Former VP Pence: Trump’s January 6th comments ‘endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol’

During an interview with ABC’s “World News Tonight” anchor David Muir, former Vice President Mike Pence sat down for where he addressed the events that occurred nearly two years ago on January 6, 2021.

Pence said that former President Donald Trump’s rhetoric and behavior was “reckless” as Trump supporters stormed the Capitol last year, saying that he and many others were reportedly forced into hiding.

“I mean, the president’s words were reckless. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem,” Pence told Muir.

Pence expressed his anger over a tweet from Trump as security at the Capitol lost control, when Trump said that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done” after Pence rejected Trump’s requests to not certify now-President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory.

“I turned to my daughter, who was standing nearby, and I said, ‘It doesn’t take courage to break the law. It takes courage to uphold the law,’” Pence, who will release his memoir “So Help Me God” on Tuesday, told Muir in his first network TV interview since the insurrection.

Pence was overseeing Congress’ certification of the 2020 Electoral College results on Jan. 6, 2021, when a large crowd, who had left Trump’s speech early, marched to the Capitol and then breached security and vandalized the building, leading Pence and other members of congress to be escorted into a room and protected by security.

“The president’s words were reckless and his actions were reckless,” he told Muir this week. “The president’s words that day at the rally [before the riot] endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building.”