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Martin Pengelly in New York

Secret Service were warned of security risk to Pence day before Capitol attack

Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress on 6 January 2021.
Mike Pence presides over a joint session of Congress on 6 January 2021. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AP

A day before the deadly attack on the US Capitol, Mike Pence’s chief of staff warned the head of Pence’s Secret Service detail that Donald Trump was about to turn on his own vice-president, endangering his security.

The news was reported on Friday by Maggie Haberman of the New York Times, who said she uncovered it during research for a book on Trump due out in October.

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