{"id":1288058,"date":"2022-02-10T10:38:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288058"},"modified":"2022-02-10T10:38:11","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T15:38:11","slug":"fact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-a-statement-calling-mike-pence-weak-for-not-overturning-the-2020-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-a-statement-calling-mike-pence-weak-for-not-overturning-the-2020-election\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Did Donald Trump Issue A Statement Calling Mike Pence \u2018Weak\u2019 For Not Overturning The 2020 Election?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-did-donald-trump-issue-a-statement-calling-mike-pence-weak-for-not-overturning-the-2020-election%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1288058&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/vcCgD\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> allegedly shows a statement put out by former President Donald Trump calling former Vice President Mike Pence \u201cweak\u201d for failing to overturn the results of the 2020 election.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence Trump released the statement. The fabricated press release was created as a joke.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While speaking at a conservative conference near Orlando, Florida last week, Pence claimed he had no authority to change the outcome of the 2020 election, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/02\/04\/us\/politics\/pence-trump-election.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New York Times<\/a>. \u201cPresident Trump is wrong,\u201d said Pence. \u201cI had no right to overturn the election.\u201d Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/trump-suggests-pence-overturned-2020-election\/story?id=82581412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">continually<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/joe-biden-elections-donald-trump-election-2020-5620bb4a79ff4840624b298fe24a8224\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">asserted<\/a> Pence could have done so.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Pence\u2019s statement, an alleged press release from Trump began circulating on social media. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fact-check-donald-trump-january-6-press-conference-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Image Show A Genuine Trump Press Release About His Canceled Jan. 6 Press Conference?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMany people are saying Vice President Mike Pence said I was wrong about overturning the election,\u201d reads the statement. \u201cHe\u2019s WRONG. He could have OVERTURNED the Election! Of course he said this at a Federalist Society event with NO press. He won\u2019t say it in public because he is WEAK!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The alleged press release, however, could not be found on Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/P20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">official website<\/a>. Trump did release a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donaldjtrump.com\/news\/news-e8mdvekenm1517\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Feb. 4 statement<\/a> in response to Pence\u2019s remarks, but it does not resemble the message being shared on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust saw Mike Pence\u2019s statement on the fact that he had no right to do anything with respect to the Electoral Vote Count, other than being an automatic conveyor belt for the Old Crow Mitch McConnell to get Biden elected President as quickly as possible,\u201d read\u2019s Trump\u2019s genuine message, in part. At no point in the statement does Trump call Pence \u201cweak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The purported press release being shared on social media appears to be fake. A reverse image search revealed it originated with a Twitter account belonging to comedian <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamgabesanchez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gabe Sanchez<\/a>, who posted it Feb. 4 with the caption, \u201cTrump doesn\u2019t seem happy with Mike Pence right now.\u201d The post has nearly 400 retweets.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Trump doesn\u2019t seem happy with Mike Pence right now <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2n1pS4Qkwy\">pic.twitter.com\/2n1pS4Qkwy<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Gabe Sanchez \uea00 (@iamgabesanchez) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamgabesanchez\/status\/1489715298420752385?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 4, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Sanchez confirmed in an Instagram message to Check Your Fact that he created the press release as a joke.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs soon as Mike Pence publicly said \u2018Trump is wrong\u2019 about overturning the 2020 election, I knew Trump would throw a tantrum and respond with a press release,\u201d said Sanchez. \u201cI made a parody press release, shared it with a few people, and within minutes, it was everywhere on Twitter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time a fake Trump press release has gone viral. In January 2022, <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/01\/11\/fact-check-donald-trump-january-6-press-conference-statement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Check Your Fact<\/a> debunked a Facebook image showing an alleged Trump press release explaining the reason behind the cancellation of his Jan. 6 press conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook allegedly shows a statement put out by former President Donald Trump calling former Vice President Mike Pence \u201cweak\u201d for failing to overturn the results of &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1288058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1288058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1288058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1288058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1288058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1288058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}