Apparently Trump Wants Pence Investigated For…January 6th?

Because of course he does.

Lauren Elizabeth
3 min readFeb 7, 2022
Photo via Manuel Balce Ceneta, AP

As many issues as I might have with the Democratic party, obviously there’s no denying the sense of pleasure I get from watching the Republican party devolve. Even after losing the election and subsequently his social media presence, Donald Trump has still made it his mission for the American people to know he will go to his death bed genuinely believing the 2020 election was stolen from him, and that there’s no way he could have possibly lost. Even now, he still continues to wage war on anyone or any entity that might be countering that narrative, and none other than his Vice President Mike Pence is caught in the crossfire.

Bess Levin with Vanity Fair writes:

“…In a characteristically febrile, grammatically offensive statement disseminated on Twitter, Trump once again claimed that Mike Pence “had this right” to change the outcome of the election, and that “the Unselect Committee should be investigating…why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for recertification or approval.” (As an aside, he boldly asserted that if Nancy Pelosi had “taken my recommendation and substantially increased security” at the Capitol, “there would have been no ‘January 6’ as we know it,…”

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Lauren Elizabeth

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