Mike Pence, a former vice president, expressed his happiness with the recent indictment of his former boss by the Biden DOJ. The charges stem from complaints made about the 2020 presidential election. However, Pence saw tremendous pushback from his former Twitter followers, who voiced overwhelmingly contempt. Pence, who is now polling in single digits for the 2024 GOP presidential nomination, received significant opposition.
“Today’s indictment serves as an important reminder: anyone who puts himself over the Constitution should never be President of the United States,” Pence tweeted on Thursday.
“Our country is more important than one man. Our constitution is more important than any one man’s career,” Trump’s former running mate continued. “On January 6th, Former President Trump demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will.”
Pence’s Twitter thread was immediately “ratio’d” by users, which means it got more critical comments than retweets or likes. One of the most popular answers to the first tweet was made by conservative influencer Paul Hookem, who asked “Why is this traitor even chiming in on US issues?”
Someone on Twitter yelled, “Judas Pence, pass it one.” This attitude was repeated in other responses with adjectives like “cringe,” “traitor,” and “coward.”
Pence’s remarks were far different from those of rising GOP candidate Vivek Ramaswamy, who in an impassioned video message categorically denounced the “banana republic” strategies used by the DOJ. “It would be easier for me if Donald Trump were eliminated from competition. That’s not how I wanna win. This is not about politics. To me, this is about first principles,” Ramaswamy said. “We do not want to become a country where the party in power is able to use Banana Republic like tactics to eliminate its political opponents.”
Ramaswamy continued by restating his conviction that “pervasive, systematic censorship” was the root cause of the brief riots on January 6. Ramaswamy has consistently cited the mainstream media and elected Democrats’ enthusiastic support for the months-long, violent BLM riots as contributing causes to the environment that gave rise to the demonstrations throughout his campaign.
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“That was after a year, where we had told people across this nation, that you had to stay locked down in your house, in your basement. And shut up, sit down, do what you’re told. If you question that, you’re racist, you’re anti science,” Ramaswamy continued. “You had to stay home and locked down, unless you were part of BLM or Antifa, in which case it was perfectly fine to roam the streets of this country and burn many of them down.”
