Trump defends threats to Pence on January 6 in new audio
CNN
Former President Donald Trump appeared to defend the threats made against then-Vice President Mike Pence during the January 6 insurrection in a new audio recording released Friday.
"Well, the people were very angry," Trump can be heard telling ABC News' Jonathan Karl during a taped interview for Karl's new book, "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show."
The former President, whose campaign to pressure Pence into halting Congress' certification of the 2020 Electoral College votes ultimately failed, said he thought his vice president was "well protected" as hundreds of pro-Trump protesters stormed the halls of Congress. At the time, some rioters could be heard shouting, "hang Mike Pence," who was at the Capitol that day presiding over the Senate's counting of the votes.
