# If Mike Pence had obeyed the pied piper of Trump Tower?

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**Created:** [June 20, 2022, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501 "2022-06-20T13:39:15Z")
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### Author: ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)
#### Post date: [June 21, 2022, 2:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/if-mike-pence-had-obeyed-the-pied-piper-of-trump-tower/966501/19 "2022-06-21T14:08:59Z")

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> [@JoePockets](#):
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> Then once the election was over, he then went into action and got his followers ready to do his dirty work on 1/6. This is as close to treason as one can get.

You may be interested in the following thread where we tracked the then-upcoming coup, the thread started just 6 days after the 2020 election:

> [@The American Coup: 11.9.2020 -](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-american-coup-11-9-2020/925182):
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> thinking Trump fired his Secretary of Defense, replaced Esper with Chris Miller. This is a totally normal thing for an outgoing President to prioritize. Esper then says, in an interview in Military Times, that for the George Floyd protests he (Esper) would not support Trump’s desire to invoke the Insurrection Act against the Floyd protesters: [[Google Photos] ](https://photos.app.goo.gl/9xqbCpACp8jJAxHG6) We know if you’re Donald Trump and you want troops on the streets for a Portland police stat…

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