Despite the former president saying that his former vice president, Mike Pence, “deserved to be hanged” for refusing to overturn the 2020 election, Pence defended Donald Trump in light of a criminal referral from the House Select Committee. continued to come.
“I hope they don’t bring charges against the former president,” Pence said in a recent Fox News interview. “I think the president’s actions and words on January 6th were reckless, but I don’t know that taking bad advice from lawyers is criminal.”
Leading a “Morning Joe” panel on the matter Thursday morning on MSNBC, host Joe Scarborough insisted he thinks Pence is making a mistake.
“For so long of Donald Trump’s administration, he just embarrassed himself, he humiliated himself,” Scarborough said. “And on January 6th, I was very proud of that, to stand up for American democracy. I was like, well, all’s well that ends well. And now we have her back in her old role of actually humiliating herself and lying to Donald Trump.
Pulling out an interview with former White House counsel Eric Hershman, who claims he was against Trump’s efforts to overturn the election and that he only wanted an “orderly transition”, Scarborough explained that according to previous reports , one person did not agree with what the former president was doing.
“And yet here we have Mike Pence trying to blame lawyers,” he lamented. “We heard lawyers against this sinister plan, all desperate to call Donald Trump to the rebels and mobsters when Mike Pence’s life was in danger. And when he refused to do so, everyone was disappointed. All of them. everyone.”
“It just comes down to the fact that he doesn’t understand — it’s like a political version of ‘The Sixth Sense.’ He doesn’t know politically that he’s dead,” Scarborough said of Pence. Said.” He’s not going to win anything, he’ll never be elected to office again. Donald Trump will make sure of that. There are enough Trumpists in the base, they will never forgive him for this.
Scarborough then advised the former VP to take a note out of Liz Cheney’s book.
“If you are not going to get elected for doing the right thing, do what Liz Cheney did… Liz made a decision. She knew she could do the right thing, or she could get re-elected. So Liz is living to fight another day politically. We don’t know when it’s going to happen, but it’s a decision Mike Pence needs to make now,” he said. “We don’t know what the political landscape will look like in two years, in five years, in 10 years. It’s gonna happen. Mike Pence may still have a future there, but he’s trying to get elected into Donald Trump’s Republican Party. It’s never going to happen.
The host added that Pence “just doesn’t understand why he’s not going to be president at Donald Trump’s party, so again, as he did before and as he did on Jan. 6″. Don’t?”
“Mike Pence got it right on January 6th. He needs to build on his legacy.
Watch the full “Morning Joe” panel discussion in the video above.
