Donald Trump Denies Calling Mike Pence a 'Wimp,' Slams January 6 Committee

The January 6 hearings have certainly heated up as the committee investigating the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol discussed the conversation between former President Donald Trump and Mike Pence on that fateful day.

During the third day of the hearing, the committee took a detailed look at Pence's actions on that day and among the revelations was the heated conversation between Trump and Pence.

Trump reportedly wanted Pence to overturn the election, but Pence refused, as he knew the act would be illegal. During the hearing on Thursday, the committee would play video testimonies from the Trump inner circle describing the heated phone call.

According to witnesses, which includes an aide to former first daughter Ivanka Trump, the former president would call Pence a "wimp" and the "P-word." But Trump later denied it.

During a speech at the Faith and Freedom Coalition gathering in Nashville, Tennessee on Friday, Donald Trump issued his first public comments since the House committee investigating the January 6, 2021 riot started to reveal the extent of his attempts to stay in power.

As expected, he called the testimonies, which also include testimonies from people within his inner circle and his lawyers, to be "a complete and total lie."

Donald Trump Blasts the January 6 Committee

Donald Trump told the Nashville crowd that the committee itself is a "complete and total fraud," adding that it only selectively showed edited footage from the insurrection.

He also downplayed the actions of the mob, which attacked police officers and chanted "Hang Mike Pence," calling it a simple protest that merely got out of hand.

The Tennessean reported that the former president blasted the committee for just showing short clips of the testimonies, which are several hours long.

He also denied calling Mike Pence a "wimp" regarding the testimony made by his daughter Ivanka Trump's former aide, Nicholas Luna.

Luna told the committee that Ivanka described the call between Pence and Trump on the morning of January 6 as heated and added that Trump called Pence a "wimp" and the "P-word."

But while Trump denied calling his own vice president a wimp, he still blasted Pence, saying that the former vice president had a chance to be great and could have been historic.

This is in reference to Trump pressuring Pence to overturn the elections for him. Legal scholars argued that such an act would be illegal, and Pence choosing to certify the 2020 election results was the correct legal choice.

CBS News reported that in his Friday's speech, Trump was still taking issue with the idea that the former vice president's role in presiding over the counting of the electoral votes on January 6 was a ceremonial one.

Trump asked if Pence was a robot or a conveyor belt because he said he had "no choice" in the matter, and in the end, he said Pence was "a human conveyor belt."

Donald Trump Floats Possible 2024 Run

While he is still facing legal and political issues with the January 6 Capitol insurrection, Donald Trump would once again tease that he is running in the 2024 presidential elections.

While talking about the challenges to the crowd, Trump said: "One of the most urgent tasks facing the next Republican president - I wonder who that will be." It prompted a standing ovation with the mostly-pro-Trump crowd, with them chanting "USA!"

"Would anybody like me to run for president?" the former president asked the crowd, and it unleashed more cheers.

So far, the January 6 hearings have revealed that Trump knew that trying to overturn the election was illegal and that his lawyers have advised against it.

While Donald Trump has been arguing that it was all a lie, testimonies from his inner circle and video evidence from the attempted coup itself say otherwise.

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Written by: Rick Martin

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