by Kyle Becker
The ongoing media narrative about a running feud between former President Donald Trump and his Vice President Mike Pence was recently up-ended by Pence’s former Chief of Staff Marc Short.
In the course of his interview on Fox News with Bret Baier, Short revealed in his account never-before-told details about what had actually happened between Donald Trump and Mike Pence on the day of the capitol uprising on January 6th.
As a brief recap, at the Senate impeachment trial, House Democrats made the allegation that Donald Trump had put Mike Pence’s life in danger with his speech delivered to supporters at the capitol.
President Trump made several references to Mike Pence during the speech, among one of the latest in his speech follows below.
“And Mike Pence, I hope you’re going to stand up for the good of our Constitution and for the good of our country. And if you’re not, I’m going to be very disappointed in you. I will tell you right now. I’m not hearing good stories,” he said.
During Trump’s speech, extremists that had traveled to the capitol to carry out their plans to start a riot attacked the capitol. Pence was evacuated from the building after the Secret Service determined the threat was credible and imminent.
Meanwhile, Donald Trump’s Twitter account issued a tweet that caused some to claim that Donald Trump was indifferent to the danger Pence was in.
“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,” Trump wrote in the now-deleted tweet. “USA demands the truth!”
The tweet came about ten minutes after Pence was evacuated from the capitol building, according to the timestamps on the video (2:14 p.m.) and the Trump tweet (2:24 p.m.).
Senator Tommy Tuberville said that he had notified the president about the danger that Pence was in.
“He didn’t get a chance to say a whole lot because I said, ‘Mr. President, they just took the vice president out. I’ve got to go,’” Tuberville said.
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK) said he’d never seen Pence so “angry” as when Donald Trump pressured him to object to electoral college certification.
“I’ve known Mike Pence forever,” Inhofe said to Tulsa World after the incident. “I’ve never seen Pence as angry as he was today.”
The scene was an ugly one. The blood of the rioters was boiling. One of the rioters even carried a sign that said “hang Pence.”
Fox News’ Bret Baier sat down with former Pence Chief of Staff Marc Short, who gave a remarkable firsthand account of what the capitol riots were like for Pence and his aide…
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