Posted on 05/02/2024 8:19:29 AM PDT by RandFan
Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Wednesday he is “skeptical” that former Vice President Pence’s life was endangered during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol.
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins asked Vance on “The Source” whether the Ohio Republican had “any pause” former President Trump potentially considering him to be his running mate due to how Trump treated Pence. Vance replied by pivoting to his concerns about President Biden before Collins repeated her question.
Collins said that Biden did not approve “of the chance to hang his vice president and didn’t not call his vice president when their life was in danger on Capitol Hill” when asking again if Vance had any “pause” on potentially being Trump’s vice president. Vance noted earlier that he has not spoken to Trump about the possibility of being his running mate.
“Okay, well, I’m truly skeptical that Mike Pence’s life was ever in danger. I think politics and politics people like to really exaggerate things from time to time,” Vance replied.
Collins interjected, saying she thinks “Mike Pence would disagree” before Vance continued.
“And a lot of folks the Democratic Party, Kaitlan, act as if January the 6th was the scariest moment of their lives,” Vance continued. “I think, look, January 6 was a bad day. It was a riot. But the idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone’s lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it’s just absurd.”
Collins then noted that some of the rioters were chanting “Hang Mike Pence!” on Jan. 6, 2021. The vice president was in the Capitol that day to oversee the certification of the 2020 election when a mob stormed the building.
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pence was not on the hit list as much as ashli babbitt was...
they needed someone to die.
Vance doesn’t make sense as VP. I kinda like him although he isn’t a fighter like Jim Jordan is.
Ohio will go for Trump. Neither one will be picked. If there are any legit viable candidates, they should come from a purple state.
Also, why would you want to give up that Senate seat? It’s VERY valuable right now.
They had toy gallows. I guess that proves it.
There was more of a chance that those morons would get hurt, stampeding to find a place to hide from their constituents.
How brave of Vance to share this 3 years later.
Pence is a duplicitous cowardly moron. The only entities who had weapons were the Capital Police and undercover FBI.
Remember, please, that Vance wasn’t doing an interview with this Kaitlan Collins three years ago.
They always have toy gallows. SOP
But he got a coin for his “service.”
The only lives in danger were those of Patriots seeking correction of a fraudulently decided election.
Mike Pence is a drama queen trying to get attention any way he can.
He may have gotten a paper cut.
Absolutely right. He still peddles this nonsense though.
Kaitlin Collins is proving herself to be quite the piece of work.
I think the only way pence was in danger is from the humans he bows to. Pence sold his soul long ago and he owes the buyer(s).
“How brave of Vance to share this 3 years later.”
Uh, Vance didn’t just blurt this out of the blue. He was answering a question asked by interviewer about Trump’s alleged mistreatment of Pence.
Every VP prospect is going to get asked if they would lik to be hanged.
More surprisingly, our crackerjack FBI STILL has not caught the five people who constructed the Gallows at the Capital on Jan. 6.
I think I can guess why.
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