{"id":617337,"date":"2023-03-11T23:15:06","date_gmt":"2023-03-12T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/mike-pence-slams-donald-trump-over-jan-6-attack\/"},"modified":"2023-03-11T23:15:06","modified_gmt":"2023-03-12T05:15:06","slug":"mike-pence-slams-donald-trump-over-jan-6-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/11\/mike-pence-slams-donald-trump-over-jan-6-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike Pence slams Donald Trump over Jan. 6 attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<div>\n<p><span><\/span><span><span slot=\"bylineInfo\">Zeke Miller, Chris Megerian<\/span><br \/>\n<span slot=\"bylineInfo\">\u00a0|\u00a0 Associated Press<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday harshly criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, widening the rift between the two men as they prepare to battle over the Republican nomination in next year&#8217;s election.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" min-height=\"390\" fluid outstream><\/partner-banner>\n<p>&#8220;President Trump was wrong,&#8221;\u00a0Pence said during remarks at the annual white-tie Gridiron Dinner attended by politicians and journalists. &#8220;I had no right to overturn the election. And his reckless words endangered my family and everyone at the Capitol that day, and I know history will hold Donald Trump accountable.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2023\/02\/16\/USAT\/f785d65a-09ab-400b-81a2-8175ff4e7efd-GettyImages-1466784282.jpeg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2023\/02\/16\/USAT\/f785d65a-09ab-400b-81a2-8175ff4e7efd-GettyImages-1466784282.jpeg?crop=4869,3652,x622,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2023\/02\/16\/USAT\/f785d65a-09ab-400b-81a2-8175ff4e7efd-GettyImages-1466784282.jpeg?crop=2745,3660,x1813,y1 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/presto\/2023\/02\/16\/USAT\/f785d65a-09ab-400b-81a2-8175ff4e7efd-GettyImages-1466784282.jpeg?crop=5491,3089,x1,y0 16:9\" image-alt=\"Former Vice President Mike Pence gives remarks at the Calvin Coolidge Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conference at the Library of Congress on February 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. During his remarks, Pence spoke on a range of topics including the Department of Justice's subpoena for his testimony in their 2020 election subversion investigation.\" credit=\"Anna Moneymaker, Getty Images\" caption=\"Former Vice President Mike Pence gives remarks at the Calvin Coolidge Foundation\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s conference at the Library of Congress on February 16, 2023 in Washington, DC. During his remarks, Pence spoke on a range of topics including the Department of Justice's subpoena for his testimony in their 2020 election subversion investigation.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"><\/media-image><\/p>\n<p>Pence&#8217;s remarks were the sharpest condemnation yet from the once-loyal lieutenant who has often shied away from confronting his former boss. Trump has already declared his candidacy. Pence has not, but he&#8217;s been\u00a0laying the groundwork to run.<\/p>\n<p>In the days leading up to Jan. 6, 2021, Trump pressured Pence to overturn President Joe Biden&#8217;s election victory as he presided over the ceremonial certification of the results. Pence refused, and when rioters stormed the Capitol, some chanted that they wanted to &#8220;hang Mike Pence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner fluid bottom lazy min-height=\"390\" outstream><\/partner-banner><partner-inline placement=\"native-article_link\"  min-height=\"250\" outstream><\/partner-inline>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/in-depth\/news\/2021\/01\/06\/dc-protests-capitol-riot-trump-supporters-electoral-college-stolen-election\/6568305002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Timeline: <\/strong>How the storming of the U.S. Capitol unfolded on Jan.\u00a06<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/03\/02\/donald-trump-doj-january-6-lawsuits\/11381509002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>DOJ to appeals court:<\/strong> Donald Trump can be sued over role in Jan. 6 Capitol riot<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The House committee that investigated the attack\u00a0said in its final report\u00a0that &#8220;the President of the United States had riled up a mob that hunted his own Vice President.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>With his remarks, Pence solidified his place in a broader debate within the Republican Party over how to view the attack. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, for example, recently provided Tucker Carlson with an archive of security camera footage from Jan. 6, which\u00a0the Fox News host has used\u00a0to downplay the day&#8217;s events and promote conspiracy theories.<\/p>\n<partner-inline placement=\"native-article_link\"  min-height=\"250\" outstream><\/partner-inline>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2023\/03\/07\/capitol-police-manger-tucker-carlson-jan-6-video\/11420482002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Capitol Police Chief Thomas Manger blasts<\/strong> Fox News&#8217; Tucker Carlson over Jan. 6 video<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&#8220;Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace,&#8221; Pence said in his Gridiron Dinner remarks. &#8220;And it mocks decency to portray it any other way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner fluid bottom lazy min-height=\"390\" outstream><\/partner-banner>\n<p>Trump, meanwhile, has continued to spread lies about his election loss. He&#8217;s even spoken in support of the rioters and said he would consider pardoning them if he was reelected.<\/p>\n<p>Speeches at the Gridiron Dinner are usually humorous affairs, where politicians poke fun at each other, and Pence did plenty of that as well.<\/p>\n<p>He joked that Trump&#8217;s ego was so fragile, he wanted his vice president to sing &#8220;Wind Beneath My Wings\u201d \u2014 one of the lines is \u201cdid you ever know that you\u2019re my hero?&#8221;\u00a0\u2014 during their weekly lunches.<\/p>\n<p>He took another shot at Trump over classified documents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI read that some of those classified documents they found at Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president&#8217;s Bible,&#8221; Pence said. &#8220;Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner fluid bottom lazy min-height=\"390\" outstream><\/partner-banner>\n<p>Even before the dinner was over, Pence was facing criticism for his jokes about Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, the first openly gay Cabinet member in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Pence mentioned that, despite travel problems that were plaguing Americans, Buttigieg took &#8220;maternity leave&#8221;\u00a0after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression,&#8221;\u00a0Pence said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Megerian reported from Wilmington, Delaware.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/2023\/03\/12\/mike-pence-slams-donald-trump-over-jan-6-attack\/11458589002\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Zeke Miller<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Zeke Miller, Chris Megerian \u00a0|\u00a0 Associated Press WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2014 Former Vice President Mike Pence on Saturday harshly criticized former President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol, widening the rift between the two men as they prepare to battle over the Republican nomination in next year&#8217;s election. &#8220;President Trump [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":617338,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[534,1067,1308],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-617337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-financial","8":"category-pence","9":"category-slams"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=617337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/617337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/617338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=617337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=617337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=617337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}