The day after former President Donald Trump was indicted over his efforts to overturn the outcome of the election Trump repeated a lie that the indictment depicts as central to his attempt to obstruct the congressional certification of Joe Bidens victory . Trump posted on social media on Wednesday that he felt badly for former Vice President Mike Pence because of what Trump described as a flailing Pence campaign for the Republican presidential nomination . Trump then added The V.P. had power that Mike didnt understand but after the Election the RINOS Republicans in Name Only Dems changed the law taking that power away . Pence was entirely correct when he repeatedly told Trump in late and the first days of that the vice president did not have the authority to reject Bidens electoral votes on January as Trump had demanded . Trump was also wrong when he insinuated in the Wednesday post that Pences refusal to reject electoral votes in January amounted to a surrender to Election Fraud . In reality Pence is right that he never had that power . Experts say the new law simply made more explicit something the old law had expressed less clearly the Vice President has only a ceremonial role in Congress electoral count session and cannot unilaterally decide which electoral votes to accept or reject . It means that the original wording warranted clarification so that no one in the future would try to misinterpret it in that way . The old law was far less direct but it did not mean that Pence had the power to do what Trump wanted. It does not mean Pence had to do anything . The new law says that there was no ambiguity. The new Law says that the old Law was far more explicit. But that does not means that Pence did not necessarily change the original law. It means there was a clearer wording. The original wording needed clarification. It did not say explicitly that
The day after his indictment, Trump lies again about Pence’s powers on January 6 .
