Where the Trump-Pence relationship is at right now
The Trump-Pence relationship is “pretty raw right now,” according to the Associated Press (AP), who spoke to one top GOP congressional aide.
AP said the aide described multiple phone calls in which Trump berated Pence and tried to pressure the vice-president to use powers he does not possess to try to overturn the results of the 2020 election yesterday.
Pence, for his part, was left feeling “hurt” and “upset” by the episode, according to people close to him.
AP reports that when Pence, who consulted with his own legal team, constitutional scholars and the Senate parliamentarian, informed Trump on Wednesday morning that he would not be going along with the effort, the president “blew a gasket,” in the words of one person briefed on the conversation.
Not long after, Trump took the stage in front of thousands of his supporters at a “Stop the Steal” rally, where he urged them to march to the Capitol and continued to fan false hopes that Pence could change the outcome.
“If Mike Pence does the right thing we win the election,” Trump wrongly insisted. He repeatedly returned to Pence throughout his speech as he tried to pressure the vice president to fall in line.
AP is reporting that Trump did not call to check in on his vice president’s safety during the attack on the Capitol, and instead spent much of Wednesday consumed with anger over Pence’s action, tweeting, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our Country and our Constitution.”
Source: – ABC News
