Michael D'Antonio is the author of the book"Never Enough: Donald Trump and the Pursuit of Success" and co-author, with Peter Eisner, of the book"High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump." The opinions expressed in this commentary are his own. View more opinion on CNN.
On January 6, 2021, then-Vice President Mike Pence slipped off his lapdog collar and put country before then-President Donald Trump by refusing to help overturn the 2020 election. More than a year later, Pence, who may have presidential ambitions of his own, explained his fateful choice."Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election," Pence told the crowd at the Federalist Society Florida Chapters conference on Friday. He went on to say,"Frankly, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.
“Bare minimum?” Mike_Pence did the ultimate in betrayal to Donald Trump and the America people by not asking the obvious questions and demanding accountability for the 2020 election gutlesspence and now the US is paying the price
No it doesn't go far enough, but it's a start.
He never denounced the Big Lie. He only appears to be dissing TFG because even after the maga mob sought to hang him, he went crawling to the WH to kiss his ass and was rejected. He's STILL going on about the Big Lie.
So many don’t seem to realize that when Pence had his lawyers spending hours looking for loopholes and calling Quayle to ask IF he could do what Trump wanted shows he would have overturned if he could. He is not a hero but a wimp that didn’t want to break the law