Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0
Mike Pence emerges as one of the few Republicans willing to challenge Trump 2.0
His group spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., one of Donald Trump’s top Cabinet picks.
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His group spent nearly $1 million on ads opposing Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Donald Trump’s pick to lead the nation’s health agencies. He’s delivering speeches urging the president to stand with longstanding foreign allies and lobbying members of Congress while aides write letters and opinion columns.
This weekend, he posted an article he penned more than a decade ago on the limits of presidential power after Trump claimed that, “He who saves his Country does not violate any Law.”
Mike Pence is emerging as one of the last Republicans in Washington willing to publicly criticize the new administration.
It’s an especially jarring role for the former vice president, whose refusal to break with Trump defined their time together in office until the two had a falling out over Trump’s refusal to accept the results of the 2020 election and his efforts to remain in power.
had a falling out
Boy that's the most sanewashed way saying 'whipped up a mob that wanted to hang him' I think I've ever seen. Kudos, I guess?
It was a mild disagreement related to vertebra and the application of rope.
The crowd was literally chanting "hang Mike Pence". Kudos to him for not going along with Trumps plan of overthrowing the election.
Yet still I can't help but wonder whether he was secretly hoping for Trump to lose the 3rd election and the Republican party returning to its old ways somehow. Why? Because he's been suspiciously silent ever since when he had the cachet and moral standing to be one of his greatest detractors (from the Republican side).
Just want to say Fuck Mike Pence. He has no room to say shit and again fuck this guy.
Oh fuck off. No more redemption stories. No one should fall for this shit. Especially from a low charisma shit head like Mike pence.
Mike Pence should suck a dildo while wearing baby diapers an minding his "Mother"
I imagine she likes it rough
Well he did try to murder him
Pence made that bed - he needs to lie in it now.
There is almost a zero chance Trump will run in 2028. He is old and that would be his third term. JD Vance is really the successor.
If he's alive, he'll run. I know it's unconstitutional. But he'll still run with some bs excuse for why he's still eligible.
He'll say he rightfully won in 2020 so this will be payback for that. And by 2028 everyone who disagrees with him publicly will be disappeared so his argument will be accepted. Personally I think he dies before the end of this term.
There is almost a zero chance Trump will run in 2028. He is old and that would be his third term.
Prior to FDR, there was a convention -- but no legal restriction -- that Presidents would only serve two terms. This stemmed from some statement that Washington made -- he was getting really old, not far from dying and didn't really want to be President in the first place, but got repeatedly argued into it, as he was one figure that had widespread support across the country.
FDR broke that convention, served three-and-some terms and died in office.
After that, Republicans passed the Twenty-second Amendment prohibiting Presidents from serving more than two terms.
Today, you can only do two full terms. If you succeed an existing president -- like, you're Vice President and the President dies in office, you can do part of that, can't recall what portion is permissible. So Trump is out after this term.
pokes around
Yeah, can be any partial amount of their term, isn't like "over 50% of their term" counts as a term.
Honestly with all the stuff going on right now with laws and the constitution being violated on the federal level the real question is who would enforce that he can't run again? Sure some blue states might take him off the ballot but he probably wasn't going to win those ones anyways. He has both the supreme Court and Congress on his side right now and if he still has that in four years I could easily see him running again with no one to really stop him.
So it wouldn't even be unconstitutional if someone kept running for vice president and have the presidents resign immediately after being sworn in?
Isnt this Trump 3.0?