Former Indiana governor and candidate for Republican nomination tells Fox News decision ‘should come as no surprise’
Mike Pence will not endorse for president Donald Trump, the man he served as vice-president for four years but whose supporters chanted for Pence to be hanged as they attacked Congress on January 6.
“It should come as no surprise that I will not be endorsing Donald Trump this year,” the former Indiana governor and former candidate for the Republican presidential nomination told Fox News on Friday.
Asked why, given that he previously promised to endorse the eventual nominee, Pence mentioned 6 January 2021, the day a mob attacked Congress and Trump was reported to have told aides Pence “deserved” to be hanged for refusing to block certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 election win.
And yet, “I know you, I trust you, but I don’t know him” I’d more or less a direct quote from pence about why he refused to get in the truck
Maybe it was in the cards, maybe it wasn’t. Doesn’t change the fact that he believed it. (And also knew that getting him away was already a backup plan. Remember they wanted to hang pence for not going with plan a)