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Mike Pence, right-hand man and vice president of the United States under Donald Trump once again forcefully marked his distances from the controversial former Republican president. In his speech at a gala dinner on Gridiron on Saturday, Washington said he knew “history will hold Donald Trump to account” for his role in the assault on the Capitol and the failed attempt to block the outcome of the presidential election in the United States. United in 2021.
The Gridiron meeting that brings together thousands of Americans each year is a light event, with musical performances, comedy and light, humorous speeches. But on Saturday, former Vice President Mike Pence surprised those in attendance. When recalling the agitated events that shook the United States in January 2021 and went around the world, the person who was President Donald Trump’s right-hand man and unfailing supporter, pointed out with all the force of an accusation against the president, pointing out that Trump “would was wrong”, by trying to forcibly reverse the results of the presidential election held in November 2020.
“I had no right to reverse the election, and your irresponsible statements endangered my family and all those days on Capitol Hill,” Pence told a stunned audience.
Pence was inside the Capitol on January 6, when a mob of supporters of the former ultra-right president entered the building with the aim of avoiding the ratification of the decision of the polls and a majority of Americans who voted for Joe Biden. .
Trump’s refusal to acknowledge his defeat, added to the silence he kept for most of the time that the assault on the Capitol lasted, served to many of his supporters to try to locate the former president “to hang him”, as many of the assailants shouted. The vice president, as well as other representatives of Congress, had to be urgently escorted to a safe place while the attack lasted.
Mike Pence’s statements come in a context in which the billionaire Trump has declared his intention to represent himself as a candidate for the 2024 presidential election, an election in which Pence himself could run as a rival to Trump.
