Mike Pence knows his career in the Republican Party is over, right? It's been teetering ever since January 6, 2021, when the Trumpsters who stormed the Capitol wanted to hang him — inspired in part by that infamous Benedict Donald tweet at 2:24 pm: "Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, etc., etc., blah blah blah."
Now that Pence has been forced to answer a DOJ subpoena — as opposed to the House January 6 committee, which he cavalierly blew off — and now that he's so obviously given the Jack Smith grand jury a ton of indictable detail on Trump's campaign to end democracy, you can't help but wonder why Pence is even running for President to begin with. The devoted MAGAts will never forgive him.
Meanwhile, Trump's lawyer claimed today that Trump had merely been asking Pence to do stuff in an "aspirational" way. (Mmmm, hmmm. See one of our favorite tweep's clever translation, above.) If that's all they've got, it's pretty weak. But the other stuff Trump has been posting on his silly social media platform has been more direct.
"WOW, it’s finally happened! Liddle’ Mike Pence, a man who was about to be ousted as Governor of Indiana until I came along and made him VP, has gone to the Dark Side...He’s delusional, and now he wants to show he’s a tough guy."
Thanks to posts like this, Pence has been confronted by protesters multiple times, most recently outside a town hall event, where they jeered him with "That's a traitor!" and "You're a sellout!" That's been it so far, but it's entirely possible that one of these Donald devotees — and Second Amendment lovers — will forgo the hanging idea and move to employ deadlier force. Head's up, Mikey: With your Secret Service protection expired, you may want to think hard about the motives of the running mate you called "this good man." We cats HISS.
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