It’s becoming more and more evident with each passing day at this point that now ex-President Donald Trump has very specific and malicious intentions when it came to his own Vice President Mike Pence on January 6th, 2021. Donald Trump was reaching the peak of his desperation, as he began to realize that he was soon to truly lose the presidency and was growing rapidly bitter and angry with his right-hand man for refusing to go along with his unlaw coup plan.
To cut to the quick of it, Donald Trump knew full and well what his supporters were soon to do in his name, to the man who had stood beside him for the last 4 years. The severity of it had reached such a dangerous fever pitch that even Mike Pence’s chief of staff knew what was likely about to come, in the days before the January 6th Capitol attack, and tried with all his might to warn the then-VP’s Secret Service detail of the danger that his boss was about to be in, from Pence’s own boss.
This news comes from New York Times’ Maggie Haberman, who revealed a meeting between Pence’s Chief of Staff Marc Short and the head of the VP’s Secret Service detail on January 5th, 2021, just one day before Donald Trump’s rabid supporters would storm the Capitol building with the Vice President inside, screaming, “Hang Mike Pence!”
Haberman reports that Short was desperately trying to warn Pence’s Secret Service detail that the Vice President’s life was likely in danger, in direct relation to the man who was then the sitting President of the United States.
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“The president was going to turn publicly against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to Mr. Pence because of it,” Haberman reports Short trying to explain to the now-former Vice President’s Secret Service head.
We just reported not long ago that Trump openly admitted himself that he didn’t take issue with his supporters who stormed through the Capitol calling for his Vice President to be hanged. Haberman’s new report reveals that Pence’s staff were already extremely concerned about what would likely follow Trump’s January 6th “Stop the Steal” rally outside the Capitol. Their fears were correct.
Haberman’s report, which is based on her forthcoming book, reveals, “Mr. Short did not know what form such a security risk might take, according to people familiar with the events. But after days of intensifying pressure from Mr. Trump on Mr. Pence to take the extraordinary step of intervening in the certification of the Electoral College count to forestall Mr. Trump’s defeat, Mr. Short seemed to have good reason for concern. The vice president’s refusal to go along was exploding into an open and bitter breach between the two men at a time when the president was stoking the fury of his supporters who were streaming into Washington.”
She notes that it is unclear what the Secret Service’s Tim Giebels did with the information Short gave him.
“New details from the weeks leading up to Jan. 6 help to flesh out how Mr. Trump and his allies sought to intimidate Mr. Pence into accepting their baseless theory that the vice president had the authority to block congressional certification of the Electoral College results — and how Mr. Pence’s refusal to do so would lead him to peril,” Haberman writes. “A few weeks after Election Day on Nov. 3, 2020, aides to Mr. Pence learned that some in Mr. Trump’s loose network of advisers were discussing the possibility of Jan. 6, 2021 — set under statute as the day of the Electoral College certification — as a potentially critical date in Mr. Trump’s efforts to stay in power.”
It’s pretty clear at this point that Trump had a method behind his madness when it came to his VP — and it was a terrifying one.
Featured image via official White House photos by Tia Dufour
