“Do you think Donald Trump engaged in insurrection?” Jake Tapper asked former Vice President Mike Pence on Sunday, eliciting a slap back from the man consistently name-checked by the left as being on the receiving end of “hang Mike Pence” chants back in 2021.
“I have never called what happened on January 6 an insurrection. And it is noteworthy that, even in the federal case in Washington, D.C., the president hasn’t been charged with insurrection,” Pence replied, adding: “And while I said that the president’s words were reckless, and I believe that history and the American people will hold him ultimately to account for his role in that day, I think these efforts to take the decision away from the American people are really antithetical to the very democracy that the President Biden and many Democrats talk about wanting to defend.”
“Removing the former president or any other candidate from the choice of the American people, I don’t believe is in the interest of the country.”
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Mike Pence: "I never called what happened on January 6 an insurrection… it was a riot the way it broke out, and I've never seen it any other way."@justinbaragona pic.twitter.com/OdhnwvPx6c
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