Former Pence Aide Blasts Trump For Praising Rioters: “We Were Just Inches Away From A Massacre” [Video]

“I was by the vice president’s side when the United States Secret Service three times asked him to evacuate the Capitol, and as you know, the vice president refused to leave because he said that that’s not the image he wanted the world to see. The hallmark of democracy, where a vice president would have to flee that setting.

“What the president thinks is probably not consistent with what the United States Secret Service thought, which was by the vice president’s side at that time.

“And after conversations I had with the Secret Service they commented that, ‘Look, we were just inches away from actually having to open fire on that crowd, which would have led to a massacre in the Capitol.’

“And so, whether or not the vice president certainly was protected, but there could have been a lot of more carnage that day and I think we were very close to that.” – Former Pence chief of staff Marc Short, on Trump last night calling the riot a “beautiful day.”

Ex-Trump Official Slams His Mockery of Jan. 6: ‘We Were Just Inches Away’ From a ‘Massacre’ https://t.co/JyVkZzyVgo

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