Whether Pence did commit “political suicide”, as Trump claims to Baker and Glasser, remains an open question. In testimony to the committee, a former Trump aide said his then chief of staff, Mark Meadows, told another senior aide Trump “thinks Mike deserves it. As described by the House January 6 committee, Pence and his Secret Service detail narrowly escaped the attackers. As his supporters attacked, Trump tweeted that Pence “didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our constitution”. The Capitol was then stormed by a mob Trump knew to be armed yet told to “fight like hell” to stop certification. The authors interviewed Trump twice for their book, in April and November last year.Īs vice-president, Pence filled a purely ceremonial role regarding the certification of electoral results.Īlleging electoral fraud, if without evidence, Trump and advisers prominently including the law professor John Eastman demanded Pence reject results from key states.Īfter consulting advisers of his own, including the conservative judge J Michael Luttig and the former vice-president Dan Quayle, Pence refused to cooperate with Trump’s scheme. “Mike committed political suicide” by refusing to reject electoral college votes in Trump’s 2020 defeat by Joe Biden, Trump said.īaker, of the New York Times, and Glasser, of the New Yorker, are the husband-and-wife team behind The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021, which will be published next Tuesday. Posts, comments and submissions available.“It would be totally inappropriate,” Trump told Peter Baker and Susan Glasser. Users are reminded that they are fully responsible for their ownĬreated content and their own posts, comments and submissions and fully and effectively warrantĪnd indemnify Journal Media in relation to such content and their ability to make such content, Journal Media does not control and is not responsible for user created content, posts, comments, Wire service provided by AFP and Press Association. Irish sport images provided by Inpho Photography You can obtain a copy of theĬode, or contact the Council, at PH: (01) 6489130, Lo-Call 1890 208 080 or email: images provided by Press AssociationĪnd RollingNews.ie unless otherwise stated. Ombudsman, and our staff operate within the Code of Practice. The Journal supports the work of the Press Council of Ireland and the Office of the Press Trump said he is going to “go back and confront this woman”. “Because of that I have to leave Ireland and I have to leave Scotland where I have great properties, I have to leave early. “It’s a fake claim like all the other claims, just like ‘Russia Russia Russia’.” He added: “It’s a disgrace but we have to do it, it’s a part of life. “He doesn’t like me very much, he was appointed by Bill Clinton,” he said. He said his accuser is a Democrat and the judge is a “rough judge”. “I’ll be going back early because a woman made a claim that is totally false, it’s fake.” Trump said he has been “falsely accused”. His visit to Scotland and Ireland has coincided with the second week of a civil trial in Manhattan over accusations, denied by Trump, that he raped former magazine columnist E Jean Carroll in a department store dressing room in 1996. Trump said to reporters that he would “probably attend” the hearing. Trump said he is cutting his trip to Ireland short so he can return to “confront” his accuser in a New York civil rape case, which he described as a “political attack”. He was accompanied by his son Eric as well as members of the secret service as he departed in a golf buggy. Trump was wearing a Make America Great Again (Maga) hat. When asked about his successor, Trump said “Biden is an incompetent person”.Īsked if he was confident he could defeat Biden in the next US election, he said: “I could win it three times.” When asked whether he’d be looking for the Irish American vote if he ran again for president in 2024, Mr Trump said “I’m looking, right now I’m looking, that’s why I’m talking to you.” He then stopped to ask a group of reporters: “Everybody having a good time? You didn’t know this about Trump, did you?” “Biden doesn’t hit a 280 right down the middle, does he? He mocked Joe Biden’s physical abilities and golf skills after hitting his first drive: “You think Biden can do that? I don’t think so. Speaking to reporters after teeing off from the fourth hole at Trump International’s golf course in the west of Ireland, Trump appeared to praise his own golfing skills when he said of the range of his tee shot: “290, 295”. FORMER US PRESIDENT Donald Trump has called Joe Biden “an incompetent person” while speaking to the media in Doonbeg, Co Clare.
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