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Trump 'Accidentally Told The Truth' About Inciting Capitol Riots To Intimidate Mike Pence

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Updated 17:26 7 Feb 2022 GMTPublished 17:23 7 Feb 2022 GMT

Trump 'Accidentally Told The Truth' About Inciting Capitol Riots To Intimidate Mike Pence

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie says that Trump 'accidentally told the truth' about January 6

Shola Lee

Shola Lee

Former Governor for New Jersey Chris Christie has said that Donald Trump 'accidentally' told the truth about wanting to overturn the election.

Christie, once a Trump ally, has spoken on multiple occasions about Trump's handling of the 2020 election.

In a recent interview, Christie said Trump has accidentally revealed that he used the January 6 Capitol riot as an intimidation attempt to overturn the election.

Chris Christie (Alamy)
Chris Christie (Alamy)

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Appearing on ABC talk show This Week, Christie said that Trump accidentally revealed his goal in a statement issued on January 31, 2022.

In the statement, the former president claims that then vice president Mike Pence 'could have over turned the election' and 'did have the right to change the outcome'.

Speaking of the statement, Christie said it revealed Trump's true intention behind the riot: 'Let's face it. Let's call it what it is. January 6 was a riot that was incited by Donald Trump in an effort to intimidate Mike Pence and the Congress into doing exactly what he said in his own words last week: Overturn the election', he said.

Donald Trump (Alamy)
Donald Trump (Alamy)

Christie went on to say that while the former president is 'trying to do a clean-up on aisle one' by issuing the statement, 'he actually told the truth by accident. He wanted the election to be overturned'.

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In the same interview, Christie supported Pence's certification of the election, saying: 'I think that the action the vice president took on January 6 spoke loudly, and I'm glad he's finally put words to it. I don't know why it took him so long, but I'm glad that he did'.

While Pence had a congressional duty as vice president to certify the election, he did not have the power to overturn it.

Mike Pence (Alamy)
Mike Pence (Alamy)

Pence recently spoke out about Trump's Jaunary 31 statement, explaining, 'I heard this week that President Trump said I had the right to ‘overturn the election'.

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'President Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people and the American people alone', he added.

Pence's former chief of staff Marc Short also weighed in on the matter, explaining 'the president had many bad advisors who were basically snake-oil salesmen giving him really random and novel ideas as what the vice president could do'.

Pence first spoke out about the incident and his certification of the election in November 2021.

Of the result, he said: 'Psalm 15 says he keeps his oath even when it hurts'.

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Featured Image Credit: Alamy

Topics: US News, Donald Trump

Shola Lee
Shola Lee

Shola Lee began her journalism career while studying for her undergraduate degree at Queen Mary, University of London and Columbia University in New York. She has written for the Columbia Spectator, QM Global Bloggers, CUB Magazine, UniDays, and Warner Brothers' Wizarding World Digital. Recently, Shola took part in the 2021 BAFTA Crew and BBC New Creatives programme before becoming a journalist at UNILAD, where she works on breaking news, trending stories, and features.

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