by Pa Rock
Citizen Journalist
With almost two full years remaining before the next general election, Donald Trump has already charged out of the starting gate and is racing madly toward his cherished goal of winning four more years of general immunity as the next President of the United States. It worked once before, giving Trump not only protections from the force of law but also a splendid platform from which to spit his racist, fascist, misogynistic; and flatulent nonsense - and now Trump is desperate to regain his protections and re-establish his place at the bully pulpit.
But this race is already promising to be far more challenging affair than the cakewalk which greeted him in 2016. This time even people in his own party are already challenging his self-perceived "right" to a second term with stinging rebukes - and some are even going so far as to run, or threaten to run, against him. They have declared war on the beast, and now there is no turning back.
Last night former Vice President Mike Pence drew and used his own knife in an attempt to slay the raging bull before he can stampede the rest of the GOP herd. In a speech before the Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC, Pence, who was there to poke fun at other politicians, instead turned deadly serious when he began speaking of the January 6th insurrection, an American horror story which he laid squarely at the feet of his former boss, Donald John Trump.
Pence, who is currently fighting subpoenas to give his personal account of the events of January 6th, 2021, to a federal grand jury, had no qualms at all about sharing his recollections of that terrible day with the journalists assembled at last night's dinner.
The former Republican Vice President, and Donald Trump's running mate in 2016 and 2020, had plenty to say. He began by sharing some general jokes about other politicians, but quickly turned serious as he began recalling the events of January 6th, something he referred to as a "tragic day." Trump had stirred the misfits, miscreants, and malcontents who were demonstrating outside of the Capitol with charges that Mike Pence, as Vice President, had the power to refuse to certify the election results and to stop the awarding of the office to Joe Biden. Pence, in last night's dinner, denied any such Constitutional authority and said::
"President Trump was wrong. I had no right to overturn the election, and his dangerous words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable."
But Vice President Pence did not stop with his public scolding of his former boss, he also went after Fox News host Tucker Carlson's efforts to turn the events of January 6th into some sort of misunderstood Capitol visit by ordinary American tourists, something he referred to as a "defense of the mob." Pence noted:
"Tourists don't injure 140 police officers by sightseeing. Tourists don't break down doors to get to the Speaker of the House or voice threats against public officials."
Tourists also don't bring a homemade gallows to the grounds of the US Capitol and run around shouting about a desire to hang Mike Pence!
Pence called January 6th a "public disgrace,' and he said that it "mocks decency to portray it in any other way."
The former Vice President was also effusive in his praise of journalists in their coverage of the events of that fateful day. ""We were able to stay at out posts in part, because you stayed at your post." Pence told journalists at the dinner. "The American people know what happened that day because you never stopped reporting."
It is expected that Donald Trump will make some sort of reply to the allegations of his former Vice President when he wakes up later this afternoon.
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