NEW YORK — Former Vice President Mike Pence blames Donald Trump for threatening his household “and all those serving at the Capitol” on Jan. 6 in a brand-new narrative launched Tuesday.
In “So Help Me God,” Pence states, for the veryfirst time in his own words, the Republican previous president’s amazing effort to push him to reverse the results of the 2020 election and shares his account of the day thousands of rioters stormed the Capitol, with some shouting “Hang Mike Pence.”
“They had come to demonstration the outcome of the election and to avoid Congress from satisfying its obligation to open and count the Electoral College votes,” Pence composes. “And, as I lateron foundout, lotsof had come looking for me.”
The book, which traces Pence’s life in politics — from serving as youth organizer for a regional Democratic Party to enjoying then-Vice President Al Gore accredit his election loss days after Pence hadactually been sworn in as a member of Congress — mostly protects Trump, glossing over and whitewashing lotsof of his most controversial episodes. “I had constantly been faithful to President Donald Trump,” the book starts.
But Pence, who invested years refusing to openly slam his old manager, makes clear that Jan. 6, 2021, was a breaking point in which, he composes, Trump’s “reckless words hadactually threatened my household and all those serving at the Capitol.”
“For 4 years, we had a close working relationship. It did not end well,” Pence composes, summing up their time in the White House. Still, he includes, “we parted agreeably when our service to the country drew to a close. In the months that followed, we spoke from time to time, however when the president returned to the rhetoric that he was utilizing priorto that awful day and started to openly slam those of us who safeguarded the Constitution, I chose it would be finest to go our different methods.”
The book, released by Simon & Schuster, comes as Pence appears significantly likely run for president in 2024, a relocation that would put him in direct dispute with Trump, who is anticipated to officially launch his own reelection project in Florida on Tuesday night.
Pence, who in the book neverever straight specifies that Democrat Joe Biden won relatively, composes that when Trump veryfirst recommended holding a rally in Washington on Jan. 6, the day Pence was set to preside over the election’s accreditation, he idea it was a excellent concept. “My veryfirst idea was that a rally that day may be beneficial as a method to call even more attention to the procedures on the flooring of the House a