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Pence blames Trump for events leading to January 6 in new memoir

Mike Pence speaks in Washington DC on 19 October.
Mike Pence speaks in Washington DC on 19 October. Photograph: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images

A post-election meeting at which advisers led by Rudy Giuliani attacked campaign lawyers and urged Donald Trump not to accept his election defeat was “a new low” for a president “well acquainted with rough-and-tumble debates”, Mike Pence writes in a forthcoming memoir.

Of the meeting in November 2020, the former vice-president writes: “In the end, that day the president made the fateful decision to put Giuliani and [attorney] Sidney Powell in charge of the legal strategy … The seeds were being sown for a tragic day in January.”

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