Pence: What Trump said before storming the Capitol put Americans "at risk"

Former Vice President Donald Trump, Mike Pence, said that the latter's fiery statements before and during the storming of Congressional headquarters last year "exposed me" and endangered many Americans, in an interview that will be broadcast on Monday.

In an interview with ABC News, Pence said, "The president's words that day during the rally (before the riots) put me, my family, and everyone in Congress at risk."

According to reports, Pence is preparing to announce his candidacy for the presidential elections scheduled for 2024. It is expected that Pence will confront the former president, who invited the media to his home in Florida on Tuesday night, amid expectations that he will announce his candidacy for the presidency.

The interview with Pence comes on the eve of the launch of his memoirs.

In the interview, Pence revealed that Trump incited, during a speech he gave on January 6 in a park near the White House, the crowds that organized a march to the Capitol, the congressional building.

"The president's words were reckless," Pence said. "It was clear he decided to be part of the problem."

He indicated that he was "infuriated" when he read Trump's tweet that day, in which he stressed that "the Vice President does not have the courage to do what needs to be done" to keep Trump in office by blocking the process of congressional confirmation of Joe Biden's victory in the presidential elections in the year. 2020.

Pence said in the interview, "I turned to my daughter, who was standing close to me, and said, 'Breaking the law does not require courage. What requires courage is upholding the law.'"

The vice president was then in Congressional headquarters when the "Secret Service" agents took him out of the Senate, where vandals who stormed the headquarters were about to reach him.

And before this month, Pence did not reveal the content of any communication that took place between him and Trump in the period leading up to the storming of Congress.

In excerpts from his memoirs published by The Wall Street Journal last week, Pence said he spoke with Trump on the phone on New Year's Day 2021 and told him he refused to participate in a scheme to keep the Republican billionaire in office.

And Pence revealed that Trump told him, "You are very straight," adding, "Hundreds of thousands will hate you. People will think you are stupid."

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