“January 6, 2021,” when a mob of Donald Trump supporters stormed the Capitol in Washington, D.C., “was a tragic day in the life of our nation.” This was said this Wednesday by the then outgoing vice president and, as head of the Senate, the authority responsible for certifying the vote for the 2020 elections, Mike Pence.
He did so in the public act where he launched his candidacy for the 2024 presidential elections, in open defiance of his former boss and, on that day, asked him to break the law to annul the certification of the presidential voting under the false complaint of electoral fraud.
"The reckless words of President Trump" when on that January 6 he encouraged the masses to walk towards the headquarters of Congress "put my family and everyone in the Capitol in danger," continued the new candidate for 2024.
I was not exaggerating. We must remember one of the slogans that the insurgents shouted that day when they violently took over the main parliamentary building in the United States: "Hang Pence!": a cry that forced the police to evacuate Pence and his relatives from the hall of the Congress where they initially took refuge during the assault.
"The American people deserve to know that on that fateful day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and our Constitution. I chose the Constitution and I always will," he stressed. To sentence: "And no one who puts himself above the Constitution of the United States should never be its president."
Pence also attacked Trump for his praise of Vladimir Putin, whom he called a genius in the midst of preparing the invasion of Ukraine, and criticized the former president's ambiguity regarding this contest. "I know the difference between a genius and a war criminal. I know the difference between a territorial dispute and an invasion," said the Republican politician.
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