Politics
Pence says Trump was 'wrong' to criticize his actions on January 6
Since that day, Trump has suggested that Pence could have stopped the certification of the Electoral College results.
February 4, 2022 4:07pm
Updated: February 5, 2022 8:57pm
Former GOP Vice President Mike Pence on Friday said ex-boss former President Trump is "wrong" in criticizing him for his actions on Jan. 6, 2021, when he presided over Congress' certification on the 2020 presidential election results.
Pence made the comment at a speech before a local chapter of the Federalist Society in Florida, according to ABC News.
Trump has since that day suggested Pence could have stopped the certification of the Electoral College results, which he argued were tainted by widespread voting fraud, costing him reelection.
Trump repeated that claim as recently as this week.
"President Trump is wrong," Pence also said Friday at the gathering of conservative lawyers, also according to ABC News. "I had no right to overturn the election. The presidency belongs to the American people, and the American people alone. Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American President.
"Under the Constitution, I had no right to change the outcome of our election and Kamala Harris will have no right to overturn the election when we beat them in 2024."
