Vice President Mike Pence’s Security Detail Feared For Their Lives on Jan. 6

“There were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth,” a former White House security official told the January 6 committee. The security detail protecting former Vice President Mike Pence expressed fear for their own lives during the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, according to fresh Congressional testimony revealed on Thursday night.  Some feared they would have to fire their service weapons “or worse,” and discussed saying goodbye to their family members as the attack played out, a White House security official whose name was withheld to protect his identity told the Congressional committee investigating the attack.   “Members of the VP detail were starting to fear for their own lives,” the official told the committee in recorded testimony played in Thursday night’s hearing. “There was a lot of yelling.”  The official said: “There were calls to say goodbye to family members, so on and so forth.”

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siehe auch: Frantic Secret Service radio traffic show how close Pence was to danger “We need to move now,” one Secret Service agent testified. “If we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to do so.” Jan. 6 committee reveals moments of chaos for Pence 2:51 The House select committee released dramatic footage detailing the chaos in Vice President Mike Pence’s office on Jan. 6, 2021. (Video: Julie Yoon/The Washington Post, Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post) Gift Article Share For 13 minutes on Jan. 6, 2021, as smoke clouded the air and Vice President Mike Pence hid from rioters in his office adjacent to the Senate chamber, his Secret Service detail scrambled — in increasingly frantic radio messages — to clear a path for Pence to flee the Capitol. On Thursday, the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack revealed harrowing video and audio that showed just how perilously close Pence and his protective detail came to danger, detailing how the protesters whom President Donald Trump had riled up turned their anger on the man he blamed for failing to overturn the results of the 2020 election. “We need to move now,” an agent said, according to excerpts of radio traffic played by the committee. “If we lose any more time, we may lose the ability to do so.” Pence’s Secret Service detail described smoke of unknown origin filling a hallway of the Capitol and protesters advancing on outnumbered police. “Harden that door up,” one agent said.

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