Mike Stiegler revealed that Trump never called down to check on Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were "that close" to losing the VP.

Former White House Situation Room officer Mike Stiegler revealed that then-President Donald Trump never called down to check on then-Vice President Mike Pence as Trump fans hunted him at the Capitol, and that we were “that close” to losing the VP.

On Tuesday’s edition of ABC’s Good Morning America, anchor George Stephanopoulos sat down with Stiegler, whose account of the Capitol riot is included in the host’s new book “The Situation Room.”

In a stunning exchange, Stiegler revealed just how close Pence came to getting killed — to the point of asking “Where’s the second in line?” — and that Trump never called down to the White House nerve center to ask about Pence:

  • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12510·
    2 个月前

    Honestly kinda wish they’d have succeeded. We’d be down one monster at the hands of another; and the justice system would have handled the situation with MUCH less legal circus and kid gloves. The overall response to J6 has been a joke, and this would have forced us to take it seriously.

      • Sterile_Technique@lemmy.worldEnglish
        512·
        2 个月前

        Not sure if Pence dying would have made a difference there actually. There was already an insurrection, so if martial law is what he was after, he could have just used that as an excuse regardless of how successful the insurrectionists were.

        I like to think that ‘we the people’ wouldn’t tolerate a Trump instigating an insurrection and then calling for martial law on the basis of that same insurrection; but it certainly wouldn’t be the first time I’d have been disappointed at our collective lack of a spine.

        • Dkarma@lemmy.world
          1219·
          2 个月前

          It would have. If he didn’t certify the vote then vote goes to Congress and they would have voted trump in.

          Get a clue.

          • Lemmeenym@lemm.eeEnglish
            26·
            2 个月前

            The Vice President doesn’t certify the vote count, the Senate does. The VP usually presides over the counting because the VP is the head of the Senate but if the office of the VP is vacant or the VP chooses not to preside over the vote count then the president pro tempore or the Senate leader elected under SR1 is the presiding officer.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    701·
    2 个月前

    GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: Did the president ever call down to the Situation Room on that day?

    MIKE STIEGLER: Not to my knowledge.

    Not that I think Trump gave a shit about Pence’s life, but I think it’s equally possible that he didn’t know that the Situation Room was a thing because he’s extremely stupid.

    • OpenStars@discuss.onlineEnglish
      203·
      2 个月前

      However, that fact makes this source no profits, therefore “new interview” that “reveals” a “stunning” fact about “murder” it is then.

      In this “news” article.

      How about you, aren’t you “stunned” to hear this? :-(

  • dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
    27·
    2 个月前

    I don’t really put much weight on Trump not calling down to Pence to check in on him. Trump only cares about himself and wouldn’t have called down regardless of what was happening. I do put a lot of weight in the unannounced change in security detail for Pence on the day of the insurrection. Pence was smart enough to turn down getting into a black car with a secret service person he didn’t know.

    https://www.newsweek.com/pence-refusing-get-secret-service-car-jan-6-chilling-raskin-1700341

  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee
    241·
    2 个月前

    IMPOSSIBLE! It was just a TOURIST VISIT! But it was ALSO a VIOLENT BLM BACKED RIOT! But NO ONE was in DANGER! Except for MAGAS who also WEREN’T EVEN THERE BECAUSE IT WAS ALL ANTIFA at the Tourist Visit that wasn’t but also was violent! And everyone arrested was ONLY MAGA! Who again weren’t there!

  • CouncilOfFriends@slrpnk.netEnglish
    14·
    2 个月前

    I imagine Trump was bewildered by any questions about succession, that doesn’t come into play when offing those deemed disloyal. When he learned rioters were being turned away because their weapons couldn’t go through magnetometer screening he told aides, “They’re not here to hurt me. Take the fucking mags away.”

  • Clanket@lemmy.world
    10·
    2 个月前

    How in the fuck has Trump not been jailed for the insurrection. Flabbergasting watching from Europe.