![Pinterest](https://pinterest.com/pin/create/button/?url=https://uknews.evprotec.com/trump-said-pence-didnt-try-hard-to-overturn-election-called-him-too-honest/&media=https://uknews.evprotec.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/0_FILES-US-VOTE-HEALTH-VIRUS-TRUMP-PENCE.jpg&description=Former US President Donald Trump accused former Vice President Mike Pence of being 'too honest,' which he alleged cost them the 2020 election win, an indictment reads A spat leading up to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol soured the relationship between former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, as evidenced in the indictment that was unsealed Tuesday. The charges are the third set brought against the former president and detail his role in inciting the deadly riot that killed one at the Capitol on the day the 2020 presidential election results were to be certified in favour of current President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. Recordings released of private conversations between Trump and Pence illustrate the decline in their relationship in the days leading up to the insurrection. Trump implored Pence to use his ceremonious power as President of the US Senate to overturn the election by sending votes back to the states. Pence repeatedly told the businessman he didn't feel he had the authority to do so, the indictment states. The bad blood began on Christmas Day in 2020 when the former vice president called Trump to wish him a Merry Christmas. Trump shifted the conversation to the upcoming certification day, January 6, on which Pence would be asked to certify the results publicly in his role as the outgoing vice president. The Republican forerunner for the 2024 presidential race asked his colleague to "reject electoral votes that day," but Pence refused, saying: "You know I don't think I have the authority to change the outcome." On December 29, January 1, 2021, and January 3, Trump asked Pence repeatedly to do the same, but each time, the Republican, who is also running for president in 2024, refused. Trump falsely claimed that the Justice Department had found "major infractions" related to the election on the first of those dates. January 1 saw the outgoing president berate Pence for opposing "a lawsuit seeking a jud){kind=link}
Former US President Donald Trump accused former Vice President Mike Pence of being ‘too honest,’ which he alleged cost them the 2020 election win, an indictment reads
A spat leading up to the January 6 insurrection at the US Capitol soured the relationship between former President Donald Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, as evidenced in the indictment that was unsealed Tuesday.
The charges are the third set brought against the former president and detail his role in inciting the deadly riot that killed one at the Capitol on the day the 2020 presidential election results were to be certified in favour of current President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris.
Recordings released of private conversations between Trump and Pence illustrate the decline in their relationship in the days leading up to the insurrection.
Trump implored Pence to use his ceremonious power as President of the US Senate to overturn the election by sending votes back to the states.