Members of Pence’s Secret Service Detail Feared for Their Lives

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“There was a lot of yelling,” the official told the committee. “A lot of very personal calls over the radio, so it was disturbing. I don’t like talking about it, but there were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth. It was getting — for whatever the reason was on the ground the V.P. detail thought that this was about to get very ugly.”

The official said Secret Service agents were “running out of options and they’re getting nervous” and that is sounded like “we came very close to either Service having to use lethal options or worse.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-trump.html

I heard that in real time. I could not believe it. Pence's security staff was afraid for their live.

 

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Even the Next Day, Trump Would Not Say the Election Was Over

A day after the assault, Mr. Trump taped an address, but he still could not bring himself to say that the election was over. Outtakes from that address obtained by the committee showed an angry Mr. Trump telling the teleprompter operator to edit out of the address a phrase about the election now being over.

“But this election is now over — Congress has certified the results — ” Mr. Trump said in the outtake.

He then stopped reading from the teleprompter.

“I don’t want to say the election is over, I just want to say Congress has certified the results without saying the election is over, OK?” Mr. Trump said.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/21/us/jan-6-hearing-takeaways-trump.html