Mike Pence: "History will blame Trump for the assault on the Capitol"

Mike Pence believes in God and his religious convictions are becoming stronger, he says.

Oliver Thansan
Oliver Thansan
12 March 2023 Sunday 23:24
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Mike Pence: "History will blame Trump for the assault on the Capitol"

Mike Pence believes in God and his religious convictions are becoming stronger, he says.

The former vice president of the United States also professed blind faith in Donald Trump, whom he served in the White House without question or question, except when he demanded that he be an accomplice in his coup.

Now it has been shown that, in this earthly case, his faith was not unshakable.

Pence is loosening his ties and seems less and less fearful of the judgment of the Trump base, which experts say is going backwards, and an upcoming commitment to fight to be the Republican candidate in 2024 is glimpsed.

This weekend he delivered his most severe rebuke against the former president, whom he ardently criticized for his role in the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in his attempt to steal Joe Biden's victory.

“President Trump was wrong,” he insisted. “I had no right to annul the result of the elections. His reckless words endangered my family and all of us in the Capitol that day,” he said. “And I know that history will hold Donald Trump accountable,” he stressed.

The comment was shocking to say the least. It came after his lawyers filed a motion this past week asking the judge to block the subpoena issued by a federal grand jury, at the request of the Justice Department's special counsel, to testify precisely for January 6. Pence has already publicly stated that he will resist appearing because he considers his subpoena "unconstitutional and unprecedented."

The outburst against Trump, a stance radically opposed to his usual fawning behavior, came by surprise at the annual Gridiron Club dinner in Washington. This is an act described as "white" (for lightness) organized by journalists, full of jokes and parodies on political issues.

A man with a serious and rather sad brow, with an inscrutable humor, Pence got into the game of jokes. “I once invited President Trump to a Bible study,” he said. He liked the passages about wounding and finishing off enemies”.

He also made fun of the secret papers found in his possession, of Ron DeSantis, who is the fashionable conservative, or of his possible run for the presidency. "I will support the Republican nominee, if it's me."

But in an unexpected twist, Pence turned serious. There are things, he said, that are not joking, such as "the tragic day" of the assault on Congress, the role of his former boss in the insurgency and the revisionist attempts of Fox.

Its star, Tucker Carlson, is manipulating the material gathered by the House committee on January 6" to imply, against all evidence and common sense, that the assailants were peaceful and not insurgents.

"That was not, as some would have us believe, a thing of tourists enjoying a visit to the Capitol," Pence remarked, without citing Carlson, Fox or Trump, an apologist for the new version. “Tourists don't injure 140 policemen just by looking. They do not force doors to attack the president of the Chamber, the tourists do not threaten public officials, ”she stressed. "Citizens have the right to know what happened, but make no mistake, what happened that day was a disgrace and it is a mockery of decency to portray it in another way," she said.

In addition, with his defense of the press as an element in favor of democracy, he also broke with the narrative of Trump, for whom the free media are "the enemies of the people."

A doubt remained floating in the air. Ella pence knew in which auditorium she was playing. Will he be able to go to Iowa and attack Trump?