From Woodward’s new book “Peril” (#1)

[David Morris]

This just came out today.  It is a really big deal:

Excerpts from the new Woodward book:
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> https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/the-5-biggest-bombshells-in-the-woodward-costa-book
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> #1:
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> Q:  Did you know specifically why the 1/6 insurrectionists built a gallows
> and chanted “Hang Mike Pence?” (I didn’t)
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> A:  Mike (Piss his pants) Pence chose to disobey Trump by accepting the
> 2020 electoral college votes from the Senate parlementarian.  Trump and his
> mob saw this as a great betrayal:
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> Pence called former Vice President Dan Quayle for advice.
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> “Mike, you have no flexibility on this. None. Zero. Forget it. Put it
> away,” Quayle reportedly told Pence.
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> Pence then pushed Quayle, purportedly telling him: “You don’t know the
> position I’m in.”
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> “I do know the position you’re in,” Quayle reportedly replied. “I also
> know what the law is. You listen to the parliamentarian. That’s all you do.
> You have no power.”
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> Pence’s decision not to participate in what would have been a coup attempt
> earned him a torrent of hatred from Trump and his supporters, who mobbed
> the Capitol on Jan. 6 while screaming “Hang Mike Pence.”
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> The book says that Trump himself told Pence “I don’t want to be your
> friend anymore if you don’t do this,” and later said: “You’ve betrayed us.
> I made you. You were nothing.”
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