“Because I had a great successful presidency, and he was the vice president, he should endorse me,” said Trump, the front-runner for the 2024 GOP nod. “I chose him, made him vice president. But … people in politics can be very disloyal. I’ve never seen anything like it.”
Pence was Trump’s loyal soldier during their tenure in office but encountered Trump’s ire when he refused to bow to his boss’s pressure campaign to block the results of the 2020 election in his capacity as vice president overseeing Congress’ certification of Joe Biden’s victory.
During the insurrection at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump tweeted that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.” Videos from the Capitol during the riot show a man with a bullhorn, reading the tweet aloud to others in the mob. Inside, rioters swarmed the hallways, chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.”
Of course he would. The Republican Party doesn’t believe in cause and effect. It’s like my dysfunctional family where everyone says and does hurtful things but we’re so dissociated we choose to let the bullshit slide and the drama continue. The only way to win is to not play, but no one has the balls to do it.
You have to get out. I got out and it’s worth it. Get out.
It’s a work in process. The 2 most important things I learned was the importance of understanding my emotions and boundary setting.