Just when you thought it was safe to forget about January 6th, 2021, for a while, the issue comes back — this time with a breathless report that former Vice President Mike Pence came “close” to being killed during the hooliganism at the Capitol.
A former Situation Room officer said former Vice President Pence came “close” to being killed on Jan. 6, 2021, during the riot at the U.S. Capitol.
“It’s important to me that we don’t forget that it did come that close, and that we did have discussions, ‘If we lose the [vice president,] if the 25th [Amendment] is invoked,’” Mike Stiegler said in an interview with ABC’s George Stephanopoulos that aired Tuesday on “Good Morning America,” in a clip highlighted by Mediate. “We started running through all of these game plans because it was getting close.”
Stiegler also agreed with Stephanopoulos when he referred to…
