{"id":1737809,"date":"2022-11-14T10:02:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737809"},"modified":"2022-11-14T10:02:59","modified_gmt":"2022-11-14T15:02:59","slug":"it-angered-me-pence-recalls-his-reaction-when-trump-said-he-lacked-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-angered-me-pence-recalls-his-reaction-when-trump-said-he-lacked-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It Angered Me\u2019: Pence Recalls His Reaction When Trump Said He Lacked Courage"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fit-angered-me-pence-recalls-his-reaction-when-trump-said-he-lacked-courage%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1737809&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former Vice President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/mike-pence-heads-to-iowa-amid-2024-rumors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike Pence<\/a>\u00a0recalled his boiling anger on January 6, 2021, when then-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/dr-jordan-b-peterson-analyzes-trump-answers-whether-he-should-run-in-2024\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">President Trump<\/a> accused him of lacking courage, calling his ex-boss\u2019 demand that he refuse to certify 2020 election results \u201creckless\u201d in a candid interview Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Pence spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/muir-wastes-entire-interview-trump-robert-kraychik\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News World News Tonight anchor David Muir<\/a>\u00a0for an interview set to air Monday, on the eve of publication of his new book, \u201cSo Help Me God.\u201d In the interview, excerpts of which were released early, Pence recounted his feelings on January 6, 2021 when he read a tweet from Trump saying\u00a0Pence \u201cdidn\u2019t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt angered me,\u201d Pence said. \u201cBut I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, \u2018It doesn\u2019t take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI mean, the president\u2019s words were reckless,\u201d Pence continued. \u201cIt was clear he decided to be part of the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts from Pence\u2019s book published in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/donald-trump-mike-pence-jan-6-president-rally-capitol-riot-protest-vote-count-so-help-me-god-stolen-election-11668018494\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a>\u00a0include a description of Pence\u2019s recollections of January 6.\u00a0Pence related how he had lunch with Trump roughly two week after the 2020 election and told the former president that if legal challenges to the election results failed, he could launch a 2024 comeback by helping Republicans win the Senate runoffs in Georgia, the 2021 Virginia governor\u2019s race, and the House and Senate in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe seemed unmoved, even weary,\u201d Pence wrote, recalling that Trump told him, \u201cI don\u2019t know, 2024 is so far off.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence recalled an \u201cirresponsible\u201d ad by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/lincoln-project-founder-attacks-meghan-mccain-in-twitter-meltdown\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lincoln Project<\/a>, a controversial group purports to be anti-Trump Republicans but now campaigns against all GOP candidates,\u00a0that suggested when he presided over the joint session of Congress to count the electoral votes, he would be \u201cputting the final nail in the coffin\u201d of Trump\u2019s re-election.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was designed to annoy the president. It worked,\u201d Pence stated, adding that at a December cabinet meeting, \u201cPresident Trump told me the ad \u2018looked bad for you.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pence answered that he had fully supported the legal challenges to the election and still would.<\/p>\n<p>Pence said he welcomed Missouri GOP Sen.\u00a0Josh Hawley\u2019s announcement he would co-sponsor election objections because he believed they deserved to be debated in Congress.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cOn Saturday, Jan. 2, I instructed my chief of staff to issue a statement supporting the right of lawmakers to bring objections under the Electoral Count Act,\u201d Pence noted, which he said prompted Trump to tell him, \u201cYou have gone from very unpopular to popular!\u201d but urging him to reject electoral votes, saying, \u201cYou can be a historic figure, but if you wimp out, you\u2019re just another somebody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">Pence said Trump called him in late morning on January 6, and Pence told Trump he didn\u2019t think he had the power to decide which electoral votes would count, adding that he would issue a statement to that effect to Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019ll go down as a wimp,\u201d Trump said, according to Pence. \u00a0\u201cIf you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago! \u2026 You\u2019re not protecting our country, you\u2019re supposed to support and defend our country!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe both took an oath to support and defend the Constitution,\u201d Pence said he reminded Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Hours later, when rioters stormed the Capitol and were looking for him, Pence said he refused to leave the complex.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re not hearing me, I\u2019m not leaving!\u201d he told his security detail. \u201cI\u2019m not giving those people the sight of a 16-car motorcade speeding away from the Capitol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 11, Pence wrote, he met with Trump, who asked Pence about his wife and daughter, then asked Pence, \u201cWere you scared?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo,\u201d Pence said he answered Trump. \u201cI was angry. You and I had our differences that day, Mr. President, and seeing those people tearing up the Capitol infuriated me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On January 14, the men met again; Pence said Trump looked discouraged, so he told the president he would pray for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDon\u2019t bother,\u201d Trump replied.<\/p>\n<p>When Pence insisted that he would \u201cnever gonna stop praying for you,\u201d Trump smiled, Pence recalled.<\/p>\n<p data-type=\"paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s right\u2014don\u2019t ever change,\u201d Trump told him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence\u00a0recalled his boiling anger on January 6, 2021, when then-President Trump accused him of lacking courage, calling his ex-boss\u2019 demand that he refuse to certify 2020 election results \u201creckless\u201d in a candid interview Sunday. Pence spoke to ABC News World News Tonight anchor David Muir\u00a0for an interview set to air Monday, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":1737812,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1737809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1737809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1737812"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1737809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1737809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1737809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}