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:
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.
The only problem, though, would be that it would have permitted Trump to call in the army and implement martial law, suspending everything else until he put down the insurrection, his buddies, himself. Then? He’d never let go of the power and he would have absolutely controlled Congress through the certification.
You know good and well that he’d clear his best insurrectionists, his proud boys, to work above the law and the army, and they’d personally be the guard detail for Congress when it finally could return to certify the election. Then? It’s whatever he and his goons want.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What a wild timeline. Nearly died but hey, maybe I’ll put him in office again.
Mike Pence will not endorse Trump, but will not rule out voting for him
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/17/mike-pence-republicans-trump
You gotta think he fears for his life or something if he’s still saying he might vote for Trump. Dude could easily retire and step away from politics, but he won’t.
He probably thinks it’s a room where you can find The Situation.
He knows it’s a thing, but never watches it because I bet Wolf Blitzer said a mean thing about him that one time.
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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? :-(
slammed There. I said it.
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
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!
I see you speak fluent conservative.
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.”
How in the fuck has Trump not been jailed for the insurrection. Flabbergasting watching from Europe.
We have a two tiered (minimum) justice system
