Pence’s Security Detail Called Families To Say Goodbye

USA Today reports:

When rioters breached the Capitol building, filling its hallways with rioters and chants to hang former Vice President Mike Pence, the Secret Service detail began “to fear for their own lives.”

During the January 6 Committee’s eighth public hearing, the committee played a recorded interview with a White House security official who had access to Secret Service communications revealing the extent of agents’ consternation.

At one point, agents from the vice president’s detail made goodbye calls to family members, believing they would soon perish at the hands of a violent mob of Trump supporters. The calls were so “disturbing,” the White House official said they “didn’t like talking about it.”

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As a mob of Trump supporters flooded the Capitol building, Secret Service agents feared for their lives and called their families to say goodbye.
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