I don’t know what Trumpers think the man that was glad the covid 19 came so he would not have to touch those people. Trump was a billionaire that was not respected he was a billionaire that got his legitimacy from a reality show. So whose fault was it when he won, people did not like Hillary it should have been Biden from the beginning but his son died and he had to grieve Boe’s loss was real to Biden and it stopped everything. Bo wanted to be president.
Although Dan Quayle wasn’t taken seriously when he served as George H.W. Bush’s vice president, he may have saved American democracy from Donald Trump’s election fraud.
According to Peril, an upcoming book by Washington Post journalists Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, Trump spent his final days in office pressuring Vice President Mike Pence to disrupt the official election certification process.
Trump reportedly told Pence, “I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this.”
Pence was apparently so torn between his loyalty to the president and his sworn oath to defend the Constitution that he sought advice from Quayle.
Although Trump was supposedly convinced his VP could simply throw out the election results, Quayle reportedly told Pence bluntly: “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away.”
Pence reportedly said that’s what he repeatedly told Trump, adding, “but he really thinks he can. And there are other guys in there saying I’ve got this power.”
According to the book, Pence then repeated some of his boss’s false election fraud claims in places like Arizona.
Quayle shut him down.
“Mike, I live in Arizona,” Quayle said. “There’s nothing out here.”
When Quayle served as vice president in the late 1980s and early ’90s, he was lambasted as a gaffe-ridden lightweight .
So the news that he may have prevented a constitutional crisis has shocked many, including MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell.
“Wow,” Mitchell said in the segment below. “Dan Quayle comes to the rescue of the republic.”
The fate of a healthy Democracy does not come down to a phone call with Dan Quayle. But, well, here we are.
According to an upcoming book by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, in the final days of Trump’s presidency, then-Vice President Mike Pence was struggling to decide whether to honor the votes of the American people or to refuse to certify Joe Biden’s victory over Donald Trump and set off an unprecedented constitutional crisis.
The authors write that Pence sought advice from Dan Quayle, the only living Republican vice president who had been in the position of certifying an election where his ticket was the losing one. And it was Quayle — the same man who has been something of a national punchline for a decade — who talked Pence off the ledge and into doing the right thing.
Trump at the time was frantically trying to find a way to cling to power. He was spreading lies that rampant election fraud took place, pushing election officials in Georgia to undermine their state’s results and pushing the Justice Department to “just say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the [Republican] congressmen.” And he was privately and publicly pressuring Pence.
During their conversation, Quayle said Pence had no wiggle room and told him to certify the election results. “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it away,” Quayle told him.
“I know, that’s what I’ve been trying to tell Trump,” Pence responded. “But he really thinks he can. And there are other guys in there saying I’ve got this power.”
Pence then brought up Trump’s allegations of voter fraud and the lawsuits filed by Trump supporters in Arizona attempting to decertify Biden as the winner in the state. “Well, there’s some stuff out in Arizona,” Pence said to Quayle, who immediately shot him down.
“Mike, I live in Arizona,” Quayle said. “There’s nothing out here.”
The book also reveals that Trump ally and former White House senior strategist Steve Bannon was fueling the president’s delusions. According to the authors, Bannon told Trump on December 30th that he and Pence needed to return to D.C. immediately to prepare to “bury Biden” during “the moment for reckoning” on January 6th.
“You’ve got to return to Washington and make a dramatic return today. You’ve got to call Pence off the fucking ski slopes and get him back here today. This is a crisis,” Bannon told the president. “People are going to go, ‘What the fuck is going on here?’” Bannon added. “We’re going to bury Biden on January 6th, fucking bury him.”
After Pence’s call to Quayle, he spoke with Trump in the Oval Office on January 5th — the day before the election certification and Capitol attack — and refused Trump’s orders to stop the certification process. Already, the president’s supporters were gathered in front of the White House. Referring to the protesters, Trump asked Pence: “If these people say you had the power, wouldn’t you want to?”
“I wouldn’t want anyone person to have that authority,” Pence said.
To this, Trump replied, “But wouldn’t it be almost cool to have that power?”
“No,” Pence said, according to the book. “I’ve done everything I could and then some to find a way around this. It’s simply not possible.”
It was then, the authors say, Trump began to shout. “No, no, no! You don’t understand, Mike. You can do this. I don’t want to be your friend anymore if you don’t do this,” said Trump, who, by chronology, is an adult.
