Don’t look now, but the “king of deflecting blame to anyone but himself while never being accountable for anything” is at it again. This time, it’s regarding the Capitol riot of January 6, 2021.
Politics :
During the 2020 presidential election, Donald Trump spent months grooming and conditioning his MAGA sycophants to not vote by mail because (in his crooked world) those ballots would somehow end up tainted. So, it stands to reason that when Trump lost the election, he conveniently played the victim by claiming it was impossible for him to lose — then told the world that the only way Joe Biden was declared the winner is because the mail-in ballots were tainted just as he pretended predicted.
Trump took his claims of a fraudulent election to every court in the nation. Sadly (for him), every court in the nation dismissed his claims and reminded him and his legal team that they either needed legitimate proof or were wasting the court’s time. So, with no other recourse, Trump did what any red-blooded American would do: He staged a coup by instigating the January 6th Capitol riot in order to force the legislative branch of government to appoint him president (even though he lost the election).
For more than a year following the Capitol riot, Donald Trump refused to acknowledge that it was a violent coup designed to dismantle democracy just so he could save face. His televised mouthpiece (Fox News) regurgitated Trump’s cries that he was cheated — although the network has since admitted via a lawsuit that it knew Trump lost but was only doing his bidding in order to curry favor with him.
Now (hold onto your hats), Trump is finally admitting that the January 6th coup was indeed a Capitol riot. However, instead of accepting even a bit of responsibility, Trump is now blaming his own vice president, Mike Pence, for the violent melee that left several police officers wounded and/or dead and forced members of Congress to flee the legislative chamber for their lives.
According to HuffPost, Trump said on Monday that there never would have been any Capitol violence if it weren’t for the bad actions of Mike Pence.
“Had he sent the votes back to the legislators, they [Trump’s mob] wouldn’t have had a problem with Jan. 6th,” Trump told reporters on this campaign plane. “So in many ways, you can blame him for Jan. 6th.”
Yes, Donald Trump actually said that if Mike Pence had only disregarded Democracy, ignored the will of America’s voters, completely overstepped his authority as President of the US Senate, and refused to certify the 2020 presidential election so that Trump could remain in the Oval Office, then his MAGA whackos wouldn’t have had any reason to become violent and desecrate the US Capitol building.
Sigh. Oh, Donald!
OK WASSUP! discusses Politics:
Trump blames Capitol riot on Mike Pence.
As we’ve said countless times right here on your website DJ there is NO bottom to the guy. And NO shame.
Absolutely None.