Mike Pence’s paranoia gives something away
Rep. Jamie Raskin (extraordinary, Democrat, January 6 committee) said something that I’ve long thought about and which you have likely thought about as well. Raskin commented that one of the more chilling and eerie occurrences on January 6 was former Vice President Mike Pence and his refusal to get into the waiting car that was ready to whisk him out of there.
Raskin said it was “chilling.” I agree. Did that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up? It did for me and many others. “I trust you, Tim, but you’re not driving the car,” Pence reportedly said. “If I get in that vehicle, you guys are taking off. I’m not getting in the car.”
“The six most chilling words of this entire thing I’ve seen so far:’ I’m not getting in that car’,” Raskin said. That car. This words. I am hoping we hear more about those words during the January 6 live hearings. I cannot even imagine what Mike Pence must have been feeling at that moment. And we are all very relieved that he is OK.
“He [Pence] knew exactly what this inside coup they had planned for would do,” Raskin exclaimed. Raskin suspected the Secret Service agents reported to Trump. Look — it is possible everything would have been fine. I do think — whatever one thinks about Pence — that he showed strength in not getting into that vehicle.
But it’s chilling. It’s eerie in the way a vivid and creeping nightmare is eerie. It’s creepy, like being alone in a dark, abandoned alley-way is eerie. And it’s something the American people need to know more about. Hopefully, at some point we will.
