Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP.
On Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos sat down with Stiegler, whose account of the Capitol riot is included in the host’s new book “The Situation Room.”
In a stunning exchange, Stiegler revealed just how close Pence came to getting killed — to the point of asking “Where’s the second in line?” — and that Trump never called down to the White House nerve center to ask about Pence:
I don’t really put much weight on Trump not calling down to Pence to check in on him. Trump only cares about himself and wouldn’t have called down regardless of what was happening. I do put a lot of weight in the unannounced change in security detail for Pence on the day of the insurrection. Pence was smart enough to turn down getting into a black car with a secret service person he didn’t know.
https://www.newsweek.com/pence-refusing-get-secret-service-car-jan-6-chilling-raskin-1700341
Damn, he is a piece of shit, but he helped save democracy for another four years on that day.