Trump Told Pence Certifying Election on Jan. 6 Would Kill His Career: Valet

Then-President Donald Trump offered a warning to his vice president, Mike Pence, on Jan. 6, 2021, according to a newly released transcript.

Certifying the election would be a “career killer,” a White House valet recalled President Trump saying.

“You need to do the right thing,” President Trump also said, according to the valet.

President Trump wanted Vice President Pence, as he presided over a joint session of Congress to certify electoral votes from states, to rule against some of the slates.

After suggesting he might do so, Vice President Pence announced shortly before the session began that he would not.
“It is my considered judgment that my oath to support and defend the Constitution constrains me from claiming unilateral authority to determine which electoral votes should be counted and which should not,” Vice President Pence said at the time.

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