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Pence risks Trump’s wrath by piling on criticisms of ex-president in new book

Mike Pence follows Donald Trump out of the Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in April 2020.
Mike Pence follows Donald Trump out of the Oval Office to speak in the Rose Garden of the White House in April 2020. Photograph: Alex Brandon/AP

In his new book, Donald Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, protests his loyalty to his former boss but also levels criticisms that will acquire new potency as Trump prepares to announce another presidential run and the Republican party debates whether to stay loyal after disappointment in last week’s midterm elections.

According to Pence, Trump mishandled his response to a march staged by neo-Nazis in Charlottesville in August 2017, a costly error that Pence says could have been avoided had Pence called Trump before a fateful press conference in which Trump failed to condemn “the racists and antisemites in Charlottesville by name”.

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