(ProsperNews.net) – Former Vice President Mike Pence has again lashed out at President Trump and said history will judge him as the cause of the Capitol Hill riots of January 6. Speaking on CNN’s State of the Union, Pence said the country must move on from Donald Trump, adding that he hopes Americans will look to the future and put the past behind them.
Mr. Pence, who entered the 2024 White House race but pulled out due to lack of support, opened his campaign with a fierce attack on Trump. He accused the former President of disloyalty to the Constitution and said Trump tried to persuade him to violate it. “The American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the constitution,” he said at his campaign launch.
Mr. Trump replied, saying Pence was “delusional” and “not a good person.” He accused his former running mate of going to the “dark side.”
When Pence pulled out of the race last October, commentators said his lack of support demonstrated Trump’s dominance of the Republican Party. Journalist Jill Colvin wrote that a former Vice President would usually be viewed as a successor and would win a broad base, but Trump’s popularity meant the Vice President struggled to find support.
During his CNN interview, Pence also dismissed the idea that the FBI was instrumental in creating the chaos of January 6 in order to discredit Trump and his voters. “We’ve been assured again and again that it was not the case,” he said.
Nevertheless, millions of Americans continue to believe the riots were deliberately orchestrated. A University of Maryland poll in January found that around a quarter of voters think the FBI instigated the disorder, a figure that rises to one-third among Republican supporters.
High-profile figures, including Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, Senator Mike Lee, and Vivek Ramaswamy, have encouraged that view, but Mr. Pence said they should “look at the facts.”
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