Book says Trump threatened Pence over Jan. 6: 'I don't want to be your friend anymore'
Donald Trump threatened to end his friendship with Mike Pence on Jan. 5 unless the then-vice president refused to certify Joe Biden's 2020 presidential election victory. The incident was revealed in "Peril," a new book by journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa. Details of the book were obtained by CNN.
The book "describes the tense encounter in the Oval Office on January 5 when Trump pressured Pence to overturn the results of the election," CNN reported. "While the showdown went on inside, the two men could hear MAGA supporters cheering and chanting outside near Pennsylvania Avenue."
"If these people say you had the power, wouldn't you want to?" Trump asked Pence.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | September 15, 2021 11:08 PM
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"But wouldn't it be almost cool to have that power?" Trump pressed.
"No," Pence insisted. "I've done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It's simply not possible."
by Anonymous | reply 1 | September 14, 2021 10:41 PM
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I'm just thankful every day that he was an incompetent fascist
by Anonymous | reply 3 | September 14, 2021 10:58 PM
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This brings back memories of when I was young and saw this movie at the Allston Cinema.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 4 | September 14, 2021 11:17 PM
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What friendship?
Drumpf does not have one friend. The mirror is his friend.
by Anonymous | reply 5 | September 15, 2021 1:01 AM
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That sounds like a conversation between Beaver Cleaver and Larry Mondello.
by Anonymous | reply 6 | September 15, 2021 1:13 AM
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CNN does not mention the Milley conversation with his Chinese counterpart also detailed in PERIL? They have become so irrelevant to current events that NEWS should no longer be CNN’s mission.
by Anonymous | reply 7 | September 15, 2021 1:16 AM
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R7, CNN did mention that in one of their articles about the book. They had several today.
by Anonymous | reply 8 | September 15, 2021 1:19 AM
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Okay but they have become a network of opinions, not news. Just like MSNBC.
I think I’ll stick with C-SPAN.
by Anonymous | reply 9 | September 15, 2021 1:33 AM
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My god, he talks like a child.
by Anonymous | reply 10 | September 15, 2021 1:45 AM
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"If you don't do what I want, I won't be your friend anymore! WAHHHHHH! I WANT MY WAY! DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, AMERICA!"
by Anonymous | reply 11 | September 15, 2021 1:46 AM
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What’s more - he wouldn’t sit with him at lunch!!!!!!
by Anonymous | reply 12 | September 15, 2021 2:16 AM
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Thus do our leaders comport themselves!
by Anonymous | reply 13 | September 15, 2021 2:20 AM
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OP, that pic in your post is one of just pure evil. I absolutely cannot stand the sight of this creep. Don't know how anyone can look at him and see their "savior" or whatever ridiculous name they call him. Unbelievable!
by Anonymous | reply 14 | September 15, 2021 2:23 AM
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That’s not a threat, that’s a promise. Pence dodged a fat, greasy bullet.
by Anonymous | reply 15 | September 15, 2021 2:28 AM
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I read it as a more sinister message, even a threat: I’m not going to be your friend, I’m going to be your enemy.
by Anonymous | reply 16 | September 15, 2021 2:28 AM
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Does he use words like booboo and poopoo?
by Anonymous | reply 17 | September 15, 2021 3:40 AM
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Only when he has Hopey Hicks or her stand-in, wiping his fecal expulsions from his rotund, prolapse, R17.
Otherwise, this MACHO MACHO MAN is the second coming of Tony Soprano!
by Anonymous | reply 18 | September 15, 2021 4:03 AM
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Trump and Pence were never friends...no matter how much Pence gazed longingly at the orange Mussolini.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 19 | September 15, 2021 6:47 AM
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Try again...
Mother does not approve...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 21 | September 15, 2021 6:50 AM
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Goddamn photo of Pence! It's a good one, and it looks fine until I hit POST and then damn url changes and this weird publication opens.
by Anonymous | reply 22 | September 15, 2021 6:52 AM
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Different photo of Pence, not looking at Trump so adoringly, but not bad. Although, Mother still doesn't approve...
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 23 | September 15, 2021 6:54 AM
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Trump should endorse Pence for president in 2024.
by Anonymous | reply 25 | September 15, 2021 7:20 AM
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^^Not if he wants to run again.
Heaven fucking help us.
by Anonymous | reply 26 | September 15, 2021 7:27 AM
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So....he unfriended Pence on Facebook.. He really is a 13 year old girl.
by Anonymous | reply 27 | September 15, 2021 7:31 AM
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If you ever need $3 million for your relatives before you pass.... Demand that they pay in Bitcoin.
[quote]Iranian MP puts $3m bounty on President Donald Trump’s head
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 28 | September 15, 2021 7:36 AM
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Is Donny still following Mikey on Tik Tok?
by Anonymous | reply 29 | September 15, 2021 7:43 AM
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"If these people say you had the power, wouldn't you want to?"
We've already seen and heard with our own eyes and ears that Trump blatantly wanted to be an authoritarian ruler. Of course, publicly, it's usually couched in 'humor' as if he's ever had the sense of what comedy is.
He's like that grinning weirdo at a party who says some shit that's totally asshole-ish with no punchline and then always says, "Oh, it's a joke! ... Anyways..."
Trump: "Get it? The punchline is: 'I want to be a dictator!' Now, that's comedy! What a knee-slapper!" ... "But it would be kinda nice, wouldn't it?"
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 30 | September 15, 2021 2:36 PM
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The Orange Menace must be kept very far away from ever getting back into The White House, by ANY means necessary! That even means a bullet right between his beady evil eyes.
I've always despised this fool, I still cannot believe this imbecile was ever president. I keep thinking it was just a bad dream. It's extremely scary that this mental midget was anywhere near the nuclear codes.
by Anonymous | reply 31 | September 15, 2021 4:34 PM
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Pence wasn't willing to put his ass on the line to reinstall Trump but I think he supported the election being stolen in another way. He seemed like he had authoritarian tendencies. Remember when he tried to use the bible to justify family separations? I love watching him drive away on 1/20. Good riddance.
by Anonymous | reply 32 | September 15, 2021 4:44 PM
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I'm assuming Pence won't be chosen as Trump's running mate in 2024... I do pray that Trump runs, shutting every other potential Republican out...and then he loses miserably
by Anonymous | reply 33 | September 15, 2021 5:05 PM
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R33
I don't think there's a snowball's chance in hell of Trump choosing Pence as running mate again. He despises Pence and his drive for revenge is pretty overriding. He only needed Pence to win over the bible-thumpers once and he achieved that...
by Anonymous | reply 34 | September 15, 2021 6:16 PM
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Hopefully, Dump will be dead by then. Or someone will wave some shiny new object in front of his disgusting face and his revenge run will be nothing but a passing fantasy. It would be great if he can be lured to another country and stays there.
Right now, this imbecile is spending all that money his moronic fanbase keeps sending into his campaign coffers.
by Anonymous | reply 35 | September 15, 2021 6:29 PM
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[quote]The mirror is his friend.
That loofah-faced orange shitgibbon ain't no friend o' mine!
by Anonymous | reply 36 | September 15, 2021 6:49 PM
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^^^ I meant to sign my post "David Mirror."
by Anonymous | reply 37 | September 15, 2021 6:50 PM
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[quote]Pence wasn't willing to put his ass on the line to reinstall Trump but I think he supported the election being stolen in another way.
Presidents of the United States are not "reinstalled." They are elected, re-elected or defeated. We don't install presidents. This isn't a banana republic...yet.
Pence may have wanted to stay in office, but the rules are so limited after being defeated that there are no options to remain in office.
by Anonymous | reply 38 | September 15, 2021 7:41 PM
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Then sent him a note asking "Do you like me? Check one box, yes or no"
by Anonymous | reply 39 | September 15, 2021 7:43 PM
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I won’t let you come over and have dinner at my house or play Nintendo ever again
by Anonymous | reply 40 | September 15, 2021 7:44 PM
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[quote]"If you don't do what I want, I won't be your friend anymore! WAHHHHHH! I WANT MY WAY! DON'T TELL ME WHAT TO DO, AMERICA!"
"yOu CaN't SiT wItH mE aNyMoRe!!!!!"
by Anonymous | reply 41 | September 15, 2021 7:46 PM
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[quote]"yOu CaN't SiT wItH mE aNyMoRe!!!!!"
Who'd want to sit anywhere near that smelly orange freak, he leaves leaky shit stains wherever he parks his disgusting fat diapered ass!
by Anonymous | reply 42 | September 15, 2021 8:43 PM
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Then he sent Miss Lindsey into a tizzy.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 43 | September 15, 2021 8:47 PM
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They never were friends. They come from completely different backgrounds. I doubt if they ever even talked much. Pence just went on automatic spin and licked Trump's ass publicly, then he and Karen despised him privately. All in hopes of one day being POTUS himself.
Now his political future is over. 'Lie down with dogs...'.
by Anonymous | reply 44 | September 15, 2021 9:36 PM
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Pence is very religious. Trump is less so.
by Anonymous | reply 45 | September 15, 2021 9:39 PM
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[quote]I went to the college he did—it’s a normal, small beautiful liberal arts school that sits above the Ohio River. Pence was Catholic as a freshman. By the time he was a sophomore, he’d ratted out his frat for having a keg in the house.
[quote]He was evidently “saved” at a youth Christian rock fest in Kentucky the summer before…Apparently, the ethical/moral part of being “saved” hasn’t kicked in yet.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 46 | September 15, 2021 9:44 PM
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Who will direct the film, or cable series, of Dump's presidency?
What a shitstorm. Real life is much stranger than fiction and what a cast of characters!
You couldn't make up half the freaks and in-your-face corruption in the Dump Administration!
by Anonymous | reply 47 | September 15, 2021 9:51 PM
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R47
The reality of it was so surreal that I can only imagine that the cinematic version would seem more realistic than what actually happened.
They would need CGI animation just to accurately depict the reality of Trump's real appearance. And they would have to hire some extremely hack writers to intentionally write unbelievable dialogue and plotting. The 'Dotard versus Little Rocketman' story arc alone that concluded in "We fell in love!" unfolded like a drunk editor nonsensically stitched together scenes from two different badly written scripts. And it really happened.
The whole thing was like an assault on the senses. In order to be true to reality, it would need to be a work of surrealist art...
by Anonymous | reply 48 | September 15, 2021 10:08 PM
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Ooze hasn't been red-tagged?
by Anonymous | reply 49 | September 15, 2021 10:11 PM
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Isn't he a troublemaker like Defacto/Dejure, SmugAngel (or whatever that lunatic's name is), Your MillennialCunt, Matthew Anscher, RhodaBorrocks, and other DL trolls?
by Anonymous | reply 51 | September 15, 2021 10:18 PM
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Trump's statement sounds like he never matured past the age of 12. I won't be your friend???
by Anonymous | reply 52 | September 15, 2021 10:20 PM
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[quote]The whole thing was like an assault on the senses. In order to be true to reality, it would need to be a work of surrealist art...
If Salvador Dali was still alive, he'd be perfect to direct it. Wonder how he'd depict Melanoma and the chinless wonder, Ivankankle.
by Anonymous | reply 53 | September 15, 2021 10:21 PM
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R51, not when looking at his posts on this thread.
by Anonymous | reply 54 | September 15, 2021 10:24 PM
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Do Dump's drooling fanbase know about this?
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 56 | September 15, 2021 10:29 PM
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R56 that's debunked. It's funny but fake.
by Anonymous | reply 57 | September 15, 2021 10:34 PM
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This sure isn't fake, this is his disgusting orange peel textured skin.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 58 | September 15, 2021 10:42 PM
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After a certain point, Karen didn't seem to want any contact with Trump.
Offsite Linkby Anonymous | reply 61 | September 15, 2021 11:08 PM
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