When documents were found at Trump's home, Pence called his former boss's handling of records 'not proper.' But Trump took a different position on Tuesday.
Trump's decision to defend Pence on Tuesday was a rare move from the former president, who had a public falling out with his former second in command after Pence did not block the certification of the 2020 election as Trump had asked him to.
As many of his supporters shouted statements like"hang Mike Pence" while storming the Capitol on January 6, 2021, Trump did not call on the mob to retreat nor did he defend Pence in the moment. "For four years, we had a close working relationship. It did not end well," Pence wrote in his new memoir,Pence said that in the months after the Capitol riot, he and Trump were still in contact but that when Trump returned to promoting claims of a stolen election and began to publicly criticize those who voted to certify the results of the election,"I decided it would be best to go our separate ways.
After Trump's home was raided in August, Pence said,"I've not hesitated to criticize the president when I think he was wrong. And clearly, possessing classified documents in an unprotected area is not proper.", Pence also criticized the DOJ for how it handled the matter related to Trump, saying"there had to be many other ways to resolve those issues" that didn't involve the search warrant.
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