Former President Donald Trump fired back at his former Vice-President Mike Pence and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) after the VP said Trump was wrong to suggest that he could overturn the election in Congress on Jan. 6.
“Just saw Mike Pence’s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible,” Trump wrote.
He went on to falsely claim that Pence had the power to overturn the election on Jan. 6 or else senators would not be open to considering reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 so it can no longer be abused in the way Trump did to try and ignore the will of the people.
“Well, the Vice President’s position is not an automatic conveyor if obvious signs of voter fraud or irregularities exist. That’s why the Democrats and RINOs are working feverishly together to change the very law that Mike Pence and his unwitting advisors used on January 6 to say he had no choice,” Trump continued.
“The reason they want it changed is because they now say they don’t want the Vice President to have the right to ensure an honest vote. In other words, I was right and everyone knows it,” Trump said. “If there is fraud or large scale irregularities, it would have been appropriate to send those votes back to the legislature to figure it out. The Dems and RINOs want to take that right away.”
Trump’s attack on Pence comes after the former VP told a gathering of the Federalist Society in Orlando Florida on Friday that he has “no right to overturn the election,” and Trump is “wrong” for suggesting otherwise.
“Our Founders were deeply suspicious of consolidated power in the nation’s capital and were rightly concerned with foreign interference if presidential elections were decided in the capital. But there are those in our party who believe that as the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject electoral college votes. And I heard this week, President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election,” Pence said at the gathering.
“President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election,” he continued. “The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. Frankly, there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
