Former U.S. Vice President Mike Pence has claimed that Donald Trump was «part of the problem» that January 6, 2021, when a mob of hotheads stormed the Capitol in an attempt to prevent the confirmation of Joe Biden’s victory in the presidential election two months earlier.
Pence has thus referred to the role that Trump played during those hours and has described as «reckless» the words with which the former president accused him of not having the «courage» necessary to unilaterally annul the results of those presidential elections of November 2020.
«It doesn’t take courage to break the law, it takes courage to uphold the law,» Pence said he told his daughter when he learned of Trump’s words, in an interview for the US network ABC on the occasion of the publication of his book ‘So Help Me God’.
«The president’s words that day at the rally endangered me, my family and everyone in the Capitol building,» recalled Pence, who was certifying the election results in Congress when a crowd spurred by Trump stormed the building.
Until that episode, and at least in public, Pence had shown himself as a faithful squire of former President Trump in the constant controversies and controversies that defined his administration.
However, as a result of those riots, Trump’s rudeness and seeing how the most furious Republican electorate accused him of being a traitor and called for his head, the other ‘number two’ of the White House has criticized the tycoon for his actions that day and the pressures to which he was subjected.
Trump reprimanded Pence those days for not annulling the certification of the electoral votes and over the months has not hidden the «disappointment» that his vice president caused him during that crisis, even qualifying his choice to occupy such position as «a big mistake».
A few days ago the US press had access to an excerpt of the book that goes on sale this Tuesday, precisely the same day on which Trump plans to announce his intentions to return to the White House in 2024.
«‘Hundreds of thousands of people are going to hate you. People are going to think you’re stupid. You’re going to be remembered as a coward,'» he claims former President Trump told him, according to one of these previews of his book.
