President Donald Trump pulled out every trick he knew to try and circumvent the certification of the 2020 election of Joe Biden, even resorting to playground bullying. ABC News shared details of a conversation between Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence on Jan. 6, with Trump warning Pence that he would “go down as a wimp” if he didn’t take steps to avoid awarding the presidency to Biden.

That snippet was part of a preview of Johnathan Karl’s upcoming book on Trump’s 2024 campaign and was pulled from Pence’s notes about his call with the president shortly before the election certification ceremony. Per those notes, Trump told Pence that the then-veep was “not protecting our country,”

“I said we both [took] an oath to support + defend the Constitution,” Pence reportedly replied, per h

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