rushed into the Capitol.
More than 150 Democrats in the House of Representatives have signed the articles of impeachment, which are written by Rhode Island Congressman David Sicilini, California Congressman Ted Lieu and Maryland Congressman Jamie Ruskin.
The main reason for impeachment is to storm the Capitol and accuse the president of inciting riots. The number of signed parliamentarians has far exceeded half of the caucus.
House Democrats are pushing for a reconvening next week to vote on impeachment measures and submit impeachment provisions to the Senate.
The fallout from the attacks on Capitol Hill continues to ferment in Washington, which will be an unprecedented move in the final days of President Trump’s presidency.
On the other hand, Pence’s advisers told Business Insider that despite increasing calls from both parties for a last-minute replacement of the top leaders of the U.S. government, Pence did not support the 25th Amendment to bring Trump out of office.
The White House protested the effort, and a White House spokesman said in a statement that this is a time for national unity, as President Trump said Thursday.
Impeaching a president with only 12 days left for political motives will only further divide the country.
