Senator J.D. Vance (R-OH) said it was “absurd” to claim former President Donald Trump endangered lives on January 6, 2021.
Appearing on CNN’s “The Source,” host Kaitlan Collins asked Vance asked, “Does it give you any pause to be his vice president given how he is treated, Mike Pence?”
Vance said:
“Kaitlin, I’m extremely skeptical that Mike Pence’s life was ever in danger. I think politics and politics, people like to really exaggerate things from time to time.”
He added:
“A lot of folks in the Democratic Party, Kaitlan, act as if January 6 was the scariest moment of their lives.”
“I think look, January 6 was a bad day. It was a riot, but the idea that Donald Trump endangered anyone’s lives when he told them to protest peacefully, it’s just absurd.”
Vance continued:
“Did a few people say some bad things? Sure.”
“But do we blame Donald Trump for every bad thing that’s ever been said by a participant in American democracy,” he added.
“I think that’s an absurd standard.”
He concluded:
“I think the biggest threat to American democracy Kaitlin, is that the Biden administration is trying to prevent Donald Trump from campaigning and taking his case to the American people even as hide their own candidate.”
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Vance’s remarks came just days after John Sullivan, the Antifa-BLM organizer who was arrested in Utah following the riots at the Capitol on Jan 6 after posing as a ‘Trump supporter,’ received a six-year prison sentence on Friday for his actions.
Sullivan, who was the leader of Antifa-Insurgence, was captured on video pretending to be a Trump supporter during the unrest in 2021.
He made headlines during the 2020 election after he called on BLM to “rip Trump from the White House!”
According to court documents, Sullivan joined rioters to hurl expletives, including “we’re about to burn this s–t down!,” “we’re f–king s–t up” and “I’m gonna make these Trump supporters f–k all this s–t up.”
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