Fox’s Doocy on Trump-Pence friendship: ‘I betcha it’s done’

“Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy predicted President Trump’s friendship with Vice President Pence is likely “done” after Pence’s refusal to help Trump overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. 

“I hope that doesn’t taint that relationship because they have been such supporters of one another and been a good team,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt said during Thursday morning’s program. 

“How could it be good after that!?” Doocy exclaimed. 

“I’m sure it won’t be, but I hope the president will be able to forgive him because Mike Pence is such a stellar individual. His walk with God is amazing, I mean, he’s a good man,” Earhardt said. “And both of them have done a lot to help the country, and I hope that they can move forward and move past this and just agree that there were differences.” 

She also said that Pence has stood by Trump’s side and “supported him all along the way.”

“So hopefully their friendship won’t end after this for the good of the country,” she added. 

Doocy replied: “I betcha it’s done.” 

Ainsley Earhardt, who has been offering weird apologia for Trump all morning, says she hopes Trump “forgive” Mike Pence for not trying to overthrow the election for him pic.twitter.com/2f9e0Hav66

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In the days before a joint session of Congress met to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory in the November election, Trump pressured Pence, who presided over the legislative proceedings as the president of the Senate, to “come through” for him and stop or delay the process. 

“But he’s going to have a lot to say about it and you know one thing with him, you’re going to get straight shots. He’s going to call it straight,” Trump said during a rally in Georgia on Monday night.

But just minutes before Congress met on Wednesday, Pence issued a statement saying he had no intention of standing in the way of lawmakers’ duty. 

“It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Pence wrote. 

A mob of pro-Trump rioters stormed the Capitol just hours after Trump’s remarks at a rally on the White House Ellipse earlier in the morning, forcing both chambers of Congress into a recess for most of the afternoon. 

In the resulting chaos, four people died and local police made dozens of arrests.

Congress reconvened shortly after 8 p.m. and certified Biden’s win early Thursday.