Will Trump and Mike Pence patch up? Ex-POTUS showed no remorse over danger to former VP during Capitol riots
As former President, Donald Trump's historic second impeachment trial is underway in the Senate, new details from the failed insurrection attempt at the US Capitol on January 6 have been revealed. One of those details brings into question whether the former president put former Vice President Mike Pence in danger.
On the day of the riots, Trump tweeted from his now permanently suspended account, blasting Mike Pence for not overturning the results of the 2020 presidential elections, writing, "Mike Pence didn't have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution, giving States a chance to certify a corrected set of facts, not the fraudulent or inaccurate ones which they were asked to previously certify. USA demands the truth!"
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The tweet was sent out at 2:24 pm local time. Pence was removed from the Senate chamber at 2:14 pm after insurrectionists broke into the Capitol building. It is not clear whether Trump knew of Pence's location when he tweeted.
Since then, it has been reported that Republican Senator Tommy Tuberville spoke to Trump on the afternoon of the riots and that he told Trump that he could not talk because the rioters had broken into the Capitol. He said, "I don’t know if you’ve ever talked to President Trump. You don’t get many words in, but, uh, he didn’t get a chance to say a whole lot because I said "Mr. President, they just took the vice president out, I’ve got to go."
At 2:26 pm, Pence was moved again from the room he was in near the Senate chamber to a more secure location in the Capitol complex, just minutes after Trump tweeted about Pence. A clip from the impeachment proceedings showed Pence, his wife Karen, and his daughter Charlotte, being led away by Secret Service agents as the siege was underway. One of the agents was carrying the football with the nuclear codes.
According to CNN, advisors to Trump say that he still has not expressed remorse for the failed insurrection attempt. Aides of the former vice president were "outraged" with Trump and believed he had put his own vice president in danger, according to the publication. A source familiar with the situation told CNN that Pence, who plans to keep lay low during the impeachment trial, has not quite patched up his relationship with Trump after what happened.
The source told CNN that Pence and Trump "discussed everything" regarding the events of January 6, but that at the time, both men were more focused on just getting to Inauguration Day on January 20. The source said that Pence got his point across at a later meeting and that there were some lingering hard feelings. The source added that Trump did not express remorse toward Pence at the meeting for putting Pence in the tense situation, saying, "That's not his style."
However, the source said that it is likely that both Trump and Pence will be able to move on after the events surrounding January 6, saying, "Time will heal things."