4/8/2023 0 Comments Mike pence memoirUltimately, Pence wrote, it was Trump’s ongoing fixation on the 2020 election and his outrage at those who stood in the way of his attempts to cling to power that led to a complete break in communication between the two men. The Memo: Trump team seeks to paint DeSantis as opportunist Trump holds just three-point lead over DeSantis among Florida Republicans in new poll 6, though the two eventually met in the Oval Office, where Pence told Trump he was angry about the day’s events and said he’d be praying for the president. The former vice president and Trump did not speak for several days after the events of Jan. He recounted how he refused to leave the Capitol grounds and instead coordinated with congressional leaders from a loading dock under the Capitol as a mob ran through the building, some chanting, “Hang Mike Pence.” 6, describing how rioters breached the Capitol and he was hurried off the Senate floor. Pence went on to describe the events of Jan. “‘You’ll go down as a wimp,’ he predicted, adding ‘If you do that, I made a big mistake five years ago!’” Pence wrote. On that call, Pence wrote, Trump “laid into me.” 6 after Pence had issued a statement outlining why he would not intervene in the certification process. Pence and Trump had one final phone call on the morning of Jan. 5 and in the evening issued a statement claiming Trump and Pence were in “total agreement” that the vice president had the authority to decertify the election results, Pence wrote, contradicting their earlier conversations. Trump called Pence twice more before the end of the day on Jan. President, you need to say what you need to say, but you know, other than your family, no one in this administration has been more loyal to you than me,’” Pence continued. “With that I stood up, buttoned my jacket, and said, ‘Mr. “Hearing that, he relented and said with more than a little sadness, ‘Well, I’m gonna have to say you did a great disservice,’” Pence wrote. Pence responded that he had courage and Trump knew it. At that point, Pence wrote, Trump called his vice president “naive” and suggested Pence lacked the courage needed to reject the votes. In an Oval Office conversation that day, Trump told Pence he had the power to “decertify,” which Pence pushed back on. “At that point, there was no angst between us and there was no talk of rejecting electors or returning votes to the states.”īut the friction grew in the following days and weeks, Pence wrote in his book, which is set to be released Tuesday.įor much of the book, Pence wrote extensively about the Trump administration’s policy achievements, its controversies, and his role as an “active” and loyal sidekick to Trump. ‘It would be the coolest thing you could do,’ he said jokingly, ‘otherwise you’re just another RINO’… We both laughed at the controversy and his crack,” Pence continued. “He then went a step further: I might convene the session and then at some point walk out. “‘If you want to be popular, don’t do it,’ he suggested,” Pence’s memoir stated. “Given the widening concern of so many people about election fraud, supporters around the country were arguing that I should decline to participate altogether. The Hill obtained an advance copy of the memoir. So that will be very, very fascinating.“He told me I was trending number two on Twitter as people began speculating whether I was going to participate in the January 6 proceedings at all,” Pence wrote. After being accused by former White House colleagues in 2018 of regularly leaking to the press, Conway told Fox News host Abby Huntsman, "One day, Abby, I will have my say. Pence and Pompeo are also both in talks with New York publishing houses, Smith reported.Ĭonway, a veteran Republican pollster and operative who served as Trump's campaign manager for the last few months of his 2016 bid, has long suggested she would write a book about her time in the White House. Conway is now discussing a potential book deal with multiple major publishers and plans to secure a "sizable advance," The New York Times' Ben Smith reported Sunday. Kellyanne Conway, a former top aide to President Donald Trump, former Vice President Mike Pence, and former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo are all working out lucrative deals for books about their time in the Trump administration.Ĭonway, one of Trump's longest-serving and most loyal advisers, left her White House post in August amid escalating familial strife.
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