characterized would be tantamount to a revolution within a paralyzing constitutional crisis. there s just no way that the framers of the constitution who divided power and authority, who separated it out, who had broken away from george iii and declared him to be a tyrant, there was no way that they would have put in the hands of one person the authority to determine who was going to be president of the united states. but president trump now saw vice president pence as the man who could keep him in the white house for four more years. on december 23rd president trump retweeted a memo from an individual named ivan likeland entitled operation pence card.