GOP's JD Vance is 'skeptical' Mike Pence was in danger on Jan. 6

[LetMyPeopleVote]

Hoping to impress Donald Trump, Republican Sen. J.D. Vance said he's “skeptical” that former Vice President Mike Pence’s life was in danger on Jan. 6.

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https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-jd-vance-skeptical-mike-pence-was-danger-jan-6-rcna150370

As Donald Trump weighs his running-mate options, it’s not a secret that House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik and Sen. J.D. Vance are among the contenders. The result has been an unfortunate race to the bottom, in which the New York congresswoman and the Ohio senator have gone back and forth for months, each trying to one-up the other in the hopes of impressing the former president.....

It also meant, of course, that it was Vance’s turn to come up with a gesture that his party’s presumptive presidential nominee might like. It was against this backdrop that, as The Hill reported, the Ohioan appeared on CNN last night.

Sen. J.D. Vance (R-Ohio) said Wednesday he is “skeptical” that former Vice President Pence’s life was endangered during the Jan. 6, 2021, riots at the Capitol.

In context, Kaitlan Collins asked a good question that we’ll hopefully hear repeated in the coming weeks and months with other Republican contenders: “You said you’d certainly be open to [the vice presidential nomination] if he did offer it to you. Considering that, does it give you any pause whatsoever about taking that job when you see how he treated his last vice president?”.....

A Washington Post analysis published two years ago highlighted the specific instances in which “Pence’s life was in particular danger on Jan. 6, 2021.”

In fact, rioters were eager to target Pence when they arrived on Capitol Hill, but Trump also lashed out at his then-vice president during the riot. As one former White House aide said in recorded testimony, that had the effect of “pouring gasoline on the fire.”

Maybe Vance ignored the revelations from the Jan. 6 investigation. Maybe Vance knows the truth and is choosing to ignore it in the hopes of boosting his national prospects.

Either way, the record is clear, and there's no reason for the GOP senator to be "skeptical" of the truth.

[Chainfire]

1. That is just bologna. There is no way to predict what an angry mob will do.

It was an angry mob. In fact, I think all of Trump's supporters are angry at the whole world.

[CrispyQ]

6. Anger is a big, big part of their movement.

Misdirected, of course, but they're too brainwashed or stubborn to see it.

[Arne]

2. My favorite part

is Pence refusing to get in the getaway car.
Where exactly would they take him?

[bottomofthehill]

3. The Secret Service Agents were calling their family's

To say good bye to their families. They are a pretty good barometer of what was going on.

[CrispyQ]

8. Our side & the media should be reminding the public of that.

I hope as the election draws near we'll see more footage of J6. Personally, I'll never get over some of the images & I wish that were true of every American.

[Irish_Dem]

13. Good question.

Where would they take him?
What would they do with him?

Pence didn't trust the SS officers he didn't know.
Maybe he thought they were going to kill him.

[mobeau69]

4. Ohio chose this jackass over Tim Ryan. WTF?

[CrispyQ]

9. IMO, he's the one guy I think trumpers might coalesce around when Trump is finally toast. -nt

[maxsolomon]

16. Because Dems are cop-hating baby-killers.

Just ask my Dad in Ohio.

[mobeau69]

18. I feel for ya. How'd you end up on the bright side of the street?

[maxsolomon]

19. My Dad turned to the dark side w/ Reagan.

Before that, they raised us as Guitar-mass Catholics: John Denver concerts, integrated Magnet Schools.

[mobeau69]

22. Ronald Raygun, the guy that screwed my mom out of thousands of dollars which made her golden years less than they

would’ve been.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

20. I agree

Vance is an idiot and Ryan would have been a good senator

[Johonny]

5. Not one GOP congress member stayed to greet

The Jan 6th rioters. They all ran for their life. That says it all.

[Thunderbeast]

7. If their lips are moving....

Pretty sure they're lying.

[Swede]

10. 'Take your pins off': Congressmen tell each other to remove pins as rioters breach Capitol

This was no peaceful walk in the park.

https://www.nbcnews.com/video/congressmen-tell-each-other-to-take-your-pins-off-as-rioters-breach-capitol-100825669749

[Passages]

11. Do we know how the Secret Service classified it?

Or is he not interested in their opinion I wonder.

[hlthe2b]

12. To each his own, but does anyone else wonder about his eyeliner--looks like he's trying to appear GOTH

(or something). Is that (along with his January 6 denial) how he thinks he'll attract TSF's favor? Hmmm. He was really dumpy-looking-- like the Pillsbury doughboy-- when he first went into politics, so I get the beard, but...



I don't apologize for commenting on his looks. My intent is not to shame him--he does that quite well on his own.

[keithbvadu2]

14. How many of your fellow republicans went out to greet the 'peaceful tourists'?

[maxsolomon]

15. I think it was a bit overblown, but it sure AF wasn't NO danger.

Vance is an ass. Thanks again, Ohio.

[tanyev]

17. "And if Lord Emperor Trump picked ME as his Vice-president,

I know he would never, ever threaten me!”

*Not an actual quote. Probably.

[Mad_Machine76]

21. Pence clearly thought he was in danger

if it is to be believed, he didn't want to get in the car with his own Secret Service detail.

[Rhiannon12866]

23. Did he watch the footage where the mob threatened what they planned to do??

[LetMyPeopleVote]

24. "I'm extremely skeptical that Mike Pence's life was ever in danger" -- Trump VP contender JD Vance

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