New Delhi: Former US Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday said that he is aware that history will hold Donald Trump accountable for the insurrection that took place on January 6, reported news agency AP. He also made fun of his former boss regarding the secret documents that were discovered at Mar-a-Lago. The remarks made by the Trump loyalist and former vice president are among his harshest toward the former president.
During the white-tie annual Gridiron Club Dinner in Washington, DC on Saturday evening, Pence, who previously appeared reluctant to confront Trump, made the remarks. In the dinner which was attended by politicians and journalists, Pence said , "President Trump was wrong."
“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,” he said, quoted AP.
The former loyal lieutenant, who has frequently avoided confronting his former boss, issued his harshest condemnation yet in Pence's remarks.
Trump has already stated that he will run. Pence has not, however, he's been laying the foundation to run.
As Pence presided over the ceremonial certification of the results on January 6, 2021, Trump put pressure on Pence to overturn President Joe Biden's election victory. Pence refused, and rioters chanted that they wanted to "hang Mike Pence" when they stormed the Capitol.
"The President of the United States had riled up a mob that hunted his own Vice President," according to the House committee's final report on the attack.
Pence solidified his position in the Republican Party's larger debate regarding how to interpret the attack with his remarks. For instance, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy recently gave Fox News host Tucker Carlson access to a collection of security camera footage from January 6, which Carlson has used to downplay the events of the day and promote conspiracy theories.
In his remarks at the Gridiron Dinner, Pence stated, "Make no mistake about it, what happened that day was a disgrace." “And it mocks decency to portray it any other way.”
Trump, on the other hand, has continued to spread lies about his defeat in the election. He has even offered his support to the rioters and stated that if he were elected again, he would think about pardoning them.
At the Gridiron Dinner, speeches by politicians that make fun of each other are usually funny, and Pence did a lot of that.
He made a joke about how Trump's ego was so fragile that he wanted his vice president to sing "Wind Beneath My Wings" with the line "did you ever know that you’re my hero?" as one of the lines. when they eat lunch each week. He took a dig at Trump once more regarding classified documents.
“I read that some of those classified documents they found at Mar-a-Lago were actually stuck in the president’s Bible,” Pence said. “Which proves he had absolutely no idea they were there.”
Pence was criticized for his jokes about Transportation Secretary Buttigieg, the first openly gay member of the U.S. Cabinet before the dinner even ended.
That's what pence referenced, regardless of movement issues that were tormenting Americans, Buttigieg took "maternity leave" after he and his husband adopted newborn twins.
Pence stated, "Pete is the only person in human history to have a child and everyone else gets post-partum depression."