Pence helped save the U.S. from Trump

Hang Mike Pence’s portrait in the gallery of national heroes. As riveting testimony from Thursday’s Jan. 6 hearing showed again and again, it was Donald Trump’s once obsequious wingman who found a backbone and rejected every illegal effort to block Joe Biden’s victory, from private and public political pressure from Trump to crackpot legal and constitutional theories offered by lunatic lawyer/Ph.D. John Eastman to an angry crowd of Capitol invaders eager to turn itself into an actual lynch mob and string him up.

The testimony of former federal Judge Mike Luttig and the VP’s former counsel Greg Jacob established clearly that they and the man they advised, Pence, were true to the Constitution and the Republic in the dark days of December and January, as Trump’s November loss was inevitability going to become Biden’s Jan. 6 certification and Jan. 20 inauguration. Pence, Luttig and Jacob followed the law, not the wants of one crazy man in the Oval Office.

Compare their fealty to due process and representative democracy with the ravings of “Dr.” Eastman, who was prescribing a poisonous prescription that would kill the patient. Eastman contended that the VP had the power to accept or not accept the results from any state. Thus Pence could reject Biden states that Trump falsely claimed he won and reinstall him for another four years in the White House.

But Pence refused to flee, holed up in a Capitol loading dock as the marauders rampaged in the halls above, defiling the Temple of Liberty by smearing their feces.

He then returned and certified Biden.