Former President Donald Trump said on Friday that he never called Mike Pence “weak” after the then vice president said he would not revoke Joe Biden’s election victory certificate on January 6, 2021, declaring himself and Mr. n Trump for winners against the will of American voters.
“One man got up and said he heard me call Mike Pence weak… I think they said on my desk. I don’t even know who these people are, “Mr Trump said, referring to a statement made by Nick Luna, his former” man with a body “, in an oath to the House of Representatives election commission on January 6.
An excerpt from Mr. Luna’s testimony was released as part of a presentation by Mr. Pence’s elected movement committee before and during the Capitol attack, when a mob calling for the then vice president to be hanged stormed the Capitol in hopes of stopping Congress by attesting to Mr. Biden’s victory.
Mr Trump added that he “never called Mike Pence weak”.
Mr Luna was not the only former Trump White House official to say Mr Trump had reacted negatively to Mr Pence’s statement that he would not agree to a plan that would lead him to unilaterally reject the vote. in the elections from different states won by Mr. Biden on the grounds that the elections were tainted by fraud.
Julie Radford, who was chief of staff to Mr Trump’s daughter and senior adviser to Ivanka Trump, told the committee that Mr Trump had used a different word – “p *** y” – during a telephone conversation between the two men just before Mr. Pence went to the Capitol to chair the joint session of Congress.
Because they both spoke to the commission under penalty of perjury, they could face a prison sentence if they are found to have lied during testimony, making it unlikely that Mr Trump told the truth.
The former president devoted much of his speech in Nashville to attacking the probe’s riot investigation. He repeatedly told those present that the investigation monitored by the elected committee was a “fraud” as the group included Democrats who had previously investigated his campaign’s links to the Russian government.
He complained that the elected committee “refuses to release any of the recordings of people who say good things, the things we want to hear” and pointed to the lack of “good things” that are said about him as proof that the investigation is ” forged “”.
Just moments after refusing to call Mr Pence “weak”, Mr Trump told his former vice-president that he was “afraid of everything he feared” when he followed the advice of his own lawyers, who advised him. that Mr. Trump’s plan is illegal.
Going on, Mr Trump downplayed the attack, which cost the lives of four people – including many police officers – on 6 January.
“If there had been an uprising in the Capitol, you would have understood very soon,” said Mr Trump, who praised the rebels who smashed windows and attacked police officers as “strong men” and “great patriots”.
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