WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Donald Trump on Friday accused his former Vice President Mike Pence of lacking courage when he rejected his calls not to certify the results of the presidential election won by Joe Biden, while the commission congressional inquiry reports its findings on the assault on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
“Mike Pence had the opportunity to be great. He had the opportunity to be, let’s say it, historic,” the former president told a gathering of Christian conservatives in Nashville, Tennessee.
“Mike, and I say this with sadness because I like him, but Mike didn’t have the courage to act,” added Donald Trump, who continues to argue against all evidence that the November 2020 election will affect him. was stolen.
The Congressional Commission of Inquiry detailed on Thursday the considerable pressure exerted by Donald Trump and his entourage to try to convince the vice president to “overturn” the result of the election, before supporters of the former president invade the Capitol, some calling to “hang Mike Pence”.
(Report by David Morgan and Doina Chiacu, French version Tangi Salaün)
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