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Trump knew Pence was in danger when Trump attacked him on Twitter

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When Trump tweeted at his followers that Pence was a traitor and cuck for not throwing out the results of the election while his brownshirts were invading the Capitol, he knew exactly what he was doing:

Mounting evidence emerging as former president Donald Trump’s impeachment trial unfolds in the Senate this week indicates Trump may have been personally informed that Vice President Mike Pence was in physical dangerduring the Jan. 6 Capitol siege, just moments before denigrating him on Twitter.

Trump’s decision to tweet that Pence lacked “courage” — a missive sent shortly after the vice president had been rushed off the Senate floor — underscores how he delayed taking action to stop his supporters as they ransacked the Capitol.

Many of them were intent on doing harm to Pence, whom Trump had singled out at a rally earlier in the day, falsely claiming the vice president had the power to stop Congress from formalizing Joe Biden’s electoral college victory.

Trump’stweet came at 2:24 p.m. that day — only 11 minutes after live television coverage showed Pence being hustled from the Senate floor because rioters were streaming into the building one floor below. The Senate then abruptly went into recess.

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In addition, Trump heard directly about the vice president’s movements from a GOP senator. Shortly after Pence was rushed out of the Senate chamber, Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) spoke to Trump on the phone and told him about Pence’s hasty exit, Tuberville told reporters Thursday.

“I said, ‘Mr. President, they just took our vice president out, they’re getting ready to drag me out of here.I got to go,’ ” Tuberville said he told Trump during the brief call.

The fact that the strongest evidence comes from Trump dialing a wrong number while trying to reach America’s dumbest Senator is one of those literary details the Trump era never stops giving up.

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