Former Vice President Mike Pence told ABC News that he was “angered” by former President Donald Trump’s tweet assailing him during the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, in his first interview about the efforts by Trump’s supporters to keep him in power.
Former Vice President Mike Pence during a Republican event in Peoria, Ill., June 20, 2022.
“The president’s words that day at the rally endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” Pence told Muir, referring to the former president’s comments at an event on Jan. 6 at the Ellipse near the White House. At the rally, Trump repeatedly pressured Pence to use his ceremonial role overseeing certification of the Electoral College results of the 2020 election to delay or overturn the outcome, and then called on the crowd to march to the Capitol.
Pence, who is considering his own presidential candidacy, has steadfastly praised the record of the Trump administration. But he has also said that Trump was “wrong” to continue to maintain that one man could dictate who would become the next president. Still, his words on ABC News are his most extensive criticism of Trump to date.
“It went downhill from there,” Pence recounted to Muir. “The president became very irate on the phone. He said if that was true, that he made a mistake five years ago.”
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