The charges against Trump from January 6 were based on Pence’s notes.
On Saturday, ex-President Donald Trump said his ex-Vice President Mike Pence had turned to “the dark side.”
In a post on Truth Social, Trump said that Pence is “delusional” for running against him in the 2024 presidential primary. Since Special Counsel Jack Smith charged Trump last week, Pence and Trump have insulted each other more than usual.
“WOW, I can’t believe it! Mike Pence, who was about to lose his job as governor of Indiana before I made him vice president, has gone to the Dark Side,” Trump wrote.
Trump’s post came just a few days after Smith’s accusation of Trump included Pence’s notes from the days around January 6 as proof.
Again, Trump told Trump, “In the notes, the two discussed several talks in the days leading up to the event. Pence wrote about one of these New Year’s Day conversations in his book. Mike Pence claimed that Trump and the Republicans who filed the lawsuit wanted a judge to rule that the vice president had “exclusive authority and sole discretion to determine which electoral votes should count.” Pence told Trump again, “I didn’t think the Constitution gave me that power.”
“You’re too honest,” Trump said, according to Pence’s book and the charge. “Tens of thousands of people are going to hate you… People will think you’re an idiot.”
“I never told a newly confident (not based on his 2% poll numbers!) Pence to put me above the Constitution or that Mike was ‘too honest.'” He is out of control and wants to act tough to prove it. I once read about Mike in a big magazine. It said that he wasn’t a great guy. The story was right, but it surprised me. “How sad!” he said.
After Smith gave down the charge last week, Pence criticized Trump by saying, “No one should ever be President of the United States who puts himself above the Constitution.”