In what is a must-read article in the conservative Wall Street Journal, snippets from a report on a new book from reporter Michael Bender titled, “Frankly, We Did Win This Election,” tells of Donald Trump crumpling up a newspaper and throwing it at Mike Pence during a heated conversation about the 2020 presidential elections.
According to the story, Pence was getting ready to preside over the certification of the vote in the congress Pence’s political committee had just hired Trump’s adviser Corey Lewandowski, prompting Trump to reportedly hold up an article about the news while complaining it made him look like “his team was abandoning him.” Trump reportedly then “crumpled the article and threw it at his vice president,” saying, “So disloyal.” That’s when Pence “lost it,” according to the book.“Pence picked up the article and threw it back at Trump,” Bender writes.”
He leaned toward the president and pointed a finger a few inches from his chest. ‘We walked you through every detail of this,’ Pence snarled. ‘We did this for you — as a favor. And this is how you respond? You need to get your facts straight.’ ”
Haha, ha, I guess that was the moment he decided that Pence had to go. You all remember that his sycophants entered the Capitol grounds with a gallows and nooses, chanting ‘hang Mike Pence”.
I shed no tears for Mike Pence, Mike Pence is every inch as bad as Donald Trump is narcissistic, pathological, and sociopathic, but I cannot help but wonder where exactly did his minions get the idea that Mike Pence should be hung?
The Journal went on to say that after Donald Trump was told by Jared Kushner in a phone call that the television networks had all called the election for Joe Biden, the Democrat, he went on to finish playing his round of golf on the morning of Nov. 7, 2020.
Trump calmly listened to his son-in-law as he strolled across the manicured grass under a clear blue sky. He hung up, nonchalantly handed the phone back to an aide, and finished the final 12 holes, as more than a dozen golf carts filled with government aides and Secret Service agents trailed behind him.
When Mr. Trump finally pulled up to the clubhouse in his customized cart — complete with a presidential seal stitched into the seat — club members cheered him on the back patio. “Don’t worry,” Mr. Trump told them. “It’s not over yet.”
“Let’s do all the things we didn’t get to do because of all of the distractions, and have fun,” Hope Hicks, a longtime Trump aide, said to the president’s team gathered inside campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.
Mr. Trump had won far more votes than his team projected, with surprising support from Black and Hispanic men. He was immediately the runaway favorite for the party’s 2024 nomination, and Ms. Hicks was expressing that vibe with her suggestion for a jaunty curtain call.
The report went on to add that Trump’s two sons Donald Jnr. and Eric, told Hicks that what she was proposing was not even an option.
This is what I found not just objectionable but remarkable. Both of the younger jackasses knew that their moronic daddy had lost the elections and that it was legally over; nevertheless, they told their father’s aide that moving on was not an option.
How inherently criminal? How inherently disgusting and reprehensible?
If the United States were truly a country of laws in which every person is held to the same standard of accountability under the law, Donald Trump, his two sons, and every single person who aided and helped him to try to overthrow the United States Government on January 6th, 2021, would be locked away in jail having already been tried and convicted for treason.
But the United States is not a country where the laws apply the same to everyone.
Donald Trump, his family, and friends all attempted to overthrow the constituted order of the American Government to make himself an unelected dictator, and not a damn thing has been done about it.
Donald Trump’s attempted coup de tat is now accepted precedent for a smarter despot to finess and end this experiment.
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.Mike Beckles is a former Police Detective, businessman, freelance writer, black achiever honoree, and creator of the blog mikebeckles.com.