It doesn’t look like Mike Pence and Donald Trump will ever get back to the way things were, as Pence has continued to slam the 76-year-old former president in his forthcoming memoir, So Help Me God, which is due to be released on November 15th.
“A new low”
The 63-year-old ex vice president appears to openly blame Trump for the events leading to the January 6th insurrection (which is now being investigated by the US justice department) whereby a pro-Trump mob attacked the US Capitol in an attempt to overturn the election. According to the memoir, Trump was urged by Rudy Giuliani and other advisers in a post-election meeting in November 2020 to *not* accept his election defeat, which Pence said was “a new low” for a president “well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates.” Yikes!
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— Mike Pence (@Mike_Pence) October 31, 2022
So Help Me God excerpt
“In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and [attorney] Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy. The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January,” Pence wrote, in reference to the deadly January 6th riots, as per an excerpt published by Axios on Monday, October 31st.
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“What began as a briefing that Thursday afternoon quickly turned into a contentious back-and-forth between the campaign lawyers and a growing group of outside attorneys led by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, an attorney who had represented Gen Mike Flynn [Trump’s first national security adviser, who was later fired for lying to the FBI.]
"After the campaign lawyers gave a sober and somewhat pessimistic report on the state of election challenges, the outside cast of characters went on the attack… Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, 'Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr President.'"
"Even in an office well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates, it was a new low," Pence continued, adding that everything "went downhill from there."
2024 presidential run
Trump still denies any wrongdoing, and is expected to officially make a formal announcement for the 2024 presidential run imminently – most likely after the midterm elections next week. When asked whether Pence would vote for his 2016 running mate last month, he said, "Well, there might be somebody else I’d prefer more," alluding to the fact that he himself could run.
But even if Pence doesn’t run, Trump already confessed that he will not be choosing him as a running mate, telling The New York Times, "It would be totally inappropriate. Mike committed political suicide," in reference to Pence's refusal to overturn the results of the election won by Joe Biden in 2020. At the time, Trump took to Twitter to say that Pence "didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution."
