Legal professional George Conway instructed that former President Donald Trump is "afraid" of what former Vice President Mike Pence might say.

Trump on Friday night launched a press release taking goal at Pence after the previous vice chairman defined that Trump was "fallacious" to say that he had the authority to overturn the outcomes of the 2020 presidential election. The ex-president argued this week that Pence ought to have unconstitutionally rejected the electors from key swing states in a bid to maintain him within the White Home.

Conway, the husband of Trump's former senior counselor Kellyanne Conway, has lengthy been a crucial of the his spouse's ex-boss. In a Saturday Twitter publish, Conway shared Trump's assertion focusing on Pence and instructed the previous president is "weak."

"Surprisingly weak. Do you suppose Trump is afraid of one thing Pence might say?" Conway wrote.

In his Friday night assertion, Trump mentioned: "Simply noticed Mike Pence's assertion on the truth that he had no proper to do something with respect to the Electoral Vote Rely." The previous president went on to insist that "I used to be proper and everybody is aware of it."

Earlier on Friday, Pence informed attendees at a conservative Federalist Society occasion in Florida that he disagreed with Trump relating to the vice chairman's energy over the election outcomes.

"However there are these in our get together who consider that because the presiding officer over the joint session of Congress, I possessed unilateral authority to reject electoral faculty votes. And I heard this week, President Trump mentioned I had the best to 'overturn the election,'" the previous vice chairman informed the viewers.

"President Trump is fallacious," he mentioned, including that he "had no proper to overturn the election." Pence's remarks got here after Trump earlier within the week instructed Pence needs to be investigated for refusing to unconstitutionally overturn the outcomes.

Though Conway's spouse Kellyanne Conway was one among Trump's key advisers and prime defenders within the media, he always slammed the previous president all through his White Home tenure. Talking to CNN on Monday, Conway responded to Trump's suggestion that Pence might have "overturned the election."

"He's simply incriminating himself with all of those statements," the conservative lawyer mentioned. Conway added, "that is simply absurd, he is simply not good."

In the meantime, Trump's allies have lined as much as assault Pence.

"If you happen to ever had any doubt in any way that former Vice President Mike Pence was a duplicitous, disloyal POS, this gorgeous article will take away any doubt. Pence and his employees of 'political advisors' have been working to undermine President Trump [and replace him with Mike Pence] from day ONE," right-wing strategist Roger Stonewrote in a message to his Telegram subscribers on Thursday. Stone linked to a Substack article written by Emerald Robinson, titled The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Defined.

Steve Bannon, who served as CEO of Trump's 2016 marketing campaign, known as Pence a "coward" in a section of his Warfare Room podcast on Friday. "Pence, you are going to carry this factor ultimately to your grave, OK?" Bannon mentioned. "As a result of it's a mark of disgrace. You're a stone-cold coward."

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George Conway instructed on Twitter Saturday that former President Donald Trump is "afraid" of what former Vice President Mike Pence might say about efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Above, Trump speaks as Pence seems on on the White Home on November 24, 2020 in Washington, D.C.Chip Somodevilla/Getty Photos

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