Mike Pence Reacts To Trump’s Tweet Throughout Capitol Riot In Interview – Hollywood Life

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Former Vice President Mike Pence admitted that he was “angered,” when he heard what then-President Donald Trump tweeted about him because the mob attacked the Capitol in the course of the January 6 assault. Pence denounced Trump’s tweet on the time in a preview for his upcoming interview on ABC with David Muir, launched on Monday, November 14.

EXCLUSIVE: @DavidMuir asks Mike Pence about calls the previous VP made to the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Workers, the Justice Division and Capitol Police on Jan. 6: “Why wasn’t the president making these calls?”
 
Pence: “That’d be query for him.” https://t.co/CUaA8Nv52k pic.twitter.com/aGQktY6ohQ

— ABC Information (@ABC) November 14, 2022

Earlier than Pence shared his response, Muir learn Trump’s tweet to the previous VP. “Mike Pence didn’t have the braveness to do what ought to’ve been achieved,” the then-president wrote in the course of the assaults. Pence took an extended pause earlier than revealing what he instructed his daughter, defying Trump’s request that he illegally overturn the election. “It angered me, however I turned to my daughter who was standing close by, and I mentioned, ‘It doesn’t take braveness to interrupt the legislation. It takes braveness to uphold the legislation,’” he mentioned. “The president’s phrases had been reckless. It’s clear he determined to be a part of the issue.”

At one other level within the interview, the nightly information anchor listed the many individuals that Pence spoke to, together with the protection secretary, performing lawyer common, and Capitol police chief, and requested what Trump was doing in that point. When he requested what Pence thought of Trump watching them, the previous VP appeared like he was perplexed. “David, I used to be on the Capitol. I wasn’t on the White Home,” he mentioned. “I can’t account for what the president was doing that day. I used to be at a loading dock within the Capitol, the place a riot was happening.”

Muir additionally requested Pence why Trump wasn’t making calls himself, and Pence mentioned solely the previous president might reply. “That’d be query for him,” he responded.

For the reason that January 6 assault, a lot data has been launched about what a hazard Trump’s supporters posed the Pence in the course of the rebel by the Home Choose Committee, which has subpoenaed Trump. As rioters stormed the constructing calling for Pence to be hung, the previous vp’s safety element was working to evacuate him from the constructing. Because the assault was underway, it was revealed that members of his safety element “referred to as to say goodbye to members of the family,” in case the worst occurred.

Throughout one of many hearings, Rep. Pete Aguilar revealed that rioters got here inside 40 ft of Pence, and his former counsel Greg Jacob was shocked to be taught simply how a lot hazard they had been in. “I can hear the din of the rioters within the constructing whereas we moved, however I don’t suppose I used to be conscious that they had been as shut as that,” he mentioned.

Pence’s interview with Muir will air on ABC on Monday, November 14 at 10 p.m. EST.