Former Vice President Mike Pence speaks astatine Georgetown University, Gaston Hall successful Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 19, 2022. | Jose Luis Magana/AP Photo
Former Vice President Mike Pence said then-President Donald Trump “endangered maine and my household and everyone astatine the Capitol building” with his words and actions during the Jan. 6 riot successful 2021.
Pence’s connection came during an interrogation with ABC’s David Muir, parts of which were released Sunday and parts of which are to beryllium released Monday.
Pence was the people of Trump’s vitriol that time — and afterward — due to the fact that helium declined to instrumentality enactment to artifact the certification of Joe Biden’s predetermination arsenic the nation’s adjacent president. During the tallness of the melee wrong and extracurricular the Capitol, Trump tweeted: “Mike Pence didn’t person the courageousness to bash what should person been done to support our Country and our Constitution.”
Asked astir that tweet by Muir, Pence said: “It angered me, but I turned to my daughter, who was lasting nearby, and I said, ‘It doesn’t instrumentality courageousness to interruption the law. It takes courageousness to uphold the law.’”
Pence, whose memoir “So Help Me God” is being released this week, added: “The president’s words were reckless. It was wide helium decided to beryllium portion of the problem.”
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