According to multiple witnesses who have reportedly spoken with the January 6th House Select Committee that investigated that infamous Capitol attack, as well as the disgraced ex-president’s role in inciting the violence on that fateful day, former President Trump was apparently actually quite upset when he learned that his Vice President Mike Pence had been whisked away to safety during the attack, amid calls from the insurrections to literally hang him.
The New York Times reported that a colleague of former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows testified before the House Panel and claimed that Meadows “walked into his own office and told colleagues that President Donald J. Trump was complaining that the vice president was being whisked to safety.”
The witness reportedly went on to testify that Meadows claimed Trump had gone so far as to seemingly suggest that his vice president deserved to be hung by his rabid, fuming supporters, as Donald stewed in his irate anger over Pence’s refusal to help him overthrow the 202o US election — though, the Times puts heavy emphasis on the fact that “it is not clear what tone Mr. Trump was said to have used.”
In the midst of his own unhinged supporters violently attacking and attempting to siege the United States Capitol building while Congress was inside — as part of their concerted last-ditch effort to steal the election from Joe Biden and essentially assist Donald Trump in a literal coup — it has been repeatedly said that the now-former president was extremely resistant towards making a public call to end the violence at the Capitol.
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In fact, Trump was seething with so much anger that he took to his Twitter account in the middle of the riot to publicly lash out at his vice president for Pence’s refusal to reject the certification of the election results. It was mere moments after this tweet that live television coverage showed the vice president being rushed off the United States Senate floor.
“Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify,” then-President Donald Trump’s unhinged tweet read on January 6th, 2020, at 2:24 p.m. “USA demands the truth!”
Frankly, it’s becoming more and more evident that Donald Trump seemingly wanted violence enacted against his own right-hand man.
You can read the full report from the Times here.
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