{"id":127496,"date":"2022-05-25T19:03:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=127496"},"modified":"2022-05-25T19:03:41","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T19:03:41","slug":"trump-didnt-think-jan-6-rioters-hanging-mike-pence-was-such-a-bad-idea-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/trump-didnt-think-jan-6-rioters-hanging-mike-pence-was-such-a-bad-idea-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Didn't Think Jan. 6 Rioters Hanging Mike Pence Was Such a Bad Idea: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"

Donald Trump reportedly enjoyed watching a mob of his supporters storm the Capitol last Jan. 6. He also reportedly enjoyed that some of them were chanting for Vice President Mike Pence to be hung for failing to illegally stop the certification of the 2020 election results. He didn’t think it was such a bad idea, either, according to Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.<\/p>\n

The New York Times<\/em> reported on Wednesday that Meadows told colleagues on Jan. 6 that Trump had said, as the Times<\/em> puts it, “something to the effect of, maybe Mr. Pence should be hung.” Sources told the Times<\/em> that Meadows’ recounting of Trump’s comment was relayed to the Jan. 6 committee by at least one witness, and that Cassidy Hutchinson, a former Meadows aide who was present at the time, confirmed it.<\/p>\n

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