In some of his harshest comments about former President Trump’s actions during the Jan. 6 riot, former VP Pence said Trump’s words and actions that day were “reckless” and endangered Pence and his family.
In first network interview since the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, Pence delivers some of his harshest criticisms of Trump's statements on the day of the riot, saying it was clear the former president "decided to be part of the problem."Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images fileMike Pence said in a new interview that former President Donald Trump's Jan.
The former vice president said in an interview with David Muir of ABC's"World News Tonight" that Trump’s tweet “angered” him. “I mean, the president’s words were reckless and his actions were reckless,” Pence told Muir in an excerpt of the interview released Sunday. He added, “The president’s words that day at the rally endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building,” according toPence was overseeing the certification of the 2020 Electoral College results in Congress on Jan.
Trump told rioters to leave the building only hours after the riot began — well after criticizing Pence,to overturn the election, for failing to block the certification of the Electoral College votes. In his tweet that afternoon, Trump said Pence"didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution."
In the interview, Pence said that after Trump's tweet,"I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, 'It doesn’t take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law.'"
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