Trump Told Pence Certifying Election Would Be 'Career Killer,' Valet Testified
Source: New York Times
The threat from President Donald J. Trump to his vice president, Mike Pence, was clear and direct: If you defy my effort to overturn the 2020 election by certifying the results, your future in Republican politics is over.
Mike, this is a political career killer if you do this, Mr. Trump told Mr. Pence by phone on the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, according to the White House valet who was with the president for much of the day and told Congress he had overheard the conversation.
The testimony of Mr. Trumps valet, provided to the now-defunct House Jan. 6 Committee in 2022 but not previously released publicly, offers a rare firsthand look into the former presidents behavior in the hours before, during and after a mob of his supporters stormed the Capitol seeking to halt the certification of President Bidens victory.
In the valets account, laid out in a transcript obtained by The New York Times, an agitated Mr. Trump pressured Mr. Pence to overturn the election and stewed about Mr. Pences refusal for hours after violence engulfed Congress. Told that a civilian had been shot outside the House chamber amid the mob attack, he recalled, Mr. Trump appeared unconcerned.
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marble falls
(57,097 posts)... in with TFG crime family.
ColinC
(8,300 posts)I hope that changes soon, though.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)... 4 or 5 years later of syphilis. Sounds like the career trajectory I'd like to see TFG have.
ColinC
(8,300 posts)Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,009 posts)Everything Trump touches dies.
SamKnause
(13,107 posts)He knew Trump was scum.
He stood beside Trump with that vapid look on his face.
I don't give a shit about him or mother.
AllaN01Bear
(18,242 posts)rsdsharp
(9,182 posts)For the wrong reasons, but a first is a first.
LetMyPeopleVote
(145,289 posts)William Seger
(10,778 posts)I don't wonder if it would change her mind about the cult, though.
marble falls
(57,097 posts)Warpy
(111,267 posts)and then the boks are going to start to come out. They will be juicy.
no_hypocrisy
(46,116 posts)NanaCat
(1,135 posts)That not everyone will mow over anyone who gets in their way. Some people might actually care about doing what's right, or hard, or even what's best for others, than they do about what can get them a win, no matter what.
There's very little on which I agree with Mike Pence, and I find even less that is respectable about him. But what he did on J6--that was a moment when he managed to show more spine and love for his country than anything he'd ever done before in his life. He came through when his country needed him.
For that, I commend him. It may have killed his career in the present, but he will win in the long run--because history will remember him far better than they'll remember TSF.
bluestarone
(16,959 posts)Pence and John McCain.