President Trump said former Vice President Pence “will go down as a fool” during a call on the day of the January 6, 2021 Capitol riot, according to a new book.
“You will go down as a fool,” Trump told the former vice president when discussing the choice Pence made to block the certification of former President Biden’s 2020 election victory. reportedly said on the call.
According to the former vice president, Trump said, “If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago.” Jonathan Carl, chief Washington correspondent for ABC News, writes in his book “Retribution: Donald Trump and the Campaign that Changed America.”
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There were differences of opinion between Pence and Trump regarding January. 6, prompting the Vice President himself to run for the White House in 2024.
Pence faced great danger on January 6. A former Situation Room official interviewed by ABC more than a year ago said that Pence came “close” to being killed. Riot in the US Capitol.
“It’s important to me that we don’t forget that it came so close, and we discussed, ‘If we lose [vice president,] If 25th [Amendment] are called for,” Mike Stigler said in a May 2024 interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos. “We started working on all these game plans as it was getting closer.”
