As the Washington Post’s John Wagner reports, after a wild weekend rally at which former President Donald Trump teased the idea of pardoning January 6th insurrectionists and running again in 2024, Trump issued a new statement last night claiming in no uncertain terms that he should still be President:
Former President Donald Trump suggested in a statement Sunday night that then-Vice President Mike Pence should have “overturned” the election on Jan. 6, 2021, as he presided over the counting of electoral college votes by Congress.
Trump has expressed frustration before that Pence did not use his role to try to reject the votes of several states that Joe Biden won. But the language in Sunday’s statement was among Trump’s most explicit in publicly stating his desire…
“If the Vice President (Mike Pence) had ‘absolutely no right’ to change the Presidential Election results in the Senate, despite fraud and many other irregularities, how come the Democrats and RINO Republicans, like Wacky Susan Collins, are desperately trying to pass legislation that will not allow the Vice President to change the results of the election?” Trump said in his statement. “Actually, what they are saying, is that Mike Pence did have the right to change the outcome, and they now want to take that right away. Unfortunately, he didn’t exercise that power, he could have overturned the Election!”
What former President Donald Trump is describing here, as readers know, is the plan laid out by then-University of Colorado “conservative affirmative action” professor John Eastman in the days before January 6th, calling for Vice President Mike Pence to choose from a range of options that would result in the election not being duly certified on that day–up to and including simply throwing out states “in dispute” and handing the election to Trump. Since that time, Eastman has variably tried to walk his plan back as “crazy,” and also defended it with what Eastman thought was a friendly audience.
The 2020 election is over. It’s in the past & Joe Biden is the (very unpopular) president. If the Dems are asking if we have confidence in our elections, the answer is yes. We have complete confidence we will win this upcoming election. See you on the campaign trail! #copolitics
— Kristi Burton Brown (@ColoradoKbb) January 18, 2022
There’s little denying at this point that the former President and the chair of the Colorado Republican Party have adopted mutually exclusive positions. From there, we must ask the next logical question: is Donald Trump or Kristi Burton Brown the leader of the Republican Party? As soon as you resolve this question with Kristi Burton Brown, it’s time to ask Eastman’s enthusiastic supporter CU Regent Heidi Ganahl. Then the Republicans running in CD-8. And on down the line.
It’s a conversation smart Republicans don’t want to have. But Trump isn’t giving them that choice.
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The media lets them have it both ways. Kristi Burton Brown and Heidi Ganahl shouldn't be allowed to talk about anything else.
That’s wrong. Talk about child care, education, climate change, covid, health care and the designated hitter rule. All are more important than Gotcha games.
At first glance I thought you wrote "designated hitler rule." We might need a rule about that . . .
Trump trying to steal the election is no gotcha game. I wish it was.
But KBB agrees that Biden won. You want to whine about that as a bad thing? That is a Gotcha game. Why not hit KBB on the many things she is wrong about, not the one thing she got half right?
It's the "intended audience" thing, V. You know she doesn't believe that but she's trying NOT to alienate the more moderate members of the party.
Sounds like somebody's still mad that his apprentice let him get fired. 😉
Just for the record again Susan, exactly what was that lesson you think Ttump has learned?? . . .
The bigger problems is of course that Susan and her GOP friends have not learned THEIR lesson.
I guess Kristi, a lot like our resident "Nasty Old Man suffering from dementia" doesn't want to talk about the fact that her hero, whom she was supporting in the coup attempt was NEVER popular. Never over 50% approval, NEVER won the popular vote.
Two things:
1) Perhaps we Dems shouldn't be so quick to change the EC vote counting rules now that we have Harris as VP.
2) KBB give a ringing endorsement to SOS Griswold's performance in running the elections here in Colorado!
Read today that Marc Short, Pence's Chief of Staff, testified to the House J6 Committee. He was there when Eastman tried to convince Pence to take the option of not counting votes from some states. He was with Pence at the Capitol on January 6, when apparently the VP and his staff found they didn't have access to their office in the Capitol Complex, had to be evacuated into the underground garage, and stayed in that "safe" location until the Joint Session convened again.
I'm thinking the J6 Committee's hearings that cover the various strands of the insurrection is going to be must see TV.