NYT: Trump Warned Pence “You Can Either Go Down In History As A Patriot Or You Can Go Down As A Pussy”

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Trump was enraged that Mr. Pence was refusing to try to overturn the election. In a series of meetings, the president had pressed relentlessly, alternately cajoling and browbeating him. Finally, just before Mr. Pence headed to the Capitol to oversee the electoral vote count last Wednesday, Mr. Trump called the vice president’s residence to push one last time.

“You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Mr. Trump told him, according to two people briefed on the conversation, “or you can go down in history as a pussy.”

The blowup between the nation’s two highest elected officials then played out in dramatic fashion as the president publicly excoriated the vice president at an incendiary rally and sent agitated supporters to the Capitol where they stormed the building — some of them chanting “Hang Mike Pence.”

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Don’t ever tell me again that we exaggerate toxic masculinity and its absolute damn threat to this world. “You can either go down in history as a patriot,” Trump told Pence “or you can go down in history as a pussy.” https://t.co/un9lVe6rMz

— Elizabeth Renzetti (@lizrenzetti) January 13, 2021