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Pence Slams Trump Over Jan. 6 Attack as He Weighs 2024 Bid

  • Trump was ‘wrong,’ will be held accountable by history: Pence
  • Former VP offers stronger signals about plans to run in 2024
Former US Vice President Mike Pence.
Former US Vice President Mike Pence.Photographer: Bridget Bennett/Bloomberg

Former Vice President Mike Pence offered his sharpest criticism to date of Donald Trump, holding his former boss responsible for the Capitol insurrection in early 2021 as he teased his own White House ambitions for 2024. 

“History will hold Donald Trump accountable” for what happened on Jan. 6, 2021, Pence told an audience of several hundred policy makers and journalists on Saturday night in Washington.