Secret Service Knew In Advance Of Threat To Pence

The New York Times reports:

The day before a mob of President Donald J. Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff called Mr. Pence’s lead Secret Service agent to his West Wing office.

The chief of staff, Marc Short, had a message for the agent, Tim Giebels: The president was going to turn publicly against the vice president, and there could be a security risk to Mr. Pence because of it.

It is unclear what, if anything, Mr. Giebels did with the message. But as Mr. Trump attacked his second in command — and democratic norms — in an effort to cling to power, it would prove prophetic.

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The chief-of-staff, Marc Short, warned the lead agent that Trump was going to turn on the vice president and they may have a security risk because of it, an extraordinary situation https://t.co/Dzuc5GfuDV

— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) June 3, 2022