Jan. 6 Panel Gives Chilling Details of Pence’s Escape From Mob at the US Capitol
- Rioters came within 40 feet of vice president during assault
- Committee continues televised hearings on 2021 insurrection
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The mob invading the Capitol got within 40 feet of Vice President Mike Pence as his security team rushed him away on Jan. 6, 2021, and an informant later told the FBI that extremists leading the assault would have killed him given the chance.
Those were among the harrowing new details a House committee investigating the insurrection on Thursday added to accounts of Pence’s ordeal during the riot. The panel rendered a portrait of Donald Trump callously indifferent to the danger his vice president faced throughout the day.