In New Book, Mike Pence Describes How ‘Seeds Were Sown’ for Jan. 6 Riots: ‘It Was a New Low’ – By Virginia Chamlee (People) / Nov 1, 2022
Pence’s forthcoming book, So Help Me God, debuts later this month
Former Vice President Mike Pence is opening up about the moments that led to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, writing in his forthcoming book that then-President Donald Trump’s decision to put Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell in charge of his legal strategy helped sow the seeds to that “tragic day.”
Pence’s memoir, So Help Me God, publishes on Nov. 15. In a new excerpt of the book published by Axios, Pence writes that a briefing held days before the riots “quickly turned into a contentious back-and-forth between the campaign lawyers and a growing group of outside attorneys led by Rudy Giuliani and Sidney Powell, an attorney who had represented General Mike Flynn.”
Pence writes that Trump’s campaign lawyers offered “a sober and somewhat pessimistic report on the state of election challenges,” but the “outside cast of characters” — including Giuliani and Powell — “went on the attack.”
“Giuliani told the president over the speakerphone, ‘Your lawyers are not telling you the truth, Mr. President,'” Pence writes. “Even in an office well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates, it was a new low …. [and] went downhill from there.”
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