{"id":48598,"date":"2021-02-21T10:28:02","date_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48598"},"modified":"2021-02-21T10:35:23","modified_gmt":"2021-02-21T18:35:23","slug":"pence-aide-on-d-c-riot-trump-got-bad-advice-and-was-dumb-enough-to-take-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=48598","title":{"rendered":"Pence Aide on D.C. Riot: Trump Got &#8216;Bad Advice&#8217; and Was Dumb Enough to Take It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The apologists for Donald Trump scattered furiously to defend him after the January 6th attack on Congress by the Trump Insurrectionists. Some said that he didn&#8217;t overtly incite the riots by telling his cult followers to engage in violence. Others said the rioters were actually Antifa provocateurs disguised as MAGAts. Both of those excuses have been thoroughly contradicted by the facts.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/Pix\/Trump\/pence-trump.jpg\" alt=\"Mike Pence, Donald Trump\" width=\"550\" height=\"296\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-40193\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Sunday morning there was a new justification offered to explain Trump&#8217;s responsibility for the assault that resulted in at least five deaths and many more injured. Not to mention the stain on American democracy by people who hate the very thought of it. Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Mike Pence, was interviewed on CNN and asked about Trump&#8217;s inflammatory behavior that led to the riots. He replied that&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I think, unfortunately, the President was getting bad advice from people who had articulated that the Vice-President would have some sort of extraordinary powers that had never been used before in the history of our country during Electoral College meetings and certifications by Congress. So that&#8217;s what we were heading into on the 6th [of January]. But I think that the  Vice-President knows he swore an oath to the Constitution and was gonna fulfill that.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cWhen you say the President was getting bad advice it sounds though like you\u2019re trying to take responsibility away from the President\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d0rBcoHcP3\">pic.twitter.com\/d0rBcoHcP3<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Acyn\/status\/1363297217218371585?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>This answer serves a dual purpose. First, it&#8217;s an attempt on Short&#8217;s part to absolve his former boss and Trumpy lapdog, Pence, of any liability. But more significantly, Short is trying to place the blame for Trump&#8217;s months-long incendiary and seditious rabble-rousing on unnamed <em>&#8220;advisers&#8221;<\/em> leading Trump astray.<\/p>\n<p>The problem with this weaselly strategy is that it ends up holding no one accountable. But even worse,  it implies that Trump is so stupid that he took advice that was legally preposterous and manifestly unconstitutional. Trump&#8217;s stupidity will not come as a shock to anyone. But the fact that Pence&#8217;s top aide is proposing it to vindicate Trump reveals that the Trump contingent has run out of plausible excuses.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Another Trump flunky, Republican minority whip Steve Scalise, continues to perpetuate the Big Lie that sparked the Trump Insurrection in the first place. After all the time that has passed &#8211; and the evidence that has been revealed &#8211; Scalise still can&#8217;t say without qualification that Joe Biden was elected legitimately. This is the sort of dangerous rhetoric that will fuel the next series of riots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Holy shit. Steve Scalise refuses to admit that Joe Biden legitimately won the election. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XHYJDay5RK\">pic.twitter.com\/XHYJDay5RK<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/atrupar\/status\/1363512058025762816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 21, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"color:blue;\"><strong>NOTE:<\/strong> Twitter recently suspended the News Corpse account after 11 years without giving a reason. So if anyone wants to tweet articles <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from my website<\/a><\/strong>, please feel free to do so often and repeatedly. 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Thanks for your support.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><strong>How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B00QSSMOES\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325&#038;creativeASIN=B00QSSMOES&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;tag=newscorpsecom-20&#038;linkId=TLI6JC2OYE22MUTS\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Fox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The apologists for Donald Trump scattered furiously to defend him after the January 6th attack on Congress by the Trump Insurrectionists. Some said that he didn&#8217;t overtly incite the riots by telling his cult followers to engage in violence. Others said the rioters were actually Antifa provocateurs disguised as MAGAts. Both of those excuses have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":40193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[152,1,1200,16],"tags":[554,482,1252],"class_list":["post-48598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-election","category-general","category-politics","category-wankery","tag-donald-trump","tag-mike-pence","tag-steve-scalise"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/..\/Pix\/Trump\/pence-trump.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Ijg-cDQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":32075,"url":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=32075","url_meta":{"origin":48598,"position":0},"title":"Donald Trump Horribly Botched His VP Announcment &#8211; And Wants To Do The Same To America","author":"Mark NC","date":"7\/16\/2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Donald Trump's pathetic rollout for his vice-president nominee, Mike Pence, could not have gone worse. 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