After weeks of pushing Mike Pence to overturn the election, Donald Trump did not mince his words in his final conversation with him before last week’s riots.
White House sources told the New York Times, Mr Trump had pressed Mr Pence relentlessly, alternately cajoling and browbeating him, to get his way.
In a final conversation, Mr Trump reportedly said: “You can either go down in history as a patriot, or you can go down in history as a pussy.”
The two are reportedly on better terms this week, and today Mr Pence officially rejected a plan to oust Mr Trump.
Democrats were calling on him to use the 25th Amendment to remove Mr Trump from power, but Mr Pence said he would not do it and told the Democrats to back down. He accused them of playing “political games at a time so serious in the life of our Nation”.
In a letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Mr Pence said the 25th Amendment should not be used “as a means of punishment or usurpation” – rather it…