Showing why he can never be president again, 75-year-old former President Donald Trump went over the deep end with his feud against 62-year-old former Vice President Mike Pence. Trump asked the House Select Committee, currently investigating Trump role in the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots, to investigate why Pence did not stop the Electoral College certification to nullify the 2020 presidential vote. Biden won 306 electoral votes to Trump’s 232. But whatever the margins or however fraudulent the election claimed by Trump, Pence had no authority other that performing as Vice President a purely ceremonial role to certify the vote. Trump has been fixated on election fraud since he lost the Nov. 3, 2020 election, speaking openly about a rigged election. Trump’s only problem is that he can’t prove his accusations of a rigged election, making him look like a sore loser.
Whatever recounts were done by election officials or judicial reviews in the courts, they could not corroborate Trump claims of widespread election fraud. But at every speech since the Jan. 6, 2021 speech at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., Trump claims he was cheated out of the election. Now he wants Congressional action against his former vice president to performing his protocol-only job. Whether Trump still has a loyal following or not, it’s clear that he can never be president again, or, for that matter, never represent the GOP. GOP officials have played along for too long, not wanting to create a permanent rift with Trump before the Tuesday, Nov. 8, 2022 Midterm election. House Democrats blame Trump’s post-election narrative, the so-called “stop the steal,” as the reason behind the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. FBI proved that the Jan. 6 riots were planned for months, not a spontaneous reaction to Trump’s speech.
Trump’s insistence on a fraudulent election and now that Pence be investigated for not stopping the Electoral College certification shows he’s unfit for office. “The Unselect Committee should be investigation why Nancy Pelosi did such a poor job of overseeing security and why Mike Pence did not send back the votes for re-certification or approval, in that it has not been shown he clearly had the right to so?” Trump wrote. Don’t count on Republicans to do anything with Trump until after the Midterm elections. Once the Midterms are done, the GOP will toss Trump under the buss and move on to a new nominating process in 2023 and 2024. Trump’s fixation on Nov. 3, 2020 election fraud shows that he’s barking up the wrong tree but, more importantly, has, for whatever reason, lost it since the election. Entertaining a crowd is not Trump’s problem: It’s his tenuous contact with reality.
All the talk of Trump serving as the next GOP nominee in 2024 largely comes from Democrat circles, hoping that he can ruin the GOP one more time. But once the Midterms are in the rear view mirror, Trump will no longer be taken seriously by the lion’s share of Republicans. Democrats and the liberal media like to keep Trump in the news, largely because he’s become the Democrat boogeyman. Republicans are biding time until after the Nov. 3, 2022 Midterm election to finally deal with Trump. Trump doesn’t seem to know that Pence was in no position to rewrite the 1887 Electoral Count Act, requiring the Vice President, as a formality, to certify the vote. Pence, who has no relationship with Trump anymore, did the right thing Jan. 6, 2021 rubber-stamping the Electoral College vote. Whether there was fraud or whether universal mail-in ballots did Trump in is anyone’s guess.
Trump’s statement that Pelosi didn’t nothing to beef up security around the Capitol on Jan. 6 is of course correct. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) has made her final mission in the House to convict Trump of orchestrating the Jan. 6 Capitol riots. She lost her impeachment trial Feb. 13, 2020 blaming Trump for what she called “incitement of insurrection.” Pelosi’s nine impeachment managers lost their case because there was no evidence that Trump told any of his audience to vandalize the Capitol. House managers knew from the FBI that the Jan. 6 Capitol riots were planned for months, having nothing to do with Trump’s Jan. 6, 2021 speech on the Ellipse. FBI records show that Pelosi and the Capitol Police had plenty of advance notice that a major incident would take place on Jan. 6. Yet Capitol and D.C. police did nothing to protect the Electoral College final certification.
Unlike the Jan. 20, 2021 inauguration that went off without any incident, the Jan. 6, 2012 Capitol was left vulnerable to rabble-rousers. Biden proved that his inauguration went off without a hitch because of added security, the same thing could have been done on Jan. 6, 2021. House Select Committee managers seem hell-bent on putting Trump through a second impeachment trial, putting him in double-jeopardy. Pelosi’s Select Committee mangers don’t want to find out the real motives behind the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riots. They’re only looking to blame Trump for a second time. But if they were really honest of what happened, right wing rabble-rousers reacted to the months of left-wing rioting, looting, arson and anarchy over the summer of 2020. When right wing groups went ballistic Jan. 6, 2021 they wanted to make a statement that they could riot too, letting elected officials know what they thought of Summer 2020.
