Donald Trump berated Mike Pence, calling his then-vice president a “wimp” during their final phone call on Jan. 6, 2021, hours before Congress certified the 2020 election of Joe Biden, according to Pence’s previously unpublished notes included in a new book by ABC News Chief Washington Correspondent Jonathan Karl.
According to court filings, had his case against Trump gone to trial, special counsel Jack Smith planned to use the handwritten notes – hastily scribbled on Pence’s day planner – as evidence to document the hours before Trump allegedly directed a violent mob to storm the Capitol.
“You’ll go down as a wimp,” Trump told Pence about his decision not to block Biden’s certification, according to Pence’s notes about the call on the morning of Jan. 6, just before the president took the stage at the “Save America” rally on the Ellipse. “If you do that, I made a big mistake 5 years ago,” Pence wrote Trump told him.
Putting Merrick Garland in charge was a huge mistake. AFAIK, the only reason he was picked as a Scrotus nominee was because he was so moderate and milktoast the it would make the republicans look absurd if they blocked him. Biden did it for similar reasons, but assumed the Dems would be in power for a lot longer I think.
If only the Dems could understand that fascists don’t worry about looking absurd, because absurdity is a common weapon in their takeovers.