Former US Vice President Mike Pence said Saturday that the story will hold former US head of state Donald Trump accountable for his role in the 2021 assault on the Capitol, the press reported.
“President Trump was wrong,” Pence said in a speech at a reporters gala attended by several political figures.
“I had no right to cancel [o resultado das] elections. And reckless words put my family and everyone else on Capitol Hill in danger that day. And I know that history will hold Donald Trump to account,” Pence said, quoted by various media outlets.
During the attack on the Capitol in Washington on January 6, 2021, Trump supporters argued that Pence should be hanged, forcing the then-US vice president to take refuge in a safe place.
At the time, Mike Pence refused to endorse Donald Trump, in a bid to overturn the 2020 presidential election result and remain in power.
Trump has already made public his intention to run for president in 2024, and Pence has indicated he may challenge the former president for the Republican Party’s nomination.
Source: TSF
