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On Thursday, June 17, the Commission of January 6 revealed in a series of startling revelations the campaign of pressure and harassment the White House used against the vice president to persuade him to overturn the election.
On the morning of Jan. 6, 2021, just hours before Congress confirmed the results of the presidential election, President Trump was surrounded by his family and advisers in the Oval Office of the White House as he addressed the latest in a long series of phone calls demanding his Vice President Mike pence up. Several witnesses report that the discussion quickly took a violent turn. A presidential aide recalls calling Pence a “wimp” (“deflated”) several times, then the “P-word” was poured out in a barrage of insults, according to Ivanka’s chief of staff, Trump, who was present at his father’s side – given the content of the exchange, everything indicates that in VO it was more “pussy” (“sissy”, much more vulgar) than patriotic.
How come the vice-president of a democracy that claims to be the world’s longest-lived hid in a small basement for nearly five hours, even getting “within forty feet” of a mob of rioters during his escape cried his hanging? We recall that during the first hearing of the parliamentary commission of inquiry into the attack on the Capitol, the testimony of a Trump aide, the…