WASHINGTON: Former US vice president Mike Pence offered his most forceful rebuke to date of his one-time boss Donald Trump on Saturday (Mar 11), saying that history will hold
Pence was in the Capitol when thousands of Trump supporters breached the building in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the results of the 2020 presidential election, which Trump lost to Joe Biden.
"President Trump was wrong," Pence told assembled journalists and their guests at the Gridiron dinner, an annual white-tie event in Washington, DC. He rarely addressed Jan 6 in the months following the incident, but has since upped his criticism of the rioters and the behavior of his former boss that day.
Pence's relationship with Trump has been complex since the two left office. He had criticised the former president's behaviour but refrained from the most stinging rebukes of Trump. He also declined to cooperate with the House of Representatives committee investigating the Capitol attack, describing the work done by the mainly Democratic body as partisan.
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