Vice President Mike Pence was taken to an underground Senate loading dock after rioters breached the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, and spent four to five hours there under guard with his wife and daughter, the Secret Service confirmed Monday for the first time.
The disclosure verifies reporting by ABC journalist and author Jonathan Karl and came in testimony by the liaison officer for Pence’s Secret Service security detail against the second defendant to face trial in the Capitol attack. Couy Griffin, a 48-year-old Republican elected official from Alamogordo, N.M., and founder of a pro-Donald Trump grass-roots group had challenged U.S. prosecutors to prove Pence’s whereabouts as he defends himself from misdemeanor counts of trespassing and disorderly conduct on grounds restricted from the public because of the presence of a Secret Service protectee.
