40 feet. That’s the distance that separated then-VP Pence from a violent angry mob at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. But there may have been a threat much closer, FrankFigliuzzi1 writes.
. For Pence, those threats were existential – to our democracy – and direct — to his life. But as we also learned Thursday, there may have been a threat much closer than 40 feet.
The nation needs to know whether its vice president did or did not trust the Secret Service to do the right thing for democracy.portion of the Capitol complex where the U.S. Secret Service whisked Pence in an attempt to avoid the mob that had breached the Capitol. The head of Pence’s Secret Service detail was there, and Pence’s armored limousine was also positioned in that safe space, just inches from the vice president.
The language attributed to Pence could be interpreted as either Pence being worried that his detail might think he’d be safer somewhere else, or that certain agents on his detail could go rogue if ordered by Trump. Pence’s “I’m not getting in the car” sentiments took on added significance, and a more sinister feel, more recently when committee member Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., publicly referenced it in the context of evidence found by the committee.
In other governments, palace guards may swear allegiance to a king. But in America, we don’t have kings, and those agents work for us.
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