Former United States President, Donald Trump’s deputy, Mike Pence says his former boss considered himself bigger than the country’s constitution.
Pence’s remarks came at the formal launch of his campaign for the Republican Party’s nomination for the White House.
The former Governor of Indiana accused Trump of abandoning conservative values, with some of their actions while in office, pointing to the January 6, 2021 attack on Capitol Hill by thousands of Trump supporters.
“The American people deserve to know that on that day, President Trump also demanded that I choose between him and the Constitution”.
“Now, voters will be faced with the same choice: I chose the constitution and I always will.”
Pence added that Trump’s actions on that day should disqualify him from even attempting to return to power.
“I believe that anyone who puts themselves over the constitution should never be President of the United States,”.
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“And anyone who asked someone else to put them over the constitution should never be President of the United States again.”
Former President Trump had told a rally a few hours before the certification of the victory of Joe Biden in the 2020 Election result, that his deputy who is the constitutional head of the U.S Senate and was to preside over the event, will not do so.
As the event in Congress progressed, rioters breached security cordons on Capitol Hill, with some heard demanding that the then Vice President be hanged, even as Pence and lawmakers including then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi, had to be smuggled out of Congress buildings.
(Editor: Ifeanyi Mark)
