(John Ransom, Headline USA) Former President Donald Trump and his second-in-command, former Vice President Mike Pence have arrived at the point-of-no return in their relationship after Pence publicly rebuked Trump for asking the vice president to challenge the certification of the presidential election on Jan. 6, 2020, said sources close to both men.
“I think it’s a hard break [in their relationship],” retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg, a national security adviser to both men, told Just the News.
“I mean, which is unfortunate, because we had one bad day,” he said. “I stayed in for four years, and Vice President Pence was very loyal to President Trump. But I think there’s a schism.”
Pence told the Federalist Society last week that Trump was wrong about the vice-president’s ability to hold up the electoral certification process after the 2020 election.
“Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution”
President Trump responded to VP @Mike_Pence’s remark about lacking the authority to reject disputed #Electors. https://t.co/SN2QIbWCJp
— The Epoch Times (@EpochTimes) January 7, 2021
“President Trump is wrong,” Pence said in a speech to the Federalist Society, a conservative legal organization, according to Reuters. “I had no right to overturn the election.”
“The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. And frankly there is no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president,” Pence added.
It’s not the first time that Trump and Pence has squared off publicly on the issue.
Trump has claimed that Pence could have rejected electors that the vice president thought were fraudulent, a claim that Pence refuted, saying in a letter to Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, that he lacked the “unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” even if he had doubts about the accuracy of the vote count according to a copy of the letter released on Twitter.
In response, Trump immediately blasted the then-vice president for lacking courage.
“Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution,” Trump said at the time about Pence via Twitter, according to the Epoch Times.
And it’s probably not the last time we’ll hear from the two on the subject.
