Mike Pence Roasted for Basically Agreeing to Disagree With Trump About Jan 6
Mike Pence was thoroughly roasted on social media Thursday night after he essentially said in a speech that he agrees to disagree with Donald Trump about the deadly Jan. 6 Capitol riot. You know, when a mob incited by the ex-President stormed the Capitol and among other things repeatedly called for Pence to be executed.
In an address in New Hampshire, Pence said he still stands by Trump, and essentially dismissed the issue of a seditious, deadly riot nonchalantly, saying:
*“*President Trump and I have spoken many times since we left office, and I don’t know if we’ll ever see eye to eye on that day. But I will always be proud of what we accomplished for the American people over the last four years.”
This despite the fact that Trump’s supporters erected a gallows outside the Capitol and were captured on video chanting “hang Mike Pence,”
Pence also said, “I will not allow Democrats or their allies in the media to use one tragic day to discredit the aspirations of millions of Americans, or allow Democrats or their allies in the media to distract our attention from a new administration intent on dividing our country to advance their radical agenda.”
Remember, Trump refused to call the rioters off for several hours, after first riling them up by loudly complaining about the fact that Pence wouldn’t illegally overturn the 2020 election. And more relevantly, these same rioters specifically wanted to do harm to Pence.
Trump has said the Jan. 6 riots posed “zero threat” and said some of the rioters were “hugging and kissing” the guards. But as Capitol Police Sgt. Aquilino Gonell told Don Lemon on CNN Thursday night, he was beaten with a flagpole by rioters and suffered injuries to his hands and feet while holding back waves of people trying to enter the Capitol. Many other officers were injured, including officer Mike Fanone, who was tasered in the neck after attackers tried to “kill him with his own gun.”
Two Capitol Police officers have even sued Trump for the riot, and said in a filing that Trump ““inflamed, encouraged, incited, directed, and aided and abetted” the rioters.
Gonell also said he almost died three separate times that day and noted that five people including Capitol Police officer Brian Sisnick died following the events on Jan. 6.
Of course, Pence’s comments led to a severely negative reaction on social media from Democrats and other people opposed to what happened in January. But rather than angry, most of the reaction focused on how “pathetic” or “cowardly” or other similar adjectives Pence appeared to be.
Pod Save the World co-host Ben Rhodes said Thursday, “Mike Pence is one of the most pathetic figures in the history of American politics.”
Mike Pence is one of the most pathetic figures in the history of American politics. https://t.co/hEx7lccb4w
— Ben Rhodes (@brhodes) June 4, 2021
Former West Virginia Democratic senator Richard Ojeda called Pence a “cowardly worm” and added, “for four years you served as Trump’s lap dog. All you did was keep Trump’s boots shined… don’t ever try to talk tough.”
Hey Mike Pence…STFU! You cowardly worm. For four years you served as Trumps lap dog. All you did was keep tRump’s boots shined. Don’t ever try to talk tough. After the last four years…it just doesn’t sound right coming from you. https://t.co/8L6pFACRie
— Richard N. Ojeda, II (@Ojeda4America) June 4, 2021
Check out more reactions to Pence’s comments below.
Trump has continued to trash Pence to various people, and to RNC donors, for not exceeding his legal authority that day, growing louder after Pence’s book deal was announced. https://t.co/9vVAqe9BDZ
— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 4, 2021
If Donald Trump had his way in January, Mike Pence wouldn't be alive right now.
That's how little self-respect Mike Pence has.
— John Pavlovitz (@johnpavlovitz) June 4, 2021
Is Mike Pence serious? A raging mob incited by Trump was poised to murder him on January 6, but now Pence just shrugs off “not seeing eye to eye” with Trump on what happened and is proud of serving with him?? The level of delusion here is pretty incredible pic.twitter.com/SyY225PNKs
— Mark Follman (@markfollman) June 4, 2021
I'm still concerned about the fact that they apparently saw eye to eye about everything that happened before Jan. 6 https://t.co/eXZJ60AYdu
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 4, 2021
The former VP doesn’t see eye-to-eye with the former President he served about an act of domestic terrorism … is a sentence made possible by the Republican Party… https://t.co/Iz9tUoLFE0
— Kurt Bardella (@kurtbardella) June 4, 2021
“I apologized to the president for almost being killed. He hasn’t yet accepted my apology.” https://t.co/E9OGjfFxjj
— Glenn Fleishman (@GlennF) June 4, 2021
Mike Pence hates Planned Parenthood so much that his effort to destroy it singlehandedly led to the biggest HIV outbreak in the history of Indiana, and even he’s like: “Trump… boy, I don’t know.”
— Charlotte Clymer (@cmclymer) June 4, 2021
hey, @Mike_Pence. if you already forgotten Jan 6th, let me refresh your memory. You own base made this just for you that day pic.twitter.com/yVm4f65NIB
— Andy a.k.a. Jin (进) (@w0ng_again) June 3, 2021
If my coworker had people trying to hang me because he was talking shit about me, and then did nothing about it, I wouldn't be calling it the "greatest honor of my life" to serve with him.
Mike Pence is a spineless buzzard.
— BrooklynDad_Defiant! (@mmpadellan) June 4, 2021
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