“Mike Pence has betrayed this President.” He finished with a threat and a promise: “We will never, ever forget.” “Mike Pence has betrayed the United States of America,” he informed the already agitated mob. A man with a bullhorn agitated the crowd. “He deserves to burn with the rest of them,” another said. “If Pence caved we’re going to drag motherfuckers through the streets,” one rioter was captured on video saying. The malice of those in the crowd toward Pence, the holier-than-thou evangelical Christian who had spent the previous four years as Donald Trump’s slavishly loyal sidekick, was remarkable. affidavit the panel highlighted on Thursday, a government informant said that members of the far-right militant group the Proud Boys told him they would have killed Pence “if given the chance.” The rioters on January 6th almost had that chance, coming within forty feet of the Vice-President as he fled to safety. No image is more memorable-and more disturbing-than that of the wooden gallows Donald Trump’s supporters erected on the Capitol lawn as rioters chanted “Hang Mike Pence! Hang Mike Pence!” The committee documented that those threats were real. As the House select committee investigating the attack on the Capitol has conducted its televised hearings, they have played video clips of the violence over and over again. It’s been hard, these last couple of weeks, to watch and rewatch the horrifying events of January 6, 2021.
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