{"id":55788,"date":"2022-12-20T14:29:10","date_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55788"},"modified":"2022-12-20T14:29:10","modified_gmt":"2022-12-20T22:29:10","slug":"trump-renews-whining-that-mike-pence-is-a-deep-state-traitor-for-not-overturning-the-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=55788","title":{"rendered":"Trump Renews Whining that Mike Pence is a Deep State Traitor for Not Overturning the Election"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s only Tuesday, and yet this has already been been a terrible week for Donald Trump. It’s week that follows several wherein he has been brutally and deservedly chastised for having dined with racists and anti-Semites<\/a><\/strong>, and for calling for the “termination”<\/em> fo the Constitution<\/a><\/strong>, and for hawking his ridiculous NFT trading cards<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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As if that weren’t enough, the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th insurrection that Trump incited has issued criminal referrals to the Justice Department citing at least four charges that they recommend be brought against him. Needless to say, he didn’t take that well.<\/p>\n

RELATED: Crybaby Trump Throws a Tantrum in Response to the House Select Committee\u2019s Criminal Referrals<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

True to form, Trump is lashing out wildly in every direction. He is attacking every perceived foe in his twisted mind, including the January 6th Committee, Special Counsel Jack Smith, the FBI (that was headed by his appointees), Hunter Biden, and the ever present and nefarious “Deep State,”<\/em> that is supposedly populated by Democrats and Republicans conspiring to destroy Trump.<\/p>\n

In a typically unhinged harangue Tuesday morning, Trump unleashed his rage at those responsible for what he still calls the “rigged and stolen”<\/em> presidential election of 2020. Although now that Congress is about to pass the Electoral Count Reform Act, he is now focusing on that aspect, and the role that he believes his former vice-president, Mike Pence, had in betraying him and his tyrannical aspirations.<\/p>\n

In a series of posts on his floundering Twitter ripoff, Truth Social<\/a><\/strong>, Trump laid out his laments over Pence choosing not to violate the Constitution by failing to certify the election results. Trump whined<\/a> that…<\/p>\n

“They said the Vice President has ‘absolutely no choice,’ it was carved in ‘steel,’ but if he has no choice, why are they changing the law saying he has no choice?”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that…<\/p>\n

“it is because the Vice President did have a choice, and looking back at it now, the 2020 Voting Fraud was far greater than anyone thought possible, with even our Government, through the FBI, changing the results of the Election by millions and millions of votes.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that…<\/p>\n

“John Eastman and others were correct in stating that the Vice President of the United States had the right to do what should have been done. […] The whole thing is one big Scam!”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And that there was a…<\/p>\n

“highly successful effort made by the FBI in illegally changing the results of the 2020 Presidential Election.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Trump’s infamously ignorant grasp of government and laws is evident here as he demonstrates his failure to understand the Constitution’s directive regarding the vice-president’s largely ceremonial role in certifying the Electoral College count. Trump thinks that because a bipartisan majority of members of Congress seek to clarify some of the archaic language in the original Electoral Count Act of 1887, that the old law permits the vice-president to unilaterally discard any of those votes that he chooses.<\/p>\n

That, of course, is absurd. And cleaning up the language is just being done in order to prevent future corrupt leaders like Trump from trying to misinterpret the law in order to assume dictatorial control of the government.<\/p>\n

What’s more, Trump is alleging – without any factual basis – that the FBI played some sort of role in “changing the results of the Election by millions and millions of votes.”<\/em> As usual, Trump doesn’t provide a shred of evidence to support his allegations. However he does manage to get his toadies in Congress to go along with him. James Comer, the incoming chair of the House Oversight Committee said this on the subject…<\/p>\n

“We need to halt everything with the FBI. All funding. Until they come forward and explain to Congress exactly what they were doing, why they were doing it, and who gave them the authority to do it.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Rep. James Comer calls for defunding the FBI pic.twitter.com\/oacTjjUQnl<\/a><\/p>\n

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) December 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n