“I had no right to reverse the election results”: Former US Vice President Mike Pence revolted against Donald Trump over the events surrounding the attack on the Federal Capitol January 2021 “legitimate” expression of political disagreement.
During a speech in Florida, Mr. Pence denied the former president’s accusations against him; .
That icy morning, thousands of Donald Trump supporters gathered in Washington, D.C., and stormed a rally on Friday, removing hundreds of protesters by truck.
“The president was wrong”
“President Trump” said that he had the right to reverse the election result (…) but he was wrong, “he said yesterday, taking a clearer position than ever. “I did not have that right.”
“And honestly, there is no less American idea than that only one person can choose who will be president,” he added.
A loyalist while Mr Trump was in power, Mike Pence, who has not ruled out throwing himself into the race for the White House – which would mean clashing with the billionaire – had already challenged the president. of, but never as directly as yesterday.
Several Republican electors are right; they have been working with Democrats for weeks on a bill that would prevent any outcome of the election from being overturned.
During the riots, some Donald Trump supporters shouted “hang on Mike Pence” and some set up scaffolding outside the building.
More broadly, the former vice president’s statements brought to light the divisions within the ranks of the American right wing.
Just hours earlier, the GOP, which has remained loyal to the real estate tycoon for more than a year since leaving the White House, decided to politically punish its two members of the House of Representatives special inquiry into Donald Trump’s role in organizing the attack on Congress.
In the rebellion, which is mainly symbolic in nature, the party hierarchy accuses Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger of “catastrophic” behavior both “for the Republican Party” and “for our democracy.”
Appointment in Wyoming
Central party officials denounced the accusation yesterday. “It is a shame for a party to rebuke conscientious people who seek the truth in the face of vitriol,” said Sen. Mitt Romney.
The Republican convention in Utah said the Jan. 6, 2021 demonstration was nothing more than a “legitimate political expression” by “ordinary citizens” as some Democrats called the Capitol invasion “terrorist attack.
For Mike Pence, it was a “black day”.
The main protester, MP Liz Cheney, spoke out against “Republican Party leaders who are being voluntarily turned hostage by the man who admitted he wanted to overturn the outcome of the presidential election.”
Donald Trump has countless times accused the Wyoming MP, who has become one of his biggest enemies in Congress, of showing “infidelity” and has made it clear that she supports her opponent in the Republican process to prevent her from running for office. .
The in-party process in Wyoming, scheduled for August, will be one of the highlights of the by-elections.
According to a poll by the Ipsos Institute on behalf of the Reuters news agency, 55% of Republicans believe Donald Trump’s claim that his victory in 2020 was “stolen”.
The angry tycoon has made it clear that he will run again for the presidency in 2024. Last Saturday in Texas, he said that if he won he would pardon all those facing criminal prosecution for invading the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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