“‘How are you?’ he started. ‘How are Karen and Charlotte?’”
Mr. Pence writes that he “replied tersely that we had been tremendous” and informed him that his spouse and daughter had been on the Capitol on Jan. 6. “He responded with a touch of remorse,” Mr. Pence recounts. “‘I simply discovered that.’ He then requested, ‘Have been you scared?’”
Mr. Pence replied that he was indignant: “You and I had our variations that day, Mr. President, and seeing these individuals tearing up the Capitol infuriated me.”
Mr. Trump started to protest that “individuals had been indignant, however his voice trailed off,” Mr. Pence writes, including that he informed Mr. Trump that he wanted to let it go. “Yeah,” Mr. Trump replied quietly.
As they talked, Mr. Pence writes, Mr. Trump mentioned “with real disappointment in his voice”: “What if we hadn’t had the rally? What in the event that they hadn’t gone to the Capitol?” He added, “It’s too horrible to finish like this.”
Mr. Pence provides up views about key moments within the administration, such because the relocating the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, in addition to the controversy over Mr. Trump’s remarks concerning the march of white supremacists in Charlottesville, Va.
He defended Mr. Trump, insisting that he thought the criticisms had been unfair. “Donald Trump just isn’t antisemitic,” Mr. Pence insists. “He’s not a racist or a bigot. I might not have been his vp if he was.”
He additionally writes admiringly about Mr. Kushner and John Kelly, the second White Home chief of employees, who he mentioned introduced a way of order to the West Wing. Nonetheless, he had a lot harsher phrases for Mark Meadows, the ultimate chief of employees to Mr. Trump, who has been a spotlight of a number of the investigations into what led to the Capitol riot.
“Within the waning days of the administration, one in every of his successors, Mark Meadows, a congressman from North Carolina, would fling the doorways to the Oval Workplace broad open, permitting individuals in who shouldn’t even have set foot on the White Home grounds, not to mention have entry to Trump,” Mr. Pence writes.